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!

15. Nexus HWR 3-1 A Perfect Day

Nexus HWR 3.1 A Perfect Day

"Yaawwwwnnn," Luffy stretched his arms up over his head and yawned loudly. The skinny pirate with messy black hair hopped off his hammock and walked over to his dresser. He threw on a red shirt open down the middle and without any sleeves, a pair of blue shorts, and then plopped his signature straw hat down on his head.

It was quiet down in the boys' room, and as Luffy looked around he noticed he was the only one in here. He also noticed the scent of something so delicious his head snapped up and stared yearningly at the ceiling. The pirate rushed towards the door and headed upstairs as fast as he could.

"Luffy! There you are," Nami called over as she was just about to go yell at him to get up. "This is one meal you don't want to miss," she smirked and looked back over to the dining room table where it looked like breakfast heaven.

"Have as much as you want," Sanji offered as he carried twenty more trays of pancakes to the table. One of the trays disappeared before he could even put it down and it appeared in front of Son Goku.

Goku clapped his hands together and called out, "Itadakimasu!" Then his food started to vanish as he shoveled pancakes into his mouth.

Luffy ran over to the table and jumped up, landing on the bench between Riku and Franky who had to pretty much dive out of the way as Luffy came crashing down on them. His eyes were wide and drool was pouring out of his mouth. He reached out and grabbed eggs, while his other rubbery arm stretched around to a plate of sausages in front of Timmy. He pulled back the sausage plate and tilted it to his mouth making the sausages slide off towards his gaping mouth.

Right as the tasty chunks of meat were about to hit his tongue they stopped. Luffy blinked a few times, staring at the floating sausages, then snapped his mouth up at them. The sausages hopped up out of his reach though, and flew back across the table to Timmy who laughed at Luffy and then ate his sausages that were snatched away a few seconds ago.

As Luffy groaned and then reached for a different sausage plate, everyone else was having their own conversations. Natsu was looking over at Sora and Kairi sitting together eating their breakfast and talking, and he muttered, "I still can't believe they're getting married."

"They are quite young," the black haired woman sitting on his left agreed. He turned to Robin who was staring over at them as well, but smiling while she was unlike him. "But I believe theirs is what you would call True Love."

"Psh," Natsu made a skeptical noise with his mouth. "True Love," he scoffed, chuckling at the childish concept.

Robin looked at the young man next to her, "Do you not believe such a thing is possible?" She asked. He looked at her skeptically as she was normally the most rational of this crazy crew, but she had a thoughtful look on her face. Robin continued, "This is a large world, perhaps True Love is possible. It would not be the strangest thing you or I have seen."

"Sure," Natsu agreed. "But I still don't buy it," he continued with a shrug. In his mind Lucy's face flashed, and then Lisanna's after it. The idea of True Love seemed silly to him if he could love both of them.

The crew ate their awesome breakfast and then Goku mentioned loudly that there were powers approaching the ship from below. Everyone ran outside and to the edge of the ship, looking over the starboard side where Goku said they were coming up from.

They all looked closely at the surface of the water, watching as a large ovular shadow lifted up and then emerged. "A sub!" Ben exclaimed.

"Where did that come from?" Nami asked, tilting her head.

As she asked, the top of the sub opened up. A large panel popped open and a dozen beautiful women climbed up onto the top of the submarine, all wearing bikinis. "Oh look!" One of them with long green hair and extra large boobs pointed at the ship next to them.

"Thank goodness someone was here," another girl, this one with less bouncy breasts and two brown pigtails smiled up at the starboard side of the boat.

"Can you get us to the next island?" A girl in a blue and white bikini who was wearing a sailor's hat asked. "Our sub broke down and we barely made it to the surface."

"Even our mermaid friends couldn't pull us all the way to the next island," another beautiful girl admitted. As she said it, four gorgeous mermaids swam up to the surface of the ocean.

Sanji's jaw dropped several feet as his fantasy got even better. "Luffy pinch me," he said, turning to the Captain. "Wait no, if this is a dream, I don't ever want to wake up." Sanji turned back to the mermaids and their stranded beautiful lady friends.

"Can we please come aboard?" the girl with the sailor hat asked.

"OF COURSE!" Half of the Straw Hats crew shouted at the same time.

Juvia looked around and saw Sanji, Usopp, Franky, Kirito, Natsu, Rin, Ben, and... Gray all looking over the side with gawking expressions. They were in awe of the beauty of these women and mermaids. As she was about to storm over and yell at the women for being her romantic rivals, she saw Gray turn away from them and look her way, making her face turn red and fill with happiness.

While most of them helped the girls up onto their ship, except for Sanji who had collapsed with a terrible nosebleed, Killua was watching with a grin on his face from up at the crow's nest where he was watching from. "Where did they come from?" He wondered aloud, noticing a presence near him.

"I have no idea," Timmy replied from behind the white haired kid. "But they're all really hot."

"You got that right," Killua admitted with a laugh.

Down below, Nami was talking to the girl in the sailor's hat, wondering what they were doing in a submarine. The beautiful woman smiled and said, "We were just traveling, but if you would like to be compensated for picking us up, I do have these." She lifted up a little bag and dumped a pile of diamonds onto her hands.

Nami's eyes started shining and she snatched up the diamonds before wrapping the girl up in a huge hug.

"This seems a little strange don't you think?" Sora asked his best friends on either side of him. Riku nodded but just kept staring at one girl standing a little behind the others, with raven-colored short hair down only to her shoulders. She looked shy and was wearing a dark blue bikini with black bottoms. "Riku? Rikuuu, are you even listening?" Sora asked, but his silver haired friend started walking forwards.

"Where is he going?" Kairi asked in a little confusion. She noticed a girl over on the side of the ship who was shyer than the others. Something about the girl made Kairi feel strange, but Sora started talking again and got her distracted.

"Whoa what are those?!" Sora called out, pointing over the port side of the ship away from the beautiful bikini girls.

"Eeek!"

"Save us!"

The girls started screaming as giant underwater robots emerged off the port side of the ship. Timmy's eyes widened and he hopped off the crow's nest. "I don't feel any energies over there," he called out.

"So if they're just robots, we can go all out!" Natsu yelled in agreement and leapt up in the air.

Dozens of tall steel robots with glowing red eyes and red circles on their palms emerged from the sea. They lifted up their hands and fired beams of red energy towards the Thousand Sunny, but Goku and Timmy sent them flying back.

Riku turned from the quiet girl with black hair standing in between her screaming friends to the tall metal robots coming out of the sea behind him. He narrowed his eyes at them and looked back for a second, but the girl he saw before was missing.

"Riku what are you waiting for?!" Ben called down to his friend.

Riku looked up in the air to see Heatblast floating up in the sky with his hands pushed down, flames coming out of his fists to keep him up. Ben's flaming alien form was looking down at him with glowing yellow eyes, and Riku looked into them and nodded at his friend. He leapt up in the air past the red alien made of molten rocks and did a three-sixty spin. As he spun, he lit up bright and his clothes turned dark, with a red heart appearing in the center of his chest and two dark-colored Keyblades in his hands.

The two of them shot off towards the robot army that just kept increasing in number. While they flew over the sea, a spray of water shot up in a line towards the robots and they caught a glimpse of Dash's blond hair as he ran across the water.

"Just like old times!" Ben called out to his two old friends from the first few weeks on Nexus.

While he shouted it, Goku punched a hole through a fifty foot tall metal creature that was standing up on the water's surface on two large steel feet. He did a front flip through the hole he punched, then flew forward and double kicked the one behind it in its robot face, smashing it to pieces. Kirito was leaping on the water doing ninja jumps, and he formed a Rasengan as he leapt in the air. The former Underworld member slammed his spinning ball of blue energy into the robot's chest. Sora came swooping down and slashed across another one while Timmy Turner held out his arms to the side and fired large white beams that destroyed five robots each.

"Maybe not exactly like old times," Ben corrected himself as a dozen robots all exploded at once.

"I'd call this new times," Riku told the kid flying next to him as a humanoid pile of molten rocks. "But we'll kick just as much butt as we did back then!"

"You got that right!" Dash yelled up, right as he jumped off the water and punched the tall wide robot in front of him a few dozen times in the stomach. Each time dented it more and then he pulled back extra far and swung forward, ripping a hole right through the machine's exterior.

"Nice one!" Ben yelled as he formed a ball of fire to throw down at the robot near him. As he was about to throw it, his target got hit by a tiny green ball, and a dozen vines shot out from the ball and wrapped around the robot. Usopp fist pumped from back on the Thousand Sunny, then continued aiming around and firing Pop Greens with his slingshot around the sea.

"Wait a second!" Dash yelled as he landed on top of his broken robot that fell back on the water. Everyone around him looked over and watched as Dash reached inside the hole he ripped in the steel. When he pulled out his hand, it was full of candy.

"What?!" Most everyone shouted. They looked around and noticed all of the broken robots were spilling out candy.

Dash unwrapped one and tossed it in his mouth, "THEY'RE REALLY GOOD!" He yelled, getting super energetic from just one bite of the delicious candy.

As everyone started going around and destroying more dangerous robots, and taking their candy, and getting cheered on by the beautiful half-naked women on the Thousand Sunny, Ben slowed down in midair and came to a stop. "This is strange," he muttered, looking around as all his friends celebrated from destroying the final robot and started gathering up all the good candy before it got wet. He looked back to the Thousand Sunny and saw two beautiful girls dressed as nurses fanning Sanji to make him feel better as he was still unconscious in shock, his eyes looking like hearts. Near him Nami was getting diamonds tossed at her for all their passengers' gratitude, and even Luffy was digging in to a pile of meat that some beautiful girls had brought out for him.

