> A Key in Equestria
>  by Kamen rider yokai
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> Prologue
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It was just a normal day for me. That was before I met that merchant. Let me introduce myself. I'm James your average nineteen year old from California. I had brown hair that just won't stay neat and had emerald eyes. I was dressed as my favorite game character Sora in his kh2 incarnation. Minus the oversized clown shoes. Yep I had mostly the whole ensemble. Black shirt under a black jacket with armor sewn into the shoulders ,a crown pendent, black pants with a pair of red pouches instead of pockets and had a chain attached to my belt loops holding my wallet. I even wore the gloves. To replace the shoes I used a pair of skin tight latex boots. At first glance they look like combat boots but were insulated rubber to protect me from electric water. Saved my life once when a broken electrical wire fell into a puddle I was walking in. Back to the matter at hand. It was the local game convention in Los Angeles and this time I had managed to finally save up to attend. This was going to be my first convention and I wanted to have a great time. The only thing I needed was a Keyblade and some Keychains. Hopefully I can find some at the convention. I doubt I could find the Keyblade there but I had hope on the Keychains. Little did I know that would be not only my first convention but also my last one.

My dad dropped me off and warned me yet again about being careful not to get attacked by gangsters. Yes you heard that right I'm nineteen and I can't drive. Never applied for the licence and got my own car. I'm more of a motorcycle fan. But actually I'm not interested in most things guys my age like. Definitely not a sports fan and not much for cars. Never did see why that was so much hype. You would only see me play card games and write stories. But don't let that fool you I happen to know martial arts since I was four. I even tried to teach myself the fox style. Mainly because I'm quick on my feet in more ways than one or something. Anyway so far I had a good time at the convention. I still wonder when they will get kh3 out as the trailer said 2014 but it was already the next year! Yeah as you can tell I'm a huge KH fan. Kingdom Hearts came out when I started middle school and was what got me hooked into final fantasy. So far I played X, Xll, and the first crystal chronicles game. I even watched Advent Children. Square Enix is definitely one of my favorite brands and guess what!

I found a stand dedicated to Kingdom Hearts! I picked up a craft your own Keyblade Keychains set that would allow me to make eight Keychains. Or nine seems someone at the factory left a extra and no one even spotted the mistake oh well my gain. I placed my purchase in a offered plastic bag and looked to see if they sold a  Keyblade. Shame there wasn't. I walked off and sighed. Suddenly a stand caught my eye. It was ran by the creepiest merchant I had ever seen and though I never played Resident Evil but I have heard descriptions of this guy.  Deciding to see what he had I walked up. That was my first mistake. His wares were placed haphazardly and it was hard to see what was what. I think I spotted the Auricle from Kamen Rider Kuuga in there somewhere. But than I spotted two objects that just called to me. It was two Keychains. The first was a black version of my crown pendant with the again being black diamond marks. The second was star shaped and seemed to be made of seashells with the chain being white versions of the first ones. I recognized them as Oblivion and Oathkeeper's Keychains respectively. When I asked how much they were worth the owner told me that each was only two dollars. I was surprised as I gotten my craft set for ten bucks. After that would leave me with fifty left. So being the idiot I am I bought the two. I clipped them to the chain on my person and than I saw they and my body started to glow. It was then I realized my mistake. I had heard of various disappearances lately but thought they were rumors. My bad.

"What the hell" i shouted my Irish accent coming out in my shock.

Yeah you heard that right I'm part Irish. Descended from seventeen generations of Irish kings to be exact. That explains my green eyes its that deep in my genetic code.  When I could see again I found myself above the Castle of the Two Sisters meaning this was the past judging by the fact the Everfree wasn't as large and the castle wasn't in ruin. Great I am not looking forward to this at all. Just hope there is someone who can help me because it looks like I'm in trouble. And so I fell like a rock and crashed into the roof of the castle and lost consciousness and my last thought. It was: next time I see that merchant he is going to die.

(End chapter one)

> Chapter 1 The Return
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Twilight sighed as she walked through the Castle of the Pony Sisters. She had decided to restore the castle and spotted something that made her confused. In the library was the statue of a human one of the beings she met on the other side of the Mirror Portal. By the looks of it this was a teen around fourteen years of age but his garment was a bit odd. There was some pendent around his neck in the shape of a crown and wore what seemed to be a hoodie, clasped in his hand was a key like sword in a pose of fright and betrayal. Judging by the look on his face. Clipped to his pants on a chain was two keychains. She left worried and curious. Why was a statue of a human here? Besides her and Sunset Shimmer no one knew of humans. And why that expression on the face. She will ask the Princess about it once she finds Spike. Later she looked in shock as her friends were causing some chaos running around. She shared a look with the rabbit that was accompanying her.

"Enough!" Shouted Twilight freezing the four mares. 

"Twilight? Oh sorry" said Rainbow Dash.

"Seriously girls your causing so much damage to the place after I told Celestia I was going to fix it up" said Twilight annoyed.

"Sorry Twi guess we let that tale spook us" said Applejack.

"But seriously who is playing that organ" said Rainbow.

"Sounds like it's coming from the Ballroom" said Rarity. 

The mares soon rolled their eyes. Turned out the organ player was Pinkie,

"Well now that everyone is accounted for Spike I got a letter for the Princess. I found something she might explain about" said Twilight.

She led the group to the statue she found.

"Dear Princess Celestia 
I found a curious statue in the library of the old castle when looking for the original building design of the castle to aid me in restoring it. I was hoping you and Luna could come by and explain about this statue sincerely Princess Twilight Sparkle" said Twilight with Spike sending off the note.

"So Twilight what is it about this statue that confuses you" asked Rarity looking at the design on the statue.

"Notice what creature the statue is?" Asked Twilight.

"A hairless Minotaur" asked Fluttershy with the other girls nodding in agreement.

"No it's a human like what Twilight became after she chased Sunset through the mirror" said Spike.

"Spike is correct besides the two of us only Sunset Shimmer knows about humans so why is a statue of one here" said Twilight.

"What a weird sword he has kinda looks like a key" said Rainbow.

"You mean like those keyholes in that box at the tree of Harmony?" Asked Applejack.

"Maybe" shrugged the Cyan Pegasus.

"We might get our answers from the Princesses they have the answer to this as this used to be their home" said Twilight.

A flash usually associated with a transport spell flared at that moment and when it vanished both Celestia and Luna appeared.

"Where is the mysterious statue" asked Celestia as she looked around before gasping catching sight of the statue.

"T-this is" said Celestia with a shocked sounding breath.

"Princess why is there a statue of a human here and do you know who it is?" Asked Twilight concerned.

"I shall explain Twilight Sparkle after all I was the one who did this to him" said Luna guilt in her tone.

"This was during my time as Nightmare Moon while Celestia was getting the Elements of Harmony.  One who I considered a brother had tried to make me see reason but in my madness I ended up using a petrification spell turning him into stone. He obviously tried to defend himself but by then it was to late. His name is James and like us he is royalty descended from 17 generations of kings in his world. But it seems I made a mistake. The spell should have lifted when you all brought me back from my own Darkness. But the Elements had taken away any knowledge of the spell. I don't know how to free him from his prison now" she said tears going down her face as she broke down crying.

"Luna why have you never told me about this. James was a friend of mine as well" said Celestia hurt in her tone.

"I already had to spend the time in the moon thinking over my desisions and even now I regret them. I'm just glad I didn't become a Heartless like James warned if I strayed to much in the Dark" said Luna head lowered in shame.

"Luna just who exactly is this James" asked Twilight.

"He is known as a Keyblade wielder. His job is to safe guard our Worlds from Darkness and prevent them being destroyed. You see that weapon in his hand. That is the mystical Keyblade a sort of sentient blade. It chooses it's wielder. James didn't gain access to it until one night he delved into his heart. One day he started using spells I never seen before in fact Pegasi back then learned to fly because of him. One such spell he called Aero created a twister of air around him that he used to jump into the air and glide which taught the pegasi how to fly and manipulate the weather. He also learned from starswirl himself on better magic control. The keyblade itself also has special powers. It can lock or unlock anything with it and can summon it from wherever it is kept when not in use" said Luna.

"Don't forget about when a Keychain is attached to the sword. The Keyblade has different forms depending on the Keychain" said Celestia.

"Wow that sounds amazing" said Twilight in awe.

Spike took a look at the statue.

"Hey I think the spell is fading now" said Spike.

Indeed it was as the statue was gaining color with sparks of magic running over the statue and with a flash of light James stumbled before collapsing to the worry of the group. Luna had blurred and caught him before he hit the ground.

"Oh James I am so sorry for that I didn't think about what would happen to you" said Luna with a sob.

"L-luna? I'm glad your back to normal" said James before he fell unconscious.

"We better get him some medical attention fast being stuck like that for over a thousand years might have left a side effect" said Celestia as the Keyblade vanished in a small flash.

"Right Ponyville General is closer here" said Applejack leading the way.

(End chapter)
 
> Memory of the past 1 Meeting
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I groaned as I came to and the first thing I see was a familiar dark blue alicorn princess giving me a worried look.

"Are thou alright that was some fall thy took" said who I knew had to be Princess Luna.

"I am not sure I'm just surprised I'm alive right now though I do feel sore" I said silently vowing to get back at the merchant for this.

"Doust thou need assistance getting up" asked Luna.

"That would be appreciated ... I can barely move after that fall" I said wincing as she levitated me onto my feet. Looking where I laid I winced seeing a crater and cracks in the roof. It looked like morning when I appeared but now it looked like it was nearly sundown. Must have been out for a while.

"Forgive me for asking but who are you and what are you. I never seen anything like you before" said Luna.

"My name is James, a human from earth. A seperate world from your own. Though I'm not here of my own free will" I said with a sigh remembering that merchant.

"How did thee end up on our planet" asked Luna curious.

"Long story short I bought two items from a merchant that brought me here. When I realized my settings had changed I found myself up there the rest you know. Now I know the source of those disappearances back home. If I know my dimensional theory the other disappeared humans must be on different versions of your world at different points in time. Maybe the future of this world or in the past. Uh my world is more technologically advanced and I'm guessing magic exists here right well magic is almost nonexistent back home save illusions. Uh sorry I tend to ramble once I try to figure out something" I said as I realized I was getting off track.

"No problem but that does seem likely and fits thy situation. Before we forget  we are Princess Luna co-ruler of this kingdom or at least it would be" said Luna.

"Nice to meet you Princess Luna, I'm guessing your magic involves the moon from your name?" I said with a smile as it was to painful to bow in my condition.

"Same, and your correct I raise the moon while my elder sister raises the sun. Though your arrival is at a dire time" said Luna.

"What happened" I asked.

"Currently this world is controlled by a chaos spirit named Discord. Me and my sister are the only alicorns in existence here at the moment. Frankly Discord is a tyrant causing chaos all over. Eventually he will start killing off the citizens out of boredom which is why me and my sister must stop him. If you can help that would be appreciated" said Luna.

"I can help sure but first I got to recover that fall from the sky did a number on me" I said trying to move my arms and winced.

"Luna there you are!.... who's this with you" said the white furred alicorn now walking up to us.

"Celestia meet James a human stuck on our world. Seems he bought a few items that had a spell woven into and ended up here. I found him unconscious in that crater" said Luna nodding to the crater.

"And currently having a hard time moving from the pain. Princess Luna told me of your situation" I said.

"Yes he has agreed to help after recovering sister" said Luna.

"Really you will help us defeat Discord" asked Celestia wide eyed.

"Yes I will, good thing about being descended from 17 generations of kings is that I got a strategic mind" I said.

"Your royalty!" Asked Luna shocked.

"Yeah but the time of kings has past on my world. So I was raised like a common person. Which I'm glad for I just want to be treated like a normal person" I said but than I noticed my voice sounded off.

"That explains your manner of speech" said Luna.

" Yeah my eye color is from those kings so it runs in my family" I said and there was no doubt about it I sounded younger than I should.

"Well James let's get you some medical attention and let you get some rest" said Celestia as she and Luna levitated me through the castle to where I was going to stay for a while.

I laid in the temporary bed thinking over my situation as I slowly gained enough movement to feel my chin.

I felt smooth skin. That proved it I was somehow 14 again. Was the price of being sent here reversing my age to fit the character I was dressed as? I sighed thinking over this development. I was stuck in a world I saw as a cartoon at a crucial point in this world's history and I'm currently trapped with possibly no way home.  It was around midnight as per usual that I fell asleep.  I had a feeling things are only going to get hectic soon.

(End chapter)
> Chapter Two Revelations
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The eight ponies waited in the lobby of Ponyville General hospital hoping that the human was okay. The Princess of the Moon had assured the Elements of Harmony that human biology can handle the medical treatment like normal ponies. It had already been a few hours since James was placed into the hospital.

"Luna just what is James' reason to being here in our world. I doubt he was here of his own free will" said Twilight looking to her aunt in law.

"You are correct Twilight he isn't here of his free will. How he got here is uncertain but he had bought two keychains from a mysterious merchant back on his world. According to James this merchant was the cause of various disappearances in his world. We figured out that this merchant sells enchanted items to unsuspecting people and takes them to different versions of our world. James is just one of these victims. But now that he is back here I'm afraid he is stuck here. Humans normally don't live much past a century and considering how much time has past his birth family must have passed away by now. As much as I hate to think about it me and Celestia are the only thing he has left to a family. That means he is now your uncle Twilight" said Luna.


"I'm still getting used to having you as aunts" sighed Twilight.

"Um if you don't mind me asking but what did you mean earlier by 'worlds' does that mean other worlds exist in our current universe" asked Fluttershy.

"According to James each star is a world. Apparently the worlds used to be connected until something happened to disconnect them" said Celestia.

"What exactly happened" asked Rainbow curious.

"The Keyblade War. A event that had altered reality itself" said Luna with a sigh.

"What" asked Pinkie wide eyed.

"According to James the Keyblade War was fought by Keyblade wielders all for control of the one thing governing the universe. Kingdom Hearts. There used to be thousands of Key bearers in the universe but when everyone started fighting over the light they let darkness in. Kingdom Hearts sensed the corruption and shattered the world consumed by darkness. But the children of the time had such pure hearts full of light that they rebuilt the worlds fragments into what they are now. The war ended with only few Keyblade wielders left that the battlefield eventually became known as the Keyblade Graveyard. James only knew about this through legends back on his world. James told us that if a star goes out in the night sky a world had been consumed by darkness. Shortly after James arrived a race of beings called moogles appeared and set up shop. James vouched that they were masters of alchemy and synthesis creating items that James said were very useful. Infact one is at the corner over there" said Celestia pointing with her wing to a white furred humanoid with what seemed to be a red circular nose, a red pompom like item on their heads and devil like wings floating there with a stand showing items like potions, ethers, even some items like tents and gems.

"Those gems are synthesis items called mythril and even dusk and light gems. James has a lot of them because those are crystalized magic. He crafted a keychain and had the item imbued with the gems power. It was used to form his keyblade he held earlier. That particular keyblade is called Nocturne. He based it off me and it symbolises the bond we have" said Luna.

"It explains the design" said Rarity impressed.

"Does each keychain have a innate ability" asked Applejack.

" Yes Nocturne gives James better control over certain spells. Mainly ice and wind plus water. My moon effects tides and it gets colder at night after all. But James has a bit of a temper on him. It's part of his genetics you see. One time he got so mad he got Discord to ban pranks involving keys after the beating he did. He had gotten me with a spell that made me almost commit suicide. James threw his Keyblade at Discord. Multiple times. When he calmed down he revealed that he used to throw whatever was in his hand at whoever made him mad. He tries not to do that but Discord made him relapse. Turned out Discord helped James learn a skill called Strike Raid. James told us that there were variations when combined with some spells" said Luna.

"Well that's something" said Applejack with a whistle.

"I think I saw that from that potion during the bramble weed incident. I definitely don't want to be on his bad side. If Discord wasn't immortal he would have died from all those strikes" said Twilight with a small shutter.

"Just goes to show even the most nicest person can have their fierce side. I mean look at Fluttershy she stared a dragon into behaving like a scolded child for example" said Rainbow as Fluttershy blushed recalling that day. That dragon hurt her friends and was being unreasonable something had snapped and she found herself losing her temper and confronting the dragon like a stern mother. 

"Ah yes I remember that I asked you six to get that dragon away because of all the smoke he was making would have ruined our crops" said Celestia with a look of remembrance.

" Anyway back on topic what did you mean by heartless?" Asked Twilight.

"Heartless with a capital H, they are manifestations of darkness. No one knows how they came to be. James thinks they were created when the world shattered into the numerous worlds. Mainly the hearts of those that let their own darkness take control. They are not sentient as they use instinct instead of their minds. James said the Keyblade is the only thing able to get rid of them. He does know that there was a special case of a sentient Heartless. This Heartless hasn't been seen here yet but it's only a matter of time" said Luna.

"Beings formed from pure darkness that use nothing but instinct" muttered Twilight feeling a kind of chill at the thought.

"They haven't appeared yet on Equestria but according to James they fear the keyblade and will do anything to turn it's wielder into a Heartless. The tree of Harmony and the Elements in it are so far preventing them from appearing" said Celestia.

"To make it even more daunting James informed us of another group of beings, the Nobodies. The empty shells left behind when a person with a strong will becomes a Heartless. The sentient Heartless has a Nobody as well. If it's powerful enough to stay intelligent and a mostly human form it must have been a powerful will" said Luna.

"James says these two beings are the commanders of both respected monsters. I fear what will happen if he doesn't find the keyhole to the heart of our world" said Celestia.


"Okay you confused us there what does a keyhole have to do with worlds?" Asked Rainbow scratching the back of her head.

"These are not ordinary Keyholes if a Heartless finds the heart of a world they will try to consume it and force the world to fall to darkness. With the Keyblade James can seal the heart of the world to prevent that. Thing is he has no clue where these keyholes are located. But from what records James remembers the keyblade will pull him in the right direction to find it" said Luna.

Just than Nurse Red Heart entered the room and addressed the Princesses.

"Your Highnesses, he is stable but there is something that makes me concerned. We took some x-rays of his body to make sure nothing internal is wrong but well see for yourself" said Nurse Red Heart showing a x-ray of James' heart.

"A prolapsed heart valve!" Exclaimed Luna taking a look.

"From what we could tell using a spell to check on it it's been like that from when he was born. If he is what you say he is it's a miracle he didn't have heart failure in all this time" said Red Heart.

"Why didn't he tell us about this" asked Celestia shocked.

"He always did seem to pace himself during training and going within his limits. I believe he knew and didn't want us to worry" said Luna shaking a bit from the shock.

Even the mane six looked shocked though confused.

"Ugh Twilight do you know what their talking about" asked Rainbow.

"One of James' heart valves that pumps blood through his body has collapsed and from the sound of it it's been like that since he was born" said Twilight.

"That kind of condition can be fatal if he stains himself to much but it seems to still be a minor case. Also we detected some kind of temporal magic on him that seems to match his magical signature if he was petrified to stone he must have used it to keep himself alive by stopping time on himself until the petrification spell wore off" said Red Heart getting into the explanation.

"The stop spell one of the few time related spells known. But there must have been some side effect on him" said Luna recognizing what James must have done.

"Your correct Princess the spell plus the petrification have left a semipermanent side effect. His aging is slowing down. He will stop aging by the time he turns Twenty physically. Plus with how long he was stone means his life span is similar to yours now. He can be injured like normal but he won't be able to die for eons from now" said Red Heart.

"Are you saying he's immortal now?" Asked Twilight in shock.

"That's what we can tell. His cells are slowly rejuvenating like time is being reversed to their prime. Hence why his age is slowing down. From the info you gave me on the day before hearts and hooves day six years from now he will stop aging" said Red Heart.

"Can we see him" asked Celestia.

"You may but he's asleep right now. Those spells took a lot out of him. If we could find a donor we might be able to fix his heart also but the closest to his biology happens to be dragons" said Red Heart.

"Dragons can live without a heart valve because their hearts are designed to use only two of the four valves so they don't breath fire all the time" said Celestia reciting what she learned from Starswirl.

"But the only dragon around like that is Spike!" Said Rarity wide eyed.

"If it's to save a person's life I will gladly donate a heart valve" said Spike making the Princesses gasp.

"Princesses besides Twilight your the only ponies that know Dragon biology meaning your going to have to guide the surgery for this" said Spike making them see he had a point.

"The young dragon is right your highness James' condition can easily become severe after being stone for so long. And your the only ones that can guide this. And I request you all help to right now this hospital is understaffed due to the injuries from the bramble weed incident still. You there look like you got a eye for detail your the one on doing the stitches!" Said Red Heart pointing at rarity with her horn.

"You take care of animals right than you are on making sure they don't feel a thing with Princess Twilight handing me the tools I need" she added looking to Fluttershy.

"Applejack your job is to watch the heart ministers and let me know if the heart starts failing on James" she said looking at the Farmer.

" What about me" asked Rainbow.

"Your job is to make sure the surgical tools are clean! Before hand" princesses please try to find anything on dragon biology and make a chart to help guide me in this and also of the area we need to work on for James" said Red Heart making the group nod.

"Your going to need a special tool to get past Spike's scales while they are out cold and to stitch him back up dragon scales are resillant to magic" said Luna.

"She can use this" said Twilight pulling out what seemed to be a diamond edged circular cutter.

"Spike's scales normally shed but when they are pinching him I used that to remove them he didn't feel it at all just be careful with him" said Twilight.

"Thanks now get prepped we got a life to save" said Red Heart.

A few hours later the group panted as they wheeled the two into a room. The surgery was hard and afterwords the mane six threw up their lunch from the process. Well except Fluttershy who was used to it having to patch up the animals under her care including giving them surgery to save their lives.

"T-that was the most intense and gross thing I have ever done" said Rainbow shaken.

"Reading about it is one thing actually doing it is another" said Twilight in agreement.

"But we did it y'all we got the transplant done" said Applejack slightly green.

"S-so much b-blood w-who knew sewing had such a application I may never look at a needle and thread the same way again" said Rarity hair matted from the stress.

"I'm surprised Spike was brave to go under the knife without fear for his own well being" said Pinkie having her respect for the dragon rise.

"How can you be so calm like this Fluttershy" asked Rainbow curious.

"I had to do surgery on some of the animals under my care but mostly it was torn muscles and at one point removing some of there kidneys so by now I'm used to it" said Fluttershy.

" Thanks for the cutter Princess be sure to bring spike next week to remove the stitches dragons heal faster than humans certainly" said Red Heart.

" N-no problem but maybe it be best to hire some more staff so you aren't forced to have volunteers on a surgery team that or have volunteers take care of the most injured with light wounds to free up doctors that can do that I don't think I can go though that again" said Twilight remembering the painkiller spell she used on both of them.

"Well see you tomorrow I got to clean up from that experience" said Rarity taking off the medical garb the group put on and headed home.

"Yeah same here it's been a long day" said Rainbow.

Soon the only ones still in the hospital room was Twilight, Spike, Luna and Celestia settling down to wait for James to wake up.

(End chapter)
> Chapter Three Key Defence
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First thing I saw when I came to was my 'sisters' giving me relieved looks that quickly turned to comical anger.

"James" said Celestia and I felt a cold shiver down my spine at her tone.

"Why didn't you tell us about your heart condition" said Luna with her tone matching her sister's.

I gulped and started to stammer.

"You never asked besides I forgot about it when I appeared here" I said with my tremors of fright now being seen.

"Princess Luna! Princess Celestia! Quit it your scaring the guy quite badly he just came out of surgery remember!" Scolded a young yet intelligent voice and I turned my head to see a lavender alicorn with a indigo mane with pink streaks glaring at the other alicorns in the room. I felt my eyes widen and I spoke without thinking.

"Twilight Sparkle! Wha- oh wait wrong one sorry you look a bit like someone I knew in the past" I said in shock.

"Actually you got my name right but how did you know my name" asked Twilight.

"Oh your named after her back during the aftermath with discord I personally taught a unicorn identical to you except her cutie mark was a eclipse with stars magic specifically light and dark magic because those were what she was attuned to each unicorn has a natural elemental affinity in their magic her just happened to be balance" I said calming down.

"Why didn't you tell us about this other Twilight James" asked Celestia shocked.

"You both were busy with taking the thrones while rebuilding the city once discord was sealed. I didn't want you adding more stress knowing that I took up teaching the unicorns to help lighten the workload of the repairing. But tell me this how did my student's descendant end up as a alicorn" I asked giving my 'sisters' a look.

"She completed starswirl's unfinished spell" said Luna.

"Figures now catch me up on what's going on" I asked before I winced feeling something tug.

I looked down and saw I was shirtless and had stitches over my heart and a sleeping dragon near me with a identical mark clued me in.

"Well that explains the surgery comment" I said with a sigh.

"Yeah we didn't enjoy having to help the head of the hospital do it. Turned out the place is understaffed" said Twilight.

"Yeah I'm sure that wasn't a pleasant experience but at least you learned a bit about first aid for the future" I said confused.

"Anyway now that I can concentrate I can get both of us back on our feet" I said summoning my keyblade and taking a moment to look it over again. It was dark blue with lighter blue trim. The hilt had a wing like guard with the blade itself having a spiral pole with a crescent moon as the key teeth. The keychain was a transparent crescent moon with the links being star shaped.

"Curaga" I intoned as a green aura covered me and the little dragon making the stitches vanish in a small bit of light as the skin and scales mended and I felt my heart beat stronger than I remember.

"Huh I'm awake! Huh? Did the surgery work" asked Spike confused. As he woke up.

"How did you do that dragons have a natural magic resistance normally" said a shocked twilight.

"He's still young meaning his resistance still has time to develop and by what I'm sensing his own resistance has been altered by your magic allowing certain spells to work on him. White magic like that third their cure spell is one such magic allowed. But it also had the effect of flushing out the medication used to keep him knocked out and me drowsy. If I wasn't born hyper aware I wouldn't have been able to cast at all let alone summon my keyblade" I said. 

