Balance

by BioQuillFiction


Daybreak

“Oh, you’re right on time.” Lan said. The Foretellers were just relaxing at the time, when Unum and Zeke came through the mirror.

“Hey.” Zeke said to them, the bags under his eyes noticed by the group.

“Geez, you look like you got run over by a Darkside.” Jenny said.

“Oh… I haven’t slept much cause apparently, when you’re a human Keyblade, so are your kids… and they only need a month and a half in the womb to mature then birth.”

“You’re a father!?” Kira said excitedly. “Congratulations! You should have told us! We would have bought you guys something!”

“I believe I did say Celestia was pregnant during our fight against Sunset last time I was here…”

“Yes, but that was last week, and you told us they haven’t been pregnant for long. We expected it to be longer.” Dan said.

“So did we. But they’re so freaking cute… whole reason I’m here is cause Celestia wants me to spend time away from them for a bit. I’ve literally never left the newborns sides till now.”

The Foretellers nodded understandingly.

“Well if that’s the case, then we don’t have to go back to Daybreak now. Why don’t you two sit with us? I expected you two, so I got extra Sea Salt Ice Cream!” Kira said holding up two more popsicles.

“Thanks.” Zeke and Unum said as they took the treats. “Who’d have guessed they were real?”

“I know right?” Alex said. “You might not believe this, but they existed back on earth too! That’s what we were eating when god pick us up.”

“Oh, nice.” Zeke took a bit and was looking around… seeing just about everywhere people had Keyblades in their hands. “Wow… you’ve been busy.”

“That we have.” Lan said. “After you had left we got to thinking about what you said. You were right, this world isn’t what we have seen it to be. So we took a chance and asked the students of Canterlot High to be apart of our Unions.”

“Good thing I did bring the paperwork.” Zeke said as he took out an inch thick stack of papers from under his armor sleeve and gave it to Lan. “Standard Unity documents… the junk… and some extra stuff given that this a reflection and not just another world.”

“Paperwork… This is necessary, but I’m going to guess that it isn't going to be fun.” Lan said, with a hint of dread.

“Tell me about it. When I’m not visiting other worlds, with the family, or around other survivors, I’m pushing papers. Gotta have it for there to be order though, so can’t complain much.”

“Does that mean we gotta do it too?” Alex asked.

“Just whoever is representing the world in question and the ones running for positions on the Council.”

“I vote Lan.”

“Same.”

“I agree.”

“Sorry bro!”

Alex, Jenny, Dan, and Kira said instantaneously.

‘Traitors!’ Lan thought. “Well, I guess this is also the job of a leader.”

“Yeah, the boring part. So, you guys have Headquarters for your Unions?” Zeke asked. “The proper facilities and such?”

“Well as we got is the Mansion right now. That’s pretty much our HQ.” Jenny said.

“I’m guessing it’s crowded when the meetups happen?”

“Yeah. We agreed that we would hold training sessions there. Either in the simulator or just around the grounds for basic training.” Kira said.

“Well, I might be able to help out with that stuff, but first let’s go do the thing with Daybreak, see if the Heart remembers your Keyblades or something.” Zeke said as he and Unum walked back to the portal.

“Alright! This is gonna be the first time we’re going to a different world!” Alex cheered.

“Lead the way, Zeke.” Lan said.

As they went through the portal and came out, the Foretellers found themselves in a massive laboratory, machinery off all sorts being built and blueprints laid out everywhere. “Welcome to research and development.” Zeke said.

“Hm, wasn’t expecting this to be the first sight we saw.” Dan said. “But still, all this technology is fascinating. Is it all to study the mirror?”

“No.” They all turned around to see, Twilight, dressed in a lab coat with goggles on her face. “Nice to see you all again.”

“Hi Twilight!” Kira said. “Yeah, it’s nice to finally come to your world. So what’s with all the techno junk?”

“Most is being reverse engineered. Studying the mirror is a little later, but I’m looking into the spellwork on it, no tech needed for that, I think I can make another one, but to a different reflection. If I pull it off, then we can work to uniting not only all worlds, but the whole multiverse.”