"This is, too, perfect," he whispered, his body surrounding in green light and then turning him back into a normal boy. "Wait a second," his eyes grew larger and he snapped his head around. "It couldn't be-"

Riku was down at the water's surface laughing as Dash rambled on and on about the candy that gave him so much energy. The teenager looked around for Ben, expecting the younger boy to be down here as well, enjoying their rewards. He looked up right as Ben's mouth opened and he saw the panicked look on Ben's face. "Everyone listen to me! We need to-"

Everyone started lifting their heads up to look at Ben, but as their eyes focused on him they widened, because a large red portal appeared directly behind Ben. A figure wearing a suit of armor and a golden mask came flying out of the portal and slammed straight into Ben's back, tackling him through the air.

"Ben!" The entire crew shouted together. Luffy stretched a rubber hand towards him while Goku and Timmy flew up. No one was fast enough. The man who tackled him flew straight into another red portal that appeared in front of him and then closed.

The sky became clear. Not a person to be seen. "Ben?" Nami whispered.

"RAAAAA!" Luffy roared in fury as his arm snapped back empty-handed.

"Ben?" Dash whispered in shock.

"It can't be," Usopp muttered, stumbling backwards. "Where did he-"

"BEN!" Riku yelled.

Suddenly, a red portal opened up in the sky. Everyone stared at the red circle of energy for a few seconds, and then gawked as Ben stepped out of it and floated there with a triumphant smile on his face.

"Took care of it," the thirteen year old said in a smug tone, wiping his hands across each other and grinning down at the rest of them.

"BEN!" They yelled in relief.

Goku stared at the boy in the sky for a second longer with a wondering look, and then shook his head and smiled with everyone else. Riku flew up to his close friend, "Where did you go?" He asked, grinning at his friend who survived whatever just happened to him.

"Ah it was nothing," Ben waved him off. "Some guy trying to take my Omnitrix. Gave him what for," Ben bragged, punching a fist forward to prove his point.

"That's, cool," Riku said, slowly nodding at his friend who didn't seem shaken up at all by the whole being kidnapped thing.

Ben smiled at him and then flew down out of the sky towards the floating metal robots with candy pouring out of them. Riku chuckled and chased after his friend, and everyone who panicked at Ben's kidnapping calmed down.

Luffy looked up from his pile of meat and over the side of the ship. He kind of wished he could run out there where the others were, but then again... He turned and dove back into the pile of meat. This is amazing, the pirate thought to himself in between chews of chunks of meat. Luffy looked over at the beautiful girl cooking more meat for him on a stove that she brought up on top of her submarine. He called out, "Thank urp you!"

She smiled back and said, "You are very welcome. It is the least we could do."

"I'm in heaven," Sanji moaned from nearby the captain.

Luffy looked over and saw his chef's head on a red headed lady's lap. The pirate in a straw hat chuckled at Sanji's dazed look, then turned and looked over towards Nami. His head tilted to the side at the sight of the woman rolling around in piles of gold and diamonds, while another beautiful girl tossed more gems on her. "That doesn't seem right," he mumbled, lowering the drum stick from his right hand.

He could hear the laughing and cheering for candy out on the water, and all around him his crewmates were having a great time. "I'll go see if I can fix your sub for you," Franky offered and then held up his arms, "Yow!" He yelled, for two girls ran up and hugged him for offering something so nice. The cyborg's face turned red and he allowed the ladies to show him inside their submarine.

Luffy continued looking around and all he saw were smiles on everyone's faces. He smiled too seeing this, but then he turned back to the girl pouring diamonds on Nami. She had long brown hair, a beautiful woman with large breasts and a bouncy butt, and she reached down and grabbed a small bag from her panties, pulled it out, and dumped more diamonds on top of Nami. "That's a strange place to keep diamonds." Luffy mumbled.

"Wow, your hat looks a lot like the one on the sail," a woman's voice said behind the sitting captain. Luffy turned around from his half devoured pile of meat and at the woman behind him. She had long pink hair and cutely smiled at him while rubbing her hands along his back. "Does that mean this is your ship?" She asked in a sultry voice.

"I'm the Captain," Luffy stated to answer her question. He smiled at her, and she smiled back at him the way Boa Hancock used to, a look he knew very well. He was confused though, because he had just met this girl. "Who are you?" Luffy asked the girl behind him.

"Huh?" She asked, keeping the smile on her face the whole time. "Oh that's not important, tell me about being a pirate. I bet it's full of adventures."

"Would you like some more meat captain?" The female chef called up to Luffy from the submarine.

"I could rub your feet if you want," a young-looking woman in a red bikini asked, stepping up to him and bending down over his meat pile. "Or I could rub something else," she said, then winked at Luffy.

"No thanks," Luffy said and stood up all of a sudden. He looked around and back off the port side of the ship. Everyone out there still looked to be having a good time, trading the candies they had gathered with each other. He looked back and around at his crew who were all so happy. "Something is..."

"Is there something wrong Luffy-san?" A voice asked from behind the captain.

Luffy spun around and saw Robin standing behind him. The woman with long black hair smiled nicely at him and tilted her head waiting for an answer.

Luffy tilted his head back at her, "You don't notice it?" He asked.

"Notice what?" She replied with risen eyebrows.

"Huh," Luffy muttered and he had a thoughtful look on his face for a few moments. "Well you're the smartest person I know, so then it's probably nothing." He shrugged and turned back to the pile of meat, deciding there was no point in arguing with a good thing.

Robin just stood behind him quietly and smiled at the captain's back. "Thank you for the compliment, Luffy."

---

"Let me out of here!"

"Poor fool," a man wearing silver chain mail and armor, and a golden mask over his face shook his head. He chuckled from under the mask at the expense of the boy in front of him. The kid's arms and legs were pinned to a black wall by blue glowing energy straps. "You can not escape this place."

"I should have known," the kid wearing a white t-shirt and green shorts growled at the man in front of him. "Everything was too perfect, it was just like last time."

"And just like last time, now that you have figured it out, this will become your nightmare," the armored man stated, his voice getting darker.

"Enoch, what do you want with me and my friends? That was really them back there wasn't it?! Do you want the Omnitrix?"

"Ben Tennyson you fool, the Omnitrix is the least of our concerns," the man named Enoch replied. "The Forever Knights are now in the possession of a Saiyan. Your watch is a trivial matter, but we will take it as well as blood samples from each of your friends. Devil Fruit powers, Dragon Slayer magic, Demon blood, a speedster, all of your comrades loved to brag about themselves at the feast. And all of those powers will now fall to the Forever Knights!"

"You won't get away with it," Ben yelled at the man.

"Your Grandpa isn't here this time to save you," Enoch responded, and Ben could almost imagine the man smirking underneath his mask. "No one will save you now," he added, then his body faded away into the darkness on all sides of Ben.

"No! Noooo! Let me out!" Ben roared.

---

"Okay, how much meat can you eat?" The girl with long pink hair standing next to Luffy asked with an amazed look on her face.

Nami looked over at the pirate captain in disgust as he put an entire ham into his mouth and then pulled back out only the bone. When she scrunched up her face in disgust though, all the other girls started clapping for her captain. What? Do they not think that was gross? Nami started looking around but then stopped as the brunette right next to her lowered a huge diamond in front of her face.

"Would you like this one too?" The woman asked, and Nami snatched it with drool pouring out of her mouth.

Luffy looked over and saw that happen, right when Nami herself seemed to be confused. Almost like they're stopping us from realizing, he thought. The pirate spun around and looked at everything near him. Everyone from the water group were on their way back to the port side of the ship where the almost naked girls were waving to them and cheering.

"Feels good being a hero," Sora said with a laugh and he put both arms behind his head.

"Too bad you don't get to enjoy it Mister Newlywed," Riku teased his friend next to him. "I on the other hand," he smirked and looked back at the side of the Thousand Sunny, then lost his grin at the sight of that black haired girl again, the one with a blue bikini and black bottoms.

Riku flew fast off towards the ship and Sora lifted his eyebrows. "What's the rush?" He called out.

Ben chuckled from the other side of where Riku was as Sora, and the older boy looked over at Ben. The young kid in a white t-shirt and green shorts laughed, "He's just excited that those girls are here to reward us!" Ben flew off after him yelling, "Wait for me!"

Sora laughed as the kid left, then shook his head softly. It's hard to imagine that he just got tackled through a portal not five minutes ago. Always gotta keep on guard here I guess.

"This sure has been a fun morning," Dash said followed by a loud burp. The blond kid was running around on the water below and called up, "It's our lucky day!"

On the ship, Luffy had finally had enough and he threw his stretchy arms up to the crow's nest, sending himself rocketing up there. The rubber pirate landed on the railing and looked around. Down on the bow near the steering wheel he could see Rin with two beautiful ladies at his sides, while another girl rubbed the tummy of his large pet cat Kuro.

"Seems strange doesn't it?" A voice asked from behind Luffy that almost made him fall off the railing. He spun around with wide-eyes, not having felt the person with his Observational Haki. "Sorry, was using Zetsu to stay hidden," the boy with white spiky hair stepped out of the shadows and looked into Luffy's eyes. "Have you realized it?"

"What's happening?" Luffy asked, then looked off the crow's nest and down at everyone below.

"None of this is real," Killua replied to the pirate in front of him. Luffy turned back and his eyes turned huge. "I should have noticed sooner, but it was only when that fake Ben came back that it became clear."

"Wait," Luffy turned and looked off the crow's nest down towards Ben who was laughing along with Dash and running around like always. "Ben isn't real?" He asked, really confused at this point.

"He has not gone into any detail about what happened on the other side of that portal. Ben likes to brag, and he did, but the way in which Ben boasted was not usual for him." Killua stepped up and hopped on the railing next to Luffy. "And if something was wrong, who would you have asked first to check with?"

"Robin," Luffy replied. "But she didn't notice anything..." he stopped talking as he saw Killua staring expectantly at him. "She's fake too?!" Luffy exclaimed.

"Shh," Killua urged, putting a finger to his mouth. "What do you think happens when they realize we know what's going on?"