"That is a bit shocking that explains why it's easy to levitate him for me" said twilight.

"Anyway Luna can I please get my shirt and coat back I don't trust my balance right now I need to be caught up on what I missed" I said and nodded when I was handed the items I requested.

With that Celestia told James what had happened and what year he was in.

"So let me get this straight Luna turned me to stone for over a thousand years and only a few years before the new bearers of the elements of harmony freed her from her darkness, a niece I didn't know I had married twilight's older brother shining armor and became your niece and nephew in laws, discord was redeemed and the crystal empire is back after sombra was defeated? And now there is a mystery involving a box revealed by the tree of Harmony now? Man I missed a lot haven't I. And according to you me using stop on myself by accident plus the spell Luna casted extended my life span? What next Chrysalis is still around" I asked looking like I swallowed a raw lemon.

"Yes" said a buzzing voice as a bird that had flown in from the open window became the changeling queen herself.

"I have got to stop tempting Murphy's law" I said deadpanned as the alicorns backed up surprised.

"You should James it really gets you into trouble" said Chrysalis with a giggle.

"And I thought you would learn that my luck isn't all that great I mean I was turned to stone for over a thousand years it's a wonder I'm not dead after all this time" I said giving her a look.

"Your the one who had to save my life from a demon" said Chrysalis with a eye roll.

"I couldn't let anyone die on my watch you know I'm a protector at heart" I said.

"How am I friends with you again" asked the changeling with a teasing tone.

"Because you got to know me after stalking me for months. I mean really you turned into a black and green version of my student at the time with a cutie mark of a green heart! And tried to pass off as her distant cousin the only thing that ruined it was that you forgot to change your voice" I said in the same tone.

"Okay I'm confused" said Spike with the Princesses nodding.

"Oh forgot you were here um sorry for what happened at the wedding I was desperate for my people and wasn't thinking straight I hope you can forgive me" said Chrysalis with a bow.

"Wait you finally became queen of your hive! Congratulations sorry I couldn't go to your coronation" I said surprised.

"You technically did. I spotted what happened back then and held my coronation there when the place was abandoned. I had two of my changelings look after you and make sure you didn't get destroyed when the castle fell to ruin" said Chrysalis.

" Even turned to stone you have my back huh" I said as everyone blinked.

"Hey when your my only friend I had no choice but to worry about you" said the changeling with a shrug.

"Uh anyway Chrysalis I guess I can forgive you just promise not to impersonate anyone I know again I still had nightmares about that day" said Twilight with a sigh.

"Same here though I'm curious how did you meet James" asked Luna.

"Oh my hive was being attacked by a demon James called a fallen angel and used his keyblade to seal it into a card. James still has it I think. Anyway after words he healed me of my wounds and left after making sure I was alright. After that I didn't see him until a few weeks later when I stumbled on one of his lessons teaching a student and I followed him curious about the being that saved me.  He had one student in particular he helped a lot which meant she was his apprentice and was in charge of helping teach the other students so I disguised myself trying into becoming said student's doppelganger to get to know him. Back then I wasn't as skilled as I am now. I got general shape right I just wasn't good at details like coloration, cutie marks and of course disguising my voice so he saw right through me. Eventually he got tired of my attempts to blend in that he helped me with my changes. That was the start of our friendship. I still go into my first attempt at transforming as my default ponysona sometimes. I went by the name Spinner Heart in that form. I even met his apprentice and she became a friend as well. She even accepted me as myself and was flattered I based my transformation on her. To be frank when I saw you there at canterlot I thought I saw a ghost and was surprised" said Chrysalis with that last bit directed at Twilight.

"Well as you can see I'm not a unicorn anymore since we last saw each other" said Twilight fluttering her wings as a point.

"Yes your a Princess now congrates on ascending to alicorn just be sure not to let that spell into the wrong hands" said the changeling.

"Right um does anyone hear screaming" asked Twilight ear twitching.

I had a bad feeling and got out of the bed and stumbled but got my footing quickly and saw a sight I never wanted to see. The town was being attacked by humanoid beings that was pitch black and ant like with jagged attennea  and yellow eyes.

I glared with shock.

"So they finally appear" I said.

"What are those things" asked Luna looking out the window.

"Shadows the lowest form of the natural Heartless they are able to sink into the ground and become two dimensional. Pretty much the lowest in ability compared to other Heartless" I said and Luna and the others gasped since Luna nearly became one.

I quickly put on the shirt and jacket and turned to Chrysalis. She got what I was thinking and nodded.

"Been a long time since you used that James are you sure that these are worth it" asked the changeling with a serious tone.

"I just want to see if I'm rusty a bit besides those Heartless make the perfect training dummies to get back into shape" I said and she sighed.

"Let's do it then old Friend" said Chrysalis as the others became confused.

"Valor" I said as a clear orb surrounded me my outfit glowing as the changeling vanished as a red light that entered the orb. I started to levitate before the orb shattered with the sound of broken glass. The four felt their jaws drop. I was floating in the air with my clothes changed completely. My clothes had turned from black to bright red with a flur de lis on the sleeves and hem with two keyblades in my hands. They weren't nocturne and a other original keyblade but my personal favourites oblivion and oathkeeper! Oblivion was a pure black keyblade with bat wings acting as the guard and had a more thin blade with the kanji for darkness as the key teeth. Set in the hilt was a black gem. The keychain resembled my pendent only black.

Oathkeeper looked similar only had white instead of black and a more angelic appearance with the keychain being the star instead of the crown. The key teeth was the kanji for light.

I spun the two for a second refamiliarising myself to them and feeling Chrysalis presence in my mind giving me support.

"Time to get to work" I said gliding out the window as a familiar tune to me sounded for everyone to hear. It was the battle theme from kingdom hearts back home that for some reason always played with no source every time I fought.

"What just happened and where is that music coming from" asked Spike wide eyed.

"No one knows about the music it just appears when James fights" said Luna.

"And I think James will explain what happened when he is done" said Celestia just as surprised.

'Chrysalis keep a eye on the drive gauge we are going to be fighting a while' thought James and he felt his friend give a confirmination in his mind.

"Dual strike raid" I shouted throwing both keyblades destroying any Heartless unlucky enough in their path than summoned them back.

"Gather!" I intoned using magnetga to gather the Heartless and than cast thunderga electrocuting the Heartless. This was one of the best combos I saw my brother use in the game against Heartless as it was effective.

I went into a display of swordsmanship of any of the remainder saving the ponies from becoming Heartless. They evacuated to the hospital as now all their attention was on me.

"Reflect!" I said forming a barrier spell that defended me from a sudden mass attack but I smirked knowing the effect of the spell which glowed and shattered with flashes of light destroying them and any Heartless in a fifteen foot radius of the spell.

The only ones left was only ten Shadows. They suddenly twitched and became dark orbs that fused into a larger one becoming a larger shadow I knew about. A giga shadow.

And just my luck the drive gauge ran out according to Chrysalis and we split with my clothes back to normal and I had nocturne in hand.

Chrysalis pulled out a shield I recognized from when I forged it for her as a sign of our friendship.

It was black and circular with green trim and had a green heart in the center.

"Glad to see you took good care of that because right now we got to take that giga shadow out" I said and she nodded. Something welled up and the two of us moved as one. We threw our weapons at the Heartless with our weapons ricocheting back at it off the surroundings and each other before heading back to us and as we caught them we charged with fire covering the sword and sheild and slashed like mirrors of the other on the Heartless leaving glowing lines before both of us jumped back and I pointed my keyblade at it as my friend had her horn charge.

"Return to the shadows from where you came" we shouted as twin beams of magic shot out and spun around each other as it struck the Heartless making it turn to dark smoke as a red crystalline heart rose into the air and vanished. Suddenly a bright glow formed and out of it a card materialized showing a magic circle with the title saying summon. I caught it and spun my keyblade once before resting it on my shoulder.

"So that was our limit break Royal Defender. Didn't think we would finally unlock it" I said pocketing the card.

We dismissed our weapons and walked back to the hospital where all of Ponyville stared slack jawed with the princesses and the current elements of harmony meeting them.

"James what in tarterus was that" asked Luna.

"Don't you remember? I told you my clothes are enchanted with their own abilities. What you saw was me accessing part of them. The drive forms are like a edge I need against large amounts of Heartless. I can't use that power alone as I need my friends to help me and Chrysalis here always had her own sense of valor which made her able to help me access that form. The other drive forms are wisdom, master and final with only one other form. Though that last form is a backfired state" I said giving her a look.

"That kind of enchantment is hard to pull off" said Celestia.

"That's because this outfit was created by three fairies mine is a replica of the one given to a previous keyblade wielder named Sora" I said.

"Um Princess just who is this being and why is the Queen of the Changelings with him" asked a red stallion with a green apple cutie mark with a similar drawl to Applejack. 

"Your looking at my adoptive brother James. He recently returned from being under a spell and apparently is her friend for a while now" said Celestia.

At that every pony gasped in shock.

I stepped forward after clearing my throat and let my accent come forth.

"Ponies of equestria I am Prince James Del Light the adopted brother of Princess Luna and Princess Celestia. I am the chosen of a magical sword known as a Keyblade. My job is to protect this world from darkness like the monsters you saw. Their one goal is to drag this world into darkness and every other world out there. When I found the Keyblade I took a oath to defend the worlds because I was given the responsibility to protect you. These monsters are known as Heartless. They are created from the darkness of peoples hearts. For centuries I worried they would eventually arrive on this world and today that fear came true. Unfortunately I am only a keyblade wielder and not a master yet. I trained on my own as best I could but the leader of these Heartless is more dangerous than them as he wants to control the heart of all worlds. The entity known as Kingdom Hearts which governs each and every world in our universe. With this said we must unite all the races of this world in order to save this one! We can't let past wrongs to get in the way of survival. Right now the Heartless have made the first move and declared war. There is a quote that sums up this situation. Peaceful days have ended, let's survive. And you all have lived next to the everfree and the gates of tarterus itself! Are you going to let you home be destroyed by these things? I vow as the guardian of the worlds to help you survive this crisis at hand" I said as loud and clear as I can. As they listened they all got determined looks as a fire started in them. At the end they gave a cheer showing their drive to protect their home.

"You always knew just what to say" muttered Luna smirking.

"I was a writer before all of this but I'm not that much into politics. I can sense quite a few able to pocess the Keyblade of their own. My student had such potential back than as well" I whispered back.

"Looks like we might just bring back the Keyblade wielders and have a fighting chance" said Celestia.

"I just hope we can unite the races first and save this world before we think of helping other worlds" said Chrysalis.

"Same here we need special material to build the transports needed to travel in space and I got to locate the world's keyhole before the Heartless" I said with a frown.

"By the way Del Light? Why have that as your name" asked Luna.

"New life new name. Everyone I knew on my world is gone so I'm hoping on a fresh start" I said.

"Makes sense I just hope we can get the Crystal Empire to help" said Twilight.

"I can get the dragon's help" said Spike.

"Leave the griffons to me" said Rainbow.

"I know how to get the diamond dogs to join" said Rarity with a smirk.

"I'll handle the buffalo" said Applejack.

"I will speak to zecora about asking the zebra to help" said Fluttershy.

"Guess that leaves me with the Timberwolves they are more in tuned to instinct and can sense that it will benefit them on joining to survive" said Pinkie.

"Don't ask I gave up on figuring her out years ago" said Twilight.

"Guess we are going to the Crystal Empire so I can meet my remaining family there" I said.

"I need to make amends so I'm coming with" said Chrysalis.

"Right let's meet up at the library and prepare for our trips" said Twilight.

"Right it's been a long day so let's get some rest" said Rarity.

"Night I'm going to find a place for tonight" I said with a stretch.

"You can stay at mah place for now we got room" said Applejack.

" Thanks by the way do you know those three fillies over there" I asked pointing at a orange pegasus with purple hair, a yellow earth pony with red hair in a bow and a white unicorn with a two tone curled mane.

"Yeah that's mah sister Applebloom and her friends the unicorn is Rarity's sister Sweetie Belle and the pegasus is Scootaloo. They are known as the CMC trying to find their talents" said Applejack.

"They got the potential to have a Keyblade but I got no clue when it will manifest for them. You six also have it but your test for it is a year away" I said  with a sigh.

"What do you mean" asked Fluttershy.

" The Keyblade chooses those with strong hearts as it's a strength of character that makes the Keyblade as strong as it is. Those kids are so pure of heart and brave that it's guarantied to choose them and you six have the same trait due to your experiences. The young dragon as well. He has a strong character for one so young" I said.

"James has a knack for judging a person's character pretty well" said Celestia.

"He had his Keyblade a long time to be a expert on how their chosen" said Luna.

"And the Keyblade gives access to magic to anyone not just unicorns. I mean look at me before I came here to equestria I had no magic until I underwent a trial of the heart to even wake it up" I said.

"Awesome" said Rainbow.

"But don't think for a moment that you can do whatever you want with them. There is a saying power corrupts after all. If your not careful you will end up as a Heartless or Nobody attacking people you see as friends and if I know your personalities right you won't let that happen" I said shocking them.

"That can happen" asked Fluttershy in shock.

"Yes it happened to Sombra. He didn't have a keyblade but he let his darkness consume him. Thing is Heartless reform after a while unless a Keyblade defeats them. You said Sombra turned into some dark mist and didn't talk right? That meant he is a Heartless and will return again" I said recalling what happened to scar in the pride lands.

"You think he led the Heartless to our world" asked Twilight in shock.

"Yes sometimes when the Heartless in charge of the attacks on a world is defeated the Keyhole appears so with that line of thought once Sombra is defeated I can seal the Keyhole. But first I got to locate him" I said grimly.

"Well try to help anyway we can  James that's a promise" said Spike.

"Well night we can continue this in the morning" I said heading to the farm with Applejack guiding me.

(End chapter)
> Chapter Four Crystal Empire
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------

The next day we all arrived at the library and just in case I had went to a Moogle on the way and bought some weapons for the others just in case of a Heartless attack.

"Okay before we get ready to leave I'm handing out some things to defend yourselves from any Heartless. Rainbow Dash since your speedy I got you these modified gauntlets designed to use effective quick strikes using hidden blades. With your speed you can strike Heartless without them having time to react. Twilight you get a mage staff known as twilit strike it will help you adapt your magic for combat, Fluttershy is getting a shield known as nature guardian as I can tell your more of a support role, Rarity I had a hard time with yours but I decided on getting you some mythril twin blades. Applejack you just get gauntlets because your strength is more your style, Pinkie you get a scythe don't ask why I thought it suits you. And Spike just in case your getting this knight sword and shield. I enchanted them so that they have a similar effect on Heartless like the Keyblade. With all of us splitting up we need to be careful of more Heartless attacks" I said handing them their gear.

"Thanks this will help a lot. I went by the moogles as well and stocked up on items like tents and potions just in case" said Fluttershy taking her Forrest colored shield.

"I even made some travel bags to hold them. I managed to copy the enchantments on James' own pouches to ours that pocket space is going to be handy" said Rarity handing over the group's own modified saddlebags and handed Chrysalis a black with green trim purse knowing her wings are fragile.

"Thanks not many would realize how fragile my wings are considering how thin they are" said the changeling queen with genuine thanks.

"Don't worry Twilight while we are gone some of the royal guard will watch over the town besides Fluttershy is going to be done before the rest of us with Pinkie" I said as the two were going to the Everfree as there destination.

"We better get ready here are some apples for you just in case who knows how long we will be gone. Mah family knows I'm doing a diplomatic mission for the Princess" said Applejack.

"And for Chrysalis here I got these" I said pulling out some pink crystals.

"Emotion Crystals! Those are rare to find how did you find them" asked Chrysalis in awe.

"I was the one who invented them. when you told me about your kind I found a way to place emotion into clear crystals if you want I can hand you the recipe so you can feed your hive just be careful of which emotion and best part I found a way for the crystals to recharge all you have to do is drain them like you would a living creature and not physically eat it. Think of it as thanks for looking out for me all those centuries" I said with a smile.

"Wow I think at this rate she will fall in love with him, first he saves her life, made a shield for her, became her friend and now this I think it's only a matter of time" whispered Spike getting Rarity to giggle silently agreeing with him.

After everyone got their stuff in order Twilight, me and Chrysalis with said changeling in her Spinner Heart form boarded the Friendship Express to the Crystal Empire.

On the way I was reading my books that I packed into my back pack for the trip to the convention. I was glad the books survived.

"Hey James what books are those I don't recognize them" asked Twilight noticing them and that Spinner was reading one.

"There books I had when I was Brought to this world. I'm currently reading a favorite of mine from the horror series Goosebumps. I'm currently reading the headless ghost. And by the looks of it Spinner is reading a mystery book from the hardy boys. I prefer fiction books like these. They inspired me to become a writer. Guess they became my reminder of my world" I said with nostalgia.

"I will admit these are still a good read. Over the centuries I used my perfect memory to tell the tales to the new generation of changelings and always watched in amusement when they reenacted the stories as practice for transformations. It got to the point acting became second nature and a steady source of income though it took a bit to get the voices right" giggled Spinner with a smile.

"Wow can I read one I might see about adapting them to this world if I like it" said Twilight getting excited.

"Good idea here is a good one you might enjoy it's called bionicle the mask of light and it's other books. It's a good series to start with" I said.

With that we spent the trip reading and in my case helping Twilight understand the Writing of that world. Soon we put away the books and headed into the Empire proper.

I smiled seeing the Empire was still as I remembered before sombra sealed it. And apparently the Crystal ponies recognised me as well.

"Sir James! Nice to see you returned to our Empire and of course same to you Princess Twilight! I will go let Princess Cadence and Prince Shining Armor know your here" said a Emerald colored Crystal Guard.

"Thanks Emerald Shard that will be appreciated. I hope adjusting to modern times wasn't hard on you" I said recognizing the guard as a old friend of mine.

"Your welcome and I been getting used to the times please enjoy your stay" said Emerald as she hurried along on her errand.

"Was that really Shard! Guess she got her dream of being a Guard" said Spinner.

"You just Rhymed Spinner" I teased.

"I... didn't notice" she said with a blush.

"Have you been spending time with Zecora? Because you just sounded like her there" asked Twilight.

"The Zebra? Yes I often went to her to pick up medicine for my hive" nodded Spinner.

Emerald came back and gestured us to follow. The three of us soon entered the throne room where the couple looked up on our entry.

"Twilight! Glad you can come and who are your friends all Emerald said that one was a old friend of hers" said the white and blue unicorn I assumed was Shining.

"Yes I'm glad to see you too though my visit is not because I missed you" said Twilight.

"I am Prince James Del Light I guess your adopted uncle in law I just returned from a petrification by my little sister Luna back when she was Nightmare Moon. You must be Cadance  I heard a lot about you from Twilight. I was a bit shocked to find I had a niece I never knew about" I said with a smile.

"I'm Spinner Heart but you know me by my real name of Queen Chrysalis I came to make amends for what happened I was just looking out for my subjects. It was a desperate move for survival" said Spinner reverting to her true form.

"Well that is a surprise nice to meet you I guess" said Cadence surprised.

"So what brings you here" asked Shining not letting his thoughts show on his face.

"Frankly a dire situation. Sombra is back and this time has brought a threat I feared would arrive for centuries. I'm sure Celestia warned you of the Heartless Cadance" I said.

If Shining was confused by that than he was understandably shocked when his wife turned white with fear.

"Of course Sombra became a Heartless didn't he that explains his abilities when Twilight and her friends came by on their first visit" said Cadance.

"I'm a bit confused" said Shining.

"The darkness of peoples hearts made real they are mindless beings that act on instinct. They attacked Ponyville yesterday and it was with Chrysalis' help I managed to defeat them. That's why Twilight and Chrysalis are armed. We fear more attacks. That is why the three of us are here. Celestia and Luna with me are calling a war council and need to unite the life of the planet to fight back against the Heartless. We can't let past grudges get in the way of survival if we want to keep this world intact" I said.

"We will be there Sombra is a foe we faced before" said Cadance with a grim look slowly getting her color back.

"Thanks just be careful the shadows are hiding much" I said before screams were heard and I cursed.

"That's our cue to get to work" I said throwing my hand out to the side as a flash of light signaled my Keyblade materialising.

I spun it once and I nodded to Chrysalis and Twilight as they armed themselves.

The three of us ran out with shining and his wife following.

"Yep Heartless this time their of the soldier kind they are the ones after shadows so their slightly stronger and use spin attacks. Be careful though where they are there's sure to be a giant Heartless controlling them" I said spotting our enemies.

They were more humanoid than the shadows with a coloration of red and blue and had a silver knight helmet covering their head and as they moved the visor clanked from the movement. On their chest was a emblem of a black heart with red thorn like stitches in a x formation.

"Gather" I intoned using magnet to pull the Heartless away from the ponies about to be attacked. A green and black shield flew striking them before rebounding back to Chrysalis as she nodded to me.

Twilight glared and suddenly transformed. Her fur turned pure white as her cutiemark vanished and her mane and tail became flames with her eyes turning crimson.

"Huh so Twilight is fire aligned I kind of pity who she ends up with" I said with a raised eyebrow as I blocked a spin attack.

"Even I don't want to get on her bad side now" agreed Chrysalis seeing the transformation.

"Fire!" Shouted Twilight using a fire spell to destroy a group of twelve Heartless.

"Deep Freeze" I shouted using a blizzard spell on the nearest Heartless.

"There's to many each one we defeat two more take it's place" said Cadance in shock as she shot a blast of magic at another group.

" guess now is time to call back up" I said pulling out the card I received yesterday.

"Light" I shouted causing the card to glow pulling me into a black void as a magic circle formed under me. I spun my Keyblade and pointed it above me releasing a light that formed a canine like shape before a fox materialized with fire around it.

"Let's go" said the fox and the battle came back into view as I glared at the Heartless.

"Firaga" I shouted as me and the fox shot a barrage of fireballs at the heartless.

"Fox fire" shouted the fox.

"Whoa" said Chrysalis wide eyed.

"Let's show these Heartless what we can do!" Called the fox jumping onto my shoulder and we glowed. "Trickster Blade" I called throwing a fox fire covered Keyblade.

"Wildcard" said the fox as both of us blurred into after images that gathered the soldiers in one place.

"This is the end Finale" we called as a energy built at the tip of my keyblade and the fox's tail and we slashed creating a firestorm around the heartless defeating them and releasing a bunch of hearts.

"Hah hah that limit break takes a lot out of me" I said.

"Ha ha I like your style! if you need any help just call for Blitz again I had fun destroying those Heartless see you later" said the fox vanishing.

"That is some ability is everyone alright" asked Cadance.

"Yeah just some minor cuts and bruises but nothing some potions and eithers  can't fix" I said.

"Phew that was exhausting" said Twilight back to normal if a bit covered in soot.

"We better calm down the citizens stay the night and recover before heading back" said Shining panting from all the shield spells he was using.

"That would be nice I need to sleep and regain my magic" I said exhausted.

With that we went to the castle and was placed in guest rooms.

(End chapter)
> Memory of The Past 2 Awakening and the Fight Against Discord
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------

It has been a month since I appeared in equestria and I had just settled down for the night. As I fell asleep I suddenly had the feeling of sand. 

(Cue sanctuary HD remix)

I opened my eyes to see I'm at a Beach and looked around before seeing what looked like keyblades shoot past me from behind and turned only to suddenly find myself at the keyblade graveyard where xehanort and xemnas stood before they vanished leaving a single vortex and I charged grabbing a keyblade I never saw before and jumped through finding myself back in equestria only there was a guy that looked like Riku from Dream Drop Distance that waved as we got ready to fight Heartless and Dream Eaters with Nobodies. When suddenly a guardian from that game destiny appeared with some guy with a Omnitrix and a guy looking like Gilgamesh. The five of us charged the hoard but when I slashed I suddenly find myself back on that beach without a weapon when suddenly I split into multiple versions of me dressed in the drive forms.

I looked to each of them as they pulled out keyblades and nodded to me. For some reason I smirked and pulled out that odd keyblade as we pointed them into the sky and when I blinked found myself jumping out a vortex fighting what seemed to be vanitas while everyone I met so far fought and I managed to drive vanitas back before suddenly what looked like master xehanort appeared and fought along side us in fighting the hoard of monsters now joined by unversed.

Suddenly during a lull in the battle I saw the clouds part to show Kingdom Hearts itself with Ansem seeker of darkness and Xemnas before it looking down at us. I felt the ground rumble and fell back but  instead of the ground I found myself falling in the sky and I found myself reaching my hand out to my ... comrades I guess as they reached for me before I suddenly closed my eyes feeling like I was sinking in water.

(End sanctuary) 

'What was that' I heard what seemed to be my voice echo.

'Was that a dream of the future or was that something hidden in my heart?' 

'I want answers to this'

'It's all a matter of lining the pieces up together'

Suddenly I flipped as I opened my eyes finding myself standing on what looked like darkness and on reflex took a step back.

I held up a arm at the sudden bright light and heard what sounded like wings. When I lowered my arm I saw doves fly around me and vanish.

I was now standing on a stained glass platform with a image of me and surrounding me was the symbols of the drive forms. In portraits near my head was the five people I saw plus the princesses. I felt my eyes widen knowing what this place was.

"This is! Can it be? Is this the station of awakening" I asked in disbelief.

I walked to the center of the plate form suddenly as pedestals rose showing a sword, a staff and a shield.

"Definitely the place. Better get used to it. I know what to choose here" I said remembering the game.

"I choose the power of the guardian and give up the rod" I said clearly having made my choice.

The shield floated over as the platform shattered. I fell to another station showing the Omnitrix holder with similar portraits to mine he just didn't have mine nor the other kingdom hearts people. He had Gilgamesh, the princesses, a group I remembered as the mane six, and Chrysalis.

I gripped the shield and gave it a practice swing.

