Kingdom Hearts - Blades of Three Realms

[Kuukyo_Fushichou]

Roveth of course was about to summon his new -arm- when the flying in Oblivion and Oathkeeper went to deal with the Wyverns and Crystal worked to handle the Defenders, causing him to smirk a bit in response as he brought out Tenebrex next as both keyblades started to grow orbs of darkness with molten gold cores within as he then swung out and pointed them at Maleficent rather quickly "Twin Shadow Rend!" he called out, before unleashing two massive beams of raw 'Divine' Darkness right for Maleficent, though he didn't let up as somehow he managed to quickly let go of his keyblades mid blasting to fling out two cards, bringing out the white and Black dragons (BEWD and REBD) that he normally uses and of course they unleash their own beams and fireballs of destruction right for Maleficent as well just as Roveth re-grabbed the Keyblades and readied to either keep firing the blasts, or readying to charge in to attack physically.

Axel had finished the Large Bodies and Morning Stars in short order, he would quickly revert back to the Mighty Morphin White ranger, and then spread his arms out wide to summon his Chakrams, which he threw up into the air above Maleficent and started spinning them in circles at a high speed "alright, time to turn up the heat... MELTDOWN, BURN BABY!" he called out, before the twin fire beams of melting doom from his Chakrams began firing down where the twin Darkness shots from Roveth were being fired at Maleficent.

Shiro of course saw the unbalanced Pete and nodded to Xion in the titan mode, before rushing forward and ducking under Pete while grabbing onto his arm "Have a nice trip, Petey!" he called out, before using a Judo throw to send Pete away from Angel Grove and into the mountainous area where they would take the fight next, with Shiro dropping in next and taking up his preferred stance when about to utilize his favored techniques in hand to hand combat "you're within my field of divination..." he intoned before stepping into range, and started launching his palm strikes and pressure point attacks "Two Palms! Four Palms! Eight Palms! Sixteen Palms! Thirty Two Palms!" going faster as he went, nearly becoming a blur at the last thirty two, before stopping, and readying for the final strike "Gentle Fist Style... Sixty Four Palms Strike!" he called out, before moving to step back, and summoning the Golden hammer from his reality marble, which scaled with size to match his current state "and... FORE!!!!" he'd call out, before moving to swing the hammer like a golf club.. right for Pete's gut.  

[[XIII] Roxas]

Pete swayed and jiggled in place as Shiro struck at his pressure points gradually immobilizing him completely and when Shiro brought out his great big golden hammer and struck Pete like a golf ball it was accompanied by the same home run swing pinging sound that had been heard when Crystal had smacked Vanitas with the Metal Chocobo Keyblade at the Keyblade Graveyard. Put simply, it was super effective and Pete was sent hurtling off into the distance where he eventually impacted with the ground again in a mountainous region well outside the city limits where he couldn't cause so much collateral damage with his collection of explosives. Of course, because of all the pressure points that had been struck he was collapsed in a heap in a mild daze and likely wouldn't be getting up again until Shiro caught up with him so at least for the next several minutes he would be hard pressed to cause any real trouble.

Meanwhile, Maleficent would seem to have been caught up in being blasted by Roveth and his two newly summoned dragons as well as the beams of fire from Axel's chakrams, but when the smoke cleared she was nowhere to be seen and in her place there were now more Heartless--Large Bodies, Morning Stars, Defenders, Wyverns, and even a few Gigas Shadows.

"I don't think she likes us," Crystal commented as she started going to town on one of the Gigas Shadows.

"Gee, what ever could have given you that impression?" Roxas responded sarcastically before he dashed in to start cutting down the Defenders so they wouldn't be able to disrupt the use of elemental magic by anyone else.

"Still, I wonder where she could have gone," Xion had caught up with them after giving Pete that annoying parting shot to the nose and started working on another of the Gigas Shadows.

"What I'd like to know is how they've managed to rebuild their army of Heartless so quickly," Crystal mentioned. "Aside from Maleficent injecting Shiro with darkness to compete with Sephiroth, I thought she was still on a real estate venture to find herself a new castle."

"You have a point," Roxas was inclined to agree. "This is a lot of Heartless for them to have been just scouting around for a new castle."

"Which means world domination must still be on the table," Crystal frowned behind her helmet. "I can't believe Maleficent still hasn't learned her lesson."  