"Who are they? What is going on?" Luffy was so confused and he looked at the kid for answers, but the white haired boy shrugged cluelessly.

Killua continued, "But Ben knew." Luffy looked at him confusedly, so Killua added, "Right before they took him away. The real him. He started shouting like he understood what was happening. That's mainly why I haven't said anything to anyone else yet, I feel like they'll take us out if we-"

"Hey everyone!" Luffy yelled, cupping his hands to his mouth.

The entire crew on the deck below and all of the beautiful girls looked up to see the rubber pirate calling down to them. "Luffy?" Usopp questioned, wondering why they were being shouted at.

"None of this is real! We're dreaming or something!" The captain shouted.

"What?!" Nami yelled up at him angrily. "That's ridiculous!"

"No," a voice said close to Nami, and she turned to her left to see Goku standing there. The muscular Saiyan in an orange gi turned to Nami with a chunk of meat in his mouth and said, "We are dreaming. Haven't you noticed?"

Everyone turned to Goku now, their jaws dropped as the spiky haired Saiyan looked around at them. Killua was pissed that Luffy just shouted that, but now he turned his anger on Goku. "And how long have you known?!" The boy shouted down at him.

"That we were dreaming?" Goku asked innocently. "I thought everyone knew?" He admitted. The man looked around and saw them all just gawking at him. "Whoops," he shrugged his shoulders and laughed at their dumbstruck looks.

"A dream?" Ben asked in surprise.

"How can that be?" Robin questioned, scratching her chin in wonder.

Killua looked back and forth between the two he just called fakes. They are good copies. I don't think I'd be able to convince anyone else that they aren't real.

As everyone started shouting about how that couldn't be true, Usopp turned to one of the gorgeous women near him. "Hey, umm," he suddenly realized this girl he's been talking to had never given him her name. "What's your name again?" He asked the young woman.

The scantily clad female turned towards him slowly with that same smile on her face as before. "My name?" She asked. "My name?" Her smile faltered and her voice got lower, "You want, to know," every two words sounded lower and lower, and her light colored skin started getting blacker. "My, NAME?!" She yelled, making Usopp scream and fall backwards in fear.

"The beautiful girls are all fakes?!" Natsu yelled in surprise as the girls near him turned dark and snapped their heads at him with glowing red eyes and sharp teeth.

"Ignore the enemies!" Killua shouted from the crow's nest. "We have to find a way out of here!"

"How?!" Rin exclaimed as he backed away from the two girls he was making out with before who now looked more like snakes than women.

"I don't know!" Killua replied loudly. "Just figure something out!"

---

"Sir, the subjects are looking for the escape route." A woman sitting at a computer turned around towards the armored man with a golden mask standing behind her.

He looked ahead at the rows of beds they had laying out, each one with a body on it. The one directly in front of him had the boy with the Omnitrix, the watch proving as hard as ever to remove even with his high tech equipment, lying down on it. Next to him on his left was Timmy Turner, and on his right a young woman with dark blue hair. Each of them had little metal helmets on and a dozen wires attaching them to the central device.

Enoch lifted his wrist up to his mouth and pressed a button on it. "Simon, Dreamcaster, come in here."

A few moments after he made the call, the doors behind him made a swooshing noise as they opened up. Two figures walked in and Enoch turned towards them. There was a creepy man whose brain was showing under a round glass casing on his head, and a woman with long straight silver hair down to her waist and purple eyes. "They are waking up," Enoch stated in a cold, low-pitched voice. "Make it so they don't."

"Okee-dokey boss," the girl with silver hair said, giving him a mock salute and then marching over to a glass door. It slid open and let her in, with Simon not far behind her.

"I will handle this," the telepath stated in a nasally voice, walking ahead of Dreamcaster towards the center of the room.

"Oh come on," the girl said in a taunting voice. "You know my nightmares are twenty times better than whatever you could conjure up."

"I have their memories," the man replied, looking around at the room of sleeping people. "And nothing is more dangerous than memories."

"We'll share then," the girl next to him settled with. "I'll go first," she closed her eyes and put her hands down on either side of a boy with spiky white hair's head. Her hands glowed while on his temples and she started laughing to herself, "This is going to be fun."

---

"What's happening?!" Franky yelled as he burst out of the top of the submarine. The cyborg was getting bitten by two snake-women, but now they started melting on his back.

The sight of the girls melting was worse than them trying to kill the crew. They screamed out in pain as they melted, and then everyone heard a scream from up above them and looked up to see Killua standing on the railing of the crow's nest, grabbing both sides of his temples. When he opened back up his eyes, there was a figure floating in the sky a hundred feet in front of him.

The sky darkened to night in a few seconds, with dark clouds filling the air. The water itself seemed to turn black but only got more wavy. A few people saw where Killua was looking, the ones who weren't so freaked out that they could actually pay attention, and they saw the kid staring at a muscular figure out over the water. The figure had appeared out of nowhere, but he had a long swirling trail of darkness coming off of his head and swirling up towards the sky. His eyes were pure white, but with swirly black lines going in circles around him. Killua reached forward and he fell off of the crow's nest, his hand held out the entire time he fell.

"Kil!" Dash yelled up as the boy started falling. He ran towards the mast and started sprinting up it, then jumped off and caught the older boy. He landed down on the deck and into a roll where he released Killua.

When Dash stood up he spun around angrily, "Why wouldn't you-" he froze and stopped talking as in front of him, his entire family appeared.

Everyone else in the dream dropped their jaws at the sudden appearance of the Incredibles family. Mr. Incredible and Elasta Girl, Violet, and even a little baby crawling on the floor with a blurry face. Dash looked at them with a horrified expression, but really just at the baby. "JackJack," he whispered, his voice getting choked up.

"Dash it isn't really them!" Riku yelled over. His yell did not help much when the family started to melt in front of Dash's eyes. They held out their hands towards him and the kid could not move as he watched his baby brother start melting. "Dash!" Riku yelled.

The silver haired Keybearer looked all around him and watched as everyone started having horrible nightmares come to life right in front of them. "This is bad," he muttered. He looked over towards Ben who was walking over to Dash with a smile on his face, and Riku's eyes widened for a second. Then Riku lifted his head and looked up into the dark sky. "Ben, wherever they've taken you. Try to escape. You have to free us."

---

"RAAAA!" Ben tugged as hard as he could but he couldn't free himself from the restraints. He wanted to transform but his watch wasn't letting him. It looked like it was green, but he couldn't transform at will like usual. "Where am I?" He grumbled and looked around, not seeing anything but darkness all around him.

"Hellooo?!" He called out, looking for some answers. "Someone get me out of here!"

Suddenly, Ben heard footsteps in front of him and he looked straight ahead. "Hey! Who is that?" He squinted and looked closer, to see a woman's figure walking towards him. She got closer and his eyes widened, "Robin?!" A wide smile appeared on his face, but it faltered, "Wait, how do I know you're the real Robin? I've been tricked before."

She walked all the way up to him and then looked at the blue braces keeping him trapped to some invisible wall behind him that blended in with the rest of the black world. "I do not believe I can convince you, as we do not know each other well enough yet," Robin admitted. "However I am real, and I am the only one who has escaped."

"Escaped?" Ben asked, confused and very interested.

"Yesterday afternoon, around twelve hours ago, we came upon an archipelago. On our landing, we were greeted with great applause, and offered a feast in our honor. Somehow they knew who we were from Awul, and the food and drink must have been drugged. The entire night was a fantastic party that the island threw for us, and I do believe most of the inhabitants truly thought the party was real, but even so, I did not drink or eat with everyone else. They attempted to capture me, but I escaped."

Ben nodded his head slowly as she stopped talking to give him a moment to let all the information settle. "Wait, so then where are you right now? Did you go back to the ship?"

She smiled softly at him, "I do believe that saying so is not in our best interests if we wish to free everyone else."

Ben's eyes widened and he definitely believed this was Robin now. "Could you get me down?" He asked. "I got taken from the others and can't escape on my own."

"You should be able to," Robin said, her voice sounding interested as if she were uncovering a mystery. "This is a dream, so you should be able to control it."

"I know," he said, closing his eyes and thinking hard about what he wanted. He sighed in exasperation, "It isn't working! Last time Enoch trapped me I could do anything I wanted! I just, can't," he struggled harder and harder but couldn't break his bonds. Robin looked surprised that Ben knew their enemy's name and more so that he had been in this situation before. "We need to move fast," he added as he took a few deep breaths. "They think I'm trapped, so they might not be watching me right now, but if they see you-"

"It is too late for that," a low voice said behind the rescuer, and Robin spun around and moved out of the way a little so Ben could see him too. Enoch was standing behind Robin, his body over three times as large as usual, and he was much more menacing as a twenty foot tall giant. "Now, I have you all!"

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"What's going on now?!" Nami exclaimed as the ship below them was sinking down into darkness. The black waves continued to splash until the deck of the dark ship went under, then everything turned flat.

"Goku," Kirito grumbled over at the Saiyan warrior standing near him. "Next time you notice we're trapped in a dream, how about trying to get us out sooner?"

Goku tilted his head and looked at Kirito in confusion. "But weren't we all having fun?" He asked innocently, making the teen and anyone else in the vicinity sweatdrop.

Suddenly, the black sky above them shifted. Images started flashing by, and the entire black sky and the walls around them started to turn into a blur. "What is this?" Juvia whispered in fear as they sky started to turn blue and cloudy. Two blurs flew past above the sky, and then another joined in.

Everyone stared up straight at the sky, except for Killua and Dash who were still shaken up by their nightmares. The people who were watching the sky though, finally saw what they were looking at as the blurs stopped moving so fast that so it became possible to see them. "Goku?!" Natsu and half of the others called out in surprise.

"Hey look it's me!" Goku exclaimed, then looked at the other figure with him. Goku had the man in a full nelson, and a third figure with green skin and antennae was nearby.

"Who is that green guy?"

"He has spiky hair like you!"