Suddenly shadows rose and I got ready. I used the edge of the red and black shield to slash them and I also threw it like a boomerang to defeat them. They dropped yellow diamond shaped items I recognized as munny the universal currency of Kingdom Hearts. I gathered them and found myself looking at me in valor form just across from me.

"Nice job you definitely have the determination for this" said valor me.

"Your me" I said shocked.

"I'm a manifestation of you. You passed a test on your fighting skills so you now can unlock me just be careful of anti he's not going to let you control that form easy" said Valor.

"Before I go to the next area who is this guy" I asked.

"Just someone you will meet in the future that's all I'm saying" said Valor. He suddenly turned transparent and fuzed with me. With that a bright light shown and I found myself on a station showing Gilgamesh with his portraits being a girl looking like the main character from gravity rush, the guy from the last station and oddly just Luna.

Suddenly dusks formed before me. Dusks are humanoid but were pretty much white jumpsuits with blue lines on the side and no actual features shown. All but the jaw of teeth and the Nobody insignia. I readied my shield taking a cautious stance.

Unlike Heartless the Nobodies had their minds and thus I need to out wit them. With a plan in mind I reacted sliding behind them and while they were confused I slashed with my shield taking out one while the other four spun around. I blocked a strike and ducked down before I threw my weapon taking out two and on instinct summoned it back. With only two left I had to be more careful. Than I recalled a tactic  from another video game that would help out. I spun the shield making it blur and than used the spinning edge to knock one into the air and jumped after it and bashed it down. I than did a overhead slash on the last one. Both defeated I gained the munny they had and also three potions.

"Nice strategy there guess you are worthy of Wisdom after all" said another me but more intellect sounding.

"You must be my logic huh Wisdom. From what you said I passed your test" I said.

"Yes indeed your good at thinking on the fly but the next one is going to test your skills. Use my power wisely" said Wisdom fusing with me. A chest appeared and I tapped it to receive a scroll. I placed it in my pack and was teleported to the next one which was the riku guy with only Luna and that xehanort lookalike plus the spirit dream eaters.

If I knew the orders of the drives correctly this is master's test.

"Glad you can make it I will get to the point I'm here to test your hand to hand combat skills just leave the shield near that door and we can get started" said Master.

"Might be fun anyway I thought you would have tested me with unversed of something" I said thankful for the break.

"Nah those are anti's I just want to test your technique" said Master. I filed that away for later.

I placed my shield down and we got into our martial arts stances. Me I went with fox style while Master went with tiger.

I took a breath to center myself and nodded.

Master charged with a punch but I sidestepped and as his fist went by my head I quickly grabbed his wrist and judo flipped him. He twisted around and as one we struck with punches but at the last second I tilted my head out of the way and struck Master in the face then grabbed his outstretched arm and tossed him around to daze him before I jumped and dropped kicked him in the gut.

"Well done you passed. Good luck with the last two" said Master before he fused with me and the door to the next platform glowed before I found myself at the Xehanort station where it was just him and the riku look alike.

"Well this should be interesting" I said as Nightmare Dream Eaters appeared. I took a deep breath and charged with slashes to a bat like Dream Eater and spun throwing it at the remainder before I tossed my shield like captain america and destroyed them. A red glow covered me and I felt stronger. 

"Congrates you managed to pass this test be careful anti has a lot harder test" said Final before he fused with me. I took a deep breath and went up the stairs that appeared before I found myself in a new platform it showed the guardian from destiny with his portraits being Chrysalis, the princesses, the mane six, Discord, Sombra and 
Spike.

Unversed rose and I quickly took up my shield and fought as best I could. I had to rely on instinct this time to fight them and soon defeated them and blocked a slash from anti itself.

"Anti... my own darkness!" I said pushing it back. Anti resembled me with a shroud of shadows hiding it's features sans glowing yellow eyes. I knew the truth about this form. That he is actually my darker self. If I had to control that form I got to prove I can master my own darkness.

"I won't let my darkness rule me anti. I know full well darkness isn't evil nor good but how it's used is! You maybe a corrupted version of me but I will make sure that this world won't be devoured! You hear me" I shouted and charged it and slashed only I was no longer holding the dream shield but a key shaped sword that I recognized as two becomes one. That meant that was my default keyblade. With that anti became vapor that entered me. Suddenly a ramp formed and I went up it to find myself on a new platform that had a shadowed out figure standing on it. With a turn it stepped into the light.

"Nice job making it here I am your final test but I guess it's not needed anymore your keyblade has already manifested to you. I am known as Holy the opposite of anti. As you can guess I'm your light. When you mastered your darkness and proved your point you passed my test as well. You kept your heart in perfect harmony uses my power and anti's wisely. If you end up letting one get stronger just know that the light can blind as well as darkness" said a green clad version of me. I nodded and he fuzed with me making the place light up and I woke the next day with a gasp. I looked to my hand and clenched it summoning my keyblade.

"Two becomes one isn't my keyblade, it's Roxas' own I need one that fit's me" I said looking at the mix of oathkeeper and oblivion. I took off the keychain and pulled out my keychain crafting kit and soon I had a crescent moon keychain with the moon made of a clear transparent silver crystal I found near the castle outskirts. With it I placed it on the keyblade creating what was soon to be known as nocturne. I dismissed it and walked out after getting ready.

The princesses and I went out of the Forrest and quickly found discord who was munching on some black seeds and offered some to the two before spilling some. He noticed me and gave a hum.

"Well now this is interesting you got a unknown creature with you. I can sense quite a magic in him" said discord and he chuckled as the princesses got ready to fight him but before I could react he snapped his fingers making them seemed greyed out. Celestia seemed to have gotten drunk as sh was wobbling and acting the opposite of her self by acting like a kid. But what worried me was Luna. She was going on about how no one appreciates her and that she was not finding life worth living.

I quickly threw out a hand casting a spell that put her to sleep.

"Discord you have just made me mad" I said with anger in my voice.

I felt my temper flare as I summoned my keyblade.

"What the who are you" asked discord wide eyed seeing I summoned a sword out of thin air.

"I am James! Descendent of seventeen generations of kings of my world and friend to the sisters. And you just made my first friend in this world suicidal! For that I'm taking you down" I said as my emerald eyes glinted as I pointed the keyblade at discord and shot a fire spell.

The discorded Celestia hid behind the unconscious Luna and watched as the fight went on as now I was constantly tossing my keyblade at Discord only to summon it back if it missed and seeing I needed to get discord in one place I casted magnet before I tossed the keyblade.

Discord was shocked to suddenly be trapped revolving around a black orb of gravity and was being repeatedly struck by the keyblade which broke his concentration on his magic returning the princesses to normal and Celestia blinked as she remembered what happened and woke Luna while I still fought discord who was still having trouble fending me off. This allowed the sisters to locate the elements of harmony and I jumped back and a confused discord was surprised by the rainbow blast that turned him to stone.

"That's it no more making people kill themselves for my amusement I will stick to pranks!" Shouted discord finding he didn't want to be on my bad side after all.

"Well that's one way of controlling my temper" I said exhausted as my anger left me and I fell back into a sitting position. Around us the twisted landscape became plains as Discord's magic was removed.

"James thank you for helping us on behalf of my sister I would like to ask you to be part of our family if it wasn't for you she would have done something that would have saddened me for the rest of my life" said Celestia.

Luna nodded in agreement as she helped me up.

"Yes sister is right you helped me a lot more today in this event and I would like it if you became our brother" said Luna with a smile.

"Sure since I'm going to be here a while though don't come to me for politics I'm not the best at that" I said surprised.

"Hey your currently two years older than me so your now my older brother" said Luna remembering when my birthday was.

"Great I'm the middle child again oh well nice to have something familiar at least" I said with a laugh.

"Though we didn't know you were royalty as well" said Celestia.

"You forgot I was of royal blood! Than again with how I act and how I look I guess it's easy to forget that" I said shocked and making Celestia blush in embarassment recalling I did tell them that.

Luna giggled at the exchange as we all headed home with plans to rebuild in mind.

I smiled as I dismissed my keyblade and followed them to the castle and quickly got some rest. Discord was good at dodging and my anger took a lot out of me.

(End chapter)
> Chapter five Griffon Reunion
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Rainbow Dash flew as fast as she could to the griffon homeland griffonia her gauntlets had been repainted a darker shade of cyan with the wonder bolt insignia emblemed on them as she flew towards the griffon capital known as talon city. She just entered the city when a white and brown streak tackled her and pinned her to the ground.

"State your business intruder" stated a very familiar voice.

"I'm here to talk with your leader on behalf of princess celestia" said Rainbow dazed before she got a good look at her assailant.

"Gilda/Rainbow!" Said the two wide eyed as they stared at each other.

"Dash why are you here" asked Gilda surprised.

"Let's just say there's a emergency that's threatening the entire planet not just equestria" said Rainbow as her childhood friend helped her up.

"By the way this emergency of your does it have to do with those odd monsters appearing all over" asked Gilda.

"You just hit the exact reason. I have been ordered by Celestia to brief the ruler of the griffons about them and give a offer of a alliance to stop them" said Rainbow.

"Let me guess you were asked because you knew a lot about griffon customs from me" asked Gilda leading her friend to the building the king resided.

" Honestly I volunteered for that reason" said Rainbow.

"You wanted to patch things up with me didn't you" stated Gilda deadpan.

"Yeah I mean you were like a sister to me and after so long you changed and was a jerk to my new friends. After you left I wondered why you changed from the caring sister figure to someone I didn't recognize" sighed Rainbow.

"I did some reflecting after I left and I thought the same thing. It was petty of me to be jealous that you had other friends I mean I really hurt flutters feelings when you and I used to stand up for her back in flight school! I been meaning to come back and apologize for that but I been so busy I lost track of the time. I did follow your adventures though. You six were the Elements of harmony! Defeating and redeeming discord, the crystal empire, nightmare moon I thought that you were becoming way to awesome than I thought" said Gilda with a sigh.

"Gilda just so you know they forgave you. I learned that people change over time. Though maybe it would have been better if we kept in touch than that might not have happened" said Rainbow with a small grin.

"Yeah that might have been the preferable choice" said Gilda with a laugh.

They entered the building and Rainbow focused. The king of the griffons known as king steel talon looked up as the two entered.

"Hello daughter is this the friend you told me so much about? Nice to meet you but what is the nature of your visit" said king steel talon who looked a lot like Gilda only his right talon was replaced by a robotic limb ending in sharp metal talons.

"I am Rainbow Dash bearer of the element of loyalty, I'm here on Princess Celestia's orders to brief you about the current threat that Recently popped up" said Rainbow with a bow while inwardly was shocked that her sister figure's dad was the king.

"Ah yes those black monsters" nodded steel.

"They are called Heartless sire they are the physical manifestation of the darkness of a person's heart. Currently there is only a few weapons able to get rid of them permanently and I am currently wearing one. Princess Celestia has offered a alliance to combat this threat. The heartless have the ability to spawn more by consuming the hearts of those around them. Basically they can turn anything with a mind into more of them" said Rainbow.

"I see this does seem serious but how am I sure your telling the truth of these monsters" asked the king.

Suddenly one of his guards stumbled in with a black aura around him before darkness covered the griffon and when it receded in his place was a guardian robot heartless.

"I can see what James meant about tempting fate there" muttered Rainbow as she unsheathed her hidden blades and took to the air as she blitz past the heartless and glowing lines crisscrossed it before it became black smoke that released a red crystalline heart that vanished.

"My word! That was the proof I needed hurry and see if there are more of them" ordered the king now in a serious mood.

"Dash I'm going with this is my home and I'm not letting it get destroyed!" Said Gilda.

The two flew to the city and attacked the heartless and rallied the local guards to fight back. Once the city was cleared Rainbow panted as she sheathed her blades.

"Thank you for your help" said the king with a bow as Gilda nodded to her sister figure.

"I don't leave friends hanging besides this alliance needs to be seen" said Rainbow.

"Very well tell your princess that we shall join but on the condition you let my daughter lead the griffon soldiers as our representative general" said steel.

"I wouldn't have it either way" said rainbow.

"You best be on your way you two there is much work to be done" said steel as the two nodded and headed out.

"Gilda why didn't you tell me you were a princess!" Shouted Rainbow as they walked off making Gilda stammer in surprise as she tried to explain to her sister figure making the king chuckle before coughing out some blood.

"I don't have much time left Gilda I hope you can handle the responsibility your about to receive because I am proud you have such a caring friend. Good luck ruling in my stead my daughter" thought steel before ordering his military to prepare to head to equestria as they evacuate the nation just in case the Heartless come back. With his last order given he slumped into his throne and breathed his last.

King steel talon had died but his legacy shall rule the griffons as great as he was alongside her friends in equestria. But that is a tale for another time. 
> Chapter Six The Everfree
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Pinkie and Fluttershy moved into the everfree as fast as they could.
They knew that their respective objectives was in the same place but needed to hurry. The two already felt the Heartless presence in the forest.

They already had to defeat a group of Heartless in the area. They would learn later that the Heartless were of the Power/Bouncy/Sniper Wilds Heartless. Pinkie and Fluttershy quickly avoided the patch of Poison Joke and arrived at Zecora's hut. The shaman zebra was surrounded by blue dog like heartless. Pinkie jumped and flipped using her scythe to destroy them while Fluttershy looked over the zebra for injuries.

"Oh my dear Fluttershy, Pinkie Pie! Thank you for helping and stopping those dark beings. I feared that my life would have soon ended until you arrived with pinkie acting as a pink reaper on her foes" said Zecora.

"No problem Zecora we actually came to see about those heartless anyway. See we need you to get into contact with the other zebras and warn them about those heartless. The princesses want to unite the world against them and want to set up a peace treaty. Fluttershy was charged with recruiting the Timberwolves to fight them" explained Pinkie.

"I see but my tribe is not exactly going to believe your claim. What would equestria offer in exchange for our aid?" Asked Zecora.

"How about learning to synthesize items from masters of the craft. There's one of them right here. Took a bit to convince her to come with when I explained the situation" said Fluttershy as she motioned her head to the Moogle on her back.

"My name is Tessa, a Moogle, my craft is very similar to how you make your brews but with a bit of a different method. We have been called Alchemists from this. Our craft can range from potions, eithers, weapons for defence, armor and on the rare occasion tents to house people. With the Heartless threat my kind are a bit stretched thin to prepare everyone to survive. That's why I'm willing to teach others this craft so everyone can survive-kupo" nodded the moogle.

"Hm very well but you and I must be off for if we are going to gather my tribe for the treaty I need to bring you with me to explain. Thank you dears for the help and I'm sure that you still have much to do. I will go pack what I need so you both can continue your tasks" nodded Zecora as Tessa moved to lost by her.

"Your going to need these then. Rarity made these saddle bags. Their enchanted to be bigger on the inside so you can carry your items without feeling the strain. This should allow you to get there as quick as possible. I will tell her you got them. In this case time is of the essence" said Pinkie.

With that the two ran off with Pinkie using her Pinkie Sense to locate the Timberwolves. The pegasus gasped at the sight of when the found the local pack. They were fighting some Heartless themselves. These ones resembled Timberwolves themselves but made of black wood and red vines with the Heartless Emblem on the foreheads. Later James would name them Dark Woods.

Fluttershy quickly pulled out her shield and flew to block a heartless from striking a timber wolf pup.

"No one is harming them on my watch" said Fluttershy going into the stare. The effect on the heartless was surprising. It shook before collapsing into kindling with a crystal heart flying away. The remains then reformed only with out the heartless emblem and attacked it's comrades. Fluttershy reacted on instinct and got the dark woods with her stare making the same happen as the fighting stopped. The now docile Dark Woods surrounded Fluttershy and laid down wagging their tails.

The timber wolf pack just looked confused and the leader walked to Fluttershy and gave a few barks and yips with some growls. Fluttershy smiled and explained the situation as best she could while Pinkie wrote down the events as it looked like Fluttershy can tame Animal based heartless and alter them a bit.

Soon though the Timberwolves went into a debate and after some time nodded to Fluttershy. The pack leader nodded to some members and they ran off.

"Woodfang just went to gather the other packs to get them to help out. Once all the pack leaders convene and come to a decision we will know if they will join the treaty. I promised them a larger Forrest to be sanctioned off for their habitat the only Forrest big enough for them is on a island off the coast known as Forrest isle due to the island having nothing but Forrest. There should be game enough to last them for a long while" translated Fluttershy for the confused Pinkie.

"I'm sure the princesses won't mind. Guess the island is going to be a nature preserve for them. Fits them well as I think that island is unhabituated and mainly untouched. That should work fine" nodded Pinkie.

"I'm going to be needed here until I get the answer you can head back Pinkie and let Twilight know" said Fluttershy with her head indicating the pack.

"Okay Fluttershy just try to stay safe. If I see Discord I'm going to let him know the situation" said Pinkie.

"Thank you pinkie" nodded Fluttershy.

With that the pink earth pony rushed back to Ponyville hoping to find discord and put him at ease if needed. A nervous Discord is not good to be around. Last time he got nervous from worry over Fluttershy he unintentionally made everyone act the opposite of their talents. It was a bit funny to see Celestia and Luna switch places basically. Twilight still had no idea why that happened.

(End chapter)
> Chapter Seven A Knight Among Dragons
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Spike panted as he moved to where the dragon migration was. He was lucky that it was that time of year so chances of finding a elder dragon would be high. His knights sword and shield strapped to his back. When he managed to get to the site he quickly noticed the three dragons he met last time.

"Look here guys it's the dragon raised by ponies" jeered Garble as he pointed at Spike.

"I'm not in the mood for your insults Garble don't you know there's a threat to every dragon here" shouted Spike annoyed.

This got every dragon's attention. A large barely adult dragon moved to address the young drake.

"What do you mean young whelp" asked the dragon.

"The name is Spike, the threat I'm talking about is called Heartless. Their the darkness inside the heart made real. I wouldn't be surprised if they start picking up your presence soon" said Spike seriously.

"How can I believe your claim young Spike if there is no record of these Heartless' existence" asked the elder.

Suddenly the ground shook as the nearby mountain cracked. Every dragon stared at it before it burst open and Spike paled st the sight. It was a mainly blue and yellow with some red heartless in the shape of a ancient dragon with what looked like cymbals on it's belly. Electricity flew off it occasionally.

Spike suddenly whirled to look at the dragon.

" tell me was there a dragon who was living in that mountain" asked Spike fearfully.

"Yeah one who is nearly as old as the equestrian princesses Celestia and Luna" said the dragon confused.

"That dragon who just destroyed that mountain was the Heartless of that particular dragon! It's known as the storm rider. It has enough power to wipe out a kingdom! A expert on Heartless briefed me on it. It's because of these Heartless that I came to warn you. Celestia and Luna knew that this threat not only puts their subjects in danger but every other sentient being. I was sent as a representative to offer a treaty to help everything survive against this threat. Believe what you want but I got to stop that thing before it destroys this region. Just start evacuation before it notices us" said Spike as he pulled out his sword and shield before noticing some small whirlwinds nearby and jumped into one hovering for a second in the center before twisting into the air to land on the storm rider's back.

He latched onto a spine as it started to do a flip or a loop. He let go once it was upright and discharged some electricity and remembered James talking about the weakness before he left. He moved to strike the horns on the wings but even with the sword enchanted to mimic the damaging ability of a keyblade it wasn't doing much.  He had to cling to the spike again as the Heartless started to roll again.

'Its no use even with this enchanted sword I'm not doing much damage. This is a boss level heartless for crying out loud. If only I can work out how to actually deal enough damage with out having to use up my stamina to much' thought Spike hearing the bombs the heartless dropped start to explode.
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Over at a safe place Garble stared at the Drake fighting the gigantic heartless. It was unreal! He had to admit the little guy had guts to take on such a monster. Spike was right about it's power as it seemed to spawn bombs that was slowly destroying everything and start upsetting the volcano.

"Every dragon we got to stop those bombs from making the volcano erupting. It it erupts the smoke will kill us while the lava can't. We would end up fossils if that happens" ordered the dragon that Spike was talking to.

"We got to hope that pony raised Drake can defeat that thing. I hate to say it but he is right. These Heartless are a threat to everything" said Garble as he started to take flight. No one noticed the little Phoenix that was heading to the fight.
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Spike grunted as he got shocked. The Heartless knew he was there now that after a while he managed to destroy one horn. He knew at this rate it would soon spread it's destruction to ponyville. He thought about every pony he knew there. Twilight his caretaker and friend, applejack the farmer who knew how much hard work he does. Rainbow dash and pinkie who he enjoyed pranking with them, Fluttershy who taught him how to care for animals when he was caring for peewee the Phoenix he hatched then returned to his family, the cutie mark crusaders who hang out with him as he tried to help them find their talents, and finally rarity the one who he cared for the most. She taught him why being generous was better then greed as he faced what a monster greed could turn one into when his birthday came around. He couldn't let their home get destroyed by this Heartless if he had a say about it. A cry caught his attention as a young Phoenix shot to his position.

He would recognize that color combination anywhere.

"Peewee! But how" asked Spike as the older Phoenix flew around him before giving the young dragon a look.

Suddenly Spike gasped as the Phoenix started to glow as the firebird released a feather that landed on the dragon making a bright glow cover him. He flt himself growing to be as tall as James while feathered crimson wings shot out of his back. His shield and sword vanished as armor covered him and in a flash of fire a new weapon appeared. When the glow went down the transformed spike found he was holding a keyblade but it looked very different then James' keyblade.

It was fire colored that much was obvious. It's hilt reminded Spike of oath keepers own but looking more like Phoenix wings at the guard and the blade itself reminded him of his previous weapon but the key teeth was resembling a open beak. The keychain of the keyblade was a mini Phoenix pendent made out of a fire colored crystal. Spike felt the name of the keyblade was Brave fire.

With a determined look Spike flew and used his new weapon to strike the remaining wing horn making the Heartless screech in pain. He continued to strike and soon shattered the horn making the heartless fall to the ground in a daze.

Spike flew up and took a deep breath.

"Heartless I shall end you previous life's suffering and release that which is trapped inside that darkness. Dragon's fire slash" said spike with a deeper voice and flew down and his blade caught fire as he flew slashing the heartless from head to tail making it split in half with it disintegrating into black smoke with a screech. Out of it came a large crystalline heart that vanished.

Spike landed by the only lake of the area finally getting a look of his armor. It was a deep purple with green trim with the helmet covering his whole face with a black visor letting him see. The horns of the helmet was red with the bottom part where they attached resembled his ear fins. His purple tail had lengthened and waved behind him. Perching on his shoulder behind his new wings was peewee the Phoenix.

"Thank you my friend guess I can't call you peewee anymore. How does bravefire sound because your one brave firebird for coming to my aide without thought" chuckled Spike as the Phoenix chirped giving a nod.

The Knight like dragon was soon surrounded by the other dragons.

"Dang what in the sun was that! That was unreal! All we managed to see was that bright glow and that last strike! You look a lot different too" Said Garble in a somewhat awed trance.

"I honestly don't know all I was thinking about was what I had to lose if the heartless spread it's destruction to my home. After that a old friend of mine appeared and next thing I knew this happened. I think my friend here sensed my heart and gave aide which resulted in this. Even unlocked something that the heartless fear" said Spike showing his keyblade.

Suddenly the armor glowed and vanished revealing a older Spike dressed in a red pair of pants held up by a blue belt holding blue versions of James' red pockets and around his neck was a white scarf. On his left arm was a gauntlet with a similar color combination to the armor with a black circle on the back of the hand.

"Magic armor huh guess I got a lot of questions later" said Spike.

Garble took hand of the keyblade examining it when it suddenly disappeared in a flash to only reappear in Spike's claw.

"Yeah I was told the keyblade does that" said Spike with a chuckle.

"Young Spike you have proven that the heartless do indeed exist and are a serious threat. If a fellow dragon can be turned into a monster like that I fear for what that implies. I think I speak for all of us that allying with the ponies is in our best interest. Please let your princesses know that we are on our way to speak about this" said the dragon spike talked with earlier.

"Will do but I never got your name. Got to at least tell them who the message is from" said Spike with a nod.

"My name is Titan gemseeker young Spike" nodded the dragon understanding that point. Spike pulled out a sheet of paper and a quill with ink and started writing down a report of what happened and once done tied it into a scroll and used his dragon flame to send the message.

"There they should get it soon" said Spike.

"Your able to send messages through your fire? Most dragons don't have such a ability it's almost unheard of" said Titan.

"I always have been able to fon that I never knew it was such a rare skill" said Spike in curiosity.

" How about this as you escort us to equestria we teach you more about our history. I believe the tale of your fight will be told to younger generations for ages. With that in mind I believe you earned the nickname Stormslayer the Knight among Dragons. So be proud at that for now that is your name. Spike Stormslayer, you had fought a dark being that can control storms I doubt the feat would be repeated. Garble why don't you teach young Spike her how to fly?" Asked Titan as the dragons started to move.

"Don't bother my wings resemble that of a Phoenix or pegasus it would be best I learn from one of my pegasus friends as I think dragon wings and these wings work differently. The feathers definitely show this" said Spike.

"Fair point young Drake besides your the only one who knows the way so please lead us to equestria" said Titan as the purple dragon nodded and started walking with the dragon migration behind him with Titan teaching him more about dragons and there history with Spike writing this down for Twilight knowing she would like to learn more about dragons since she had first hand experience raising one.

(End chapter)
> Chapter Eight The Wild West
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Applejack sighed as she got off the train. Her cousin Breaburn would be a bit annoyed she came unannounced like she is but once he hears what is going on she hopes that he will understand.

She trotted in with her weapons in hoof. It took her a half hour to locate her kin who was with Chief Thunderhooves talking.

"Howdy there, sorry for interrupting but I got some news you might want to hear" said Applejack.

"Applejack! When did you get into town? Wait what news" asked Breaburn confused.

"Let me explain as this is from the Princess herself" said Applejack.