[Kuukyo_Fushichou]

Shiro would at least be ready to continue as he knelt a bit, before leaping into the air and proceed to using some of his Prana and Reiatsu to keep up the hang-time before landing at the Mountain region so he could continue fight Pete properly as he worked to get into his newest learned stance from his fellow Guardian Ghosts as he narrowed his eyes at Pete "get up." he said calmly enough as he waited for Pete to get up, he had sensed Maleficent's disappearance so all it left was Pete in this moment.

Roveth had rolled his eyes in seeing no sign of Maleficent once more and nothing but heartless before dismissing Tenebrex and spinning Lockdown in his hand before one such spin taps the ground, and Roveth surged forward, maybe not as fast as Super Samurai mode for Axel or Shiro's own speed moves, but he was still quick and nimble enough to start darting in and out of the large bodies and morning stars and defenders to unleash brutal slashes of his keyblade, or precise shots from his DeltaMax striker pistol from behind.

Axel of course would join in to attack the heartless as he tinged the flames to a reddish white color on his keyblade before throwing it "Purging Flame!" he called out, unleashing the Holy flame blazing keyblade to start bashing more into the Wyvern and Defender heartless to cause some major heartburn~! (agh, i did it again with the puns.) while he did that he would at least also fire off similar purging flame fireballs from Saba's mouth at the other heartless too in the most part "jeez... you'd think Maleficent would know by now to just stop where she is on the whole world domination kick since she's been pushed back -every- time someone has come up against her. not only that but siccing heartless on us is just really a point of futility isn't it?"  

[[XIII] Roxas]

When the feeling finally came back to Pete's limbs he did manage to stumble and sway back onto his feet. "Why I oughta!" he then flung himself at Shiro kind of just aiming to sucker punch him from the looks of it. Thanks to the pressure points Shiro had struck before he was still a little off balance and just kind of tripped over himself so that he ended up more or less just falling toward Shiro instead though.


Roxas made quick work of the Defenders that managed to avoid being struck down by Axel, cutting them down with ease so that they wouldn't be getting in anyone else's way. This left a huge opening for both Crystal and Xion to really get fancy with the magic by unleashing a combination of Firaga, Blizzaga, and Thundaga to produce a Delta Force effect all over the remaining Heartless to hit them for a lot of damage. The Morning Stars, in particular, really didn't like being hit by so much magic at once. Some of the Wyverns and Large Bodies continued to fly and stumble around, but the brunt of the horde had already been swiftly eliminated.

"Yeah, I don't get why Maleficent thinks having an army of Heartless is such a huge advantage for her," Roxas had to agree with Axel. "It really isn't when she keeps attracting the attention of so many Keyblade wielders to stop her."

"I kind of get the feeling these Heartless are here as a diversion though," Crystal pointed out. "Not to mention this world is pretty far away from the rest of the worlds Maleficent typically seems interested in. Well, at least she isn't going around collecting princesses again."

"That's true," Roxas nodded. "And without her being roped into doing it for him it's going to be much harder for Xehanort to get his hands on them so I guess that works for our side in a weird way."

"Yeah, well, I don't think Maleficent cares to be outdone," Crystal suggested.

"But we should still probably try to figure out what she's even doing here on this world, shouldn't we?" Xion pointed out.

"Hopefully Gosei can enlighten us when we return to the Commander Center after we're finished out here," Crystal nodded in agreement.  

[Kuukyo_Fushichou]

Shiro would just roll his eyes at Pete's attempt to attack him, sidestepping aside as he let the failed punch pass him, before proceeding to plant his hands on the ground and slam his foot into various points on Pete to knock him into the air once more "Collier!" he said, the first point being the neck, before aiming for the shoulder next with a bit of a spring-board "épaule!" he said, aiming for the shoulder next, before spinning on the air with reiatsu making a platform with his hand next "Côtelette!" he said, slamming a hard kick to Pete's back next before spinning and moving to guide his other foot in lower "Selle!" of course, with that, he'd move to drop to handstand on the ground as his foot came down into a stab-like kick to the chest "Poitrine!" he said next, channeling his fellow guardian ghost slightly as he readied his next attack, swirling down and spinning for a low kick to the legs "Gigot!" before Shiro finally spun around to be on one foot, and proceeded to unleash a reinforced level kick right for Pete's chin, in a precise pressure point to definitely instill a large KO Blow "and finally... Mouton Shot!" he called out, before moving a bit in a graceful flip to land back on his feet, raising one leg up as if readying to unleash more kicks if Pete got up from that hit.

