//------------------------------// // Chapter 6: Absent Silhouette-Part 1 // Story: Broken Barriers: Secret Reports // by BioQuillFiction //------------------------------// Joy spent the night in the guest room of the castle, he heard Ben was in Daybreak, but spent the day searching around for proper date clothes. He didn’t know whether to go classy or casual, so went for something in the middle, a pair of black shoes, black pants, and a dark grey shirt and sweater vest. He even brushed his hair for this. He stood waiting for Tiara and her sister to arrive in the lobby of the castle. “Any minute now…” He muttered, pacing around as he started to fuss about what might happen today. “Ben had a better time with a date...well...actually it turned into a kind of adventure twice…” Joy mutters to himself, almost forgetting about that. “Hey there, you must be Joy?” Joy looked up, seeing Death the Kid walk up to him dressed in a white tux rather than his usual black. “Oh, hey Kid.” Joy nodded. “Yes, I am Joy, brother of Ben. How are you doing my very OCD friend?” Joy asks casually. “Heheh, yeah, but ever since I started dating Scootaloo it’s been kinda...halted. Before I’d wake up first thing in the morning and make my hair symmetrical, then check my whole house to make sure everything was symmetrical, but after I started dating her that...lessened. I woke up this morning, didn’t give my house much of a second look, didn’t even fix up my hair till later in the day.” “How love changes us all right?” Joy chuckles. “Hey there you two.” Tiara’s voice made the two turn around...and drop their jaws. Diamond Tiara was dressed in a long violet dress that exposed part of her left leg from the knee down. She was also wearing a small purse that matched the dress. Scootaloo was wearing a black dress with pearl earrings and necklace, her hair in a bun, both girls had light makeup on. “So, what do you think?” Scootaloo asked, walking up to Kid and taking his hand. “I-i-i-i-i-i-i-i-i-i-i.” Was all Kid said, his face red with blush. “Uh…” Joy gulped, his nose trickling with blood at the sight. “I feel...a tad underdressed...and even if I was properly dressed...I'd feel underdressed from your beauty alone.” He says to Diamond, unknowingly flirting with the mare. She chuckled. “Glad you like it, come on, I got us seats at Crystal Palace. Was here back when this place was just the Crystal Empire, owner came back and re-opened it.” Tiara explained, wrapping her arm around Joys and leading the way and Scootaloo and Kid followed. “Cool.” Joy nodded. “But...my world's Crystal Empire didn't appear till a few weeks ago my world's time...so I don't know much about what was here before...things.” Joy says nervously, not knowing what the Crystal Palace was besides the giant thing in the middle of Daybreak. “Heh, it’s a restaurant. Figured we’d go there for a meal and small talk then head our separate ways for our dates.” “Sounds simple enough.” He shrugs. “Let's hope nothing happens during our simple date, like two pistol women appearing and wondering what Kids doing.” Joy says honestly, sadly forgetting their names at the moment. “Oh, you mean my weapon partners?” Kid asked from behind Joy and Tiara. “They’re back home Keyblade training. They’re usually the weapon, or wielding each other as a gun, so using a Keyblade is new to them.” A bit of a walk later and they reached the Crystal Palace Restaurant, where they were seated and given menus. “So, what looks good?” “Well…” Joy says, feeling like he should pick something for the fancy atmosphere. “Screw it, the Ribs seem fine with me.” He says simply, not caring if he has simple food but he'll at least not make a mess. “Same.” Scootaloo said. “That does sound nice.” Tiara added. “Well, I’d rather not be the odd man out, I’ll have some ribs too then.” Kid said. They ordered four plates of ribs, which came with their soda’s. To their surprise, the food was rather clean, yes it was ribs, but they were cooked in a way that they were moist, flavorful, and the sauces didn’t stick to their fingers. When that was done they split the bill, each covering their own meals, then exited the restaurant. “Well, Scoots and I are gonna head of to the park for a late afternoon walk.” Kid said. “Yeah, then we’re going to the movies to see a new horror movie out called Paranormal Activity.” Scootaloo finished. Joy was gonna say something about the movie but stopped himself. “Okay, hope you two have fun.” Joy says. “But when you've experienced actual scary things or fights...horror tends to not be there ya know?" They shrugged, walking off one way while Tiara grabbed Joy’s hand and lead him off another. “So, that was a good meal.” Tiara said. “I was honestly expecting to make a small mess with the Ribs, kind of to make the four of us in a fancy restaurant look silly and we