With that she explained the Heartless to the two and that this effects every being in the planet. How that the group was sent to gather the other races for a treaty, and about how Heartless never truly disappear unless the weapons used had been enchanted to fight them. When she was done Breaburn looked serious.

"Chief I know this sounds unbelievable but well my kin here can't tell a lie to save her life. She's as honest as they get. If she says these Heartless are a threat then they are. This would explain why some of the towns folk vanished" said Breaburn.

"Then the heartless already turned them into more Heartless. Their inner darkness made real. This is why I was sent to warn y'all about them varmints. Chief we got to find your tribe and evacuate everyone here in town to Ponyville. If I'm right then the Heartless are going to make another appearance" said applejack. Suddenly a Minotaur walked up. Applejack recognized the Minotaur as the self help guy Fluttershy befriended. What was that name again? Iron Will or something.

"Sorry I couldn't help overhearing if what you say is true I better get the other minotaurs over to ponyville for this treaty. You sound like you need all the help you can get" said the Minotaur.

"Thanks Will we better hurry I think a fight is going to go down soon. My gauntlets are enchanted to defeat Heartless but I'm not sure how long I can hold out until evac is complete y'all, from what I saw the Heartless are able to come in all shapes and sizes" said Applejack.

A shake confirmed her thought.

"Go! Looks like it's time to start" ordered the farmer as she ran out and found what James described to her as Shamen and Wild Bone Heartless causing chaos. She charged and kicked using all her skills to fight off the Heartless. The Ponies and Buffalo she rescued headed for the train station but she knew that things were not going to last. Suddenly she had back up in a armored knight like Dragon and more Dragons aiding in the evacuation when she noticed her new ally had a keyblade.

"Hey there Applejack we were passing by when we noticed the trouble" said a familiar voice from the knight as he fought with her.

"Spike! What in Sam hill happened to ya partner?" Said applejack in surprise.

"Long story I'll tell you once these heartless are gone" said Spike.

Soon the heartless were destroyed and the group headed to the train.

"Stormslayer the evacuation is going well we should be getting to Ponyville in about a few days with this much of a group. We are going to have to send for two more trains to fit everyone. We have to take a few rounds to get done" reported a barely adult dragon.

"Thanks for the report Titan have those able to fly follow the trains from above and to protect the train. James told me some heartless can fly" said Spike to the red dragon before him.

"Stormslayer?" Asked Applejack.

"I had to fight a Storm Rider Heartless at the Dragon Migration site. A ancient Dragon that lived there in a nearby mountain was turned into a Heartless. Managed to defeat it when Bravefire or as you knew him Peewee appeared and helped me unlock the keyblade and caused this change to me. Apparently my fight is going to be placed in dragon history since I went into the fight without a thought besides that I couldn't allow it to destroy the area and our home if it managed to escape. So now my name is Spike Stormslayer the knight among dragons. I'm sure Rarity would have some words with me about being reckless" chuckled Spike as he dismissed his armor.

"Uh Spike no wonder I didn't recognize you at first your underside has turned crimson. If it wasn't for your voice I wouldn't have recognized you at all" said Applejack surprised.

"Huh didn't notice guess I really changed a lot. I'm sure Rarity will help me out in figuring out what else has changed. I mean I got Phoenix wings now that is going to add to the list" said Spike moving his bird like wings as a point as the renamed Phoenix alighted on his shoulder.

"So you fought a boss level Heartless on your own without any help and won? James even said Sora needed help to fight one of those" said Applejack.

"My scales prevented most of the damage that and James told me about that particular Heartless before I left. Especially how Sora beat that thing. Took me only two hours to fight that thing though. Didn't give the Heartless a chance to fire a laser though. I kept to its back the whole time" said Spike.

"Point guess only a Dragon with some effort could have faced that thing alone" said Applejack.  With that the two waited for the train to arrive already deciding a defence for if Heartless return between train trips.

(End chapter)
> Chapter Nine Diamond Dog Gathering
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Rarity panted as she moved to the Diamond Dog tunnels where she knew a certain trio were. She spotted the one called Fido soon enough and used her magic to keep him in place just in case.

"Oh no not white pony" shouted Fido in terror.

"Listen buster I'm not here to torment you brutes but I hope your aware of certain beings of darkness that have been appearing lately? I was sent to get the rest of your kind over to equestria to discuss this threat now I want you and your two friends to locate the other Diamond Dog packs and over to Equestria because as much as I dislike you I don't want your kind to die like what the Heartless can do" snarled Rarity making the mutt freeze.

"Okay okay! Is go, is go just let me out of you magic! Is no want to die!" Shouted Fido and once released dug into the earth and Rarity didn't have to wait more then two days until Fido returned with about a hundred Diamond Dogs.

" I'm sure Fido here told you why I called for all of you but I will repeat myself so you understand. Recently beings of darkness called the Heartless have started to appear and my princesses felt that every being needed to gather to fight off this threat. I was sent to warn all of you about this threat and have you at equestria for the treaty to form the alliance to fight off this danger. I'm sure you all want something to compensate for this and I have heard that there is a whole cave full of gems under our capitol. If you help us out we will let you mine that cave as long as you don't force us ponies to mine it for you" said Rarity narrowing her eyes to make them stay at attention.

"Now if you escuse me I'm going to guide you to where the treaty is to take place so follow me! If we encounter any heartless let me deal with them" she added and started to walk off with the the Diamond Dogs following.

Along the way Heartless did appear and Rarity used her levitation spell with the twin blades to dispatch them and led the Diamond Dogs through to Ponyville where they would wait for everyone to gather. In that time she had some of the Diamond Dogs patrol the town boarder just in case. She would learn that the heartless she faced was Rabid Dogs and Hammerheads.

(End chapter)
> Chapter Ten A Alliance is Born
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It has been close to a week when the group went into their tasks. The first to have returned was pinkie pie who had found discord and let him in on the situation. The second to return was rarity with a large amount of diamond dogs. After that was rainbow dash with Gilda shedding tears clutching a letter in her talon. The cyan pegasus explained that apparently Gilda's farther past away making Gilda the griffon's ruler. Pinkie was instantly giving the griffon a shoulder to cry on. The fourth to arrive was Fluttershy leading the zebras and Timberwolves out of the everfree. The fifth to arrive was twilight, James, the princesses, and the rulers of the crystal empire with the changelings. And finally over the last three days of the week was the dragons, Buffalo, and minotuars in the same group confusing those already there. It wasn't until applejack arrived with a Armored figure holding a keyblade did James get a surprise.

"Spike! Is that you! Holy beast core I read the report but I didn't know you gained keyblade armor! You sure know how to surprise a person" said James in shock.

(My POV)

After my little outburst rarity and everyone else gasped and the now tall dragon dismissed his armor with a chuckle.

"Figures you know what that was I have some question that need to be answered later" said Spike.

With that out of the way the group was moved to town hall where the leaders of each race was put in town hall for the meeting.

At a circular table the order of seating went as thus. I sat at the far end with my 'sisters' on both sides of me, twilight next to Luna, the dragon representative titan to her left, Gilda to his left, Zecora on her left, Fluttershy was standing next to a timber wolf acting as translator and introduced him as woodfang, on woodfang's left was iron will, to his left was Cadance and shining armor, that left the diamond dog representative st George to dying,s left and finishing the group was Chrysalis and thunderhooves. 

"I now bring the meeting to order. Before we discuss the heartless threat let's do some introductions. I'm James del light, keyblade weilder and brother of celestia and Luna" I said.

"Luna del light princess of the night" said Luna.

"Twilight sparkle leader of the elements of harmony" said twilight.

"Titan gemseeker dragon historian and current teacher of Spike Stormslayer" said the red dragon.

"Queen Gilda of the griffons daughter of the late king steeltalon" said Gilda.

"Zecora spiritwalker shaman of the zebra" said Zecora.

"Woodfang of the everfree" translated Fluttershy.

"Iron will representing the minotuars" said will.

"Princess Cadance and prince shining armor of the crystal empire" said Cadance.

"St George representing the Diamond Dogs at your service" said the what looked like a golden retriever in a blue vest.

"Queen chrysalis of the changelings" said chrysalis.

"Chief thunder hooves of the buffalo nomads" said thunder hooves.

"Princess celestia del light" said Celestia.

"Now that role call is over let's discuss the treaty. In return for helping to survive against the heartless some offers were already made that we can agree to. The Timberwolves will get Forrest isle where they can live in peace after the heartless are expelled from this world, the diamond dogs will mine the cavern under canterlot as long as they don't force ponies to dig for them, and the zebra learn to synthesize from the moogles in return for acting as medics when needed. The changeling offered to trade resources in return of getting food for their hives which is emotion. So what do the griffons want in return to help us alongside the buffalo and Minotaurs" I said looking over the reports.

"For what the griffons want equal rights as the pegasi and also a trade agreement we can offer ore to forge armor and weapons to fight off the heartless provided you can enchant them appropriately" said Gilda from her own notes.

"That's a fair agreement the minotuars want to work with the diamond dogs and offer training to better defend our homes" said iron will.

"The buffalo want some land to call our own and some technology to help keep it running" said Chief thunder hooves.

"All fair we can discuss boarders later it's time to inform you of just what we are facing. You all have seen various heartless but you all don't know how exactly they came to be. That's where I come in to inform you. The one who started this mess is a keyblade wielder who lost sight of his light. His name is xehanort. He is the cause of so Many conflicts that he is a threat to the multiverse. He intentionally split his apprentices heart into both light and darkness. If it wasn't for my predecessor reaching out the apprentice would have died from the fracture. His darkness formed a being called vanitas. His very existence created beings of negativity called unversed. The apprentice called ventus or ven for short and his two friends aqua and Terra traveled to many worlds trying to find the truth of the unversed. Terra was sent to do this mission and track down Xehanort. Xehanort tricked even in following Terra making a just made keyblade master aqua to go after ven to bring him home. But it was all according to xehanort's plan. He was trying to make even fight his darkness in hopes of creating a forbidden keyblade the x-blade. The keyblade able to reveal and open the heart of all worlds kingdom hearts. Ven managed to prevent that by destroying vanitas who returned to his heart trying to take him over. This casted his heart out of his body and into my predecessor giving him the ability to weild a keyblade. Terra though was at the time fighting Xehanort but didn't realize what he was planning. Xehanort used his keyblade to transfer his heart into Terra so he could stay alive leaving Terra to be trapped in his keyblade armor as a being known as a lingering sentient. Aqua fought the pocessed body of Terra managing to defeat him but opened a rift to the realm of darkness and she dived after Terra and expelled him with her keyblade and keyblade armor leaving herself trapped in his stead. Xehanort lost his memory and with Terra's body became a scientist apprentice to a man known as ansem the wise. He was studying the nature of the heart. But xehanort used the research to create the heartless. He banished his mentor and took his name. Regaining his keyblade he used it to force the other five apprentices and a hitman he hired once before and turned them and himself into heartless. Xehanort's heartless was called ansem seeker of darkness. This is where my predecessor sora and his friends come in. Sora lost his entire world to darkness and spent a year looking for his friends kairi and riku. Kairi is a princess of heart one of seven maidens without darkness in their hearts. They were litteraly  pure of heart. They also held a connection to kingdom hearts. Kairi lost her heart when their home vanished. Her heart had found refuge in sora's heart so in away she was with him throughout his search. Riku ended up ansems pawn. It ended up a repeat on Terra. In order for kairi to wake up her heart had to return. After a long journey sora clashed with the processed riku and used a false keyblade forged from the hearts of the other six princesses of heart to free kairi's heart. This made sora turn into a heartless himself. But somehow he managed to not fade into a mindless being. He kept his sense of self. Kairi managed to restore him and he went into the realm of darkness to defeat ansem. That's all
The info I got so far history doesn't know much the following year after that" I said using a spell twilight taught me to show what xehanort has done to my knowledge.

"So this xehanort is the reason why the heartless exist" asked Gilda.

"Yes but the one leading them on this planet is someone well known to Cadance and shining" I said changing the image to king sombra. 

"This is sombra the tyrant of the crystal empire before Cadance took control. When he returned I found reports of his abilities from when the crystal heart was found. I'm afraid to say it but his abilities show he is in fact a heartless himself now. My guess is that some time before he became the tyrant he became he lost his heart to darkness. My guess was the dark magic he discovered. It corrupted his mind a bit. From there he just got worse until he became what he is now. He's the one letting in the heartless until they find the keyhole leading to the heart of the world and send this world to darkness. Thankfully no one knows where the thing is. Until we can beat sombra I can't seal it off to get rid of future heartless so we can clear out the ones already on the planet in time without worrying about them replenishing their numbers. With that it's time to sign the treaty and make the alliance official" I said as spike came in and placed the contract down. One by one all of the representatives signed it and I placed a wax sigil of a keyblade on it making the alliance official.

"Okay you all discuss how we are going to work defences I got some explaining to Spike here about his armor" I said standing and motioned Spike to follow me.

As we walked I noted there looked to be a hoof mark on his cheek.

"Rarity give you that mark" I asked him.

"Yeah she berated me for being reckless against a storm rider. She understood that It was out of my hands though. Though to make up for making her scared for my safety I have to help her replicate the keyblade armors for when she and the others gain their keyblades" said Spike.

"Guess I better help on that front I'm the only one that knows what the keyblade armors can do. If you manage to replicate them give me one I fell that I'm going to need it soon. I'm already making a book to help train future keyblade wielders so making a section about the armors should help you. Now the first thing about those armors is that they turn a keyblade into a vehicle called a keyblade rider. The shape varies on the rider. Second is that the armors allow you to travel the lanes between worlds on the riders thus allowing you to travel to other worlds. Sora had to use a spaceship called a gummi ship to travel. Ask a moogle about those I'm not a expert on the exact material of them just that they allow world travel. You already worked out the basics of the armor so does this answer most of your questions?" I said.

"Yeah but what else does the armors do there" asked spike.

"They give you access to some abilities called action commands. You said something about a dragon's flame slash in your battle. That's your personal action command. I will train you in some skills like strike raid and it's variants to help you get started. Now get going to rarity and get started" I said.

"Thanks I'm going to need it" said Spike.

I watched the dragon walk to Rarity's place and turned to head to the library when I felt a urge to do something now. With my keyblade a forged a summon charm with a image of two keyblades crossed in a x and spoke channeling some of my magic into it.

" I am James del light key bearer of equestria, if you ever need my aide for justice attach this to your weapon and thrust before you and turn it like a key and I shall come to your aide. If you have evil intent then fear my blade, if you have a just heart know that you have found a worthy ally and friend in me"

Then I let go and it hovered as my keyblade flashed into existence. I thrust it before me and turned it like I was opening a lock and a portal opened and the charm flew into it releasing a light that formed a station of awakening before the charm multiplied and shot off into the void. The portal closed and I blinked dismissing the keyblade.

"Something tells me that the keyblade armor will be handy in that place" I said before I left to make my book for the alliance.

(End chapter)
> Chapter Eleven a trip through the void.
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I sighed as I left rarity's place with spike. The girls were out to meet with daring do and I had a feeling the archeologist was going to head here after her book to meet me. I had just received my keyblade armor currently in the form of a shoulder pad on my right shoulder in silver metal. Me and spike was going to test it out when I felt something calling me. My keyblade appeared and with chrysalis suddenly appearing in my mind by a involuntary drive transformation my keyblade opened up the portal to the void and the station hub as my keyblade armor covered me making me resemble a knight with a blue mantle and a slight draconian helm. Spike followed me in his own keyblade armor onto the station as the portal closed before we tossed our keyblades to form our keyblade riders. Mine took the form of a silver and blue motorcycle while spikes became a mechanical bird. Mounting them a stained glass path formed and we shot down it eventually finding the entrance to the new world and with a flash of light we entered it as I wondered what this world was like.

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First thing I noticed was that it seemed that we were at a forest area with a familiar dark blue police box and I gapped as my armor reverted and I split from chrysalis as spike followed suit. Before us was time turner and ditzy/derpy/bright eyes/muffin do/hooves.

"the doctor! Holy beast core I didn't think you would call me" I said wide eyed.

"You know this guy james" asked spike raising a eye ridge.

"Not personally no but back on my earth he was part of a live action TV show called doctor who which follows his adventures. Couldn't understand a word in ten he said but as a time lord he is good at what he does. This must be a variant of him from equestria. My brother actually wrote a story about him. I came onto the series around his ninth incarnation up to his 13th incarnation. By the looks of it this doctor is the tenth incarnation judging by the fez" I said making the doctor blink.

"Really huh how peculiar a entire show all about me now don't that beat all" said the doctor with a chuckle.

"Let me guess your the doctor that went from human like form to pony on entry to equestrian dimensional space? I wonder if you met a certain fire controlling changeling? Flarewing his name was" I said making the doctor blink and nod.

"Im surprised you knew that" said the doctor.

"Back home I came up with the concept of him. In fact as a writer I designed Flarewing myself. I just let another author use the character in his own stories. But to hear he actually exists well I'm getting excited to meet him" I said with a chuckle.

"Well that is surprising might have to scedule that visit later" said the doctor with a beam.

"So why were we called here?"Asked chrysalis curious.

"Oh yes we are about to help out a displaced by the name of Emerl in there. When ditzy found that token I figured you would be of help. Plus I like the way it looks on my sonic screwdriver. Makes it different" said the doctor making me roll my eyes.

"I forgot how random you are. Well better hurry" I said and led the way into the Collesum in the distance and before we could we found ourself in some kind of room separated and watching Emerl and the princesses fight the various enemies and I rose a eyebrow as the ponies managed to escape until the rest of us were transported to another room.

"Well this is a bit of bad news" I said as I Looked to the others in this room.

"No kidding what just happened" asked a griffin from dash's description must have been steeltalon's ancestor in this equestria.

I internally winced remembering gilda's breakdown before she became the queen of the griffins back home.

"Well lucky us there's a keyhole so we can escape" I said pointing at the field where a keyhole shaped outline was seen.

"How is that lucky" asked the griffin as the dragons and manticore in the room was confused.

I just brought out my keyblade and pointed it at the keyhole. Streamers of light formed before a beam shot out and hit the keyhole. With a click the field bounding us shattered and we were free just as the group found us and  starswirl made sure everyone was alright while buttershe I think her name was and the colt trio helped get everyone out.

We soon followed the earth pony version of fluttershy into an area.

"So your name is buttershe right? You must be the ancestor of a friend of ours back in our universe" I said to the swordsmare.

"What are you talking about?" Asked starswirl.

"Im what's called a displaced starswirl a human taken from home to a version of equestria. Back home in the equestria me spike and chrysalis are from there is a pegasus that resembles buttershe here named fluttershy who is a animal caretaker and lives close to the everfree. From what I can tell our friend is her decedent" I said in explination.

"So the being with the princesses is one of these displaced" asked starswirl.

"Yep and if I heard that pegasus ninja right he's the guardian of the tree of harmony. Me I am just the guardian of my world at least" I said.

"Ah yes fluttershy’s doing fine last I checked" said the doctor hoof under his chin as he thought.

"Who are you kid" asked starswirl looking to me.

"Im actually a thousand and twenty years old starswirl but I'm James del light adopted sibling to the Celestia and Luna of my world. Other then that I'm just a ordinary guy with a role that was forced on him" I said making the magician gawk.

"How did you stay so young!" Asked starswirl.

"Accidently casted a time spell on myself as I was being turned to stone by a corrupted Luna. I froze time around myself by accident. Stuck for a thousand years as a statue until recently and when I got freed we found out my aging got slowed a lot. By the time I look physically 23 my aging will stop" I said with a grimace.

"Yikes that might be it" said starswirl.

"Oh my that is true your really going to live for a long while now. Really long" said the doctor making buttershe and starswirl glare at him.

"You do know he is a time traveler right?" I said making them blink.

"Explains those comments he made so he has met me before or will meet me again later in my life" said buttershe wide eyed.

"Yeah tenses just get twisted and hard to figure out when time Travel is thrown in the mix" I said before buttershe and her trio of colts went to go assist Emerl and this world's versions of my sisters. Though watching them I winced. Celestia seemed to have her inner pervert let out. I didn't want to deal with molestia. 

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I sighed as the group plus two more displaced walked up while Spike and chrysalis was walking around the area bored.

(For the rest of this part look to the story scales of harmony as this crosses over with that story.)

We finally got home and when we did we found twilight and the others tell Gilda of their adventure and I rolled my eyes.

"Well you won't believe what the three of us just experienced" I said with a shudder.

With their curious glances we told our adventure to another equestria and who we met. I handed the charm I was given by Gemerl or as I thought back to that flash Sombra I asked twilight to check it after explaining who Mephiles was.

Surprisingly it was clean. Mephiles didn't put any of his essence in the charm and now I had something to control anti. With that I pulled out my journal and put down entries of who I met today.

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Emerl
Scales of harmony 2015

This robot adaptor is a displaced I met and one of the few I met for the first time. Turned out he had the tree of harmony in his head. She can manifest as a pony and from what I saw she is a total troll in personality. Emerl seems to be the one to keep her in line as expected as her guardian and caretaker. He also has a shadow demon that used to be a manticore cub named simba. He seemed to be a huge fan of kingdom hearts and went all fanboy on me. Finding out Harmony has contact to her counterparts allowed me to know where the keyhole to my world is and that her powers act like the cornerstone of light. Probably should have warned her about the plundervines. Emerl's Celestia had become slightly perverted by Harmony as I found out shortly. Emerl seems like the kind of guy I can become friends with later on. His Luna though seems to have split personality disorder and a prankster much like my Luna though thankfully not as many as Emerl's luna. I might have Emerl visit later on.

Harmony
Scales of harmony 2015

She is the manifestation of the tree of harmony's soul and power. She was the first being Emerl met. When I met her she went by the alias sync heart until she slipped on the secret. According to what I know of her she  used to be the master emerald from mobius until fuast herself took her and the chaos emeralds to equestria transformed into the tree and the elements of harmony. Emerl told me that he thinks Tikal was also harmony's past life and I can believe it as Tikal is the last soul bound to the emerald. The way Harmony moves around reminds me of Tikal herself. 

Dark Emerl
Scales of harmony 2015

He is Emerl's shadow and the displaced's total opposite. I beat him with the help of harmony and chrysalis by using a combination of stop, magnet, and gravity spells to open a rift to hell on the guy. I channeled the magic Harmony pushed through my keyblade while chrysalis shaped the magic in my head as I was in valor form at the time. Dark Emerl is a potential rival I made and I honestly want to face him again one day.

The doctor
Doctor who 1885 -2015

A time lord from gallifray he was the one to summon me and two of my party members to Emerl's world through my token. Even as a pony he was still as I remembered seeing him. Random and unpredictable. Thanks to him I got to have a adventure and test out my keyblade armor. He is the version that faceless writer wrote and I now have the chance to meet a character I created back on earth later. 

Gemerl
Scales of harmony 2015

The thought to be current form of Sombra of Emerl's world that fought us under Mephiles control. He handed me a charm that can help me control antifrorm after helping me learn that if my darkness is drained while in anti I automatically switch to my unique drive form bright form. I hope Emerl can help him be free or I fear what Mephiles is doing to him.

Amy
Crimson avenger ????

She is the second displaced I met and is one angry girl. She can control blood and is a skilled swordswoman. Bit battle junkie but I think she enjoys peace a lot. Maybe I should bring her to my world to relax abit. Seems to be from a humanized equestria and in a relationship with her rainbow from the comments she gave before I left.

RD
Crimson Avenger ????

The rainbow dash from amy's equestria and if anything like the rainbow I know definitely one of the best ponies to have with you in a fight. Not much is known until I can visit her world and get to know them better.

Amilea
Crimson avenger 2015

She is the third displaced I met and by far one I won't get along with much. She only let's Amy summon her and has a no nonsense attitude. With her I learned that becoming part dragon also gave me the pride of the race and I can't take insults well because of it. I doubt I will call on her much or ever. If I do she is going to give me hell. I honestly don't want her as a enemy though might have to ask Amy about her and get to understand her better.

Jexmas
scales of harmony/my world.

He is my nobody created by discord when he cut me off from my heart when I got lazy a bit. I temporally became a heartless and created my new brother in the instant. He decided to guard our tree of harmony from any of our sombra's heartless forces and get to know our Harmony who if I remember from Emerl's version she was having her time of the month. Though I will call my nobody jex as a nickname if needed.

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I closed my journal and looked at my now active ommachao that acted as Emerl's token next to the blood diamond that was amy's token and the token of Amilea. I called the mechanical Chao over.

"Hey gears can you send a message to Emerl? Tell him I forgot to warn Harmony of the plundervines discord left around equestria that will drain her magic. It because of them that heartless arrived in equestria" I asked and the newly named gears beeped a nod and sent the message.

With that I stretched and headed for bed wondering what new adventures will come our way next.

(End chapter)
> The shadow of time
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I stretched the next day and moved to check on Jexmas my nobody that was create during my first summon out of my world. I still hated the primordial super discord from emeralds world using chaos magic to disconnect my heart from my body. I didn't tell everyone that it was only due to that shadow charm that the Sombra of that world gave me that let me stay in my usual human and sometimes dragon forms but deep down I knew I was still a heartless in essence. Jexmas resembled Roxas just as I now resembled sora but the true difference was our eyes. Mine was my natural green while Jexmas has amber. He had become the guardian of our equestrian tree of harmony which I learned from my trip to Emerl's equestria was sentient and had its own mind. Also was where the keyhole to the heart of the world is but until the castle of friendship and tirek incident happens the keyhole won't reveal itself just yet. 

"Can you feel it James?" asked my nobody frowning up at the sky.

"Yeah, feels like something is going to happen and we are going to be needed soon. That reminds me, we need to get some proper practice in you still need to get used to the keyblade Jex." I said summoning the keyblade I received from Harmony while Jex summoned his keyblade.

"Right so you remember what was revealed in 3d?" asked Jex as we spared.