Roveth of course just narrowed his eyes a bit while letting his dragons charge forward and start physically tearing into the remaining heartless as he tried to think of why Maleficent would Really be here "s**t... nothing really comes to mind myself and i usually have a semblance of an idea..." he commented, while scratching his chin a bit as he frowned lightly in general as he glanced off to the distance "Shiro seems almost done with Pete so we should probably head back to the Command Center and all." he said, rubbing the back of his head a bit lightly in thought, clearly a bit frustrated over the fact he didn't probably even harm Maleficent more than likely.

Axel just returned Saba to his holster and sighed while flinging his own Keyblade into a Plasma Strike Raid with fiery plasma power and all as well "well, at least she's gone for now, right? less we see of her the better you and Shiro are." he commented with Roveth giving Axel a dirty look as to not need to be reminded of the fact Maleficent is now interested in him and Shiro again, more particularly himself at least.  

[[XIII] Roxas]

Pete just kind of spun and swayed with each blow allowing Shiro to move seamlessly from strike to strike seemingly unable to do to anything to get himself out of it until he was sent flying from the final blow and shrank back down to normal Pete size in another smoke explosion as he then finally managed to make his retreat via Corridor of Darkness not wanting any more of that from Shiro thank you very much and good day to you sir.


"Yeah, it doesn't seem like there's anything else for us to do out here," Roxas nodded to Roveth as it seemed like they had successfully eliminated all of the remaining Heartless from the area anyway. Himself, Crystal, and Xion would all teleport back to the Command Center in their respective colored light pillars and then when they arrived back in the viewing room they would de-morph back into their casual clothes to see what they could find out from Gosei.

"Compared to fighting with Vanitas the last time we were here, that seemed a little too easy," Crystal stretched as she sat down at her spot along the viewing console.

"Maleficent really didn't seem very interested in fighting us," Xion nodded.

"And Pete is really just pathetic," Roxas added. "I'm not sure why she even puts up with him."  

[Kuukyo_Fushichou]

Shiro, Roveth, and axel would all also transfer back to the Command Center, though Shiro thankfully had automatically reverted from the mystic titan form (zord form) down to normal size when they appeared, however Shiro would narrow his eyes under the helmet as he felt something off, sure, Pete fled all too easily, but he had this sense of foreboding, especially when he saw what looked to be scorch marks around the main chamber outside of Gosei himself who either seemed to be asleep or knocked out, and Wall-E looked quite a bit singed himself and whimpering with mild flailing in a corner "what in the world...?" he'd say, while summoning his own 'wand' again for his mystic ranger form and all.

Roveth of course would immediately move to his panel in the main chamber and began trying to type or get it to respond, but shook his head "no go... the power's completely shot i think outside of the Morphing Grid which runs separately from the rest of things." he said, while moving next to at least help Wall-E up and give it a hug and soft mention he'll work to fix things before standing up and facing everyone again "you don't think Maleficent found a way in here do you?" he asked, frowning a bit lightly.

Axel would wince seeing the damage, and turned to the side tunnels to try and get a sight of anything or anyone in the command center now "don't know Roveth, but we need to check the rest of the rooms, and get the power back online... let's search the halls first." he suggested, bringing Saba out by reflex and readied to move with the others to find out what happened and who did it.  

[[XIII] Roxas]

"Considering the scorch marks, I'd say there's a very strong likelihood that Maleficent somehow made it in," Crystal also frowned while tensing up slightly. "Roveth, we'll leave it to you to try to get everything back online while we try to make sure she isn't still in here assuming it really was her who did all this in the first place."

She along with Roxas, Xion, Axel, and Shiro would move to go check the side tunnels and the various rooms they contained. Most of the rooms, such as the kitchen area, the gym, and the residential rooms they themselves had utilized during their previous visit remained entirely untouched. The library, however, was in complete and total disarray with books scattered everywhere and shelves toppled over seemingly at random.

"What do you think she was looking for?" Xion wondered.

"A book, probably," Roxas shook his head. "Although considering all the damage it looks like she might not have found it here because it looks sort of like she must have gotten frustrated."

"But what sort of book would be worth going to all this trouble?" Crystal had to wonder.

"In any case, it doesn't look like she's still here," Xion pointed out.

"I don't sense her darkness anymore either," Crystal was inclined to agree.