started laughing.” Joy shrugs. “But hey, I'm a bookworm and an anime nerd.” He adds, knowing he got that from those places. “They probably enchant their food to keep things clean.” Tiara said. The two walking along the road for a time before they came across a park, walking through it, they spotted a statue...of Zeke. He was standing tall, wielding the X-blade and aiming it to the sky. “When the Foretellers gave us the news, we built this for him. Dad always told me that the ones that do the greatest good from his world often died young...guess that curse of earth struck again huh?” Tiara asked. “What's weird is that...Ben is gonna have a statue of himself in Manehattan, in a park just like this.” Joy says, summoning his Lexicon weapon. “But with this book in his hands...holding all the names of the forty nine thousand dead inscribed in it…” Joy sighs out sadly. “I'm sorry for bringing it up...again…” He sighed out. “It’s alright, no matter how many die, the worlds all move on. I just wish the Foretellers told us where he died, they never said.” “It's for the best.” Joy says. “The world...is not in the best shape in any way…” Joy shook his head. “You...know where it is?” Diamond asked. “I was there with the others.” Joy tells her. “But...it's for the best you don't go.” He tells her. “The world he died on...is soaked in Void energy, it's best you don't go. You haven't faced Void yet...and I just...want a nice date okay?” “Joy.” Tiara said, grabbing him by the ear and pulling him down to her exact eye level. “Take me. Now.” While Tiara spoke calmly, in Joy’s mind Tiara had transformed back into that darkness possessed thing from a few days ago, both her Dark Guardians staring him down from his imagination. Joy looked her dead in the eye. “I would love to tell you no, whether you liked it or not, but I know we're gonna go there whether I like it or not.” Joy sighs out. “Just give me a moment…” He says while getting her hand off his ear and taking a deep breath, remembering the place and opening a DTL. “But don't say I didn't warn you.” He frowned. Tiara reached into her purse, taking out her Keyblade armor sleeve and putting it on, then slapping the button, her armor covering her before she and Joy walked into the DTL. Once there, Tiara took a look around. “Wow...this place is bad.” “From what I heard from the locals...this all happened from people using the power of Void, the antithesis of Nothingness.” Joy tells her. “And given it's Void...it can only get worse.” “Yikes, so where did dad…” Tiara stopped at the edge of a crater that was pulsating with both darkness, and light. “This is where…” “The exact spot where he was cut down.” Joy says. “All of us were there...but too slow to not stop the final attack Core’s body landed on him…” “No wonder they didn’t say...there’s isn't a body at all to...hey, what’s that?” Tiara asked, jumping into the crater. Joy jumped in after her, and before them, right where Zeke was split, was a sphere of darkness and light, the image of the X-Blade on it. “And of course there's an Absent Silhouette.” Joy frowned, walking up to the thing. “Okay...so how the hell do I activate this thing?” Joy wonders, not sure about what to do with something he's only seen passed by in Speedruns. “Maybe you touch it?” Tiara questioned, grabbing Joy’s hand before reaching the other for the orb. When she touched it, there was a bright flash, and the two now stood on a Station of Awakening. Zeke posed like Sora on it, in the background was the Keyblade graveyard in the background and Kingdom Hearts above it. “Wow…” Joy summoned Reunion and Frozen Pride, knowing where this is going to go whether they liked it or not. “So...this is his Station of Awakening huh?” Joy wondered, looking around for where Zeke’s armor or something would pop up to attack them. In front of them, the sphere floated, til it molded into...Zeke. “Dad…” Tiara said, taking a step forward. Joy held Tiara back, the illusion Zeke bringing out the X-blade. “What, what is this?” Tiara asked, summoning No Name and Gazing Eye. “This is an Absent Silhouette.” Joy says. “I don't remember the finer details, but if memory serves it's a being made of memories that, in most cases, fight those that summon it in its arena.” Joy explains to the best of his ability. “But then...how will it fight? Like dad did...or all out like he never did?” Tiara asked. “This isn't the Data Org fights Tiara.” Joy says, knowing that will fly right over her head. “I don't know how he'll fight, but right now he's gonna fight, even if it's his own daughter.” He says while standing in front of her and raising his shield. “So...we’ll see what Dad always held back?” Before Joy could answer, his Assistant flashed red, his vision...altered, he saw a Kingdom Hearts 2 MP and HP bar, and one for Diamond Tiara...and Zeke’s… It was