"That you will eventually gain your own heart? Yeah I remember." I said blocking my brothers strike raid and sending one of my own.

"Aren't you worried James? I mean, you're still a heartless in body, it's only because of that charm that you’re not full heartless." said Jex with a monotone still coming to terms that he will eventually regain emotions.

"I’m not Jex, what worries me is that Sombra Emerl has at his world. Mephiles clearly has something over him to turn him into a gizoid" I said.

"I think that's enough sparring. By the way, Spike over heard the legend of the Wayfinder from Harmony while you were taking care of Super discord" said Jex, making me blink.

"Well that will be interesting." I said before I felt something approach and following the sensation I opened the portal to the hub outside the world that connected our equestria to the universes where my token appeared and standing looking at the station that acted as the nexus was someone I never met. And I was confused as to who it was.

His face was pale, with one eye missing, and the other bleeding and bloodshot. He wore a white trench coat, with two wings protruding from his back, one white, and the other black. He carried a white haired girl.

“- And that’s how Equestria was made to be boring…” The man said, before he noticed me, “Wow, a Kingdom Hearts Displaced, that’s new…” he said and I gave a WTF look at this.

"Are you going to stand there or are you going to enter the world I'm not sure how much safety that station has to the void." I said wondering if this guy took way too many hits to the head.

“Dad! Listen to the man! He looks like Sora!” The girl said.

The man laughed, “I know… Fine…” He clicked his fingers, and disappeared, and reappeared behind me. “There, ya happy buzzkill?” he said and I wondered why I seem to attract sarcastic displaced.

"Very. That station is reinforcing the connection between worlds. I had Jex here check to see why the station formed when I made my token. I'm James del light by the way and you two are?" I said deciding to be the host since they are visiting.

The man took a mock bow, “A pleasure. This,” he gestured towards the girl he held under his arm, who pulled herself out of his grip, “is Entropy, my daughter. And I’m Time Spinner.”

"Nice to meet you I guess. By your name your a time traveler and by the injuries you have you just came out of a war and decided to warn displaced about it so the war hasn't happened yet so by warning people you hope to change how the war went. Am I correct on that?" I asked putting my inner detective to the front.

He placed his hands behind his back, and leaned close to his daughter. “How correct is he?”

Entropy laughed, “Nineteen percent! He got that we’re time travellers, and that there’s a war, but nothing else!”

Time chuckled, “What Entropy’s… mostly right answer means is that I am a time traveller, but I didn’t get this injury from that war, I got it after Roach ripped it out and stabbed a knife into the socket! I don’t warn Displaced, I prep them for battle by telling them in advance so they can get ready for when it does happen. I don’t care which side wins, I’m rooting for whoever I own, and that’s the leaders of both side.”

Entropy cut in, “He really doesn’t like Roach.”

"Well not every guess I make hits their mark. Well guess I know what we are doing for the next while jex can you go get both Spike and Chrysalis plus our tokens we are going on a trip. Can you tell me which way to go to the world this war is? If I know my kingdom hearts info one of the sides is planning on destroying the multiverse and one of our jobs is keeping the balance between worlds." I said and to reinforce that I pointed at the station out of the world.

As jex ran off Time chuckled.

"Your one of those hero types aren't you" he asked.

"Guardian actually though I'm lucky the heartless are not appearing that much. They slipped into this universe during the bramble weed incident those roots that were draining the tree of harmony's  magic weakened the protection it gave allowing them to slip through. Turns out the tree acts like the cornerstone of light." I said as Spike and Chrysalis arrived with Jex.

"We got the message so we are off to save the multiverse again? First Emerl now we are going to a new area when you said key bearers live a hectic life I didn't think it was like this." said Spike.

"Yep and as we learned when I get summoned everyone I can drive with comes with which is why I asked you to come with us Chrys." I said to the changeling queen.

“Wait, I didn’t say when, or what it’s about!” Time Spinner growled, “And the Multiverse isn’t in danger, just four universes! And it’s Displaced vs. Displaced!”

"Sorry but well you know what Xehanort pulled and the keyblade war those kinda leave me to thinking worst case scenario." I said with a sheepish expression.

Time face palmed, “My wife wasn’t as crazy as this… Anyway, there’s still four worlds in danger, I’d say that’s pretty bad.”

"Yeah not to mention I have to find the keyhole's to those worlds to make sure the heartless don't get to them as well so that's going to be a secondary goal while we are there when it starts." I said seriously.

Entropy belched loudly, “Sorry, I ate a cotton candy cloud a minute ago before we got here…” And it was then I saw her eyes. Yellow with red pupils, like Discord.

"Discord. guess today is when he decides to let loose some pent up chaos. Holy beast core I hope Fluttershy can handle doing damage control!" I said sharing a look with spike and chrysalis.

And Entropy was right there where cotton candy clouds floating about.

Time raised an eyebrow, “Discord’s still alive here? Wow, I forgot some Displaced keep him around. I got rid of three… Anyway, when the war starts, go meet Lee Connors the Venom, or Darth Folteren the Sith. First is who you wanna go to I guess, the other guys more grey…”

"Thanks for the info oh and before you go we can take care of those injuries you got. Can't do a thing for the missing eye but we can heal the other with a quick combined cure spell" I said as the three of us keyblade wielders summoned our keyblades and casted the spell. The bloodshot look faded as the eye healed and stopped bleeding as well as stopped the bleeding in the socket where Time lost his eye.

"Here this should help you avoid questions about the missing eye." I said pulling out a eyepatch and handed to him.

He pushed it away. “Thanks for the heal, but…” A red dot appeared deep where his eye should have been, “I like it this way. The bloodshot was for… weak moments over three thousand years, and no sleep in that time… Why are you being so nice? You don’t even know me.”

"You're currently guests here in our world and despite how I act I try to at least show good manners to others. Got to set an example right? And trust me I would rather not piss off any being with time powers. Other than that it's just how I was raised before being displaced. I still remember that so it's how I'm going to live. I'm just glad I have family again. Plus yeah you’re during the time before tirek here the girls just met daring do yesterday." I said.

“Oh! I love her books! I have all of them! And I mean all. Every alternate version, every side story, every…” He paused, then shivered, “Every fanfiction… I have all of them. When you’re a being like me, who has lived longer than any Displaced, you try and occupy your time…” Time Spinner said, and pulled out a golden locket.

"Yeah I know the feeling before I was displaced I was trying to find my place in the world and almost lived my dream of being an author when the merchant happened. Now the only family I got is Celestia and her family, jex and the friends I made here. I took up making key chains to pass the peaceful times when I can" I said summoning nocturne and looked at the Keychain hanging from it of my own creation.

X“... I only have Entropy…” Time said.

Entropy yawned, “I’m gonna go get something to drink…” And disappeared.

"Despite never being a father I can tell your kid is important never let her go but don't hang onto her too long she has to make her own decisions sooner or latter. We have to support family as best we can. Time just make sure she lives a good life. After this war, I honestly want to get to know you better. You're both welcome to visit if you need to. Your daughter reminds me of my twin sister back on earth personality wise at that age. Also hand Lee this so we can get to him once my token is activated it will link his equestria to the station hub out there and reinforce the connection between them." I said handing Time my kh2 summon charm token.

Time took it, “Thanks, and if I survive long enough, I’ll come here and tell you my real name… One question before I go: Was the Starswirl here Celestia’s sister?”

"Honestly I don't know. I first got here six months before nightmare moon first appeared in history. It's possible and might explain how cadence is my niece as last I recall Celestia never had kids and you remember what Luna had to endure. It was three months after my arrival did we beat Discord the first time. Spent most of the time stuck in a petra fiction spell nightmare put on me combined with a stop spell on myself. Next thing I knew I was released during twilight trying to restore the everfree castle a few weeks ago. That's the events I experienced." I said shrugging.

“Well… Ok. It isn’t often he is… I run across a few. He lived longer than ponies, I mean, he lived through the dark ages, before Equestria was founded, then he was around when Tirek, the Siren’s, and Discord.” Time chuckled nervously, “I’m really trying.”

Entropy reappeared, grinning like crazy. “I just saw this world's version of mom!”

Time groaned, “Ok, ok… I get it...”

"Now I'm curious just who is her mother?" I asked tilting my head.

“The only pony that can survive my randomness, Entropy’s, and her two sister…” He grinned, “The party planner herself.”

"Ah Pinkie I get it. Anyway the mane six and the cmc here have the potential to earn a keyblade spike here here was the first to awaken one. He took out a certain dragon boss from land of dragon during the process I honestly wouldn't mind having him watching my back in the war" I said and said drake looked bashful.

"I didn't really have much of of a choice then it was going to attack the dragon migration and was headed for ponyville. If it wasn't for flare I wouldn't have been reminded why I was fighting in the first place." said spike blushing and I chuckled.

"Plus you found your talent in being a metal worker and became the local blacksmith. You and Rarity spent nearly a month figuring out how to make keyblade armor which came in handy when traveling the void. Honestly Spike, you're definitely not one I want to get on their bad side. If I find a way to travel to the kingdom hearts world's we would be training at the Olympus Coliseum. But first we have to make sure this world stays safe in the meantime." I said, placing my hand hand on his shoulder.

"Plus you helped us create such a community of defenders against the heartless with those enchanted weapons and armor since we allied allied with every race that exists against the enemy. The place is still going to be standing when we get back." nodded Chrysalis with a rare smile.

"Okay I get it be more confident." said spike with a grin.

"Yep and trust me on this we are not going to let the heartless destroy our world just yet. We still have a long way to go. Plus we hold the advantage of knowing where the keyhole is but until tirek is taken care of we can't access it for now. And my nobody here is in full agreement here. We are a team and we work as one as the guardians of our home never forget that spike." I said and the four of us nodded.

Time Spinner had been looking inside the golden locket the whole, when they stopped talking, he closed it quickly. “Good for you. I’d help, but I’ve got my arms tied. Maybe one of my Displaced can help you, he’s a kingdom hearts character like yourself.”

"Just send his token when he's ready we will be okay for now here oh and next time you're by the tree of harmony of your world and time be sure to talk to it turns out out the tree is sentient as well. Though each one is different in personality. The one I met so far was partnered to a displaced of Emerl and she was a major gamer and anime troll. Not entirely sane as she was drawing more on laughter then the others. I learned ours was drawing more on loyalty then then the others." said Jexmas nodding to them.

“I… My world is gone… It was destroyed, along with everyone I loved…” Time said, rubbing the closed locket.

"And when I meet the you from this time period I will try not to tell him about his future self I know how much a paradox can be a pain in the neck." I said before bending down and handing Entropy a copy of my crown necklace only light blue in color.

"Just something something to remember us by, okay? And don't worry time even when their gone they still live on in your heart and soul. Especially your daughter. Her mother still lives on in her so be sure to cherish what time you had.  After all Entropy here is your pinkie's daughter right and the child of laughter is your light in in the darkness never lose lose sight of her you hear. Don't be strangers maybe next time you can meet everyone when they get their keyblades" said james with a smile.



“I will, or my name isn’t Surging Storm!” Time said, before a vortex opened behind him, “See you at the war young one!”

He turned to me with a wide smile, “Cause it’s gonna be a doozy.”

And Entropy jumped in, screaming, “I’M A MOTHERBUCKING BABY COW!!!”

Time laughed, “Holy crap that was random!” He decided to follow her, “AND I’M A CUPCAKE!!! Your’s was funnier!” Followed by a Wilhelm scream.

Shaking my head I closed the portal with my keyblade and chuckled.

"Well I knew when I became a keyblader that my life was going to get crazy..." I said with a smile and we headed back to ponyville to talk talk to everyone about this new development. I just know that time spinner will be a great friend and from my own experiences I know that a friend can make a lot of difference.

(End chapter)
> It has begun and finishing a zombie.
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------

I sighed as I got my current key chains ready and looked over them. Harmonic balance, two becomes one, oblivion, oathkeeper, nocturne and solarflare. Six keyblades and out of the nine Keychain design kits he got only one set was used. Apparently Celestia had crafted a Keychain herself without using his stuff so he now had a Keychain that represented his bond to the sun princess. The keyblade was practically the opposite of nocturne being sunny instead of nocturnsl. The Keychain was made from a Sunstone in the look and shape of Celestia’s cutie mark to go with the crescent moon of nocturne. Twilight and the others understood that they had a need to train and in the process I gained a pet. A creature much like a timberwolf cub but feline in nature that I named obsidian as that was what the female wooden feline was made off. Obsidian wood. Fluttershy had confirmed the age to be about a week old so yeah I am being reminded of all the cats I owned back on earth. Tippecanoe, tiger, stripes, moxie, nemo, panic and his unnamed twin I secretly called ghost as that cat was stealthy for being orange, blackie, sir jack, and now I added obsidian to that list. Back on my earth the only ones still alive I knew of was tiger and nemo as the rest was either killed by pit bulls or possums. Rare to find in california near LA let me tell you. 

After several weeks training the allience we headed to the tree of harmony when we noticed the cracks in the sky showing different worlds. Everyone with the potential or already had a keyblade arrived and I noted that one of them had a certain gunvolt on top of a train fighting what seemed to be zombies and I heard rarity complain about the zombie her's mane.

"Rarity not the time it's obvious that it's the event time spinner told us about!" Said spike as he pointed at the Crack showing the azure striker now talking to a pony version of venom and I thanked the multiverse I could read lips so I learned the venom symbiote currently bonded to a pony was the Lee Connors time spinner told us about.

"spike, jex, chrysalis check your supplies. As that one Crack with the train and the zombies showed that's the world we need to go to" I said seriously. Spike nodded and handed over keyblade armor to chrysalis and jex and as one we all summoned armor. Jex ' s resembled mine but also resembled the first stage form xion took as the final boss in 365/2. Chrysilas' was obviously more insect based and fit her body type. With a toss three keyblades became keyblade gliders and Chrysilas got on behind me as we started to lift off.

"Make sure anything that gets through these World Windows gets sent back where they came until we can fix this mess. As shown the people at Lee's world can see but can't cross but others can enter that world! I don't want to know if The same of the latter is true for the rest! We been lucky the heartless have been laying low for so long! Organize the army because only we can see these windows so I need you guys to warn them about any wave of enemies invading unless some that enter actively help!" I called down before leading my group through the World Window as I called the phenomenon currently in the sky.

As we passed through we found ourselves at the train tracks and already I could tell we were near the battle of the zombies as undead rarity was still moving and as we dropped down our gliders became keyblades as chrysalis pulled out her sheild.

Three well placed strike raids shot out. Spikes keyblade struck the legs of the rarity undead as jex's hit the torso making it rear up as the front hooves collapsed just as nocturne cut off the head as the shot gunvolt gave it apparently weakened the joint connecting the head to the spine.  With that it dedicated as a crystal dropped from it as the body vanished and I picked it up. I went wide eyed noticing it was a summon materia from final fantasy seven! Shiva's to be exact! My ice magic was pretty rusty as I didn't use it that much so this was a welcome adition. I could already see a materia slot form on my guantlet do I stored it there and nodded to my companions as we started to glide over to canterlot. We arrived to see the group we came to help had already started to finish a fight as what looked like Darth Folteren retreated with what looked like a sith scootaloo.

We started to fly down and I called out to them.

"Hey! Need some help!" And the group below looked up and wait was that sunset as a power pony, pinkie as toxin and now that I was closer was that twilight bonded with lee! I blinked not expecting that. When we landed we dispelled the keyblade armor as we walked up.

"Yo! names james del light over here we got blacksmith and keyblade beginner spike, my nobody jexmas but call him jex and this is chrysalis from our world. Time Spinner said to find you if we wanted to help out and four dimensions being in danger is definitely something that we need to fix" I said with a grin. The other group just blinked not expecting that.

(End chapter)
> War of shadows meeting the team
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------

Me and my group just blinked as we watched the whole thing go down. Killjoy really made things go out of whack. Now the group was divided just like time said and said guy alongside lance vanished then sunset.

"Well that was something" I said catching their attention.

"Spike is that you! Did you go though a greed spurt again" asked the host of venom aka twilight.

"He's from my world. time told us to help out lee a few months back. Time travel is confusing let me tell you. Anyway I'm not to sure that I'm going to like scoot as a sith. The one back home has the potential to wield a keyblade. Along side the other cmc and you and your friends back home. And don't worry about chrysalis here she is a old friend of mine. Knew your ancestor who was helping rebuild canterlot after Discords first defeat. And the last person here is technically me. His name is jexmas or just jex for short" I said as my 'brother waved a hand.

"Kingdom hearts really" asked chaos jenny raising a eyebrow.

"Im a huge fan of the games took me a few months to make the costume then style my hair to match. Contacts don't agree with me... is someone wearing face paint" I asked as a familiar smell hit my nose.

Everyone turned to Diane who was putting on scary clown make up.

"What" she asked on noticing.

"Im Alergic to face paint. Even the fumes cause a reaction" I informed before chrysilas conjured a large bag that I unloaded my last meal in to violently. Everyone winced and surprisingly waffles shot a water gun destroying the face paint and got rid of it and now noticibly green I slumped on a wall as spike removed the bag. 

"Shit it's going to take six hours before I recover from that. Yeah one thing I found out during reconstruction was that if you keep your human form when displaced you keep your Alergies as well. Celestia tried a prank in my sleep by putting face paint on my face and when I woke up my skin broke into a nasty rash and I couldn't hold anything in my stomach from the fumes directly under my nose and it took Luna and Chrysilas sixteen hours to restrain me and knock me unconcious to remove the stuff and get my stomach pumped while treating the rash. Not pretty" I said and Chrysilas nodded remembering the incident.

"After that Celestia had to scrub the whole castle with a toothbrush without magic as punishment. Took her a full month to do so" said chrysalis shuddering.

With that they winced and Lee gave twilight a look.

"Everyone agreed that this is one of the most surprising allergy they have ever heard" asked lee. Everyone nodded. 

"We better go find separate bases" suggested chaos jenny before despencing some anti allergy pills and some tea in a cup and handed them to spike who helped me take them.

"Thanks I'm going to try and sleep off the whole thing now" I said and immediately conked out cold.

"Fastest he got to sleep he has natural insomnia from being born hyper aware" mused spike before explaining to the group.

With that spike carried me as the allience headed to ponyville. The villains headed to the everfree.
The groups just knew things were going to be getting more interesting.
> Twin beetles and a ghost? 
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------

    Kuuga stared at his pile of scrolls while he held an ink quill in his hand. Ever since his encounter with Ben, he has been doing pretty much nothing, but placed books in their proper positions and write late fee tickets.

“Something wrong?” Daguva spoke up as he went to Kuuga’s side.

“Nothing, it’s just that… I didn’t got a chance to fight another Displaced,” Kuuga admitted as he gently placed the papers away in a bin labeled ‘Out,’ “What’s the point of having these powers when there is no one to fight against in this peaceful world?”

“Not everything is peaceful,” Daguva reminded, “We have to deal with that tyrant that is going to appear in the North.”

“Yeah.”

Suddenly a light begins to glow from the Cube of Infinite Storage as the symbol flashed in a rhythmic pattern.

“What’s that?” Daguva inquired as Kuuga pressed the symbol to activate the elevator.

“It’s something I made after that encounter with Ben,” Kuuga explained as he and Daguva entered the elevator, “When it senses a Token coming into our dimension, it will alert us of it.”

“...That’s it? It would just alert us by flashing?” Daguva deadpanned.

“Pretty much,” Kuuga stated as he walked out of the elevator and into the laboratory as Daguva facepalmed himself repeatedly. 

(James' world)

"Man glad to be back huh Spike, Jex. That war really got on my nerves a bit. But still I think I need to see about what to do now. Maybe we can see what Chrysalis has got planned for her hive" said James before he felt that sensation again. 

"A summon? Well better get this done with maybe I can seal that world off from the heartless this time" said James as he felt Chrysalis in his mind after entering Valor form again as it always happens when he is summoned. Activating his keyblade rider he and Spike plus Jex flew into the hub station out of their world and went down the new stained glass path. 

(Kuuga's world)

“What’s this token going to be?” Daguva asked as he watched the light surrounding the object over a stone stand as it started to disappear, “Will it be like that thing we found earlier this morning?”

“That Unitrix Core? Daguva, I placed it in the safe so no one can get it. Relax,” Kuuga comforted as he rested a hand on him before turning to the light in curiosity, “I wonder what the token is going to be?”

When the light vanished, the object was revealed to be a charm that was familiar to the brothers being a oval-shaped shape with a Chain at one end with a image of two crossed keys in the center.

“Is that a-?” Daguva started with a little fear in his voice.

“Kingdom Hearts 2 summoning charm?” Kuuga finished as he picked it up and looking it over as he placed a hand on his chin in a thinking gesture, “This one is activated. Maybe the Displaced who made this will be friendlier than Ben.”

“Want to try it?” Daguva asked as he cracked his knuckles.

“With pleasure,” Kuuga answered as he started to held out the charm, but Daguva grabbed his hand.

“Wait!Wait!NO!NO!NO!Not here!” Daguva panicked as he took Kuuga to the elevator and pressed the ‘Arena’ button as the elevator shut its doors quickly as light seeped through the crack. While they waited they heard the message in the token play.

" I am James del light key bearer of equestria, if you ever need my aide for justice attach this to your weapon and thrust before you and turn it like a key and I shall come to your aide. If you have evil intent then fear my blade, if you have a just heart know that you have found a worthy ally and friend in me"

“No!No!No!No!No!No!No!No! Not yet! NOT YET!” Daguva screamed until the elevator dinged and it quickly spat them out into the arena with great haste. Kuuga and Daguva did a midair somersault before landing in the arena’s floor just as the Token shone with a bright light!

When it died down three figures in armor was standing before them but the center one froze at seeing them.

"Kuuga and Daguva? Someone actually got Displaced as them? If I wasn't a Kamen Rider fan I would be getting freaked out right now" said the figure reverting out of the keyblade armor to reveal what looked like Sora from Kingdom Hearts in Valor form before that timed out and released Chrysalis from his mind.
“Sora?” Kuuga spoke in confusion as he scratched his head.

"Nah I'm James if you haven't noticed my eyes are different. Uh are you going to get out of that armor? From what I recall of watching the show you should be able to return to human form?" Said James as what looked to be Roxas and a teenaged Spike looked around confused.

“I wish it was possible, but Grgh! this armor wouldn’t come off no matter how much I wanted it to disappear!” Kuuga explained as he tried to get the belt off as Daguva shooked his head in annoyance, “All I could do is shift between forms and I only turned into Growing Form when I fell asleep last night from confronting Ben! The Rising Ultimate Form took a lot from me.”

James facepalmed. "From what I saw of the show of course you can't remove the belt it's fused to your body have you forgotten that fact? Maybe my keyblade can help you with the human form problem as it seems to be locked" said James.

“No,” Daguva held out a hand in front of Kuuga protectively, “The form is locked because Kuuga may be subconsciously doing it.”

"Ah that I can't help with, I'm no physiological expert. By the way, you may know Spike and Chrysalis but my nobody over here is Jexmas but call him Jex. To be honest, this is the third world I been to" said James as he looked around.

“Third world?” Kuuga repeated as he transformed into Dragon Form while taking out the Dragon Rod and twirling it a bit.

"I'm a bit new to the Displaced okay. The first one I met was Emerl the gyroid. The second was when I got dragged into a war of shadows helping a few more Displaced like a Venom from Spiderman, the Powerpuff Girls, and a couple versions of Pinkie. By the way, keep me away from face paint. Turns out if you keep a human form when Displaced, you keep your allergies. Nasty thing. Learned that the hard way. My face swelled and and the fumes kept me puking to the point they had trouble getting the stuff off before I choked," said James with a grimace.

Kuuga and Daguva winced as they stepped back from a foot away before the latter asked something, “James, you said Jexmas is your Nobody. How did he came to being?”

"Same time I met Emerl, I helped him fight a Super Chaos Emerald powered Discord and the guy used chaos magic to separate my heart from my body and turned me into a Heartless by accident. If it wasn't for a mystic charm I just got from that world's Sombra to help me control Anti Form I wouldn't be back to normal. The result was that my Nobody was created. We beat Discord and went home. Jex now guards the Tree of Harmony which turns out is sentient the one with Emerl has her own pony body and is relying more on Laughter then the other elements so she's random as heck. My Tree of Harmony is more on Loyalty than anything," said James.

“Tree of Harmony?” Kuuga muttered as he shifted between Pegasus, Titan, Mighty, and Dragon Forms suddenly before they stopped on Ultimate Form, “Whoa! What happened?”

"My guess is that your powers have a connection to the Elements of Harmony in some way. Did you know some past bearers?" asked James.

Kuuga hummed in thought while Daguva took a thinking pose as he snapped his fingers idly while flames bursted in random directions almost singeing Chrysalis who jumped behind James who used reflect to prevent getting harmed.

“Whoops! Sorry!” Daguva apologized as he tightened the black Limiters on his wrists and ankles, “I guess these things must have loosened from that stunt with the Loony Elevator.”

"Surprise helped built this place didn't she?" asked James and Chrysalis with a deadpan on the words 'loony elevator'.

“Yes, she was one of the past Elements of Harmony we have met,” Daguva explained, not noticing four figures exiting the elevator but Kuuga and James noticed and tried to get him to stop talking with frantic motions with their arms, “Her name is Surprise and she was one of the Elements Kuuga fears due to her randomness, but we managed to cope with her until we finished this Cube of Infinite Storage. I kind of wish we got that folder sooner before she passed while we were sealed in the coffins, and we could have taken her to many dimensions.”

A facepalm sounded and Daguva looked up to see both Kuuga and James backing away.

"Well he's dead so care to explain about coffins to me and why you were in them?" He could hear James ask.

Daguva raised an eyebrow in confusion before he heard a throat being cleared, and his form turned comically white as he slowly turned around to find Sunset, Adagio, Aria, and Sonata glaring at them with flames in their eyes.