"Still, this is really strange," Roxas remained puzzled.

"Yeah, usually Maleficent isn't so secretive about her ambitions," Crystal nodded. "Usually she'd be gloating or Pete would be doing it for her."

"Right, and this isn't exactly a castle either so she definitely wasn't here on another real estate venture," Roxas added. "Something about this really just doesn't add up."  

[Kuukyo_Fushichou]

Shiro would frown seeing the both the damage done by Maleficent and of course once they got to the library, all the books scattered about while seeing one flopped on the ground made something inside him slightly shift, he just shook his head and ignored it while glancing to the others "maybe it's not something she wants broadcasted to the entire world until she actually has it in her hands? from what i know she tends to do that if she's not gloating immediately." he said, having checked his own senses, and outside of Roveth's darkness, he felt no other source of it in the command center "still strange of her to do this of all things." he said with a frown.

Axel had whistled at both the damage and the apparent clean-up of what was to come for at least the library "wow. that's some damage she did here..." he said, frowning lightly while opening up his visor and mouth-guard part to reveal his frowning face, obviously not sure himself on what was that crafty witch looking for anyway "stranger and stranger, this is getting... well, let's wait until Roveth gets the power back on--" of course, as he was about to say 'online' was when the lights which were barely on and very dim in the first place on a 'emergency generator' of sorts, brightened back up to normal capacity and Wall-E, fixed up and everything, would roll in and quickly squeal in dismay over the library's condition before starting to work on fixing the place up.

Roveth would soon come to the library not long after and with his helmet off and a few grease stains on his cheek a bit looking clearly annoyed by what happened "got everything fixed up, but it was a -b***h- to get the power generator running again, it was almost completely fried to unusability until i used some of my card magics to fix that damage... whatever Maleficent wanted in the Command Center. she -REALLY- didn't want us to track or follow her after she tried finding what she wanted."  

[[XIII] Roxas]

"So really all we know is that she came here looking for something and probably didn't find it," Roxas watched as poor Wall-E got to work on cleaning up and repairing the library. "And then she just up and left before we could track her down. What about Angel Grove? Are there still Heartless out there or have they gone now too?"

"That's a good point," Xion nodded. "Pete was obviously a diversion because he's Pete, but what about the Heartless?"

Crystal digs the Dimensional Distortion Grid from her pocket to consult what's on the monitor. "Well, there are definitely fewer Heartless here now than when the alert sounded, but I'm not sure they're all completely gone yet."

"Meaning we might still have some clean-up to do," Roxas nodded.

"And if Maleficent wasn't finished searching the Command Center she might come back while we're out," Xion frowned.

"Which means we can't leave this place unguarded now that we know she's after something," Crystal was inclined to agree. "So the question is, how do we want to handle this?"  

[Kuukyo_Fushichou]

Shiro would think on things before glancing to everyone as he frowned "well, while Roxas could handle the Heartless by himself, i don't think we need everyone hereto help keep an eye out for another attack from Maleficent, so i think myself, Axel, and Roxas will go out and deal with the Heartless, while you Crystal, Xion, and Roveth stay and handle things here in the command center, as i know Roveth still has work to do in trying to get back in contact with Gosei." he said, summoning ancient and using it as a makeshift cane at the moment while looking over everyone to see if that was a reasonable idea and all.

Axel would shrug a bit idly summoning his own Keyblade and rested it on his shoulder as he listened in, thinking on things before nodding to Shiro's suggestion of who should stay behind and who should go handle the remaining heartless in Angel Grove "sounds like a good idea to me, with you me and Roxas, we'll make quick work of those heartless, got it memorized?" he said with amusement on his face and all, glancing to Roveth a moment.

Roveth of course nodded to Shiro's suggestion, yawning a bit lightly while frowning in general "not a problem aibou, i'll try and figure the mess out as to how Maleficent actually was able to move about outside of frying the system that the system would've detected her and alerted us first before she fried things..." of course, this led him to his curiousity and wondering what the ******** happened and all about it.  

[[XIII] Roxas]

"That works for me," Roxas nodded as Shiro came up with a plan for them.

"Right, we'll try to get this mess cleaned up and organized so we can find out if anything is missing," Crystal agreed with Shiro. "It might take us a while, but I'm pretty decent about organizing things so it'll be thorough."

"And both of us working on it should help to get it done a little bit faster," Xion added. Between the shelves that were knocked over and all the books that were scattered on the floor it was going to be a pretty big job getting everything back in order, but she had confidence that they could handle it.