"He kind of looks like the Mayor."

"That's my brother Raditz," Goku pointed out. "And that's Piccolo."

Everyone looked at the green guy he pointed out, right as the creepy alien slammed his hand forward and fired a swirling yellow beam of light from his fingertips. "SPECIAL BEAM CANNON!"

"Ha!" Natsu laughed. "What kind of name is-" his voice caught in his throat as the beam shot through the guy Raditz, then through Goku's stomach behind him and out the Saiyan's back. The beam kept flying and blew up a mountain in the background and then kept going even farther. Meanwhile Goku and his older brother were falling backwards, each with large holes in their chests.

"What the-" Gray whispered in shock. The ice mage looked back over at Goku who was still smiling, watching this very interestedly.

Suddenly the image changed a little to show Goku lying there on the floor, the hole still in his chest but now with a bunch of people around him. His older brother lay dead not far from him and a short bald man was bent over Goku's body. "Hey that's Krillin," Sora pointed out at the bald guy holding one of Goku's hands up.

No one else said anything as the dying Goku who looked much younger than the man with them coughed up blood. The spiky haired man had cuts all over his shirtless torso around the huge gaping hole in it. He gasped out some laughter and then spoke clearly, "Krillin. Please, take care of, Gohan for me."

"It's not gonna come to that okay? You're gonna make it!" The short bald man kneeling next to him shouted. "And that's all there is to it."

"Krillin," an old man standing next to them warned, as if he already knew what fate was coming.

"No way," Natsu whispered, shaking his head as he watched the Mayor of Pao, the strongest man he'd ever known, cough up blood in this image in the sky. "This has to be fake right?"

"Nope, this really happened," Goku admitted as he watched his past self.

Past Goku looked into Krillin's eyes and whispered, "No, not this time friend. This time, I can't."

"I'll wish you back Goku," Krillin promised the man dying in front of him. "We already have three Dragon Balls."

The Goku on the ground didn't have anything to say to that. It was amazing he lived this long with the hole so close to his heart. His head tilted to the side and he whispered, "I'll see you, soon," and then his eyes closed. He breathed out one last time and then fell limp with a smile on his face.

The sky stayed like that for a few seconds, then became all blurry again. Everyone turned towards Goku who was just watching the sky with a calm smile on his face. He looked around at them all and they were staring at him horrified. "What?" He asked.

Nami had both hands over her mouth and her eyes were watering up. "You died," she gasped out.

"Yep," Goku said. "Twice actually," he corrected her, making her lose the shocked, sad look and just stare at him confusedly.

"Twice?!" Luffy yelled over at the man.

"What was it like on the other side?" A voice asked from behind him, and Goku turned to see Rin staring at him. The teenager who had lost his father looked into Goku's eyes, "Do you remember what happened after?"

"You mean Otherworld?" Goku asked. "Yeah, I got a whole lot of training in with King Kai. And then-"

"This is too ridiculous," Nami whispered, and collapsed down to her knees. "I just want to get out of this dream."

"Let's find a way out," Usopp suggested. "Hey Sanji why don't-" he stopped as he saw the chef sitting there crying. "Sanji?" Usopp asked, stepping over towards him. "You know Goku is alive right?"

"The ladies," Sanji whispered, looking up at Usopp with tears in his eyes. "Bring back the ladies," he begged.

Usopp's mouth filled with sharp teeth and he bonked the chef on the top of the head. "Idiot! Get focused!"

"I'm only focused on pretty ladies," he moaned sadly and rolled over onto his face. "The best dream ever has slipped away."

"We do need to get out of here though," Nami admitted and jumped back up to her feet. She spun around to look for Robin, who turned out to be standing right behind her. "Robin! Have you figured out a way-"

"I am sorry Nami-san," Robin stated. "I believe we will have to wait until the dream ends to get out."

"What?!" Nami's exclaimed, then fell back down to her knees, groaning in aggravation.

Luffy spun around towards Robin and glared at the black haired woman on his crew. She looked so much like Robin, but as he looked at her and she looked back at him into his eyes, he knew. "Where is the real Robin?" He spoke in a low, threatening tone.

Nami lifted back up her head and stopped her silent sobbing to look at Luffy. Near her, Juvia and Gray turned and stared as Luffy walked towards the black haired woman. "L-Luffy-san what are you-" Juvia began.

"Where is Robin?!" Luffy yelled at the woman, who lost her smile and frowned at him, stepping backwards in fear of his approach.

"Luffy what are you saying?" Nami asked, standing up and getting between her best friend and the enraged Captain.

Sanji noticed what was going on and he jumped up to his feet. "Oi Luffy," he growled, "what do you think you're doing?"

"Sanji-san, help me," Robin called over to the chef.

Nami's eyes turned huge, and she slowly turned around to see Robin smiling flirtatiously over at their blond chef to get him to help. Sanji himself was stunned by the words that just came out of her mouth, and he turned back towards Luffy who was marching her way furiously. "Where is the REAL ROBIN?!" Luffy roared.

"Luffy!" Usopp yelled over at him, trying to get the Captain to stop.

"It's not her!" Nami yelled, backpedalling away as she saw a strange glint in Robin's eyes. As she stumbled away, Luffy threw his arms forward, and Sanji raced over to stop him. Neither were necessary as Robin suddenly vanished.

"Where'd she go?!" Timmy yelled, the twelve year old freaking out as much as everyone else.

"Look up!" Natsu called out.

The group turned their gazes to the sky where the air above them was ripped into a bunch of pieces. Whoever was trying to keep them from finding a way out sure knew how to distract them. On half of the dark realm they were in, the walls to their right and all of the ceiling above it, they were in a war zone. There were dead Marines and pirates everywhere, with explosions going off all over the place.

Their jaws dropped however, at the sight of a familiar skinny pirate on his knees, with his arms around another man they knew very well. "Is that, Ace?" Usopp whispered in horror at the sight of their captain's older brother with a huge hole in his chest even bigger than the one that was in Goku's.

"My only regret," Ace whispered, yet his voice echoed all around. "Is that I didn't, get to see you fulfill your dream..."

Luffy had enormous eyes and just stared hopelessly up at the sky. "Ace," he whispered, watching his brother die again.

Meanwhile on the other half of the dark dream world, Kirito lay beneath a tree holding a girl in his arms. A few people were watching this instead of Luffy's, and the real Kirito himself lifted a hand up towards the girl in the image. Her face was blurry, and he clenched his eyes shut tight as he realized he could barely even picture what Asuna looked like.

"AHHHHHHH!" The Kirito in the sky roared, and the tree next to him ripped off the ground and flew into the sky while cracks shot off his knees making fissures in the ground around him.

Just as the memories began, they came to an end. No one could even speak as these things were not meant to be seen again. "I want to get out of here," Nami whispered, then looked up in the sky. "You hear me?! Let me OUT!"

In the dark sky above her, the background did not shift to show images. Instead, three figures appeared directly above her. Her sister Nojiko, Gen, and her mother Bellemere. Nami's angry expression vanished and she just started whispering, "No no no," then could not speak anymore as all three of her loved ones started melting. Their skin peeled off and their faces distorted as their eyes popped and bone structures shifted. It was the worst nightmare imaginable and Nami screamed before falling to her knees.

"This is sick," Riku muttered and spat to his side.

"Don't worry," Sora called out loudly. Everyone looked over at the teen with spiky brown hair and he smiled around at all of them. "Since the real Robin isn't here, I'm sure she's finding a way to get us out of here. We just need to hang on a little longer and make it easier for her. Let's look around for-"

"So-ra," a whisper echoed out around the sky.

Kairi's eyes widened as she heard her own voice, and her and Sora, and everyone else, looked up in the sky. Everything was bright and sunny, and there was a beach of an island where three children stood next to an almost completed raft. "Home," Kairi whispered, smiling a little at the sight of their island.

"I had almost forgotten what it looks like," Riku admitted out loud.

Far in the distance behind the memory kids there were trees in a forest and a large rock face, along with some wooden buildings up on a cliff. Everyone was focused on the three young kids, a short boy with spiky brown hair, a cute little girl with short red hair, and a slightly more muscular and taller boy with spiky silver hair that fell behind his shoulder blades.

"Sora, Riku, and Kairi," Nami pointed at each one and then looked down at their older counterparts. Looks like it's been five or so years since then. She kept herself thinking as to distract herself from imagining her melting family over and over again.

The three children up in the memories were standing and looking out over the sea. For some reason the image was zooming in on them too. The boy with spiky brown hair, young Sora, stood in the middle of the three, and the image zoomed closer to him. As it moved closer, everything flashed black for a second and the island was still there but the sky was dark, and lightning shot out of the darkness in the sky. Then it flashed back to light with the three kids there on the beach.

The image zoomed all the way in on Sora, and then showed the young boy turning towards Riku and smiling at him. Riku turned back, and then everything flashed to show Riku with the same calm expression, only now he was standing twenty feet out in the water. He was facing away from Sora, and he slowly started turning around in the waves. The Sora on the beach was staring at him in confusion, and Riku turned all the way around and made eye contact with his friend. Then, the young image of Riku slowly lifted up his left hand as if for Sora to take.

While Riku stood there in the shallow water with his hand extended, day flashed to night for a second. They were on solid ground and Riku was standing there, yelling at Sora, "Kairi's coming with us!" Then, memory Riku lifted up his arm in the same exact way that version of him in the shallow water had done before. It flashed again and the sky was bright, and Riku was back in the water with his hand extended.

"What is this?" Riku muttered, turning to Sora. "This didn't happen," he mumbled.

"I was having strange dreams," Sora whispered in reply, "I still have strange dreams," he added in an even quieter whisper.