exactly like the data thirteen hp bars. “Well...he's got a fuck ton of health that's for sure.” Joy says honestly. Zeke then raised his Keyblade, and the battle began. Zeke rushed, Joy raising to block, but Zeke fell to the ground and sweep kicked him over, got up and grabbed Joy by his arm and threw him across the field. For Tiara, he was swinging with the X-blade, but while she blocked he used his free hand and punched her in the gut, even armored, the wind was knocked out of her. “Oi! Douche Canoe!” Joy shouted at him, dashing towards him and baseball dive kicking Zeke’s legs and getting him off balance, Joy putting his shield on the ground and shooting an ice spike towards Zeke to get him more off balance. Zeke jumped up, but then, Joy felt time slow. Zeke’s jump up was coming back down and going to strike on his chest, but Joy saw something...new. It was green, and on the ankle of the foot Zeke was going to strike with. Joy, going on instinct, grabbed it, and then something took over as he then spun Zeke around, tossed him up into the air, and jumped up, landing a hit on his back as the two fell back to the ground. Zeke, upon landing, kneeled down. “What was that?” Tiara asked, air filling her lungs again. “Reaction command.” Joy says. “All I needed to do is press triangle and do good things.” Joy explained with a silly smile at the in joke. Not wasting anymore time, Joy and Tiara landed as many hits as they could on Zeke, Joy seeing his HP drop, but not by much, when he finally got free of their attacks only one bar was gone. Zeke raised his free hand as several Keyblades appeared around him and he rushed in to attack, Joy blocked but a hit landed on Tiara, and Joy saw half her HP bar drain away from it. Joy tried to attack, but one of those Keyblades met his swing before disappearing. He tried again, same result. “Oh go fuck yourself.” Joy frowns, throwing his shield like Captain America and ice shot towards Zeke as well as the shield. Keyblades blocked each hit, but he now had just a single floating Keyblade left. Joy dealt with the straggler personally before landing hits on Zeke again, He countered with a side step, knocking Joy into the air and then swiping him in mid air, sending him higher before teleporting like Sephiroth to repeat. Joy summoned Lindworm and blocked the attacks and side ‘stepping’ in mid air as he slashed at Zeke, hating how he can suddenly teleport. Using Lindworm to his best advantage, he blocked each of Zeke’s attacks, he summoned Sharpshooters to land hits, Tiara ganging up on Zeke as well from the ground. When two of his hp bars dropped, Zeke jumped off the Station of Awakening, and flew back on his Keyblade glider, aiming it’s weapon half, a bow, pointed at Joy with a Keyblade as the arrow. Joy channeled a charged shot with Sharpshooters and fired it straight at Zeke, the shot bouncing slightly to correct it's course to hit Zeke. The pup then moved swiftly around in the air and kept firing bolts at Zeke to try and get him off his glider. Zeke either took hits or deflected them, the deflected hits shooting right back at Joy. When half of Zeke’s hp bar went down he disbanded the glider, falling off the edge of the station of awakening, and came back on flying on Keyblades themselves like Vanetus did at the Keyblade graveyard, some shooting out as he passed by. “Oh come on.” Joy groans and dodges the Keyblades shot at him and moving down, summoning Lindworm to help block the attacks sent at Diamond. “This is gonna take forever…” Tiara was casting spells at Zeke, some hitting others missing. “Grr. Hmmm… Time Splicer.” She said, her body glowing with a pink aura before she teleported, landing a hit on Zeke as he froze. She then landed multiple hits before it faded, she fell back onto the station of awakening before Zeke was no longer frozen, three hp bars going down. “Well that worked.” “It sucks cause I know nothing about these special powers.” Joy frowns. “But I'm just learning Latin and it's magical powers…” Joy says before a bladed whirlwind smacked into Zeke hard. “But were down five and a half health bars out of...eighteen or so.” After a few hits finished off that bar, Zeke jumped back onto the Station, a Master Keeper Keyblade appeared in his other hand and he charged at the two, slashing and blocking their countering attacks. Joy switched to Skysplitter and powered up, before punching the ground and a massive pillar of jagged earth shot up under him. Zeke was knocked up into the air...then flashed white when it took out another hp bar, he came back down, his attire red and red static pulsating on him as he ran quick, charging at Joy. “Oh motherfucker.” Joy says before swapping to Lindworm quickly and tried to defend against the charging Zeke. Zeke dodged it all with ease before landing a combo on the pup, sending him off