Roxas would leave with Shiro and Axel to clear any remaining Heartless from the streets of Angel Grove. The girls would probably still be working on the situation in the Command Center library by the time the three of them made it back in which case they might end up deciding to help, well him and Axel most likely would. Shiro was obviously going to be of more use in the kitchen to make sure they all get fed later.  

[Kuukyo_Fushichou]

Shiro would -gladly get out into the field once more to kick some heartless a**, even going so far as to summon Izanagi to help cleave through them and all, needing the distractions on the fact that he had unfortunately came into contact with Maleficent -again-. granted, he was not like Riku about the Witch, but he could -seriously- do without her showing up again. once the heartless were cleared out Shiro would -definitely bow out by returning to Civilian Form and zoom -straight- for the Kitchen, and not long after the delicious smells of food could be wafting through the command center, oh boy, Shiro's -definitely- de-stressing now~!

Axel of course did his fair share of heartless killing, between widespread blasts of Meltdown and even Firaja (once Shiro pointed out to Axel how to enhance Firaga further from small pointers he'd seen) and his keyblade skills, Axel would definitely return to relaxingly help Crystal and Xion with putting back together the Library with Roxas, humming in particular as he placed another book back in its right place "well, this is a bit easier to do if a bit boring." he'd say in amusement, before oddly enough he heard a couple of muffled explosions, a yelp, and curse or three coming from a different direction, which made him blink and lean toward the library entrance in confusion.

Roveth.. well, he was coughing up soot from his latest attempt to get the connection back to Gosei, and the Computers -were not having it- it seemed, granted, this meant that Roveth was giving a dirty look at the so called 'innocent looking' technology, though thankfully he'd fix the damage once again, and then would try again to boot things up, even in a safe mode of sorts... and yet the computer system once again Fzzts, and proceeds to open up a nearby power valve.. **BOOM!!** cue Roveth's face once again covered in soot, and starting to look pissed off in this case, if the cursing involved was any indication. on a screen behind Roveth does activate though without his notice, with a certain 'symbol' on it (Yggdrasil's), and minute snickering is involved, before said screen shuts off again.  

[[XIII] Roxas]

"It sounds like the computer system is still giving Roveth a hard time," Crystal shook her head as she continued placing books in their proper places on the shelves which were all neatly straightened out again at least. "It must be intelligent or something. Roveth doesn't usually have this much trouble with technology."

"I guess this computer decided it doesn't like him," Roxas considered as he also helped with placing books back on the shelves. "Do you think there could be a whole separate self-contained world in there like with Tron back on Radiant Garden?"

"If there is, then Roveth might have to find some way of getting inside," Crystal nodded a bit. "And we probably shouldn't let him go in there alone if it's this hostile to him on the outside."

"And we really need to get that system back online so we can figure out how Maleficent got in here in the first place and maybe some kind of hint as to what she was in here looking for," Xion agreed.

"But first we'd better finish clearing all these books," Crystal reminded the rest of them. There really wasn't too much left to do with all of them working together so it really wasn't going to take real long. No, the more difficult part was going to be cross-checking the cataloged books against the ones actually there on the shelves to find out if anything was actually missing.  

[Kailah S Majessta]

Meanwhile in Radiant Garden, Tifa frowned at Cloud's self-deprecating attitude.

"Someone DOES have to stop him, but I can't bear to lose you. Not like this," she finished cleaning the wounds again, "None of us can."

She finished redressing the bandages and checked to make sure he would stay awake at least long enough to eat something. Kailah was already on it with some chicken soup she quickly whipped up from earlier in the day. Tifa was grateful for the extra help, and brought it upstairs, offering to help him if he needed it. The rest of the day and the evening progressed in a similar fashion, with Tifa staying by his bedside overnight.

Kailah ended up closing up (placing a blanket over Tifa when she realized she hadn't been downstairs the rest of the night), and opened the tavern next morning, preparing breakfast for the residents currently staying there as well as any guests, taking the responsibility for Tifa at the moment.

Tifa herself stirred awake and watched as Cloud's chest moved in motion with his breathing. She slowly stood and stretched, and gently nudged his shoulder in a spot that wasn't completely hurt.

"Cloud? It's morning... I need to change those bandages again..." her eyes were dark from the restless and uncomfortable night, but that didn't concern her in the slightest.