Up in the sky and the memories above, dream Sora stumbled towards the water and Riku inside, but then came to a sudden stop and looked around in fear. All of the water near the shore was getting pulled back, and a wave grew behind Riku's back. Young Riku did not seem to care at all as a tidal wave started forming behind him. As this wave formed, the sky started flashing black over and over and showing Riku with his arm outstretched in the dark. Underneath his feet on solid land, a dark circle formed and tendrils of darkness started wrapping around him. "I'm not afraid of the darkness!" The child yelled fearlessly, as Sora tried reaching out to him to grab on.

"This is a crazy dream," Gray muttered in awe at the craziness going on.

"Dream, more like a nightmare," Nami whispered as she watched the image flash again and show the tidal wave crash down on Riku and Sora. It was like being in a washing machine as Sora got tumbled around under the wave. Sora reached for his best friend underwater but was swept away before their hands could touch. In the other darker version Riku got sucked all the way down into the darkness and Sora tried scrambling for the light, only to get dragged down himself. Memory Sora and Riku had their hands reached out towards each other the entire time they were dragged under and everything shook violently as Sora was pulled under.

"That was scary," Usopp said and then went back to biting his fingernails.

"I wasn't scared," Riku stated from behind Usopp. Usopp and a few others looked over at him, but the nineteen year old stood tall with his muscular arms crossed in front of his chest. "I knew we would find each other."

"Well not all of us were so sure of ourselves," Sora said and elbowed his best friend in the side.

The sky suddenly flashed again and showed the beach again with the three childhood friends, only now Riku started to vanish. The young version of Sora turned the other way and saw Kairi began turning towards him.

Young Kairi started to turn around, and then everything flashed to show a dark, almost empty cave with white carvings in the wall. In it, Kairi was standing in front of a door, and there was low rumbling all around them as if the place kept getting hit by earthquakes. The door was ominous, and emitted strange sounds coming from the other side. The girl standing in front of the door was facing away from Sora who stood at the entrance of the cave. "Kairi!" The young boy who was also in the memory called out to her. She started turning, and it flashed between her and the other version on the bright sunny beach.

"So-ra," she whispered, both versions of her speaking. Then the one from the actual memory in the dark cave reached out a hand for Sora. As she did, the door behind her swung open and it was like a gust of black wind sent her flying forward. Half the people watching gasped and then went wide-eyed as young Sora tried catching her, only for her to go right through him like a ghost.

"What is happening?" Nami wondered aloud, not following this crazy line of events at all.

Kirito was staring up at the sky in wonder, every few seconds checking the three Keybearers to see if they were confused by anything, but they were all just watching as if these really were just images of their past. "What a crazy life," he mumbled in amazement, thinking about all Sora had told him the other day and now getting to watch it first hand.

When he looked back up, he dropped his jaw at the sight of the same beach the three children were standing on a minute ago. Only now, Sora was the only one there. The sky had ripped open and the entire world around the beach was getting pulled into darkness. Some of the people on the Thousand Sunny turned to the three kids who lived there and saw them all frowning at the sight of their home world being destroyed. The Sora in the memory grabbed onto a plank of wood on the floor and tried to hold on, but he got ripped from it by the wind and pulled into the sky. Everything flashed white for a second, and the entire crew collectively looked at the teens.

"Your entire world," Killua began. "What happened to it?"

Neither Sora nor Kairi said anything, but Riku spoke in a low whisper, "It was destroyed."

"What happened to you guys?" Usopp asked. "I mean, you didn't die right?"

The sky suddenly split apart and everyone snapped back up and saw Sora all over the place. Dozens of images flashed by with Sora in all of them walking on deserts and swimming in oceans and climbing towers and fighting in jungles. Everywhere he went, the boy was asking the same questions.

"Have you seen my friends?"

"Riku and Kairi?"

"Riku!"

"Where's Kairi?!"

In every image Sora was in a different place, so many strange places that looked like entirely different worlds. He was searching everywhere for his friends, and then in one, something strange happened. It spread to cover the entire sky wiping away the other memory fragments.

Young Sora was standing on the front of a pirate ship. Off the sides in every direction was nothing but black, with little stars in the distance like they were flying a ship through space. The boy was walking and everyone else noticed young Riku step up behind him and up on a higher deck. "I didn't think you'd come Sora," Riku said, the tone of his voice sounding a lot different from last time they saw him. "Good to see you again."

"Wh-Where are Donald and Goofy?" Young Sora asked, confusing most people watching who did not know that those two animal creatures Sora was traveling around with in the other memories were the names he just asked about.

"Are they that important to you? More important than old friends?" Young Riku asked in a condescending tone.

The older version of Riku watching this memory bowed his head a little, but then felt hands on either of his shoulders. He lifted his head up and looked to each side to see Sora and Kairi smiling at him. They nodded at him, knowing it hurt him the most to see how far into the darkness he had fallen back then. He cracked a small smile and all three of them looked up into the sky together.

"Instead of worrying about them, you should be asking..." Younger Riku continued in an angry tone, then stepped aside, "about her."

"Is that, Kairi?" Kirito wondered aloud, turning and looking over at the girl now, and then up at the collapsed child whose eyes were open but not moving. "She's..."

"Kairi!" Past Sora yelled out.

"That's right," Riku replied. "While you were off goofing around, I finally found her." As he said it, the entire memory started to shift and distort. The pirate ship faded and all the images around them swirled together again.

The scene shifted to show a cluster of floating ice glaciers with Sora standing on the highest one with a dog and a duck behind him. Donald and Goofy had their weapons raised, but memory Sora stepped forward and whispered, "Riku." There was a collapsed beast on Sora's right side and Riku stood there with a smug look like he was the one who took it down.

"But all ends here," memory Riku said and held his arms out to the sides. "There can't be two Keyblade masters."

The past version of Sora didn't seem to understand. He swung an arm forward and asked, "What are you talking about?"

The silver haired young teen in a black and yellow shirt called out, "Let the Keyblade choose, its true master!" He lifted up his right hand in front of him and the Keyblade appeared in Sora's hand. The weapon looked like it was being tugged by an invisible force and Sora struggled but could not hold onto it. The weapon vanished in a glow of golden light and the two animals standing behind Sora gasped in shock as a golden glow shimmered in front of Riku and the Keyblade appeared there.

The people watching this memory gasped and a few of them were shooting Riku dirty looks, but those looks softened at the sight of his guilty expression and the forgiving looks of his best friends.

The younger version of Riku in the sky looked at the Keyblade in his hand with the yellow hilt and he scoffed. "Maleficent was right." He pointed a finger at Sora, "You don't have what it takes to save Kairi. It's up to me." He held his arms out in a superior way and shouted, "Only the Keyblade master can open the secret door and change the world."

Memory Sora still looked confused and he said, "But that's impossible. How did this happen? I'm the one who fought my way here with the Keyblade."

Kid Riku smirked and turned the weapon in his hands, "You were just the delivery boy." A few people gasped but it only got worse. The memory version of the silver haired teen continued, "Your part is over now. Here, go play hero with this," he tossed a wooden play sword across the glacier and it landed at Sora's feet.

"Ooh, harsh," Rin muttered. It really seemed like Riku got to Sora with those words too, as memory Sora collapsed down to his knees hopelessly. And it only got worse as the two behind Sora seemed to be more loyal towards following the Keyblade than Sora, and they left him kneeling alone on top of the floating iceberg.

The memory faded and most people on the ship turned and glared at Riku. Riku himself was frowning but he kept staring up and watching as their memories shifted some more.

In the next image that appeared, Riku was standing across a dark room from Sora. Behind him were the two animals that Sora had been traveling with this whole time, who were now seemingly on Riku's side. Past Riku glared at his best friend, "Go home Sora."

"No! Not without Kairi!" The younger boy yelled back, holding nothing but his wooden sword in his hands.

Riku looked pissed off and his body surrounded in light for a second. When the light was gone, his clothes were all dark blue, purple, and black, and he looked so much more, evil. "The darkness will destroy you," Past Riku threatened his friend. The kid no longer looked like Sora's friend, he looked and sounded like a bad guy.

The present Riku felt even worse, but Sora clamped his hand down harder on his friend's shoulder to show none of it mattered now.

The young version of Sora swung his hand in front of him, "You're wrong Riku. The darkness may destroy my body, but it can't touch my heart. My heart will stay with my friends, it'll never die!"

Most of the people watching these memories smiled at that statement. A few of them held their hands to their chests just like the Sora in the past was doing, and the one right there with them too.

"Really?" Past Riku asked sarcastically. "Well we'll just have to see about that!" Riku yelled, pushing a hand forward and firing a huge blast of energy at an unprotected Sora. Half the crew yelped or called out in fright as the memory Riku suddenly attacked Sora.

As the light fired, the entire sky started to morph, and Riku and Sora vanished. A new image formed with a hallway full of darkness and Riku standing in front of a dark blue light. Riku looked in pain and he no longer had the Keyblade with him. The dark light in front of him was speaking in a deep, dark tone, "Open your heart to the darkness. You showed no fear stepping through the door. Now, plunge deeper into the darkness!"

The boy in front of the light had a look of despair on his face as he stared at the floor. "...What do I need to do?" Memory Riku replied, and then that image was gone too.

"Was that Ansem?!" Usopp exclaimed, seeing the little blue light for what it was from the sound of its voice.

"So that's how he got control of you," Sora mentioned, trying to start up conversation with his dejected-looking friend. Riku was not in the mood though and just shook his head.

Dash finally got over the sight of his dream family melting, accepting that it really was just a stupid trick after all. He looked around and saw everyone seemed to have calmed down a little, but they were all just looking at the sky. He was about to shout at them that they need to get out of there fast, but then he looked up as well and his jaw lowered at the sight.

Sora and his two animal friends were in a room without any lights, and an injured Maleficent was backing away with her hand over her chest. Walking towards her was the silver haired boy, only there was something different about him. "Is that-" the duck named Donald standing at Past Sora's side called out over to Young Riku who was holding a unique weapon in his hands.