the edge, Joy saving himself by switching to Sharp Shooters and teleporting, taking shots from above his jump reach, taking out another HP bar. When that went down Zeke flashed again, his attire blue now and wielding one Keyblade. Keyblades appeared in links and floated just outside the station as Zeke jumped on it, sliding across them while he shot out magic projectiles from the X-blades tip. Joy summoned his Lexicon and the book flew open. “Reflect!” Joy shouted, a green and white barrier surrounding him and Tiara, causing the magic projectiles to fly back at Zeke. “Your mage shit ain’t working here.” As if he heard him, Zeke then shot chains of light at Joy, them wrapping around his barrier before he pulled it up off them like a box, and then, continued to fire projectiles at them. Joy blocked, and saw them reflected back and hitting one of Zeke’s Keyblade track, it vanishing when hit. Smiling, Joy switched out for Sharpshooters, hitting all of the track Zeke was using. Once they were all gone, Zeke jumped back onto the station, and Joy hit him with Skysplitter, taking out a whole hp bar at once. Another flash, and Zeke now wore yellow attire, wielding Master Keeper yet again as he slashed Joy across the battleground. “How many phases do you have!?!” Joy shouts, skidding to a halt and summoning Lindworm. Tiara ran in, meeting Zeke in a short lived battle of clashes before Zeke slashed her, Joy saw her HP drop to zero and she vanished. “Damn it!” He shouted in rage, vanishing and stabbing down at Zeke with all his spears. Half of his bar went, and Zeke counted with an upward strike, to which Joy pulled out a sharp shooter and offloaded a mag, taking out the rest of that bar. Zeke flashed again, this time, to something Joy didn’t expect. Zeke wore all black clothes, and had two wings made from Keyblades held together by chains of light. “Now while that looks cool,” Joy says, recasting all his buffs on himself. “I don't think I'm gonna like it.” He frowns, readying Lindworm to defend against the oncoming attacks. Rather than welding any Keyblades, Zeke waved his hands as they appeared and slashed at Joy, who tried to block or dodge them as best he could. Zeke got in close, and time slowed yet again for Joy as he saw the green energy appear on Zeke’s back, but didn’t reach it. Joy found himself flung and tossed onto a crucifix of Keyblades, held down by chains of light as Darkness rose up from around the floor and began attacking him. It took effort, but Joy broke free, quickly casting cure before jumping back from another attack. “Well this sucks.” Joy mutters before summoning Fair Game. “Look who's on top of the game!” Joy says while throwing Fair Game all around the Station and disappearing. Joy then proceeded to attack from several places at once with a bunch of card clones, the cards flying and rushing at Zeke. Zeke covered himself with his Keyblade wings, they taking the hits but his bar still dropping. When the attack ended, he slashed both hands, waves of Keyblades heading for Joy, who quickly pulled out the Lexicon, cast reflect, and let the spell deal the remaining damage to Zeke, who lost another bar. Zeke went back to looking normal in another flash, but raised a hand up as light and dark copies of him walked out of him, each carrying a Keyblade. “Cause shit can never get easier with the final phases.” Joy sighed out, summoning Lindworm and focusing, dozens of green spears covered in Nothingness Thorns were summoned as Joy floated in the air. “Alright, let's get going.” He says while moving his hand, the spears shooting at Zeke and his clones quickly. The clones were easily dealt with, Joy taking out his Sabers and landing hits on Zeke before he could counter. Another bar went away and Zeke vanished, appearing up high in the sky and coming back down fast. Joy went up to meet him, the two clashing blades before Joy began pushing back, taking out Skysplitter in his free hand and slamming it into Zeke. The attack made him lose a whole other bar, and he came back to the ground. “There…” Joy mutters, checking how much more health this fucker has. A quick count revealed Zeke had twenty bars of hp, of which eleven were gone now. He looked back over to Zeke, who grabbed the X-blade by the grips of it’s two Kingdom Keys, a small flash went down it’s middle, and Zeke pulled it apart, the X-blade split down the middle as he wielded both halves back handed. “Oh come on~.” Joy complains, summoning Skysplitter and falling to the ground, swinging it down as hard as he could at Zeke. Zeke struck both halves of the X-blade into the ground, the whole Station becoming covered in chains of light. When Joy slammed Skysplitter into the ground, nothing happened. He looked back up, seeing Zeke in front of him, cross slashing him. “Shit!” Joy yelped and barely dodging the