“Fascinating.” Dan said.

“And it’s a great goal. It would be nice if all worlds could interact even though most of the population wouldn’t have keyblades to travel between worlds. To make the world's one, like the original age of Fairy Tales.” Lan said.

“We try.” Zeke said. “Come on, before Cid thinks you’re all assistants and he has you trying to rebuild the oxygen generator he blew up.” Zeke says as he was exiting the lab.

“So we were going to go see the Crystal Heart right?” Jenny asked as the group followed.

“Yeah, it’s just a few stories down from here. Thankfully one of the things we did first when rebuilding was install elevators.” The group found an elevator and took it down. When the doors opened they saw thousands of people, human, anthro, just intelligent life in general walking around in peace. “Welcome to Daybreak Empire.”

The Foretellers all looked around in amazement. With how things looked around the Empire, one could barely tell that it was a world that was once almost empty.

“Wow! It’s so big and pretty! And everyone looks so friendly.” Kira said.

“Everyone here has either lost, or almost lost their worlds to darkness, so the sense of community they give each other in the rebuilding helps.” Unum explained. “This is just the main city though, the rest of the world is still being rebuilt. We barely took a quarter of what was once Manehattan back and made it livable again.”

“Well Rome wasn’t built in a day. To rebuild an entire world would take longer than that would.” Dan said.

“If you ever need assistance, we’d just a one mirro away.” Alex offered.

“Resources most likely. Thanks.” Zeke said as they approached the Crystal Heart. “Hello Heart.”

“Greetings Zeke.” The Heart replied. “So who are these young people?”

Instead of answering, The five of them put their masks on, doing their robes.

“The Foretellers? So, they have returned.” The heart said surprised. “Master Luxu told me this day would come.”

“Hello Crystal Heart. It’s nice to finally meet your, and to visit the town our predecessors once lead their Unions.” Ira said.

“Well, one of them.” The Heart said. “Master Luxu explored all the reflections. This one was the last one standing among the multiverse. He locked it away after sealing some box in the main castle.”

“The Box is here!?” Gula yelled. “We gotta open it!”

*Bonk!*

“Shut it! Let’s let her speak first.” Aced chided.

“Yes, the Master of Masters last invention before he vanished. It was a last resort if the war went too far. Now then, I take it you wish to know how to unlock the hidden parts of Daybreak, right?” The Heart asked.

“Hidden parts? What do you mean?” Ava asked.

“When the War had ended, the Tower as well as sum parts of the Original Daybreak town were sealed. That’s when the Crystal started to grow over it and turned into the Crystal Empire.” The Crystal Heart elevated higher, and underneath a piece of the ground rose with it. From underneath the ground, came some sort of Pentagon shaped pedestal. On each of its sides were Large Keyholes, and on each had the symbol of one of the Unions. “The Master of Masters planned this, and made the seal only able to be unlocked by the Keyblades of his former students, and only Master Luxu could lock it. All the reflections had this in place, but as I said, this was the only one to still be intact after the war.”

The Foretellers knew what had to be done. They stood in front of the Keyhole that had their specific Union marks on them. They simultaneously summoned their keyblades, and pointed them at the Keyholed. Beams of light shot towards the lock.

*Click!*

The light died down, and revealed nothing happened. Until the lock sunk back into the ground, and the earth began to shake. The winter wasteland outside the Empire border suddenly stopped and the ground outside the Empire began to break apart. “Calculating city redesign.” The heart said as it began to glow bright. “Calculation complete, beginning rebuilding process.” The whole empire shook as the castle suddenly began to rise up off the ground as more building was growing out from under it. The city was also expanding, stretching out further than the eye could see. Green hills and mountains also began to appear in the distance. When it all ended, the heart, and the Crystal Palace was well over several miles up in the air and the area they could see from below that was the original Daybreak Empire, looked smaller than a gumball from their height. “Rebuilding complete. Unlocking all primary, secondary, triary, and quadary functions of the city.” Several large building began to produce large amounts of what looked like steam with how clear it was. “Full functionality has been activated.”