Young Riku stood in a room of darkness, his body covered in black and when he spoke his deep voice made them feel chills. "Yes, a Keyblade. But unlike yours," he spoke directly to Young Sora, "This one has the power to unlock people's hearts. Allow me to demonstrate..."

Everyone heard the squelch and their eyes popped open wide. Riku was standing there in the sky, a black Keyblade in his hands that he had just plunged into Maleficent's heart. "Now, open your heart. Surrender it to the darkness! Become darkness itself!" He yelled in a voice not his own. The woman stumbled away grabbing at her chest, screaming stuff about darkness taking her over. Young Riku did not care about what he did, he just turned and walked away, ignoring all of Sora's shouts at him and vanishing into darkness.

"This is too crazy," Kirito finally muttered out loud.

"I am at a loss for words," Killua agreed from next to the taller boy.

"I've been trying to follow everything going on," Timmy added near them. "But I think that the Riku we just saw was already taken over by Ansem."

"You got that right," Riku muttered over. "But I let him take over in the first place. You all saw."

Luffy looked over at the silver haired teen, then up at the sky which started distorting again. This time as it reformed, Luffy's eyes opened wider than ever. They did because he recognized the room, and so did Nami, and Usopp, and Sanji and Robin. Dash was the one who pointed and yelled though, "It's Hollow Bastion!"

"Were you in Castle Oblivion?" Usopp asked over at the teens who were all appearing up in the images above.

No one answered him though. They were looking at the dark room with two staircases leading up to the top floor where a giant glowing heart machine rested in between a bunch of machines and sparking wires.

On the floor of this top section, Kairi lay unmoving on the floor. Past Sora ran over to her, "Kairi. Kairi Kairi. Open your eyes Kairi." He held her up with his hands under her head but she couldn't open her eyes.

It was getting hard to watch for some of them as Sora shook the unmoving girl.

"It's no use," Riku's creepy voice mixed with Ansem's spoke from up near the heart, where only now everyone saw him appear. "That girl has lost her heart. She can not wake up."

"What?! You... You're not Riku," Young Sora realized.

"The Keyhole can not be completed," evil young Riku/Ansem stated. He hopped off the top of the golden heart device that he was sitting on and then floated down slowly with his arms extended. He continued darkly, "So long as the last princess of heart still sleeps."

"The princess?" Young Sora asked in the sky memory, at the same time as every single other person down below asked the same question. Young Sora spun back towards his evil friend, "Kairi's a princess?!"

"Don't act so surprised," current Kairi joked and elbowed her best friend in the side for that comment he made years ago.

"Haha, nice mess you've gotten in Sora," the real Riku joked to his blushing younger friend.

Meanwhile, a much darker scene unfolded above with their three past selves. Past Sora shouted at Riku, "Whoever you are, let Riku go! Give him back his heart!" Sora looked fearless in the face of this enemy, swinging his arms at the man angrily.

"But first," young Riku countered, and swung his dark Keyblade around before pointing it down the stairs at Sora. "You must give the princess back her heart!" The tip of Riku's Keyblade glowed, and then Sora's chest pulsed out pink and he collapsed to the ground.

"Wh-what's going on?" Young Sora asked in a weak voice as the duck next to him tried to help him. Those watching this scene were getting more confused too as they were trying to follow what the fake Riku was saying.

"Don't you see yet?!" The dark Riku on the stairs shouted down angrily. "The princess's heart is responding. It has been there all along! Kairi's heart rests within you!"

A gasping Sora on the floor whispered, "Kairi, Kairi's inside me?" As everyone down watching this started freaking out and asking questions, one kid shook his head over and over.

"Hey!" Killua yelled all of a sudden, finally having enough of this. "Let's look for an exit!" He suggested, snapping everyone out of the stupor of watching these memories.

"Aw, but I want to see how this ends," Ben complained. "How did Kairi get her heart?!"

"Ask her later!" Dash yelled at his friend, suddenly realizing Killua was right and they needed to wake up. "Whoever's messing with our heads is probably doing stuff to our bodies too, and I don't like that."

"Agreed!" Nami shouted.

As she shouted it, a fist flew past her face and slammed into Ben's. "Ahh!" She yelled, turning and watching the rubber fist snap back to Luffy.

"Why did you do that?!" Dash yelled over at the pirate angrily. He turned to see if Ben was alright, but Ben just stood up slowly, and then looked ahead at them as he melted. "AH!" Dash yelled, turning away. "Ben was fake this whole time?!" He yelled.

"Ever since he got taken by that armored guy before!" Killua yelled, catching everyone up to speed. He wasn't going to do anything but he was glad Luffy finally knocked the fake boy out. He just hoped Robin and Ben were the only two fakes here. "Now let's go!"

Up in the sky, memory Sora was fighting the darkened version of Riku. The two of them were zipping around crazy fast and Riku was creating huge explosions with every attack, but Sora was blocking many and getting powerful combos in on his friend as well as using high-powered magical spells on him.

"But where are we supposed to look?" Goku asked, turning to the white haired boy who wanted them to look for a way out. "I don't know what an exit looks like in a dream. Do you?"

Killua frowned as despite that sounding too simple, he had no answer for the spiky haired Saiyan. He looked around to ask others, but they had all lifted up their heads and were staring in awe at the sky where the images were playing. He wanted to yell at them again, but then again he also really wanted to see what was happening and he slowly lifted back up his gaze to the top floor of Hollow Bastion.

The fight had ended, Riku was gone. Sora stood between his dog and duck friends, Goofy and Donald. He pointed his Keyblade out towards the giant sparking heart, but nothing was happening.

The dog creature, Goofy, exclaimed, "It's not working. The Keyhole's not finished yet!"

"What can we do?" Sora asked, turning to his friend.

"Maybe," Goofy started, "we gotta go wake Kairi up."

Sora looked back down at the dead girl lying on the floor without a heart. "I think you're right," he said, lifting up a hand to his own chest. The young boy looked so thoughtful as he touched his chest, "If we can free her heart... But... But how?" He asked, looking up as if needing a sign. His eyes started looking down and everyone down below looked to a different part of the sky where a piece of the ground showed the Keyblade that Riku used before to stab Maleficent with. "A Keyblade that unlocks people's hearts, I wonder..." Young Sora closed his eyes, and then opened them and walked determinedly down the steps.

"Sora?" Goofy asked with worry in his voice.

Sanji was staring up at the sky and his jaw was lowering a little more every second as he started to realize what was going on. Franky wasn't too far from the chef and tears started building up in the cyborg's eyes, though he tried keeping himself quiet.

Kirito could not believe what he was watching, but as he looked down and over towards the real Sora and Kairi, they were wrapped in a hug with Kairi burying her face in Sora's chest as he spoke soothing words to her. "It can't be," Kirito whispered, then looked back up and watched as Young Sora walked all the way over to that dark Keyblade.

The young version of Sora lifted up the Keyblade and held it in his hands by the red hilt. At this point almost everyone had figured out what he was going to do except for Luffy and Goku who were totally lost.

Timmy's eyes turned huge as did Dash's next to him. Nearby, Nami lifted both hands up in front of her mouth. "Sora hold on!" His friend Goofy shouted at his past self from nearby in the image.

"No, wait!" Donald yelled, holding out his feathered hands.

Young Sora, just a kid, turned his head and looked down at Kairi for a second. Then he turned and looked over to Donald and Goofy, and flashed them one big smile to show everything was okay. He turned back to his long black Keyblade, grabbed it near the end of the blade, and turned it around so the sharp point hovered inches in front of his chest. The young boy grabbed it with both hands, and plunged it into his own chest.

"SORA!" A dozen people shouted as Memory Sora impaled his own heart.

His chest started to glow, and then as his hands fell back to his sides, the Keyblade pulled out on its own, with bubbles of darkness exuding from it as it floated there. The dark Keyblade floated up and bubbled darkness for a few seconds, before vanishing completely and being replaced by six spheres of light. Those six spheres flew away, and everyone spun to follow them across the dark sky where they illuminated more of Hollow Bastion. Everyone watched as the hearts returned to six princesses locked up around the room.

Sanji cried manly tears and called out to the present Sora, "I can't believe you saved so many princesses! You're too lucky! Too lucky I say!" He yelled, watching as the princesses in the vision started opening their eyes, sure to be grateful to their savior and maybe wanting to give him some sort of reward.

"Lucky?" Kairi asked over harshly.

Sanji looked down at the teenage girl, then up in the air where young Sora stood with his arms held out to either side. His chest opened up, and a large bright light shone out of it. The sphere of light floated high up, then came back down and imbedded itself in Kairi's chest. While this happened, the sparking heart shape in the background that was the Keyhole Sora tried closing before shone bright and lost its sparking energy that showed it was not working.

Young Kairi's chest lit up as her heart returned to her, and slowly her eyes opened back up. "Sora! Sora!" Donald yelled, chasing towards the boy as Kairi slowly sat up. The young girl sat up and looked over to see Sora falling backwards slowly, his whole body getting surrounded in golden light.

"Sora no," Dash whispered as he saw Sora's eyes closing.

Past Kairi stood up fully, and her face filled with fear as she saw Sora falling. "Sora!" She called out, and ran over to him with her arms out to catch him. As her hands touched his body though, he shattered into a hundred shards of light. Kairi held her hands out with a horrified look as he turned into light. She looked up and looked utterly hopeless as Sora's light particles floated up to the sky.

"Sora!" Memory Donald yelled, the duck sounding in serious pain at the sight just like Kairi. "Come back Soraaa!" Donald quacked after him.

"Haha, I'm totally going to mention that when I next see Donald," Sora mentioned, but as he looked around only Goku smiled at that statement.

Kairi hugged her fiancé tightly, and whispered, "Thank you," to him, not knowing if she ever said it before.

"You, sacrificed yourself for her," Gray said over to him in admiration.

Sora sheepishly scratched the back of his head, happy for the praise, though not for why he was getting it. "It was the only option-"

"Don't try that," Nami snapped over at the boy. "You chased all over for her. That was the sweetest thing I have ever seen."