attack, seeing some strands of blue hair get cut off at how close he dodged as he jumped away and got Lindworm back out to prepare him for more of the fight. Zeke was charging again, Joy summoning both Reunion and Memory Stealer and locked blades with Zeke, the two pushing back and forth for a break. Joy summoned a Lindworm spear in the air, and made it slash Zeke across the face. WIth that, Joy broke through, landing a strong combo that took out another bar. “Eight more to go.” He says, pressing his advantage before Zeke had room to breath. Zeke jumped back, pulling out his Wayfinder as it began to glow. His body flashed white, and he...wasn’t there. The hp bar was the same, but there was someone else there, an older man, dressed in winter wear, wielding X, dark hair, green eyes. This new figure slashed the X-blade, and sent waves of light energy towards Joy. Joy dodged quickly. “Oh come the fuck on, how many forms do you have?” Joy asks, throwing wind spears at the older Zeke. Joy saw the Hp bar had a name over it, Vincent. He, with almost blinding speed, spun and blocked each thrown spear with the X-blade, then charged in fast towards Joy. “Hold on I'm supposed to be fighting Zeke, not Vincent.” Joy frowns. “Who the hells Vincent?” He wonders, rushing forward with his spears at the ready. Vincent was fast, countering all Joy’s attacks, and unleashed even faster attacks and combos. Joy ended up casting Reflect, letting it’s return damage take out half the bar. Vincent then cast Thunder, the electricity sent a whole new kind of pain through Joy’s body, but shook it off, casting Blizzard, which seemed to deal a lot of damage to Vincent, that spell taking out the rest of the bar and in a flash, Zeke was back. He jumped back, pulled out his Wayfinder again, and it glowed, and in another flash, another person appeared, this one a little older than Ben, Joy figured, with brown hair and blue eyes. Joy checked the HP bar, the name was Grathon. “And yet another new person.” Joy frowns, wondering who these people are. “Alright, let's keep going.” Joy says while rushing forward and slashing at Grathon. Grathon glowed white, and so did the X-blade. Joy knew what was happening, and jumped back before being smacked with a Critical Mass, he then began smashing the Keyblade repeatedly into the ground, creating large areas of impact that Joy jumped to get away from. Joy summoned energy spears and shot them at Grathons legs, thinking of knocking him off balance to stop his hammer time. Grathon quickly spun around, Joy almost getting hit before they both jumped up and crossed blades, Grathon suddenly spinning, knocking Joy’s spears up as he delivered a strong combo on Joy, who saw his HP bar go low, and flash red. He managed to get away before Grathon could slam him, casting another cure before pulling out his Chakrams and shooting fire out of them like a vortex, the next bar going down all the way. When joy stopped, Zeke was standing there, bringing out his Wayfinder yet again, another flash, and this time, he was a...she. Young, blond, blue eyes...and crying. She let out a scream, a loud scream that made Joy cover his ears as it was like the air itself cracked, shards like glass floating in mid air as she jumped into one. Joy barely saw the name. Raga. “Raga?” Joy muttered, preparing himself for what new gimmick this girl had up her sleeve. Joy was surrounded by the glass like shards, from behind Raga came out quickly and slashed him across the back before jumping back into a shard. “Gah!” Joy shouted in pain, using his winds to try and collect all the shards so he wouldn't get back attacked again. Joy gathered all the shards together, then summoned Skysplitter and smashed them all in one go. Raga fell out of the debre, half the bar gone. When she got back up she started crying, the X-blade floating on its own and spinning around her as she, rather slowly, walked towards Joy. “Wait…” Joy mutters. “Am I fighting...previous X-blade wielders?” Joy asks himself, hoping backwards and slamming Skysplitter into the ground, a giant wave of jagged rocks shooting after the girl. The attack took out the rest of the bar, and it was Zeke who came back to the ground. Again, he jumped back, pulling out his Wayfinder. Who he changed into next only confirmed Joy’s suspicion. A man, wearing a black tux, white gloves, a crooked top hat, and Lord Deaths old mask was there now, wielding X. The name now read Mors. “Ah, so this is what Death looked like before Core did a thing…” He mutters. “That would mean the last form is Unum…” Joy mutters, his lances slashing at Mors quickly. Mors moved as if he had no bones, then grabbed the X-blade from it’s blade half and smacked Joy around with the grip. “Ow, you bitch.” Joy frowned, backing up a bit. “Ventus Ire!” Joy shouts, three tornadoes appearing beneath Mors