“What’s this about a folder?” Sunset asked as she cracked her knuckles while Adagio cracked her neck and sprayed breath freshener in her mouth.

“Oh… Sunset, hey…” Daguva squeaked as he backed up, only to feel something metallic and looked behind himself to see Gouram buzzing angrily.

"Sonata why don't you talk with our guests while we talk with Daguva and Kuuga?" asked Aria and the cerulean siren nodded as she walked to the guests.

“Me!? What did I do?!” Kuuga exclaimed as Daguva scrammed behind him with growing fear.

"Wait what folder are they talking about" asked Spike as he and Jex were sparing with their keyblades much to Sonata’s awe.

“Arena!” Kuuga suddenly called out as the Arena flashed a bit in response, “Begin Loony Chase Protocol! Codenamed: Roadrunner Chase!”

"Well time to put this on then. This should be funny," mused james before pulling out a boom box and played scooby doo chase music.

The Arena started to rumble before it shined with a great light and when it settled down. The group found themselves in a vast desert that appears to be cartoonish for some reason.

“What?” Sunset said as she examined her new attire of a Wile E Coyote costume in her colors while Adagio and Aria had theirs in their colors.

Kuuga and Daguva, in black and white Roadrunner costumes, zipped by before making ‘Meep! Meep!’ as they dashed away!

As the scooby music played, the guests and Sonata laughed as the chase began.





A dust cloud trail was seen as Kuuga and Daguva continued to run in their Roadrunner costumes until they suddenly stopped in midair with subtitles appearing below them.

Kuuga (Lightus Stagium)

Daguva (Bustus Beetle-anium)

They then started to slowly pick up speed before they blasted off with great haste. The three mares pursuing them suddenly stopped in midair as well much to their confusion as subtitles appeared below them.

Sunset Shimmer (Luna-sus Student-sus)

Adagio Dazzle (Siren-sus Furious)

Aria Blaze (Confuse-sus Star-sus)

(In the stands)

"Well this should be interesting wait wasn't gouram part of this as well?" Asked Chrysalis while the watchers ate popcorn.

"He is, look up there" said Spike pointing up to the cartoonish beetle hovering in the air tracking the transformed rider and kaijin.

(Gouram)

Scanning for targets! Searching!  Gouram spoke in his ancient language before he suddenly stopped midair as well much to his shock as his thrusters suddenly stopped working while subtitles appeared below him.

Gouram (Machine in Trouble)

The beetle’s mechanical eyes blinked before he dropped through the subtitles as they shattered into pieces as he fell right on top of Sunset, Adagio, and Aria with a hard clang!

Gouram blinked the stars away from his head as he watched Kuuga and Daguva run up to them with grins on their faces!

“If you want to know, you gotta’ catch us!” Kuuga taunted before he ‘Meep, Meep!’ and dashed away with Daguva following him.

(Stands)

"Ouch! Poor Team Saga," said James with a wince.

"Team Saga?" Asked Sonata.

"Sunset, Adagio, Gouram, and Aria take the first letter of their names and you get Saga" explained Jex snickering as he thought of another Kamen Rider with that name.

(With Team Saga)

“Okay, those guys are going to get it!” Sunset growled as she pulled out a sheet of blue paper and started to scribble on it! “Gouram! I want you to get a plate of ravioli and pasta and a table; Aria, I want you to find some flowers with a sweet smell; and Adagio, get a crate full of the most violent stag beetles you can carry that harmonize with ‘Flight of the Valkyries!’”

Everyone nodded while Gouram clicked his mandibles in affirmation and dashed off unaware Kuuga and Daguva are hiding behind a rock overhearing the whole thing.

“So that’s how they want to play huh?” Kuuga muttered as he took off his costume and Daguva did the same, “I say six can play that game!”

(Stands)

"Me thinks they be getting too far into their roles here" said Spike hearing the plan.

"Why did I have you watch the loony tunes with that Sith Scootaloo during that war on days off" muttered James thinking of the pranks that was pulled by said pegasus that caused so much chaos from ideas taken from that show.

(Back with the others)

“Okay, everything should be ready!” Sunset declared, now out of her costume and in her regular clothes since it was roasting her, “Once Kuuga and Daguva stopped to eat their favorite meals on his table! They will tell us!”

Sunset then started to cackle as lightning crashed above her, zapping an unfortunate James back at the stands.

(Stands)

"Okay time for a bit of a reality check this is getting ridiculous" coughed James and as Chrysalis was right next to him she was also disgruntled by the sudden bug zapper effect that happened. So James with his Nocturne Keyblade used thunder on the group and to snap sunset back to her senses.

(Sunset)

Sunset blinked her eyes as her blackened body smoked from the sudden lightning before shaking out of it.

“What happened?” Sunset said in confusion, “Did I go crazy just now?”

“Yes you did,” A voice spoke up from behind her.

Sunset turned around to see Kuuga and Daguva holding a crate labelled ‘ACME Army Bees and Wasps!’ with the former’s eyes glowing with mischief.

“Do you want to give up?” Kuuga stated as he placed his hand over the latch.

Sunset, as well as Aria, Adagio, and Gouram, gulped and nodded.

“Very well!” Kuuga said before he turned to the crate, “Okay guys, fun’s over!”

The wasps and bees groaned with disappointment as the box settled down.

Kuuga chuckled before speaking out loud, “Arena, Deactivate Loony Chase Protocol!”

The surroundings shifted as they returned to the normal arena battlegrounds.





“So you got that folder on the night you moved in with me?” Sunset questioned.

Suddenly a sound of a shower turning off was heard as a now soot free James and Chrysalis came in wanting to know about this folder as well.

“Well,” Kuuga started as he pulled it out from behind him, “We are still looking over the notes, yet some of them are hard to understand. I was able to create those stone stands using these notes. I thought I would jumpstart a deactivated Token by using ours, but it had the unintended effect of bringing me and Daguva to Ben’s Station of Awakening.”

"Wait what! Do you know how that could have gone wrong! By light eternal! You could have drawn the Heartless to his world! I still need to locate your world's keyhole so you don't get any trouble with the Heartless in the future! If I ever meet this Ben, I'm going to be sure to help him safeguard his world from the Heartless!" said James suddenly stern as he gave the two brothers a scary look making them remember that as a keyblade holder that there is one lesson you should always remember: Never make a keyblader mad or you will pay the consequences. James grabbed both brothers by the edge of their armor and tossed them to the arena summoning his two keyblades out of drive forms as his Keyblade Armor engaged.

Kuuga, still in his Ultimate Form, quickly counterattacked by grabbing James by the arm and threw him to the floor.

“Do you think I know that?!” Kuuga yelled as he got into James’ face, “Just to let you know, we only made it to his Station of Awakening! Not his world!”

Kuuga got up gently from James and leaped backwards, “You don’t understand Ben! He hates the Displaced!”

"I figured that out but if Ben has a station that means he has the potential to gain a keyblade himself! And you made him aware of what it looks like. You practically got him started on his own awakening! That will draw heartless to him and from what I hear he doesn't know anything about kingdom hearts! You practically threw him into a situation with no way to prepare. It took me three months when I got to equestria to even get mine. G** you need to learn not to mess with other displaced in their hearts or the consequences can be devastating! Why do you think I'm trying to seal each world I go to to prevent the Heartless from spreading to other Displaced. If you played Kingdom Hearts you know how bad it is if Heartless start showing up" said James sounding quite miffed.

As he got more mad the two brothers noticed he started transforming into a dragon before long Spike walked in and sighed before strike raiding James on the head knocking him out.

"What just happened?" asked Sunset.

"A side effect we found out about when we learned James had a collapsed heart valve so I donated one as a replacement. It ended up giving him dragon DNA and a form matching it. He's still learning how to change at will. Let me guess you both messed with someone's heart? If there is one thing James won't tolerate it's someone messing with what they don't understand on a deep level. Matters of the heart is something James takes seriously as he knows the consequences of what can happen to a person" said Spike.

"Because the Keyblade is tied to the heart James had to understand his own soul to even keep his being in balance. So he knows more about the heart then you two. If what I heard is true you almost pulled a Xehanort there. You directly interfered with a person's heart which can go wrong in so many ways. Once he calms down we can see about finding the keyhole of your world," said Jex shaking his head.

"Trust me you don't want him ticked at you. He can give you a major lashing to help get a lesson through your head. Sombra in our world is literally a Heartless considering the powers he displayed at the crystal empire" said Chrysalis shuddering.

"By the way our Twilight and the elements can have potential keyblades awoken. And Sunset you have the potential as well you just need to come to terms with yourself as a person" said Jex making sure James reverted to human.

"I should know about that. I took on a stormrider  on my own before I got the keyblade and it was when I understood why I was different from other dragons did I gain mine" said Spike making the rider wide eyed.

"Dang, so Spike what do you do back in your world?" asked Daguva curious.

"I’m the town blacksmith. I'm surprisingly good at it. Who do you think made the keyblade armors?" said Spike.

“Wait!” Kuuga hold up his hands, “You made the Keyblade Armor!?”

"Well Rarity helped with the designs, but yes I did. Dragons have many traits that work in the forging process. We're heat resistant and can generate our own flames which is useful in the job" explained Spike.


“Ah ha!” Kuuga understanded as he placed a finger in a thinking process, “I see. Look, I’m sorry for messing the boundaries of a person’s heart. I just wanted to know why would Ben deactivated his Token.”

"Ugh good and Spike thanks but next time just use a blizzard spell to cool me off, now I got a headache" groaned James as he pushed himself up holding his head.

Kuuga watched James get up from the floor before looking at the Keyblade and snapped his fingers as he changed into Rising Ultimate Form in a surge of power.

“James, there might be a way to seal off the keyhole to Ben’s world,” Kuuga said.

"What how?" Asked James as he didn't have Ben's token.

“Have checked the back of your pants lately? There’s something on there,” Kuuga pointed to a badge hanging off James’ pants.

"What the?! when did that get there?" said James taking it and it suddenly glowed as it levitated from his hand.

"You have to be kidding me!" Said James recognizing this from the game. Holding out his keyblade a image of a crown formed around him. Wind kicked up as James found himself in a realm with a orange sky as the Token released a light that formed a keyhole above him. Spinning his blade around, he pointed it at the Keyhole. Streams of light converged on Nocturne and formed a orb of light at the tip before it let out a light that entered the keyhole and a click sounded as James found himself back to the arena.

“I guess you finally locked the gateway to Ben’s world, Am I right?” Kuuga asked as he changed back to his Mighty Form.

"Yeah, but still that was surprising, I still need to find the one for your world at least," said James before he felt his keyblade tug at his arm.

"Though it seems my keyblade has a clue~!" said James getting dragged by said weapon.

Kuuga and Daguva managed to grab the handle on the Keyblade to safely guide James only to also get dragged into the elevator with everyone else following as a button lit up. It said ‘Art Gallery’.

“An art gallery?” Kuuga spoke in confusion before an Oathkeeper and Oblivion appeared out of nowhere. 

"My keyblades!" Said Jex. The group followed the blades to a painting of Surprise and her friends where they vanished to reveal the keyhole.

"Well that explains a bit. Well, better seal this," said James until the keyhole put up a barrier.

"Oh right the guardian of the keyhole! I knew I forgot something!" said Jex.

“You think!?” Daguva screeched as he took off his cape armor while Kuuga got into a battle ready stance.

The guardian turned out to be something only Surprise would make. A giant robot designed like Tirek. Yeah, no one knew why she built it.

“Oh snap,” Kuuga gulped while James dropped his Keyblade out of shock and fear, “Why did it have to be the Magic Eater?”

"Surprise, if I know her likes to catch people off guard and this counts as a good thing as this thing is only a robot and not the real thing!" gulped James.

Kuuga clenched his hand while Daguva tensed at the intensity of the machine. The brothers held out their hands to bring a barrage of flames, only for something astonishing happened as Bonds of Flame appeared in Daguva’s hand while the Two Becomes One appeared in Kuuga’s!

"Chrysilas I think its time to test Anti!" said James.

He would need the abilities of that form just to dodge, but then Kuuga and Daguva rushed past him and started to strike the robot’s joints on its legs with their recently gained Keyblades.

"Well, better get in there." said Spike joining them. Jex also entered the fray. "Why is it two becomes one keeps appearing around us!" Asked Jex as he did so.

“What do you mean, Jex?!” Kuuga asked as he dodged a stomp from Mecha Tirek.

"It was the keyblade James and I first manifested. But as that belongs to the real Roxas we didn't feel right in using that particular keyblade!" answered Jex using a blizzard spell to create a wall of ice to block a fist.

“Then why did it appeared to me and the Bonds of Flame appeared to Daguva!?” Kuuga demanded as he managed to slice off an arm from the robot.

"My guess is that your armor's history from the show and the influence of the previous Kuuga before you allows you to wield it!" james said as he strike raided a leg.

"And Daguva controls fire much like Axel and even acts like him a bit," said Jex with a shrug before doing a magnet and thunder spell combo.

“I. Do. Not!” Daguva denied as he punctuated his sentence as he slashed three of the Centaur’s legs into pieces in a blur of fire.

"Well you are protective of your brother much like Axel is protective of Roxas during their time in the organization," said James.

“Well, I’m not cocky like him! And what makes you think, I act like the original Daguva!?” He emphasized by jumping through a hole in the robot and started to tear it apart from the inside as the robot made expressions like it was sick as multiple pounding sounds echoed from within it.

"We said you act like Axel! Not the original Daguva! When did we ever compare you to that guy?!" said Jex joining him in there.

"Our brothers seem to be getting along," noted James. 

“Aye,” Kuuga agreed as he watched the Mecha Tirek stumbled around for a moment as its head briefly popped out while it’s connected to the spring! The head briefly spun before it stopped as its eyes gained a dizzy emoticon.

"Well time to teach this robot not to mess with the Irish! Oi Kuuga! Limit Time!" Called James with a grin.

“Okay!” Kuuga agreed as he shifted into Ultimate Form and surrounded the robot in a pillar of flames as Jex and Daguva got out in time.

"Let's go!" Said James as he zipped by in a flash, making after images in his wake slashing at various parts of the robot.

“My turn!” Kuuga called out as he took out the Utimate Titan Sword with conjunction of the Two Becomes One and slashed a hole in the robot revealing the Power Core displaying a happy pegasus smiling gleefully.

"Hah balance sword!" Said James as a spectral Titan Sword formed in his hand as he threw both in a strike raid at the core landing next to Kuuga.

“Well, that takes care of that,” Kuuga noted as he walked to the picture with Daguva walking with him.

"Ah man my Mecha centaur!" Said a voice as a spirit phased out of the damaged core.

Kuuga froze completely as they suddenly turned white and looked behind him to see the smiling ghostly pegasus waving at an inch of his face.

“G- G- G-” Kuuga stuttered as his shaking hands slowly lifted the Keyblade to the Keyhole in synch with Daguva.

"Surprise? Ah beast core..." said James shaking at the ghost.

“GHOST!!!!!” Kuuga screamed as his keyblade let loose a stream of light as it ricochet off Gouram’s armor before it bounced from the ceiling and struck from Spike’s head before entering the Keyhole at the same time Daguva’s Keyblade let loose a stream of light into it. The keyhole glowed as a click was heard before it faded away.

"Surprise, how is this possible?" james asked later as Sunset was keeping Kuuga calm.

"It had to do with this," said Surprise pulling up a hand to show a black rimmed device that surrounded what looked like a eye.

"A ghost eyecon! That means your the new Kamen Rider Ghost?" said James seeing the ghost driver manifested on her waist making her solid.

“KAMEN RIDER GHOST!?!?!” Kuuga screeched as he backpedalled away frantically, “Not that! Anything but that!!!!”

"Sorry guys but you’re stuck with her until she can find all fifteen eyecons. Just don't let her meet Pinkie because, well, Pinkie will be ecstatic to meet her ancestor," said James with a  sigh.

“James! Do you have any idea what kind of psychological damage those will wrought on Ponyville, or worse, Equestria!?” Kuuga screamed as he shook James by the vest in a rapid pace until his armor turned into his Growing Form.

"Yes I do, which is why you got to locate them before they get into the wrong hands. Also Kuuga, this is for the manhandling" said James giving Kuuga a roundhouse kick to the head. "Seriously calm the heck down" he added.

Kuuga quickly got up as he clutched on to James ankle, “Please! Don’t leave me with her! I can’t take her randomness! One time, when I was going to bed in here, she popped out from under the bed and gave me a surprise birthday party!” Kuuga begged.

"Yep sounds like Surprise and Pinkie. Listen, just have Luna help with her. She can see spirits last I checked" said James.

“Did someone mentioned my name?” Princess Luna spoke as she came in, holding a bag of candy in her arms.

"Luna don't give that candy to Surprise! Last time she had candy we couldn't handle the chaos she sowed!" said both James and Kuuga in unison as they glared at her.

"Wait, that happened in your world as well?" asked Daguva. 

"She set rebuilding equestria back back by a month after we sealed Discord the first time!" said James with a twitch.

“You think that’s scary! She made an exact replica of the setting at Five Nights at Freddy’s 4 in my bedroom! I couldn’t sleep for months!” Kuuga screamed.

"She did it with all four on the whole building crew which included me and the princesses of my equestria" James revealed deadpan.

“Ohh, Candy!” Surprised spoke up as she reached for a piece only to be tackled by Kuuga as he quickly wrapped her in chains and a straight jacket!

"Kuuga.” said Jex.

"What?!" Asked Kuuga.

"That won't work bro. She's a ghost, remember?" sighed Daguva face palming.

Sure enough she phased out and was now eating the candy much to James' horror!

"Sorry Kuuga! But you’re on your own here! Here's some instructions on doing the spells from Kingdom Hearts and come by my world for a visit sometime!" said James panicking before handing Daguva a scroll.

“Wait! You forgot our Token!” Kuuga stated as he tossed James a black and white coin.

With that the group that James had vanished letting the charm hit the ground. On it was a note. 

"Next time summon me properly that way my token will still be there when I'm called- James Del Light" read Daguva.

Kuuga picked up James’ summoning token before placing it in his pocket dimension and bravely turned to the vibrating Surprise as he took out the scroll and read from it.

“Barrier!” A magical barrier surrounded Surprise just as she went crazy for a full five seconds until she suddenly stopped and fell asleep.

“Is she okay?” Luna asked as she went over to Surprise in concern as Kuuga lowered the barrier.

“She’ll be okay, her metabolism merely accelerated her sugar high to light speed for 5 seconds,” Kuuga explained as he watched Surprise snoozed away, “Just enough time for me to hold a one minute barrier due to my Growing Form. Any later, and it would have been chaos all over again!”

“Good!” Luna said as she stroke Surprise gently, “But what is she doing here and why is there a metal centaur in here?”

“Oh that!” Kuuga gulped as he watched Luna tower over him and nervously added, “Can you perhaps bring your sister over tomorrow so we can explain?”

(James' world)

"G*** I didn't want a repeat of Surprise in a sugar high. After last time I had nightmares for a week! I still wonder how she learned about the five nights at freddy's series?" shuddered James after sitting down.

"At least it helped us wind down a bit after the war we went through," said Jex walking back to the Tree of Harmony where his house was.

"Well, back to the forge!" said Spike.

"You wanted to see how the new hive has been going right? Well let's go!" said Chrysalis leading James to the new hive.

"Yeah, that should take my mind off Surprise!" agreed James as he followed her.

"Just when will they realize they like each other..." thought Jex looking after them as he continued to walk.

With that the day went somewhat normal as life went on.

(End chapter)
> Power ponies
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I streatched as I entered the room I now shared with twilight and Spike latter that night with chrysilas following me. With ponyville being our base camp against the heartless threat and so many races in one place things have been going quite smoothly all things considered. After the war of shadows and then meeting with Kuuga and Daguva earlier that day I learned that while me, spike and Jex with chrysalis were gone the cmc have already been selected for the flag team for the crystal games. It was then me and Chrysalis  noticed the rest of the mane six was there and I forgot that there was going to be a sleepover. Spike was reading what looked to be a comic that all teens tended to read. Mainly about surperheroes. Something nagged the back of my mind about that book. While the girls talked about how their day went and how the world we got dragged to was like which I joined in the conversation then.

"Honestly we didn't see anything about Kuuga and daguva's equestria just a pocket dimension that was built by surprise pinkies pegasus ancestor. The two called it a infinite storage cube. Also turned out a folder of info has been appearing to displaced after some time has passed but I been wondering why it hasn't appeared here yet. Something to do with discord and the dimensional barrier from what little I got a glimpse of" I explained with a sigh.

"I will admit it was fun meeting them. Though james here had to use a thunder spell to knock a unicorn there back to her senses. She was getting a bit insane at the time. Body shape was odd though. It resembled more along my own then chrysalis' own body" Compared spike confused as he thought about it.

"I think it is because the equestria they are at is one of the humaniod varients where most of the life there is anthromorphic. Makes sense considering the multiverse even alternates of this world will not always be the same in some way. Think of what would this world be like if your species was switched around for everyone. There might be a world were dragons and ponies switched just like that" I said with a wince.

"Basically the multiverse has infinite possibilities and can give a headache trying to think on all of them" I added.

"So we are mainly in a cluster of similar universes" asked twilight curious.

"Very much so but well there is a chance I might not have landed in the equestrian quadrant of the multiverse. When I got Displaced I was dressed as a guy that traveled to different worlds. The nature of that character could have meant I can travel other sectors and meet the guy I was dressed as. Which is why I have to help you figure out what that box contains at the tree of harmony and seal off this world from the heartless. So I can be sure I have a place to come back when I do have to leave on my travels. Plus when you all gain your keyblades and then get your keyblade armor I can take you with me because for one thing a journey is better if you are not alone on it. And thanks to that station connecting some displaced world's already we can use that to find our way back. That reminds me I got to see about what world's we might run into. Some different universes have a set rule on them that can change your entire body to fit in. Makes you wonder what can happen on such a journey" I said and I knew this was true. Sora practically never stays on destiny islands his home world anymore in the games well not for long. Kinda really hits home that as a world traveler sora no longer had much connection to his home world anymore. He hasn't even been there for two years and he had changed so much in his journey that he wouldn't know how to fit in. I mean I been around over a thousand years despite still having my mentality of being twenty and I have no clue what is going on back on my earth when I vanished. Plus if I do even find my way back chrysalis would have to come with me. I had figured out that anyone I frequently partner up with in a certain drive would count as a perminant party member on my travels and if I gain other drive partners they have to come with as well. 

While I was with chrysalis checking how her hive was going along I talked with her about it and she understood that eventually she would have to leave her home because of our connection. Which is why she was looking for a successor among her hive to lead things in her absence when I did have to leave equestria to find different world's other then this one or alternates.

Suddenly I felt that a strong wind had entered the room.

I turned around and saw spike was being suck into his comic book and wide eyed everyone currently there tried to pull him out only to get dragged along with him.

When I came to we were actually on a sky scraper and I saw the girls were different.

Twilight wore a purple version of my drive clothes but tali red to resemble a superhero costume replacing the clothes under the jacket with a bodysuit but kept the pouches and wore a mask that was white. Surprisingly she was human. 

Rainbow dash was the same only her bodysuit and jacket was designed like the wonderbolts uniform and kept her wings. Her mask was a bit shaped like lightning.

Fluttershy was pretty much forest green for her costume while her mask was more vampiric in nature.

Applejack had Valor form colors but more fire based if I had to guess.

Pinkie was just pink with a rose like mask.

Rarity was in a darker purple almost onyx version of twilight's costume with a mask  much like a gem.

Chrysalis was pretty much in her regular colors but was dressed much like a regale knight like queen with her sheild on her back and still had her insect like wings as well. Spike was pretty much not changed while me I seem to have now a cloak acting as a cape in the same default black as my regular drive clothes.

"What in the hay happened to us" asked twilight looking over her new body finding her wings were folded to her back while her magic seemed to changed focus to her hands if what she could feel was right.

"Remember what I said about how certain world's have set rules? Turned out spike's comic was a way into a world inside it's pages. Books can have world's in them we can travel to as well" I said thinking of pooh's story book and feeling Deja vu about this.

"How was I supposed to know. I got halfway through the book when I discovered the rest of the pages were blank! I found something at the inside back cover and next thing I know we're here" said Spike in his defense.

"So you currently have a idea on where we currently are" asked chrysalis looking around. Seemed we were in what looked like new York City but with a slight futuristic Gotham city feel.

"No way this is maretropolis! Home of the power ponies!" Said Spike wide eyed.

"Power ponies? You mean like lance's home" I asked remembering the azure striker I talked with during days off on the war of shadows. 

"Oh right how did I not remember yhst" said Spike in realazation.

"But I doubt this is the same one lance is from otherwise the girls would have became the power ponies themselves from what he and lumin told us" I said looking around.

"True out of everyone dash's costume is the closest to zapp" agreed chrysilas recalling what she heard from lance during that war.

The group heard a commotion down below. Looking over the nine found what looked like a purple mare in a pink bodysuit with long tendrils of green hair and a crazed look in her eyes facing what looked like the girls pony forms as superheroes and Spike before he gained a keyblade.

And by the looks of things the heroes were having trouble.

"Well there's masked matterhorn, zapp, fillisecond, sadlle rager, radiance and mistress mare-Volus. And humdrum. If we are stuck in this world for now we might as well help the locals" I said as my protective instinct told me that I had to help them.

"Might as well otherwise we are not able to go home" said twilight. With that I and Spike summoned our keyblades and threw them in a strike Raid'd cutting off the hair that had tied up the power ponies.

"What in the world! Where did those giant keys come from!" Asked masked matterhorn wide eyed as the hair fell off her and her team.

Suddenly nine figures jumped down making them wide eyed.

"Oi miss tangle! Don't you know green of that shade isn't natural of a hair color!" I taunted with a grin as my keyblade flashed back into my hand.

