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// Day 95-Kingdom Hearts 
// Story: Hasbro/Square Enix Kingdom Hearts Days of a Nopony 
// by SonictheHedgepony 
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Day 95-Kingdom Hearts


For the next two weeks, me and Solaris went on missions together while distracting the other members from the fact that she lost the ability to use the Keyblade.   However, even though she saw me use it in the field, this hasn't jogged her memory of how to use it yet, but we'll keep this up until she summons her Keyblade again.

This morning, when I entered the Grey Area, I found the room to be empty, and Queen Chrysalis walked towards me.

"Lord Vanitas has summoned us," she told me.   I then followed her straight to a balcony where all the other members have gathered, with all of us looking at an empty sky and I didn't know what was going on, but because Vanitas organized this meeting, I figured he would have a reason.

"The time has come," said Vanitas.   "Look towards the skies."   We looked up and didn't see anything until we saw something fade into view, a heart-shaped moon.   I didn't even know what it was, but I trusted Vanitas enough to let him continue.   "There,  hanging in the sky, the compilation of hearts--Kingdom Hearts--is finally showing us at last.   Look at the numerous hearts that have been collected.   Hearts that contain anger... jealousy...depression...and happiness.   There is the promise for your wishes to come true."   So that's what Kingdom Hearts is, at first, I found it a little anti-climatic that we did all this work so an almighty force can manifest as a moon in the shape of a heart, but I knew it was worth the effort.   He then turned to face us.   "My dear friends, remember why we joined together-- all you ever want in life.   The infinite power of Kingdom Hearts is epic.   Soon, we'll have all the power in the world.   Never again shall we...have power over others."   I didn't know what he was talking about, but I was determined to finish what's left of Kingdom Hearts so I have have my own wish-- the right to exist fully in this world.

Upon accepting our mission for the day after we were dismissed, me and Solaris used a Corridor of Darkness to travel to a remote forest.

"The Heartless we're supposed to destroy is a Neoshadow?" I asked.   I wanted to make sure our assignment was valid.

"Yes," Solaris said.   "And because this is a forest, it's highly critical that we stick together."   I didn't want to lose her for an extended period of time again, so I wanted to make sure she stuck to me like glue.   We walked all over the forest, hoping to find traces of the Neoshadow.   We then noticed a spherical object and went to inspect it.   We found it was empty, but the design looked futuristic and alien, and we knew this looked like the Autobots.   Before we could figure out what was inside, Solaris gestured me towards a black puddle, which quickly materialized into the Neoshadow, which I was able to strike down.   Before we could depart, we heard the sound of laser blasts and went over to see what was going on.   We saw the Autobots fighting some purple robots and an insect-like robot, with Ratchet helping the Autobots since Bulkhead's incapacitated.   When it looked as though the Autobots were about to get defeated, we saw a white and blue robot strike down the robots with little effort, so I figured that he's another Autobot.   After seeing that everything is alright now, we left for Twilight Town.


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We had arrived with our ice cream on top of the clock tower with Discord and did our normal routine of nibbling on our ice cream and watching the sun set.

"So how'd it go today?" asked Discord.   "Handling double duty well?"

"We're alright," I said.

"Moondancer was able to destroy today's Heartless with no problem," said Solaris in response to Discord's first question.

"Then I guess you're doing well then," said Discord.   I sighed as something crossed my mind.

"I'm just not sure why we have to continue fighting the Heartless," I said.

"Well, we have to continue fighting in order to complete Kingdom Hearts.   Besides, we finally got our first view of it this morning."

"But what is it?   'The compilation of hearts'?"

"It's where all the hearts we collect go to," Solaris insisted.

"Exactly what she's talking about," Discord agreed.   "It's all thanks to us that we're making progress in our real mission.   We may get our wishes after all."

"'The infinite power of Kingdom Hearts is epic,' Vanitas said," Solaris recalled.   I understood what they meant, but I still wanted a clear cut answer.

"Yeah, but why do we need its power?" I asked.

"Come now," Discord assured me.

"I just don't know why having a wish is so important."

"Weird bringing this up..."   Discord needs to know why I'm talking about it right now.

"Well, don't you want to take a moment and think?   We're fighting for something that we don't have enough knowledge of."   Discord placed his eagle-like arm over my shoulder as he attempted to console me, which worked.

"Moondancer... We're fighting because we want to know what it's power is capable of."

"I suppose you're right."   I had a feeling he must've been on to something, so I just agreed with him and just resumed our time eating our ice cream and see the sun go down.