in hopes it'll deal good damage to the strange combatant. Mors raised the X-blade, spinning it fast and collecting all of the tornadoes Joy created into one large one, which he let die before a large shadow appeared behind him. He walked into it, his mask moving all the way up to the top of it, a shadowy hand raised X and swung. Joy blocked, energy sparkling all over and around the clashing blades. Joy saw another reaction command, but it held a simple phrase. Jump and guide. Trusting the bizarre magic, Joy jumped, and his Keyblade guided X to spin around and slash Mors, who only had a few hits left on his bar as he fell out of the shadow. Joy jumped, taking his time falling to land the final hits on Mors. When the bar was gone, he reverted back to Zeke, who jumped back away from Joy immediately, and pulled out his Wayfinder, this time, the light glowing gold as this time, the light flashed over him, and out appeared Unum. Unlike the one Zeke has, this one had silver hair, and blue eyes. She smiled, and took a pose like Riku. “Hello.” Joy says to Unum, taking the same pose as Sora even if Lindworm was surrounding him. “Let's get this over with.” He says while charging in, Lindworm shooting out to slash or stab her to try and give Joy a chance to attack with Reunion. Despite her rather simple movements, Joy could tell Unum was...holding something back. “Holding something back?” Joy asks her simply. He didn’t get a reply, what Joy got was...a simple battle...til he got her bar down to one hit left. Then, she jumped up, Joy watched as the X-blade glowed with a bright, blinding light as she gained a blue heart outline on her chest. She was suddenly behind Joy, his instincts going mad as he ducked down from her swing, he let himself fall, turned around on the ground and summoned Sharpshooter and fired a single bolt. Unum just looked at him, still smiling as she left in a flash of light, Zeke appearing back. Zeke jumped back, and stared at Joy for a time. “Any more tricks up your sleeve X?” Joy asks, feeling like he was fighting X more than Zeke at this point. “Or is that all?” He asks, pointing Reunion at him and ready to deal the final blow. He raised the Wayfinder, it flashed and Joy felt...connected. Zeke now floated, Lindworm appearing around him, a Sharpshooter in one hand, Skysplitter in the other, and the rest of the weapons he and Ben use floated around Zeke, the X-blade, even Reunion, Memory Stealer, and Dusk Blade floated around him. Joy looked at that for a moment. “Well that's just not fair at all.” Joy says simply, preparing to fight this new segment of the fight. “Has all mine and Ben's weapons...and his...shit.” Zeke started off firing Sharpshooter, flying around quickly to get in close to land a hit with Skysplitter. Joy using his Lexicon to reflect the arrows back at Zeke he shot, and when he got in close and hit with Skysplitter, the full damage was dealt, taking out two of his three remaining bars. One left. Zeke then pulled out the Kunai knives, throwing them at the edges of the field and flew up, Joy looked around, and was then electrocuted. The landmine like attack lasting a short while, but it dealt massive damage, Joy finding himself back at one hp. He looked up, and raised his Keyblade to block in time as Zeke now wielded Reunion, and they were in a stalemate. Zeke pressed down while Joy was keeping him up. Joy cast reflect, the attack phasing through him, and the splash back knocked out the last of Zeke’s hp. All of Joy’s and Ben’s weapons vanished from Zeke, who now only had the X-blade as he fell over, landing face first on the ground. Joy panted heavily, looking at Zeke face down on the ground. Before he did anything he chugged a potion so he was at least has some health before poking Zeke with Reunion. “Yo? You finally done?” No response. Joy looked around, expecting something else...and got it. The Station of Awakening glowed white, the light covering it completely and once it was covered in light, it faded, and the Station changed. Now, it was all Kingdom Hearts, with images of the X-blades wielders, even Zeke. Joy turned around, looking at Zeke. To his surprise, the X-blade glowed white, and in a flash, turned into a blue haired, gold skinned version of Zeke with silver and white clothes. It stood up, and helped Zeke up. Zeke and the X-blade, Joy assumed, grabbed hands, and Zeke changed, in a flash, becoming a Kingdom Key D version of the X-blade. X then looked at it for a bit, then pointed ‘Zeke’ at Joy. “Um…” Joy starts, not sure whether that was a decoration of combat by X or something else. “What?” He asks worriedly. X then raised ‘Zeke’ with both hands, and took a combat pose. “Oh go fuck yourself.” Joy says while Lindworm surrounded him, grabbing Sharpshooter in one hand and readied to fight. “But if you want a fight, let's go.”