Around the edges of the area the heart, Zeke, Unum, and the Foretellers stood, guard rails appeared as doors also appeared on the walls where they weren’t before. “Well… this was bigger than expected.” Zeke said.

“Yeah your telling me.” Gula said. “This whole place looked smaller in the movie.”

“This is amazing!” Invi said rushing over to the railings. “All of this was hiding under the Empire! For who knows how long.”

“Forty-one-million two-hundred and eighty-seven thousand nine-hundred and thirteen years.” The Heart clarified. “Give or take a few thousand leap years.”

“Oookayyy.” Ira said. “Well this whole tower would probably take days to search through, but I’m guessing all of the important stuff would be in the Foretellers meeting room right above the clock.”

“Yes, also, the Master of Master’s workshop just below that, and the room Master Luxu locked that box away in is next to the workshop. It’s called, the Hall of Sins.”

“Well that name isn’t ominous at all.” Aced said sarcastically. “Well what are we waiting for? Let’s go.”

With directions from the Heart, the group found their way to the Workshop. So many things just sitting around, unfinished, it was like an abandoned toy store to Zeke, and then they found it, the door to the Hall of Sins. Zeke opened it, and inside was a dimly lit hall with a large round room at the end, with glass cases holding five battle torn and bloody Foreteller robes, their Keyblades resting rusted on the bottom on the cases. In the middle of it all. A large metal black box.

“This must be a memorial that Luxu made for the other Foretellers.” Dan said as he stood in front of Invi’s old robes.

As Zeke looked one of them over, he noticed a button just in front of the case of all of the Foreteller memorials. He stepped on the one for Ira’s, and the case was dragged back into the wall… where countless other Ira battle ragged robes and Keyblades rested in similar cases. “For every reflection of them…” Zeke said. “How long was Luxu wandering the reflections to gather… all of them…”

“He must of loved them like family to go through all of this.” Kira said. Gazing at the countless Ava reflections.

Then all of them focused on the Box. In the middle of the box was inscribed the word “X-super.”

Zeke opened the box, and inside… was a Keyblade unlike what he’d seen before. He reached in to grab it, but backed away and got a few feet from it as the Keyblades in him screamed. “That thing is fucked up! The Keyblades are all scared!” He said.

“What's so bad about it? Sure it looks sketchy but is it that bad?” Alex said.

The X-blade suddenly appeared in Zeke’s hand. “Lock that abomination away!” X shouted through Zeke.

“Whoa! What's the problem X?” Ava said spooked.

That Demon Sword must never see the light of day!

“Demon Sword? Is it because this is a keyblade of Darkness?” Invi asked.

That’s not made from normal darkness! That is made from the original darkness! The same that started the Grandfather Light to die in the first place. The same that gave birth to Pureblood Heartless… the same darkness that killed my first wielder.

Everyone became utterly shocked.

“Why would the Master of Masters think this should be used of the war went too far?” Lan asked.

“Because it consumes Keyblades.” Everyone looked at the hall, and saw a man in the Organization XIII cloak standing there. “I hoped… that if the war went too far… Luxu would use it to kill every Keyblade on the battleground.”

“This was your last resort? The weapon to take away the light completely and leave the world in total darkness!? I thought you trained our predecessors to protect the light after the war. So why have something like this Master!?” Ira yelled.

“Because of that!” He pointed at Zeke, and the X-blade. “I knew that damned weapon would reappear again! And even with it’s rather selective choice, a dark wielder would try and claim it! This weapon, it was to destroy the X-blade for good!”

Zeke pointed the X-blade at the Master of Masters. “You would commit genocide of all Keyblades just because you feared me!?

“It was either that, or risk all light dying! Kingdom Hearts may not have had a guardian if Void was used, but at least the worlds and light would have been safe from you falling into dark hands.”

The whole room was silent. The air was so tense one could cut it with a knife. The Foretellers couldn’t believe what they were hearing. The original master of the Keyblades, planned to destroy them all from the very beginning. Had all his teachings, all the lessons he taught their predecessors, and the lessons he taught them, all just for nothing? But one question lingered.