"What! Who dares interfere with my revenge!" Demanded who I now recognized as the Mane-iac one of the power ponies main villians.

"Light's the name and me and my friends are going to be sure to give you a much needed hsircut" I said as hey we were dressed as heroes might as well play along.

Seemed twilight and the others caught on.

"Stormwing work with zapp from the air! Shine help radiance box her in, everyone else try and do what you can" said twilight as her hands started to glow with her magic.

"Right dusk" I said with a nod as we helped the power ponies up.

"Here's a bit of a boost for us! Stop!" I said casting the stop spell making a clock frozen in time to appear over the mane-iac  make freezing her in time.

"Hurry that time spell won't last long" I warned.

With that fillisecond grinned and actually tied up the villain with her own hair while rarity used her magic to levitate debris around her as another restraint as radiance used a energy construct to hold it together while the Two in the air hovered over her as the rest of us surrounded her just as the spell ended.

When mane-iac realized she was trapped she let out a scream of rage before being hauled off by the police.

The fifteen of us watched from a nearby roof with fillisecond laughing at the villians reaction.

"Okay thanks for helping us but who are you and why does he look like a older humdrum" asked the matterhorn curious.

"Your welcome and as for who we are can we talk someplace more secure it's a bit of a long story" I said with a sigh. With that all of us went to the power ponies hq which reminded me a lot of titans tower for some reason.

As we sat at the conference table I took a deep breath.

"My name is james del light with me is my niece twilight sparkle" I pointed to dusk, as the power ponies know her,

"Over there is my apprentice spike, rarity is over there looking at the decor and the shy one is fluttershy, the regal lady here is my old friend queen chrysilas, the pink one talking to fillisecond about recipes is pinkie pie, the blonde is apple jack, hovering in her seat is rainbow dash each of us got transported here by a unknown means" I said with most of the power ponies sans fillisecond were shocked.

"Wait she's me? But how and how are you her uncle? You look no older then sixteen!" Said matterhorn taking off her mask.

"We are from another world actually. Spike over there was reading a comic when next thing we know he was getting absorbed by the book. We tried to pull him out but got dragged along. When we did most of us got changed to fit this world. Spike and James here are the ones not effected. As for how he's my uncle... he's adopted by my aunt in law as a brother so he became my uncle. The reason he looks sixteen is that he was turned into stone a thousand years back and had only been freed for hmm a month. A lot happened back home" explained twilight.

"I'm used to going to alternate realities since I got dragged to equestria from my world unwillingly but I know the multiverse theory quite well. I actually been to other equestrias. Sometimes when traveling to certain world's a rule gets imposed to fit in. This world is within a comic book back in our home and it's nature got imposed so we can fit in. This is a world of heroes after all" I said making matterhorn nod in understanding.

"James as a world traveler knows of others like him. People taken from their realities and placed in another are referred to as displaced short for dimensionally misplaced. James here has met a few and has heard even books can have worlds. This is just one of those times" said twilight.

"Yep crazy things tend to happen even when you don't want to. I think when we got pulled into this world the girls regular forms and personalities got reflected when they transformed to bring you as you are. From what I sensed as we were being sent in the comic was enchanted to bring readers into the roles of the story but as there was more then the roles had available they got copied to fulfill the original intent making you seven the local versions. Spike must have fit the role of humdrum as the moral compass in this world a bit. The fact you got your own thoughts and personalities different then us show your not just a copy but your own person. You don't have any of their actual memories otherwise you would have known about the keyblade" I said making the whole group nod.

But why is spike older then me if I'm supposed to be a reflection of him in this world" asked humdrum curious.

"Actually he is as old as you are but when he gained a keyblade his body was altered to fit his mentality at the time. He took on a entire giant dragon of darkness to save other dragons on his own which earned him his keyblade as he understood what set him apart from other dragons. His heart" I explained.

"Flare my phoenix was a big help in that" said Spike remembering.

"That explains why your keyblade represents the bond you have to that bird" I said amused.

"Just as yours  represents your bond with luna" asked spike.

"Actually I made the Keychain for that you know why I don't like to wield the one that manifested from my heart" I said with a wince.

"About it being connected to someone else and not feeling that it is meant for you?" Asked spike.

"Two becomes one is the name of the keyblade I manifested first. It was used by a person by the name of Roxas who came into existence with a kind of flawed origin. Back home we are fighting beings of darkness known as heartless. Their the manifestation of the darkness in everyone's hearts. If a strong willed person becomes a heartless the body left behind gains a will of its own. That latter is what Roxas is. The body left behind when sora another keyblade wielder lost his heart and became a heartless. Their called nobodies, beings who never existed yet do. Two becomes one belongs to him because it represents the connection to sora he has and the Bonds sora made. Knowing that how can I have it if it's not what I feel is really what represents me" I explained to everyone making them go wide eyed.

"When you put it that way I can see why you prefer nocturne and solarflare as they represent bonds you made not what Roxas and sora made" said twilight.

"Even harmonic chaos the keyblade you got from harmony and Emerl when we met them" said spike.

"You may look like Sora but your not him" agreed rarity understanding that.

"I believe on making my own path not one already walked which is why I won't use two becomes one as that belongs to someone who has gone down another's path" I said thinking of ventus.

"Well is there anyway we can help you nine back to your wotld" asked zapp.

"Can you help us locate the keyhole? It's a kind of enterence to the heart of the world. If the heartless find it they can consume it and destroy the world. With my keyblade we can seal it off from them and if we do that we can return home then can come between both worlds anytime to visit" I asked making the power ponies nod. 

"No problem with all fifteen of us we can cover the whole city to search" said fillisecond.

"Be sure to pick up a communicator so we can keep in touch" said matterhorn.

"But first let's get some sleep I was about to get some shut eye when we got pulled in and the adrenaline is now wearing off" I said yawning. With that we each went to some guest rooms to sleep.

I just knew that tomorrow was just the start of our time in this world. 

(End chapter)
> Finding a way home
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I cursed under my breath at the situation we found ourselves into.

When we went to search the town after breakfast it seemed heartless had managed to arrive in this world and their designs fit this world. They resembled costumed minions normally seen in tokusatsu shows and there was way too many for the fifteen of us to fight. As we were surrounded I gave a quick look around finding we were all back to back with those of us that can't use weapons or magic in the center of our circle.

I explained what heartless were to the power ponies during breakfast and now carried a digital monster bestiary of the kingdom hearts Enemies and it doubled as a scanner. I quickly scanned them.

Shadow Soldiers

Type - Humanoid

These Heartless were born from the darkness of vengeance and will serve recurring evils to their dying breath. Alone, they’re not much, but in a group, they are deadly with teamwork. A whole army can take down a whole town in a minute.

That was not good news. We needed back up and luckily I knew just the trio to help. I pulled out the token I got from Kuuga's world and took a breath.

"Kuuga! I need some help! Bring Daguva and Surprise! We need back-up here!" I said and flipped it into the air.

The coin flipped through the air as it spinned for a moment before a flash of light and an aura of darkness came out of the two sides of the coin. Kuuga came out of the light holding on to a excited Surprise’s hand while Daguva flew out from the darkness as they both slid to a stop.

The coin hovered for a moment as it gently landed in my hand while Kuuga looked rather annoyed for some reason.

“This had better be good!” Kuuga growled as he flinged Surprise up in the air, “I was about to explain to Zecora, Chrysalis, and (I can’t believe I’m saying this…) Fluffle Puff about something important! Do you know how tiring it is for me to carry Surprise when she was about to eat a 100 foot tall sandwich!? She even traumatized the Cutie Mark Crusaders, Diamond Tiara, and Silver Spoon with those dreadful holograms and the Musashi Eyecon! So what is it?! A group of Twenty Heartless?! THIRTY?!?”

"Try three thousand!" I snapped as I pointed around us.

Kuuga tensed and looked around himself as the Shadows growled in confusion to each other.

“Daguva, do you remember that scene from Sonic the Hedgehog 2006 version?” Kuuga asked.

“The one where-?” Daguva started to ask but he quickly dodged a Shadow’s attack to the face before kicking it in the stomach.

“Yes! That one!” Kuuga clarified as he noogied one Shadow before tossing it into a crowd of them as bowling pins crashed in the background.

Surprise made her entrance by crashing headfirst on a Shadow that tried to sneak up on Daguva as it fainted with Heartless Emblems flying around its head.

"Oi Surprise! You see that button on your driver! Press it!" I shouted as I used Nocturne to defend Fluttershy while the rest of our group fought.

Kuuga and Daguva tensed as they quickly dived behind an overturned car for cover as they covered their ears with earmuffs!

Surprise looked confused as the Shadow Soldiers phased through her making my group look shocked as she did so making the driver open up on a hinge.

"Now press the left side of that Eyecon and place it in the driver!" I further instructed but was interrupted by thrown apple by Kuuga who looked really panicked!

“James! You have to understand something about Surprise! She already knows how to transform into that rider!” Kuuga screamed.

"You mean she got some experience as a rider already?" I yelled back as I unleashed my classic magnet thunder combo spell.

“You don’t understand James!” Daguva shouted in horror as his hands spasmed in fear, “She also found that Musashi Eyecon in our Snack Bar in the Cube of Infinite Storage! She teared apart those holograms of Five Nights at Freddy’s 4 like they were papers and weeds! That experience also scared the Cutie Mark Crusaders!! Not to mention Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon who Kuuga managed to reform as he saved them from a bully!”

"Well as she is now she won't do much damage against these Heartless! So we need Ghost to even turn the tide! There is too many here. And even with the power ponies my group besides Spike don't have keyblades yet!" I retorted wondering where the source of the heartless was as I used reflect.

Kuuga slapped his hand on his face before he and Daguva calmly walked out of their hiding place as they turned to the army.

“James, you might want to look away, this might get nasty!” Kuuga growled as he cracked his neck with discomforting noises much to my wincing. Daguva reached for his Limiters while Surprise took out a red Eyecon!

Heading his advice I closed my eyes and motioned everyone else to look away. Agonizing screams followed after many slashes came while explosions followed a few sickening cracks before silences finally came!

Opening my eyes I saw the two riders and alternate boss monster and I was amused to see Surprise kept her feminine figure as Kamen Rider Ghost.

"Thanks, I almost forgot how much power you have" I said panting. Everyone around me also panted in my group.

"Now we need to find the source of these comic book themed Heartless. I'm not liking how many there were and those were Pureblood Heartless not Emblems with how many there were I got a good look," I said concerned.

“Actually,” Kuuga stated as he pulled out the same Shadow Soldier who was knocked out by Surprise earlier, “We have a POW to interrogate! I need yours and Pinkie’s help on this one.” 

"Won't work. outside of Ansem the Seeker of Darkness, no Heartless has ever displayed the ability to talk" I said having played the games a lot.

“Actually, have you thought that they talk in their own language?” Kuuga asked as he squeezed the Shadow’s head tightly.

"You mean that noise a Shadow makes when it moves? Might be possible. At the very least" I said and just in case I transformed to my full black and silver dragon form to deter the Heartless from escaping.

Kuuga quickly tied the Shadow to a chair and shined a lamp on it.

“All right buddy!” Kuuga growled as he leaned in front of the Heartless’s face, “Who is behind these attacks? What is your mission?”

The Shadow growled in discontent as it turned its head away in defiance.

“Tough guy huh?” Kuuga noted before he snapped his fingers as Daguva handed him a picture, “Well, let’s see if you can handle this!”

Kuuga showed the Shadow the picture as it immediately turned white in horror before Daguva burned the picture into ash.

“What was that picture?” Spike asked as the Heartless slowly made some clattering noises and pointed to a random direction.

“Oh, something every Heartless fears the most,” Kuuga stated as he picked up the Heartless and threw it in another random direction, “A picture of the scariest character of Five Nights at Freddy’s Four!”

"Nightmare? Yeah I don't blame them. That one is even more scary than them" I said shuddering as I returned to normal.

Kuuga chuckled as he transformed into Rising Ultimate while Daguva took off all the Limiters off his wrists and ankles and placed them on his belt as rain suddenly started to pour from above!

“By the way James, have you received my message earlier?” Kuuga asked as thunder clashed.

"Yeah I did which means you have to be careful not to become a Heartless I don't think the multiverse would survive your Nobodies" I said with a wince.

“Actually, what if it did happen? But not in this timeline?” Kuuga asked as he took out the Two Becomes One and Rising Ultimate Titan Sword while Daguva took out his Bonds of Flame and Flaming Katana.

"Heaven help us all then. So you got any info on what brought the Heartless here" I asked entering my Keyblade Armor as I motioned everyone to follow.

“I did and it’s not pretty…” Kuuga stated as his hands clenched around his weapons





Daguva and Surprise stared at the fortress before as lightning clash behind it while a combination of the Heartless Emblem, Kuuga’s symbol, and Daguva’s symbol glowed on it.

"Dang that is creepy" I said as the eighteen of us looked at the building. Kuuga could only stare at the doors leading to the inside of the castle before he sighed and suddenly send out a couple of Sword Beams at them before they collapsed to the ground.

"Well let's get this over with. Everyone willing to fight come on, and everyone else act as medics you’re in charge of restoratives good thing there was a moogle on our way" I said.

“Raise your hand to take charge in the assault!” Daguva called out.

The only ones who didn't raise their hands or hooves were Fluttershy, Humdrum, and Zapp.

"From what I saw about your own armor my powers won't help in this situation" sighed Zapp as they gave her questioning looks.

Daguva raised an eyebrow and looked up and snapped his fingers as a lightning bolt suddenly shocked Kuuga as his skeleton was briefly seen before it stopped as he coughed before he shook the soot off him.

"I meant inside I can only use small electricity indoors as my powers are weather based. I would be better in a fight in open air. The most I can do is annoy the enemy in this situation," said Zapp in clarification.

Kuuga turned to Zapp in concern before he gently placed a hand on her head.

“Zapp,” Kuuga spoke as she looked at him in confusion, “Just go to a sheltered place until we need you. You might have weather powers, but you might catch a cold unless you have your amulet activated.”

"Don't worry I can still fly and give you these potions and ethers if needed. I can do that at least!" said Zapp with a grin.

Daguva chuckled at this scene before he turned to Fluttershy, “And you?”

"She's more medic then fighter Daguva. Her day job is involving animals and taking care of them. She's the most knowledgeable on medicine of my group," I said as she blushed.

“And Humdrum?” 

"I just don't have much offense abilities I'm more tech kind of guy, but I can at least try to spot any weakness I can" he said and that reminded the visitors he's practically a kid still smart but still a kid.

“Very well,” Kuuga admitted as he turned towards the crowd of growing Pureblood Heartless and Emblem Heartless. He saw Darkballs, Invisibles, and Bit Snipers in the crowd with Armored Knights, Surveillance Robots, and a Behemoth.

With that the fighters charged.





Six hours later, the group had fought through the army of Heartless and now stood before the throne room of the castle preparing for the confrontation.

“Is everyone ready?” Kuuga asked as he swapped his Rising Ultimate Titan Sword with a Rising Ultimate version of the Pegasus Blowgun while his keyblade glowed as ice magic swirled around it.

"Let's get this over with so we can get out of this comic book. I honestly never thought anything like Pooh's story book was in my Equestria!" I said with a sigh entering Valor form so I could dual wield both Nocturne and Solarflare.

“Shh!” Daguva shushed as he leaned his head against the door, “Do you hear that?”

Everyone quieted and listened.

They could hear organ music before the doors slowly began to open as the group quickly stood back.

"Now I'm being reminded of Castlevania here," I said hoping that we weren't going to fight a being with those abilities.

The music continued to play as a figure sat in front of the organ as if he didn’t hear the doors opening before he stopped and got up from his seat as his black cape flapped.

“Welcome,” The figure spoke in a deep voice as he turned around to reveal another Kuuga in his Rising Ultimate Form but it was completely gray with dark black armor and has a Heartless Emblem on his chest, “I’ve been expecting you. James and other me.”

"Shoot we might have a hard battle ahead," I whispered to the group with a wince.

“I heard that young James,” Another voice spoke up.

"Another Daguva I presume figures you’re in the shadows," I said with a wince.

“Correct,” the other Daguva answered as he stepped to show his black form with white anklets and armbands while wearing white cape armor with the Heartless Emblem on his chest as well.

"Well guess I should go all out for this one" I said as my drive clothes turned green. "Now then to quote a hero of mine, saa count up your crimes!" 

Dark Kuuga, however, laughed as he waved his hand as my clothes reverted back to black.

"My Light Drive! Kuuga if you ever get that ability remind me to kill you if you use it" I said shocked.

“Uh James, I don’t think that’s an ability of Kuuga’s,” Kuuga stated as he stepped back in fear.

Daguva clenched his hands as the thunder outside clashed even louder.

Dark Kuuga laughed as he stepped down the stairs to the group before him as he and Dark Daguva started to walk around them like a pair of sharks swimming around a stranded sailor lost at sea.

"This is bad," I thought as I looked around before I remembered something.

"Wait, if you’re both the future versions of these two then you have the same fears!" I said and gained a smirk.

Dark Kuuga and Dark Daguva raised an eyebrow in confusion before they took out the Void Gear.

"Surprise, Musashi please," I stated with a disturbing grin as everyone got what I was saying.

Kuuga and Daguva slapped their hands over their faces and quickly blindfold themselves while taking a stance with their keyblades.

But the others did see that the two Heartless did pale a lot as the ghostly pegasus grinned as she pulled out the red Eyecon. Surprise pressed the button as an emblem of two swords appeared before she swapped the Eyecon in her belt with the red one before pulling the lever and pushing it back.

KAIGAN! MUSASHI! KETTO! ZUBATTO! CHOKENGO!

Her armor immediately changed as a red parka with glowing red eyes flew out of her driver and strapped on to her. She pulled out the Gangan Saber and put it in Dual Sword Mode.

“Now, who is ready to party!?” Surprise shouted in a crazy voice as flames appeared behind her courtesy of Daguva. 

The group closed their eyes as she floated and charged at the two like a wraith after their souls. Dark Kuuga and Dark Daguva screamed in horror as they covered their eyes, but their fear turned to pain when they felt something stabbed through their torsos! They uncovered their eyes and saw their Amadams on their belts have cracked with a keyblade sticking out before they were removed by their counterparts.

“Rule number one in a fight: Never let your guard down,” Kuuga stated as he tossed his Keyblade up in the air before catching it.

"Second rule: Never take your eyes off your opponent" I said as I slashed them from behind. But they suddenly vanished into thin air before reappearing above us.

“You may have weakened us other versions of ourselves, but we are strong enough to fight against you!” Dark Kuuga angrily stated before the Guardian appeared behind their backs.

"Third rule: be sure that every combatant is accounted for," I sighed as I shook my head.

DAIKAIGAN! Was heard from behind the two Heartless.

Dark Kuuga and Dark Daguva managed to dodge the attack but they still suffered a slash from it.

“Rgh! You may have the upper hand!” Dark Kuuga stated as he held out his hand while Dark Daguva did the same.

“But that doesn’t mean you have won this battle!” Dark Daguva continued before the castle  started to rumble as cracks appeared on the floor.

“IT’S ONLY THE BEGINNING!!” The two Heartless declared before darkness swirled inside the throne room as the two begin to merge.

“Okay, that is sickening!” Kuuga stated as he watched six insect-like arms came out of the darkness followed by four stag beetle wings. Two Heartless legs stomped out of it before a head of a Darkside Heartless covered in a stagbeetle helmet came out and roared at the terrified group.

"Shadow Gouram Darkside," I said having scanned the new Heartless.

I was broken out of my fear by Humdrum.

"Look the gem on it's belt! It's still cracked! If you shatter it, it will possibly be destroyed!" said the small dragon.

"Of course, back home when the Amadam was shattered Kuuga and Daguva lost their powers! Everyone! Aim for the stone! I'll distract it!" I said transforming to my Dragon Form to battle the SGD.

“Okay!” Kuuga shouted as he jumped with Daguva and bicycle kicked the Darkside as it roared in anger as it tried to swipe at them!

But then I shot out a blue flame at its head making it turn its attention to me.

“Hey Big Guy! Down here noodle brain!” Kuuga taunted as he did a akamei.

The SGD roared as it slammed its hand into the ground as Heartless started to come out of a portal it recently made. The Power Ponies took care of those letting me to fly by and slash the Belt with my bladed tail, but I was immediately caught by the giant Heartless as it grabbed Kuuga and Daguva as well and roared at us.

But then Surprise made her appearance with with a Omega Slash further cracking the Amadam making the Heartless let go of the warriors from the pain.

Kuuga and Daguva landed in a crouch with their hands to the ground before pulling out their keyblades as I landed by them and shared each other a look.

The three of us nodded as I grabbed the two and flew up and tossed them at the SGD.

Kuuga and Daguva did a midair somersault and performed a flying sidekick before they started to spin like a drill.

“ULTIMATE STAG BEETLE DRILL KICK!” The duo declared as they drilled through the Amadam.

As I reverted to human form, I casted Gravity on my keyblade.

"This is the end! Gravity Raid!" I roared tossing my keyblade at the stone as the brothers jumped back finally shattering it.The SGD roared as a storm of darkness swirled around it before it shrank to the size of a beachball and collapsed as fragments fell off to reveal two Shadows.

I blinked and looked to the brothers.

"Odd, I was expecting the usual giant heart flying into the air like it usually does with that kind of battle," I said in confusion.

“Maybe it’s because they are not what they claimed to be,” Kuuga stated as he picked up the two Heartless gently and hugged them much to theirs and the heroes’ surprise. A bright light shown as two 8-year-old girls replaced the two Heartless. Both definitely looked related to me.

“They are merely children who’ve lost their mind to power and grief,” Daguva stated as he strapped his Limiters back on as the storm started to clear up outside.

I took a look at the two girls. Both had greenish hair and eyes, but the younger one had a brown streak of hair. Both were dressed in black dresses with what looked like a key symbol on the heart area.

Both looked a bit shocked to see me.

"Daddy, i-is that you!?" Asked the younger girl making all of us surprised.

“DADDY!?!” Daguva exclaimed while Kuuga remained calm, “Wait!Wait!Wait!Wait!Wait! James! Since when did you have kids?!” 

"I think they are from the future I mean Young Xehanort can time travel so these two must have done the same," I said before the two kids looked at Chrysalis and smiled at her.

“Actually,” Kuuga stated as he pulled out a folder with the Heartless Emblem on it, “It’s more than that.”

"How so sugar cube?" asked Applejack.

“I found this during the fight,” Kuuga explained as he opened the folder, “It says something about Project Twilight Evolution.”

"Xemnas! Great so I will have to fight him in the future. Considering my Equestria is up on the border of the Kingdom Hearts universe it's likely he knows who I am when I was a statue" I groaned in annoyance.

“WOULD YOU PLEASE STOP INTERRUPTING ME SO I CAN EXPLAIN?!!?” Kuuga bellowed as the wind blew past my hair for a moment, “I was trying to explain that these two didn’t come from the future, but rather from your presence a few weeks ago.”

Suddenly sobbing could be heard from his arms and Chrysalis took the now crying kids from his arms giving him a glare as she did.

“Sorry,” Kuuga apologized as he stroked the twin’s hair gently, “I sometimes lose my cool when I keep getting interrupted. Look, the reason why these twins called you ‘daddy’ was because they imprinted on you and Chrysalis as they were created from your DNA.”

"Um actually Mr. Beetle we were approached by by a man in a cloak" spoke up the older twin making everyone laugh at Kuuga's new nickname.

“What do you mean?” Kuuga asked, “According to this folder, the man in the black cloak gave you two Amadams from another dimension and amplified your darkness to turn you into Heartless.”

"The meanie took us from mommy here during a storm while daddy was fighting off invaders" said the younger girl.

"Let me check something," I assumed and used Scan on them.

"Thorn and Marie Del Light born from James Del Light and Chrysilas. Half changeling. Well that explains it. They are my kids just from a different timezone," I said only to be surprised when Rainbow Dash cheered.

"I knew you two would get together! It was obvious to everyone, but the two of you!" She flipped in the air.

I felt my jaw drop at her as Twilight groaned.

"Never bet against Dash like this again! Now I'm out the next daring do book when it comes out!" She said lowering her head. A glow caught my attention to the organ as the keyhole appeared.

"Well looks like it's time to head home gang!" I said pulling out my keyblade and sealed the keyhole making a bright light flash. When it died down everyone but the the power ponies was back in Twilight's room with the Mane Six back in pony form.

“James,” Kuuga spoke up as he transformed into his Growing Form, “What’s going to happen to Thorn and Marie? They’re from a different timeline.”

"After my experience with watching Kamen Rider Den-O it's safe to say their timeline no longer exists. It sounded like the Heartless had taken over like Destiny Islands in that timeline. By then I should have sealed Equestria to prevent that. Which means something was different in that timeline. So for now they are staying here. Give them a better future than what they experienced" I said.

“‘For Now?’” Kuuga repeated before he bonked my head with a rubber hammer, “BAKA!” 

"I meant until I can find my own place a library is not a place for kids to live. By here, I was referring to the library! Sheesh!" I explained.

Kuuga growled when his Amadam glowed as he suddenly changed into his Mighty Form as he took out two cream pies and stalked towards me while a miasma came off of him. Daguva and Surprise, however, stepped back to get out of the way.

“Then choose your words more carefully!” Kuuga snapped with comical anger as he threw a pie at me, but I quickly ducked as the pie hit Pinkie instead who slurped it off her face with joy. I quickly ran out of the Library as Kuuga started to throw pies at me.

"Yeow! Kuuga our contract is complete!" I said making him freeze.

"Next time i will get you with a pie!" Said Kuuga as he started to disappear before he laughed in a cheerful tone, “If you are wondering how I transformed into Mighty Form so quickly, I guess my Amadam accelerated my healing process! HAHAHAHA!! Take care of those kids really well!”

“See you later!” Daguva waved as Surprise took a cake and tossed it to Chrysalis.