"That was so cool," Dash agreed from closer to Sora.

"A man among men!" Franky yelled.

"RAAAAAAAA!"

Everyone spun their heads and watched as a huge rip in reality tore through the air on their left sides. On the other side of the crack they could see two giants, each three hundred feet tall battling it off with each other. They recognized one of them as the man in armor with a golden mask from before, and the other was a humongous red and white alien they also knew as Way Big, one of Ben's transformations. Ben pushed his enemy back, and then two huge arms appeared out of nowhere and tripped up Enoch by his legs.

"It's Robin!" Nami yelled in relief, seeing her best friend. "She's helping Ben!"

"Where are they?" Natsu asked, confused at what that rip was. "Actually, let's just go through-" the rip closed and Natsu blinked a few times stupidly. "You have to be kidding me!" He yelled up at the sky.

In part of the sky, a memory appeared showing a pretty dark room. There was a large stage in the middle of the room with a familiar figure on it. The short boy with spiky white hair reminded them a lot of Killua only about four or five years younger. The ten year old boy had his hands in his pockets and was looking ahead at the man in front of him who was several times bigger.

The figure in front of Killua was glaring down at him with the look of a murderer. All he seemed to want to do was kill Killua and a lot of the crew members watching were starting to sweat. Killua himself chuckled as he saw the memory begin up above him. The large muscular man with messy brown hair and a brown mustache was glaring at him and yet his past self did not look fazed at all.

"So, how do you want to fight?" Kid Killua asked casually, hands still in his pockets.

"A fight?" the guy in the memory questioned in a deep, scary voice. "I think you have the wrong idea," he spoke with malicious intent seeping off of every word. "The only thing that's going to happen here, is I'm going to slaughter you."

Usopp let out a noise that sounded like 'eep.' A few of the others started sweating worse as their fears came true and this guy really was a murderer. The man in the memory, who Killua remembered was called Jones, continued, "I don't care about the Exam or getting my sentence reduced. I just want to dig my fingers into your flesh that's all."

"Okay, this guy is seriously giving me the creeps," Gray muttered while staring up at the memory.

Memory Jones continued, "All you have to do is scream and cry out..."

"Alright," Memory Killua stated calmly with a blank look on his face. "So whoever dies loses the game?"

The casual way in which he said it made most people watching wonder if they heard him correctly. Jones seemed not to hear him either and just held out his right hand, "I'll tear your body apart," the man said with a smile plastered on his face. He reached in, and...

Everyone stared up at the memory blankly. Only a very few of them were able to see what just happened, but past Killua was now standing on Jones's opposite side. Jones still had his arm reached out, while Killua was casually walking away behind him. The murderer did not understand what was going on, and he glanced down at his shirt where there was now a hole in the top left side of it.

"What just-" Nami began, then noticed what memory Killua had in his hand, making her face turn blue.

"No way," Franky whispered in shock, his face also blue.

Jones grabbed at his chest where the hole in his shirt was and he muttered, "Wh-What? I'm so cold." He turned around to where Killua was now standing, and stared in just as much shock as everyone else as Killua turned towards him with a piece of Jones's shirt in his hand. The shirt was wrapped around something wet and red, and it was beating. "That's, mine-" Jones began, walking towards Killua and reaching his hand out towards the beating heart that Killua held casually in his hand.

"What the fuck," Kirito mumbled under his breath.

Memory Killua was just smirking back at Jones with much scarier eyes than the murderer had before. His eyes were those of someone truly merciless, and he just let Jones keep walking towards him while the heart slowed down its beating. "Give, it, back..." Jones watched as the heart beat one last time, then he collapsed down to the ground. The Killua in the memory finally did what Jones asked, leaning down and placing the man's heart back into his open hand.

"Would have preferred it if you had not all seen that," Killua started as soon as his memory began to fade. Most of the others spun to him with nervous looks and the kid just shrugged at them. "But, too late now I guess," he admitted, not seeing what he could do about them having seen it now.

Before anyone could say anything to the crazy boy, Natsu lifted up his head and roared, "LET US OUT OF HERE!"

As he did, the sky morphed and showed Natsu's face. He was smiling and talking to someone next to him, and Natsu, Gray, and Juvia all felt their hearts wrench at the sight of the big breasted blonde standing next to Natsu. "Lucy," present Natsu whispered. The rest of the sky started to morph as well, and then a single man walked out of the forest in front of them. Kamishiro. "No!" Natsu yelled, his body bursting into flames. "Not this day! Raaa! I'll burn this memory down!" Natsu roared.

"What day is this?" Kirito asked as Natsu went on a rampage and started attacking the floor of this dark dream realm.

Gray was near him and looked over coldly, "This is probably the day Lucy died. I don't want to watch this, no one will. It's time to get out of here."

"We need to help Ben and Robin!" Killua yelled, trying to get everyone on task instead of engulfed in the juicy story of another of their memories or dreams. "So let's stay focused and get out of here!" He yelled.

"Yeah!" A dozen others agreed and they all started running around to search for an exit.

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"Enoch!" Ben yelled and punched forward one of his humongous hands at the giant falling towards him.

Enoch had lost a little control when he was attacked by both opponents at once, but he regained it quickly to keep the others in the dreamscape separated from them. Ben's huge fist was about to hit him in his huge golden mask, and then the fist vanished. More precisely, it shrank. Ben transformed back into his human self and blinked a few times in surprise.

The boy looked down at the watch on his left wrist and it was still in the green. "Way Big!" He yelled, as thinking it was not enough. Still, no reaction. He slammed his hand down on it a few times but no green light shone to transform him into an alien.

"It's a dream Ben!" Robin shouted over to the boy. "I infiltrated from outside, but this is partly your dream!" She shouted, while Enoch reached down and grabbed her with a giant armored glove. She looked like she was in a lot of pain and Ben frowned angrily up in the sky.

"I know it's a dream!" He yelled. He clenched his eyes shut, thinking hard on what could be stopping him from controlling this dream like he did last time he had to face Enoch. Think Ben, think!

"Robin!" Ben yelled, "Distract him!"

Enoch turned his head from the woman he was crushing down to the boy below. "What are you planning?" The giant armored Forever Knight growled, lifting up his free arm and pointing it down at Ben. Shackles appeared out of nowhere and chained up Ben's arms and legs.

While Ben shouted out in pain, twenty hands sprouted up on Enoch's humongous face. "Huh-" he started, right before the hands smacked right into the holes on his mask in front of his eyes. "Raaa!" He yelled out in pain, stumbling backwards. He opened back up his eyes and pulled back his arm, then threw Robin hard down towards the ground.

"Ah-" Robin gasped out as she slammed into the black floor hard.

A flash of green light erupted nearby her, and she frowned thinking Ben had her distract Enoch solely so he could turn into an alien again. "Ben, what are-" she began while turning her head to look over at him.

Enoch laughed as he saw Ben transform while still held by his shackles. "Foolish boy," he shouted down to the appearing creature. "I will take away your powers once more-"

"I don't think so," the alien that appeared shouted up in the sky. It looked almost like a crab with an orange shell, except taller and with a more humanoid face. It had six legs and two claws for hands, and a silver belt with the green Omnitrix symbol in the middle. "You know," Ben called out in a snooty, condescending tone, "I haven't come up with a name for this one yet. Now that I think about it however, I believe the most appropriate name would be, Brainstorm!"

Enoch glared down at the boy, and then pointed a hand down at him. "Pointless," Enoch said, snapping his fingers at Ben. After he snapped them, Robin spun to face Ben again, expecting him to turn back into a child. Enoch thought the same thing, but Ben just stood there as a crab-like creature with a massive head, not moving except to cross his claws in front of his body smugly.

Brainstorm looked up at Enoch and spoke in a superior tone. "My mental capacity far exceeds that of any human. This is why I was easily able to determine why it was I could not control the dream before. You have hacked into a certain part of my cerebral cortex which makes it near impossible for my human form to comprehend that what he was seeing was truly a dream." Nico Robin's eyes widened at every word Ben was saying now. This really seemed like a different person in front of her, and Ben continued in his alien's voice. "I have figured it out however, and I also discovered where the exit to this dream is."

"What?!" Enoch shouted. Even hidden behind his golden mask they could tell he looked furious. "I will not let you escape!"

"Unfortunately for you," Brainstorm continued, suddenly flashing green again. Ben reappeared, only now he was wearing a blue cape, black goggles with lightning bolts on the sides, dark blue gloves and boots, and he had a golden tunic around his chest. He spun around and the blue cape flapped in the wind, "I already have," Ben called out in his higher pitched, thirteen year old voice. "Ultra Ben is back baby!" He flew up in the air like a rocket and punched up underneath Enoch's chin, sending the huge giant flying backwards through the air.

Suddenly, the black wall to Ben's left tore open to reveal another huge black space. Only in this huge black area, there were over a dozen people looking around for an exit or staring up at the ceiling where a monster of a man was fighting Natsu and killing Lucy and a bunch of other people.

"Ben?!" His comrades shouted over as they saw the wall tear open. A few of them also shouted, "Robin!" at the sight of the woman staggering up to her feet looking a little injured.

Most of them were staring at Ben though as he held out his arms and blasted a huge beam of blue light into a giant in a suit of armor. Enoch flew away into the darkness, and Ben turned and flew down towards his friends. "Quickly everyone," Ultra Ben shouted, "run to me!"

Everyone there started running to Ben, though Natsu, Juvia, and Gray's eyes lingered on Lucy's face up in the sky for a few seconds longer than the others. Ben kept shouting as they ran over, "Enoch will be trying to stop us! As soon as we wake up start fighting!" They were all almost up to him and he shouted, "Link up!"