“Master. How did you forge such a thing in the first place?” Lan asked cautiously.

“... Let’s just say… I don’t wear this outfit for the fashion statement... “

“So, what happens now?” Jenny said seriously. “We found your ultimate weapon, and we know why you made it. Why are you here? To kill us?”

“To tell you… listen to the X-blade. I made that just in case the war did start to kill off the light and Ava’s group didn’t make it. It was a last resort I no longer need… or wish to see. My advice, lock it away and keep it away from Core… Or use it against him. Whatever. Bout time someone killed my uncle anyway.”

“Uncle!?” Everyone yelled. “Then that means… You’re God’s son?”

“Yeah, and Luxu is my kid, just keep that thing from ever being wielded… like the X-blade said… it’s a Demon Sword that cost me my heart… and my body to forge.” The Master of Masters vanished into thin air, leaving everyone looking at the Demon Sword Keyblade, Void.

“Sooo,” Alex droned out. “What do we do witht the thing? Is it smart to just leave it here?”

No.” X said. “We do as I and the Master said… we lock it up… preferably deep in the world's core.

“But what if we need it at some point?” Jenny asked. “This could end Core from what the Master said.”

“Judging from how the Master was talking about it… that would be suicide.” Zeke spoke. “He seemed to fear this thing as much as he feared X, Let’s just lock it away, and leave it as nothing more other than a bad memory.”

“How do we do that?” Dan asked.

I’ll handle that.” X said as Zeke closed the box. He pointed the X-blade at the box as chains of light shot out of X and wrapped around the box. Once that was done, a DTL opened behind it as Zeke kicked it into it, and it closed. “Center of the world, nothing but hell fire lava, and other such things no normal human, not even Core, could withstand for long. Plus, with the heart at full power, he won't ever know that’s hidden there.

“Well, now that that is out of the way. Why don’t we make our way to the workshop?” Lan suggested. “We were searching for blueprints or any other clues right?”

“Right.” Zeke said. “But first.” He walked in the center of the room, held out a hand, and closed his eyes. “Time to move on. Time to stop mourning.” As he said that, every Foreteller Keyblade rushed into Zeke. To the Foretellers, it was like he was being stabbed by them to no end, but Zeke felt no pain as the entered his heart for safety and healing. After about half an hour, it stopped. “Now we can go.”

They made their way through the large Clock tower, and ended up in the Master of Master’s workshop. Books and random papers were scattered around the whole room, and random, unfinished contraptions laid everywhere.

“Guess the Master never heard about a housekeeper.” Alex said.

“I wonder where the blueprints are?” Zeke said as he browsed the bookshelf. “So much old, forgotten knowledge back in our hands. The things we’ll be able to accomplish.”

*Crash!*

“Waahhh!” Kira suddenly screamed. The area was covered in dust that flew everywhere. When it settled, dozens of books and papers were piled on top of her. She rose from her papery grave with a grunt. “Well that could have gone better.” When she said that, one final scroll fell right in her hand. She unraveled it, “The Crystal Heart?” She read out loud.

Zeke quickly grabbed it from her and looked it over. “Holy shit… It's all here! All the spells and materials! Kira you luck girl you!”

“Funny, I don’t feel that lucky.” She said climbing out of the pile of books.

Zeke placed the scroll in his pocket. “I’ll give this to Twi and Cid in a bit. I believe now that you’ve drastically helped me, I now must help you. So… about your union HQ’s?”

“What about them? Not unless you just want it to be here.” Dan said sarcastically.

“No, but how about five gummi ships that can hold over a hundred people, fully stocked everything, and is flyable sound?”

.

..

“That sounds agreeable.” Lan said.

“Great. I’ll go tell the builders to start on them, give this scroll to Twi and Cid, then come back so we can go through all this junk. Be right back.” Zeke said as he opened a DTL and stepped inside. Not five minutes later, we walked back out. “Good news. Gave scroll to Twi, you should be expecting your own Crystal Heart within a week or so, and the gummi builders found a warehouse while exploring the new additions to the Empire. The gummi ships you can have could count as a whole freaking planet with how many people they hold.”