The nineteen of them grabbed onto each other or grabbed Ben by some part. Once they were all linked, Ben lifted up his right hand and reached down, grabbing his Omnitrix on his left hand. The others were going to ask what he was doing, and then went wide-eyed as he ripped the watch right off. "The last place I would look," Ben said with a grin, seeing a little dot on his wrist beneath the watch he could never remove in real life. He slammed his right hand on it, and everything flashed white.

Natsu snapped up, and he looked around with a panicked expression on his face that quickly turned to fury. He was in panic because he suddenly appeared in a bright room lying on a bed, but then he got mad as he saw the dozens of scientists and other people running around. Someone was next to his bedside gathering up vials that were connected to wires that when he followed them they led to his chest and head where they were attached. "WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!" Natsu roared, and the man next to him dropped all of the vials and fell over with a terrified look on his face.

All around the room, the fighters stood up and attacked the people around them. Killua vanished and appeared near a doorway where two people were wheeling out a cart full of red liquid filled vials. "Let me guess, Saiyan blood?" Killua rose up his hands before they could respond and he grabbed the cart. The short kid lifted up the metal cart and slammed it forward into the person farther in the doorway, then spun it around into the man next to him's chest, making him fly backwards with blood splashing out of his mouth.

"Crap!" Simon yelled as he tried hard to keep the Super Saiyan from awakening. "Damn that Dreamcaster, leaving me to deal with this on my own." The telepath whose brain was exposed in a glass shell on his head put both hands down on either side of Goku's head.

Suddenly, Son Goku's eyes opened up and he smiled wide. Simon jumped in fright and took a step back, but Goku just tilted his head at the man. "Were you the one messing with my head? That wasn't very nice-"

"Gum Gum Pistol!" Luffy yelled, and Simon was only mid-turn when the fist crashed into his face and sent him flying across the room. Goku looked over to Luffy as the pirate's fist snapped back and Luffy clenched that fist hard, "Had to be done," he stated. After watching Ace's death again, whoever was in charge of bringing back those memories needed a good fist to the face.

"Where's the guy in armor?!" Ben shouted, looking around at all his awakening friends. "Find Enoch! He was trying to get our secrets!" Ben realized what he shouted and snapped his head to look down at his left wrist before sighing in relief. Good, the Omnitrix is still there. He kept staring at his watch and his bottom lip lowered, sweat forming all over his face.

"You heard him!" Natsu yelled, charging for the doorway. "Let's go kick some ass!"

Everyone really pissed off about that whole dream thing charged out of the room to go look for their enemy and kick his butt. Ben just stood in place though, looking down at the Omnitrix on his wrist.

"You coming Ben?" Riku called back to his friend after Sora and Kairi ran out of the door ahead of him. He saw where Ben was looking and lowered his gaze to the boy's watch. The hourglass symbol on the front was in the green, but something was off about it. "What are those orange lines?" Riku asked, looking at two thin orange lines on either end of the watch, blinking over and over and then finally becoming solid after Riku asked the question.

Ben heard Riku ask and he lifted up his head with fear-filled eyes. "It's the SDM. It's been activated." The thirteen year old lifted up his hands and ran them through his hair nervously. "Enoch must have turned it on accidentally while he was trying to get it off. It's all over."

"Hold on," Riku started, turning back and walking towards Ben while a few of the others still in the room looked his way as well. Nami didn't go running off with the others and neither did Usopp, Juvia, or Gray. They looked at Ben while the kid dropped his gaze down to the floor and Riku walked towards him. "What does SDM mean? What's so bad about it?"

The kid with the malfunctioning watch on his left wrist lifted his gaze up at Riku. "SDM. Self Destruct Mode." The others went wide-eyed and a few of them gasped as Ben finished, "And when the watch goes, so do I."

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"My liege," Dreamcaster took a knee down in front of the throne in front of her. She bowed her head, then lifted it up a little to the man sitting on the throne in the dark room with red lighting on the walls. Everything was made of steel, they were moving, and through the port and starboard windows, Dreamcaster could see the water rushing by their submarine. "Enoch was captured and the facility destroyed."

"If all you have brought me is bad news," the figure up on the throne began. He stood up and towered ten feet tall in a large suit of armor with a cross-shaped visor on the front of his helmet. The Forever King's visor glowed red as he looked down at the silver haired witch, continuing in his menacing voice, "Then I will be very displeased."

"Then, it's a good thing I've got some good news too," the girl said, lifting up her head and smirking into the man's visor, making the red light of his visor dim a little. She reached down into her purple cloak's pocket and continued, "Before I left, I managed to grab this real quick." She pulled out a vial from her pocket with a cork on the top of it, keeping the red liquid all in. "You would not believe the number of needles we broke trying to break through this guy's skin." She dangled the test tube in front of her and then stood up to her feet, holding it above her head. "I give you, blood of the Super Saiyan: Son Goku!"

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A/N Goku's blood?! The Self Destruct Mode?! What have the Forever Knights done, and what are they planning? Ben 10 villains the Forever Knights under the leadership of the Forever King are the new arc's villains, so I hope you're ready! Thanks for reading, and I hope you enjoyed the chapter. Lots of random memories thrown in here from many of the characters' lives, bringing them closer together more before their arrival in Aebrith... if they ever make it there! Lol, just kidding. By the end of the chapter our heroes will finally be at their destination, but what monsters stand between them and the shores of the largest continent on the planet? Find out in the upcoming chapters of NEXUS: Heroes Will Rise!

Here's a quick list since a few new characters added:

Ben 10: Ben, Gwen, Grandpa Max, Enoch, Forever King, and Dreamcaster (if you don't know her, which you probably don't because she's not actually a character in the show, she's the antagonist of a fanfic I wrote about Ben 10 in the past, and Charmcaster's sister. I'd suggest to give it a read, 'cause I think it's awesome XD )

Young Justice: Simon

Hunter x Hunter: Killua, Jones

DBZ: Goku, Gohan, Vegeta, Raditz, Piccolo, Krillin, Master Roshi

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

-And... all the other characters you know well I think. Anyway, review responses!

Espada-001 chapter 14 . Feb 4

Well the whole Sora having temporary amnesia was unexpected. I would personally like to question why characters with sensory Haki couldn't find him at such a close though since it doesn't detect peoples energy but rather a persons presence. That's kind of a question I've had for a while now actually, so do these devises actually suppress powers or are they cloaking devices? Also nice to see another Psyren character being used even if he was an asshole, I'm looking forward to see if you plan on using more of them. It was nice to see professor Oak and also sad to see him pass so soon. And while I like the Pokémon you gave him he did have his own Dragonite from both the manga and it was shown in the anime as well, I was hoping that you'd be able to add it as well since that seemed to be his go to Pokémon for combat. There's also something else I wanted to ask about, do you think you could have Luffy understand Pokémon? I know it may seem a bit strange but he does have the ability to here the "Voice of all Things". I know that you've referenced it before with the Lion Turtle and I thought that was cool, but the reason why I'm asking is because the ability seems to work better on creatures and animals that have a higher form of intelligence than feral animals. Anyway the reason I'm asking is that he can hear Pokémon is since it's already shown numerous times that they can have actual conversations with people in their own way. (This part is moving away from the review for this chapter and is just some thoughts that came to mind.) Also just a side thought, but by Killua opening the 64 Ton gates, that pretty much means he has more physical strength than Goku since around this time he could barely lift 40 Tons in his base state. Although I'm not sure how to compare pushing strength to lifting strength, also Goku would be stronger than his cannon version with all the stuff he's been through on Nexus. So by this point his base strength would probably be somewhere between 3 to 4 times stronger. (120-160 Tons?) Also Mysterion is turning into an immortal version of Batman at this rate, lol. Anyway moving away from the whole strength stuff, I was browsing YouTube and I found a short series with some interesting characters in it that you might be interested in if you just wanted to find some quick side characters, it's called the "Law of Talos" with about 10 or so episodes, and a couple of spinoffs. And I found another film called "Animated short: the reward" which is only about 9 minutes long but it gives you 2 extremely powerful characters that you can pretty much develop in any way. Anyway I should probably stop here since I'm making this a little to long and off topic, lol. As usual can't wait for the next chapter and I wish you a good day!

Maybe Haki is blocked by nullifiers, maybe by the cloak that covered the island, and maybe they were just too far before the cloaking went away to feel them. What the power maskers do will be explained more once the group arrives on Aebrith. I was happy to throw another Psyren character in as they really do have some powerful baddies for our heroes to face, and maybe some powerful allies later in the future. Luffy understanding Pokemon could be a thing, but then again, most people in the Pokemon universe understand their pokemon at least slightly after a while. I don't think it would be big if he could hear them, especially since he pretty much understands normal animals too, monkeys and birds and those big animals on the women's island, etc. For Goku lifting 40 tons, he was not powered up much, lifting is def harder than pushing, (I don't think Killua could lift those gates very easily, let alone do punching and kicking exercises with them on his wrists and feet). Plus Goku's been training pretty hard on Nexus, so who knows? But maybe that is why Goku did have to go SS while sparring with Killua, even if it was only for a second. Maybe I'll check that youtube thing out, and always glad to hear from you! Thanks for the review!

joebob323 chapter 14 . Feb 5

Well, this chapter brings up the question...Is Sora a god? he now has OVER 6 Pokemon! In the games and anime, it would automatically transfer the Pokemon to the PC, but now, he just has them with him! Over-powered much? Also, will other characters from Pokemon get a turn in the spotlight?

More than 6 pokemon?! He must be a god, no! The GOD! Haha, there is a Pokemon character who I've already written into future chapters, so look forward to seeing him/her. Thanks for the review!

WeepingAngelsDBS chapter 14 . Feb 5

Hey there! Saw the request for the story, but I'm pretty busy writing this one as well as Broken Log Pose on occasion. When I'm not, I've got school work to do: essays, readings, etc. And, even if I had the time, I never played the game Devil May Cry so I would probably misrepresent those characters that you wanted me to write about. Sorry.

-Thanks again to everyone who reviewed! 'Till next time!