“Mind if we keep them parked here? Not sure where we would put them back in Equestria Town.” Alex asked.

“Sure. We just gotta get a portal system up and running so not everyone is just running in and out of the mirror.”

“If we found the Crystal Heart Blueprints here then we should be able to find something like that round here.” Lan said.

The group looked around well into the late hours. Every spellbook and stack of blueprints didn’t have what they were looking for. “Damn… these books are getting us nowhere… Kira, knock something over to see if your dumb luck still works.” Zeke said.

“What do you want from me? That was an accident. It’s not like another coincidence like that is going to- Whoa!” She didn’t realize she was about to step on another book, and slipped. She knocked over another book shelf, and all the contents fell on her… again.

“Anything under there?” Jenny asked.

“Yeah, my bruised head and growing annoyance!” She said as she shot upwards. “And what did I tell you? Nothing like that is going to happen again!”

“Hey Kira, what’s that tucked into you hair?” Alex asked as she pulled out another scroll in her long hair.

She took it out slowly and unravel it. Then crumpling it up and throwing it at Zeke’s face. “I hate you all.” She stomped out of the room.

Zeke unraveled it. “You should work in archeology.” He said while reading the scroll over. “Huh, a modified version of the DTL’s? Woah! Mors worked on this too!?”

“Thanks Kira!” Alex yelled down the hall.

“Bite me!” echoed through the hall.

“Well, now that we have that. I guess we have all that we need. Right?” Lan asked.

“Yeah. I’ll call Mors up and see if he even remembers this.” Zeke said.

They all nodded in satisfaction and were about to leave the room.

“Wait!” Alex yelled. “I want to see something first.” He walked over to the book that Kira tripped over before she found the DTL Blue prints. He opened it and skimmed through the contents. He gained a giddy smile.

“Dream Eater Recipes. Cool!” He said rejoining the group.

“Is there another one there?” Zeke asked.

“I’m sure we can make copies.” Lan said. “The Master of Masters gave us a copy of the page to make Chirithies, so we can just duplicate it. For both our sakes.”

“Alright then, I’ll have the ships parked somewhere and set up the portals later. Hopefully in a day or two. Lot of work is gonna be happening now around here. Oh, and Lan, submit the paperwork before you leave.”

Lan hung his head in defeat. “Yeah, I’ll get right on that.” He sighed. As he looked at the others, they grinned, then ran fast out the hall. ‘TRAITORS!’ he mentally screamed.


The four other Foretellers took a while, but found the laboratory where they first entered, and stood in front of the mirror.

Eventually, Lan, along with Zeke and Unum walked into the room with them. Lan looking dejected as he did, before he regained his composure.

“So I guess this is it for now.” Lan said. “Remember, we are comrades now. Whenever you need us, we’ll be here.” The other Foretellers nodded in agreement.

“Alright then. Til you have to make your case for the council seat then. Also, about your worlds AJ, Rarity and Fluttershy…” Zeke said.

“Hm? What about them? Is it about their training?” Lan asked confused.

“You do know they all have a crush on you, right?”

“Whaaaat~? No that’s silly. Why would they like me when they could have any other guy? I’m not that special.” Lan said nonchalantly.

“...” Zeke looked at the other Foretellers. “He’s an idiot.” The others nodded.

“What’s that supposed to mean?” Lan asked offended.

“It means.” Zeke grabbed Lan’s shoulders and talked close to his ear. “Ask them about it, and have them tell the truth, or I, your family, Unum, and this reflection’s Cadence will play matchmaker with you til you drop. So either talk to them, or suffer romantic embarrassment. Your pick.” Zeke let go of Lan and walked out with Unum.

“Zeke.” Lan called out one more time, making him turn around. “May your heart, be your guiding key.”

“Which key?” Zeke joked.

There’s millions in this thing.” Zeke left with his voice a mix of him and X laughing.

Lan smirked while huffing. “Smart ass.” He said as he walked through the mirror with the others behind him.