“Happy Children Celebration Day!” Surprise cheered as she faded out of her armor before she, Daguva, and Kuuga disappeared in particles of light.

"Yeah, good to be home. Okay everyone let's celebrate that was some adventure!" I said as we had a good time, but I frowned as as I remembered what was going to happen next. The bats episode. I hope I can help Fluttershy get through that.

(End chapter)
> Bats, lessons and a unexpected visitor!
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------

I sighed as me and Chrysalis watched thorn and Marie play nearby the sweet apple acres and I noticed the largest apple ever seen in the orchard.

I winced internally at the sight. Out of everyone I befriended only spike and Chrysalis knew that I had future knowledge up to a point and this was one of my more trying experiences from the show. Chrysilas had some drones keeping watch. Applejack had called the girls over about a vampire fruit bat problem and I was making sure the twins were okay. Jex was surprised to being a sudden uncle with Celestia and luna overnight but when I explained that they came from a erased timeline they welcomed the two to the family. I was keeping the power ponies comic in my inventory just in case. 

I sighed as I summoned my newest keyblade heroheart which as you expect was a keyblade based on superheros. I found the Keychain of the power ponies emblem next to the book which had a altered cover to include all of us fighting heartless. It had our entire adventure inside with the ending being the power ponies heading home saying that we would meet again.

I found spike's stash of the series and made sure they were in one whole book so to prevent them from becoming multiple entrances to that world. 

I put away my keyblade and felt some strong magic nearby.

"Guess twilight cast that spell" I stated with a sigh and the changeling queen next to me nodded.

"Well better male sure fluttershy doesn't cause damage later on" I said and the changeling smiled at me.

"I'll watch the twins you go do damage control" said chrysalis and I smiled. Then I frowned thinking over the past week. Celestia and luna both had forced me into a rushed wedding saying that chrysalis as the mother of the twins needed to have the official process so they could welcome her to the family. So yeah I'm married to my best friend in this universe. Even Jex was able to see we liked eachother. I didn't mind but while I was walking I felt like something big was going to happen soon.

I just stared as later that night I gave a deadpan stare with a twitching eye at seeing fluttershy's transformed state. I turned to the five ponies as spike was with me and tapping his foot.

"You just had to use peer pressure didn't you" I near growled as twilight gave a sheepish look.

We ducked as flutterbat swooped by.

"Twilight remind me to give you a lecture on visual resonance and why it's a bad idea to mess with biology" I said sternly and twilight slumped.

"Fine uncle I deserve that" she said as I grew my wings and covered myself in my dragon scale. Flying up I summoned nocturne which caught flutterbat's attention and as she was close to the ground I cast stop on her.

"Use the reverse spell now!" I said and one zap from twilight and when stop wore off fluttershy was back to normal and so were the fruit bats. I scanned her just in case and winced seeing there was still some fruit bat dna in her.

"Shit twilight we really need to have a talk about this. Enough time has passed that some of the fruitbat dna has rooted into her own dna perminantly she will have her sense of self but she may find she can transform into flutterbat still the change is mainly harmless but her life won't be the same for now on. And this goes for you four as well! Seriously applejack when fluttershy is talking about something relating to animals listen! She's the expert on this kind of thing! From what I heard from some of the other displaced I met during the war of shadows when they went through this event it took you cutting your record breaking giant apple to lure flutterbat to a point of using mirrors and her own stare on herself just so twilight could get her back to normal. I managed to avoid that thankfully but I will let the five of you explain what happened to fluttershy she honestly has no idea what happened when she became part fruitbat. Geez! And twilight I will have spike tell Celestia about this incident! Maybe it will help you learn to think things through. I get that the six of you are best friends and makes you go into herd mentality but this is ridiculous in how this can go wrong. I don't want to hear any complaints about this. We were just lucky it was fruit bats and not regular vampire bats that would have been a disaster waiting to happen" I said as I reverted to normal and motioned spike to follow me. 

Twilight sighed and lowered her ears with her other friends. "We really messed up didn't we" asked rainbow.

"Eeyup and majorly at that. Fluttershy may forgive us but it might be a while until everyone else does. Ah for one am not looking forward to discord when he hears about this" said applejack. Fluttershy is his best friend and mess with her and discord pranks you for a month straight. 

"I just know I'm not going to live this down this is almost as bad as the want it need it incident" said twilight with a frown. 

"In hindsight fluttershy had the best idea about this" said pinkie her hair straight.

At this point fluttershy woke up confused.

"Oh my what happened" asked fluttershy seeing the looks on her friends. The five looked a bit nervious but rarity slowly explained what happened and james' stern lecture to them.

"I... can see where he is coming from, trying to change nature is not without concequinces. He is right though I am the expert when it comes to animals my talent revolves around them. I tried to tell you it was a bad idea but you were so set on going through with this I doubted you would have listened. While I will forgive you girls he is right we have to live with the concequinces of our actions so if I have to live with being part fruit bat for the rest of my life then so be it. It will have to serve as a reminder of this incident. I might have to ask luna to help me with my transformation as night is her domain. I got to need her help in seeing if this changes my life besides physical aspects. Like if I'm nocturnal or dinural now" said fluttershy thinking it over.

With that the group went home five of them learning the life lesson of actions have concequinces and it was best to listen to someone who knows about the subject matter.

The next day the group set up a fruit bat sanctuary and twilight was still rubbing her ears from the lecture given by both James and Celestia on the incident. Luna was helping fluttershy with figuring out her new abilities and changes and James had actually gave a fitting punishment for twilight after the whole mess. She wasn't allowed to use magic except for reading and her job as librarian but other wise she can't use her magic for a month which he hopes will teach her disipline on what is allowed for magic and not. She accepted the punishment knowing she had it coming. Though james also gave Celestia a lecture on how to recognize signs of when someone's passion is getting out of hand and for twilight it was when her curiosity and trying new things with magic overrode her common sense. seemed Celestia forgot to teach twilight how not to let her curiosity get out of hand.

"Remember twilight the next time your curiosity gets out of hand like that I will turn you into a cat so you can see how bad too much curiosity is!" warned james sternly as seeing as he was the only relative near twilight at the moment he decided to try and teach her lessons to help her be a better princess. And learn from your mistakes. 

James may be of some royal blood back home but he was raised as a normal person which taught him some good leadership skills. And now he was using his Growing proficiency in transformation magic as a way of imparting those lessons on his neice. Everyone still recalled how he turned Celestia into a cat herself for being lazy enough to forget to teach twilight how to control impulses. For a week straight.

Currently he was turning to impart a lesson all of them should know for when they gained Keyblades themselves.

"Spike I'm sure you noticed that you haven't changed when entering another universe like you did in a human world right? Seeing as we went to alternate equestrias? Well you should all know something. As keyblade wielders the magic we use allows us to normally not be effected to transformations to fit in with other worlds like when we entered the power ponies comic. The only change you had was a eye mask like me while everyone else became human. There are certain exceptions like a world created by the holidays. We will be changed to fit in that world. Your nightmare night holiday is this world's equivalent to the holiday I know as halloween. So in halloween town you would be transformed to fit the holiday. In pride lands you would become altered to fit in. There the only magic you can use is that granted by the keyblade everything else that's magic is locked until we get off world. This is the other reason I'm not having you use magic except for your job as the librarian. It's to prepare you for that" I said.

"Wait does this mean that I won't turn into a dog when going through the mirror portal anymore" asked Spike curious.

"That's right though if we visit pride lands you would become a variant canine that exists in that world like a hyena or wolf. It depends on your personality. So a wolf is the most likely option you will become on that world. Since I look like Sora I would have a similar form he has on pride lands. A lion" I said nodding to him.

"Knowing twilight she would become a variant of a intellectual animal the closest I can think of is a raven" said spike.

'Ironic since back home her voice actor Tara strong also voices raven from teen titans but yeah I can see that happening' I thought inwardly amused.

"Then rainbow dash would be a falcon considering she like to fly constantly" I said.

"That is true I am hardly on the ground so seeing me walk is a bit rare" said rainbow sheepishly.

"Fluttershy would have to be a bat I would have said a kitten but with this stunt a bat would be her natural form there. Normal bats and fruitbats are normally harmless the only one that has to be watched for is the vampire bat. Rarity with her grace would also fit a wolf or a feline form but with her beauty she would most likely become a fox on pride lands" I said and she had a proud look.

"No contest" everyone agreed.

"Applejack is a bit hard to tell as she is stubborn and tends to be hard to change her mind which I think she has learned why such a thing is not exactly good with what happened" I said giving her a look as she was the main reason fluttershy is now part bat.

"A gazelle maybe" said Spike with a shrug.

"Pinkie would be a type of Monkey no doubt about it" I said deadpan.

She giggled and I was not surprised I could see a certain pink monkey I know of in her. 

"Chrysilas I am not sure on what she will be as her shape shifting and acting skills are making it hard to peg her. Other then that because I know the true her I would say a lioness as she does take pride in her hive and does run them much like a pride of lions does." I said.

"What about apple bloom and her friends? You said they had the potential to be keyblade holders" said applejack nodding to the three listening in.

"Apple bloom is the one that keeps the other two from straying on their task and looks out for them so she would most likely be a wolf as well with how loyal she is to her friends. Sweetie Belle is the one that is the thinker of the group and would most likely be a fox like rarity due to cunning and creativity" I said and looking at Scootaloo I thought deep on her traits that are most notible.

"Scootaloo is much like a hummingbird, full of energy and has a hard time sitting still plus with how fast her wings can go the image fits her quite well. I should know I'm much like her in that I can't stay still for more then a hour back home at school it wasn't much of a issue as classes were each a hour long except for finals so I know what I'm talking about here" I said making the orange pegasus excited.

"Explains why after a hour you constantly move around back home though you have trouble falling asleep I noticed when I do some reaserch" said twilight curious.

"That was because I was born hyperaware I am pretty much always aware of the world around me and my mind is constantly active it's a type of insomnia that some can get at birth making it hard to get a sleep schedule that is more normal. So I'm used to having less sleep then a human should" I said with a sigh.

"Let me guess eight hours is the normal sleep period a human gets" asked twilight.

"Yep I pretty much only get half that amount normally but being hyperaware does have some benifits spike actually spotted the weakness of the heartless faster then I did when we were in the power ponies world" I said.

"When you live near two detail obsessed people you pick up a lot of observation skills" said Spike with a amused grin at both twilight and rarity.

Rarity blushed knowing that was required in her profession. If the details aren't right the ensemble would fall apart. Twilight blushed as well as being such a avid reader that was a skill she developed.

It was then I realized something when I look at rarity as she gazed at spike after he teased both of them.

'Holy she does love him as he got comfortable around her enough to tease her and she doesn't mind at all! Maybe getting the two together won't be as hard as I thought' I spared a glance with the others and saw they also noticed what I did.

This would be interesting to see.

"So twilight when am I meeting Cadence and Shining again I still want to get to know them our meeting got interrupted by heartless if I remember" I said. With that twilight started telling stories about her time with the two and my face froze as she told me about how she learned about the wedding.

"Wait he let you know at the last minute though a letter and didn't even tell you he was dating or got engaged?" I asked.

When she nodded I facepalmed.

"Great no matter the universe that is still the most idiotic of mistakes you can pull with family I'm sure you gave him the riot act about it only to forget about it on learning who the bride was" I said and twilight nodded only to freeze as she remembered she still needed to finish telling her brother off about that as she doubted Cadence knew about it since it was chrysalis at the time.

"Oh right I remember that bit that was purely shining as while I was absorbing love from him it wasn't that much to effect his normal thought process" said chrysalis with Marie and thorn coming up.

"Does Cadence even know how twilight learned of the wedding" I asked curious.

"I don't think so" said my wife thinking on it.

"Shining is going to learn a important lesson on married life. Never make the wife ticked off at you for a mistake because she might punish you for it" I said recalling when I accidentally made chrysilas mad at me and I ended up in those caverns under canterlot until I had gotten out and it took me two days to get home as the trains were undergoing a four day maintainance period and even with glide from the edge of canterlot to ponyville it was a long trip. Considering glide is slow most of the time.

By the expression on my wife's face she remembered that as well.

With that set we finished the bat sanctuary and we headed home and I waved to vinyl scratch and Octavia as we went past though I had to pull a matrix move when Lyra shot at me and ended up going over me with a shocked expression making us roll our eyes. Lyra was definitely the human obsessed pony most fans portrayed her as in this universe. I been telling her about my birth world as I remember and my own opinions of events that had happened. And that last I checked there was still a war on terrorism going on and would be a endless battle as there was going to always be terrorists in some form.

The 9/11 incident really was scary as I was only around six or five years old when it happened and there was a possibility one of those suicide bombers was going to crash in LA at the time. That was a time where I hated being hyperaware as it made me acknowledge death at such a young age that it got to the point I can't even watch someone die in historical films. Yeah ptsd is a bit of a understatement on that. Luna has been working some sleep magic on me to help me through it but fifteen years living with it wasn't easy to get rid of nor was I ever the same about it. It was another reason I wanted to be a writer back on earth so I can try and help others who have gone through the same thing and maybe in the process help myself get over the experience. When Lyra and the others heard about it after I explained what suicide bombers were and thus planes it was understandable that the ponies was trying their best to help me through it.

But Lyra was being a bit extreme in this by trying to sneak attack me with affection but as I was hyperaware I heard her moving through the air and reacted as such.by now the town didn't bat a eye as I straightened and continued my walk like nothing happened considering how much this occured.

It was then I noticed a pony I recognized as cheerilee was acting a bit out of character dressed up as a punk fighter and sparring with some of the griffon soldiers gilda personally trained from her father's journals. It wasn't until I saw the red streak and red eyes did I realize what was going on.

I walked over to the pocessed mare before I pushed some magic onto her stomach making her out of character look vanish as a red oni like figure tumbled to the ground.

"Momotaros! Figures what in the multiverse are you doing pocessing a school teacher of all people" I said giving the imagin a look.

"I was bored and trying to see if I can find away back to denliner. But how do you know my name" asked the imagin giving me a look.

"Im from another world like you and it's possible that something scattered you guys from the sands of time. I better take you with me before you cause anymore touble. Sorry guys but I got this situation" I said to the griffon only for half to glare at me and I winced.

"Sorry ladies hard to tell gender apart with that armor go ask spike for modifications to prevent a repeat of this mistake" I said and that calmed them down and I told the confused teacher that I will explain what happened later.

Looked like another adventure has started.

(End chapter)

> Finding the others and a new home.
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I sighed as I gave the red oni imagin a look my wife doing the same.

"So Momotaros do you know where the others are" I asked curious as to how a imagin from my personal favorite kamen rider series even got here.

"If I knew I would be back on denliner" said the imagin.

"Good point so any reason you have a solid form?" I asked and was pinching my nose trying to stave off the headache of Pinkie supplying him with pudding.

"Mainly because the singularity points I'm connected with are stuck in this time period" said momotaros.

"Wait ryotaro, yuuto and kotaro are here!" I said wide eyed.

"Who?" Asked momotaros.

"Ah now I see your a varient from the momotaros I know of" I said now understanding that while it really is the hot blooded imagin it's not the one from the show.

I froze as I felt something impact my back and ash erupted from my clothes.

"Did a imagin just enter my body" I asked and everyone else nodded their heads to shocked to speak. The sand soon formed what looked like a being most known as the rabbit imagin but I could tell it was a female and not male like the one from the show.

".... wait a minute your a singularity! Gah how did I miss this until after I went and entered you!" Said the imagin her voice oddly reminding me of my twin sister back on earth.

I oddly felt like someone I missed had been seen once again.

"Question what's your favorite video game" I asked feeling a hunch.

"Pokémon or harvest moon why?" Asked the imagin.

"Does the name scism ring any bells with you" I asked and began feeling a migrane when she froze.

"How did you" asked the imagin and I face palmed.

"Well this is unexpected long time no see banshee" I said with a sigh.

"Hold on only one person called me by that nickname!" Said the imagin wide eyed.

"Hey sis glad to see you still retain some memories been over a thousand years since I saw you. So our timeline got erased if you became a imagin is any indication" I said and everyone but the new arrival had their jaw drop.

"Sister" asked everyone and I noticed Celestia and luna had joined up with us and looking between us.

"Yep meet my twin from earth Elizabeth or as I used to call her banshee due to the fact she can't control her volume level much like luna does when she doesn't realize she enters the royal canterlot voice" I said with a eyetwitch.

"Ah so this is the sister you told us about I thought you said it was going to be very unlikely that you would find her if you got back to your earth" said Celestia nodding.

"Considering over a thousand years have passed I thought it was unlikely because by then everyone I knew would have been long dead. Though I think a worse fate for my earth had been unnoticed til now" I said looking to my sister.

"I already briefed you on the imagin and what happens to a time stream getting altered right" I said.

"Yes ... oh!" Said twilight as her eyes widened in shock.

"Yes because sometime around when I got Displaced from earth my timeline got erased as singularity points act as anchors to time. As a result we are uneffected by alterations to time itself. Because we remember the true time line any changes to the past would be reversed if time traveled to the past. Without me anchoring my earth from alterations to time my earth possibly has become a wasteland and anyone connected to the erased timeline have become imagin. Beings who seek to repair their timeline by changing the past" I said.

"A side effect of being contracted to a singularity point  makes that part impossible. And unwise" said a teen voice from behind us and turning I went wide eyed as what looked like a teen thorn who was dressed in a true gothic look was leaning on the entry way to the library.

Marie was also there only her outfit was more a feminine version of my own.

That was when I made the connection.

"Your connected to thorn and Marie momotaros!" I said giving him a glare.

He flinched now seeming to recognize me.

"Oh now I remember you! Uh sorry but hard to beleive you look so different in this era then back in our time" said the imagin backing away.

"Let me guess Marie is your contractor right" I said and my daughter's future self nodded brightly.

"Yep I'm the deno of our time sis is strike deno but teddy isn't born yet. Hey nice to see you all again aunt luna, aunt Celestia, aunt beth" waved marie.

"aunt" asked my sister giving me a look.

"To be fair sis their from a erased timeline themselves if I don't seal this world off from the heartless" I said raising my hand and summoning my keyblade and she calmed down.

"So their the kids of another version of you" asked my sister.

"Yep currently their eight years old and like you and me are twins. Thorn is the elder of the two. Anyway sis better get your body solid so my wish is for you to help me protect our family for as long as I live" I said and her body went from sand sculpture like with her legs above her head to a brown and black feminine version of the rabbit imagin.

I twitched as I noticed her chest was the same as when she was human.

"Sis at least some things don't change" I said looking at her green eyes, curled hair and her figure and not to mention her build.

"Great back pain is going to be a problem" she said looking herself over.

"Hey at least your not going to have your bones dislocated so easy as when you were human. Heck your strength is better then ever now so there are some positives" I said.

"Odd something else about me feels different" said my sister before suddenly becoming a sword that had her head on the hilt.

"Wait so I get that from dad! Sweet!" Said thorn wide eyed and a interested glint in her eye.

"Great so thorn takes after me and Marie takes after my sister a bit with some of my wife's personality" I said seeing thorn acted like I was when trying to figure something out.

"What do you mean" asked chrysalis with narrowed eyes.

"My sister tends to act a bit melodramatic that is a drama queen at times and has some kind of bad luck. I'm the same on the luck I am just skilled enough to avoid most of it. You know how that is before I broke free of being stone" I said deadpan.

"Oh right I still remember the times you got hit in the head by a fake leather ball during whenever you could get a break during the rebuild of equestria after discord was defeated before" said chrysilas with a sheepish smile.

"Wow that still happens to you james" said my sister reverting to normal laughing.

"That happened back on earth when I'm playing some sports such as basketball" I said giving my sister a slight glare.

"Ah yes i remember when you introduced that to the young ones back when you first arrived to keep them occupied the sport has spread since your unintended time as a statue" said Celestia with a giggle as back then james was working on conjuring and created a basketball then taught the rules of the game to the young children when they got curious.

"Wait james was the one who brought such a awesome sport to equestria! It helped in training my speed over in cloudsdale and my reaction time" said rainbow wide eyed and seemed to be in heaven if the glazed eyes and wide grin was any indication.

"Anyway dad yes momotaros and the others are connected to us they were our babysitters with aunt beth and miss pie over there" said thorn pointing at momotaros.

"So any idea on where urataros, kintaros, ryutaros, seig and Deneb are" I asked remembering teddy momotaros' son wasn't born yet.

"My guess ghastly gorge negataros might be keeping a eye on them." Said marie.

I thought I heard a record scratch as I quickly turned my head to her.

"Negataros as in the darker imagin that resembles momotaros here and becomes kamen rider nega deno the same one that last I know of once tried to take over earth" I asked.

"I set him straight when he thought he could use me to continue where he left off it was funny how he quickly ended up getting redeemed" smirked thorn with a glint in her eyes.

"Ended up instead as a weapon didn't he with no control unless you allow it" I said.

"Yep he's kinda resigned to the fact he has to become a hero or face the wrath of the whole family" said thorn with a smirk.

"That's the Irish in us mess with one family member you mess with the whole clan" I said with a chuckle.

"Anyway denliner is back to normal but it can't take us back to our time" said thorn.

"Okay so we don't get confused between the you of this time I'm just going to call you both mirai instead of del light" I said deadpan.

"Del light" asked beth amusement clear in her voice.

"I will explain what happened since that convention sis" I said with a sigh as we each stood and headed to the gorge and sure enough the other imagin was being attacked by the place.

"Wow nice to see the gorge I created so long ago is still up to snuff. when I figured where ponyville was going to be built I created this to act as part of the natural town defenses though according to twilight you thought it made a good obsticle course to practice your flight rainbow. I actually based it off a area in radiant garden known as the cavern of remembrance took me a while to find the life forms needed for the defence in the walls. Never got the chance to see how it became after I added those rock worms as not long after I left them here I got stoned so seeing how they evolved and in action is making my day" I said.

"That surprisingly makes sense I tried to discover how this came to be after that incident trying to find rainbow's pet caused" said Celestia.

"James while the middle sibling to us is very crafted to defense so he trained the millatary to use the tarrain to their advantage" said luna.

While we had walked over to the gorge I filled my sister in on everything.

"What a crazy family we ended up in" said beth laughing.

"Your one to talk your now a bunny" I said deadpan.

"And you turn into a dragon so right back at you" said beth.

"Yeah but it does kind of fit my personality" I said.

"So how are we going to get them out of there" asked rainbow looking as the Taros brothers, seig and Deneb dodged as fast as they could.

"Easy have dad stop the gorge he made it so it should be under his control" said thorn.

With that I shrugged and entered and immediately the gorge went still and it took the imagin about a half hour to realize they weren't bring attacked anymore much to our amusement and their embarrassment as thorn recorded the whole thing to video.

After catching them up to speed we headed back to the castle and I turned to my daughters older selves.

"So who's zeronos if Deneb is here" I asked curious.

"Surprisingly it's my boyfriend his name is prince talon" said thorn with a smirk and by the new griffon following gilda towards us I has a idea of who he was.

"He's Gilda's son isn't he" I asked amused.

"Yep he was born around the same time as when me and Marie was actually born in this timeline which is three years from now for you" said thorn with a smile as she waved her boyfriend over.

"Oi james any idea why he is calling me mom" asked gilda confused.

"He is your son from the future you wouldn't stop preening thorn and Marie Everytime you visit from your camp" I said deadpan.

"And judging by the teens that look like them their the future selves of the twins" asked gilda as what with the Heartless situation she can belive time travel is possible.

"Yep though now I know when the two are supposed to be born now and thus your son. Three years from now" I said.

"really" asked gilda.

"Turns out I'm a singularity point and thus so is my kids and apparently you as well. Basically we anchor the timeline for the world by just existing. I do know that it does run in families the other beings with us are imagin their from the sands of time. The rabbit one used to be my twin sister back on earth." I said as they each introduced themselves.

"Nice to meet you" said gilda with a nod.

"That reminds me I got to pick up the twins from school and explain what is going on to cheerilee. Momotaros was pocessing her when I found him" I said.

"Huh" asked gilda.

"We can explain" said marie before explaining about the imagin.

When we got to school two fillies one black furred the other red ran up both were unicorns.

"Thorn, marie what did I say about disguise magic" I said with a look.

"Sorry dad but it was needed everyone kept staring at our human forms" said thorn shyly.

"Yep you take after me I was pretty shy back in school myself and felt nervious when attention was placed on me. Marie must be a social butterfly with her own friends" I said.

"Well just the cmc" sighed marie.

"Diamond Tiara and silver spoon" I asked and I looked at the secretly abused filly with her dad.

I was given some of the episodes of the season I missed after the tantalus episode by other displaced during the war of shadows which we watched so I had a idea of what I'm going to face in the future. Some of them I wasn't sure was even supposed to be out in my earth at the time but then again with all the different earth's people get displaced from I think it was due to different times. I mean one displaced I met on the volteran side of the conflict was from the year 3000 on earth before he was displaced so he had the full season as apparently friendship is magic was a classic cartoon to rerun in his time. Only spike and Chrysalis plus Jex knew about the full season.

"Yes but I know she changes for the better at some point" said thorn.

"Don't worry that's going to take and while" I said kindly before I froze as I remembered jex.

"Shoot I forgot to check in with jex" I said and grabbed my twin by her arm ad motioned for everyone of our group to follow.

"Who is jex" asked beth currious.

"Sis think I'm currently stuck as sora from Kingdom Hearts in my human form" I said deadpan.

"Oh your version of roxas" she asked knowing the story as I did.

"Yep his full name is Jexmas so we shortened it to Jex as it was hard to pronounce" I said.

"Makes as much sense to you" said beth with a look.

"Not funny sis" I said and remembered she was one of the reasons I had migraine headaches. Pinkie was feeling a bit of Deja vu with watching the two interact and was being reminded of her and her own twin mable.

She could tell james was the mable of the two while his sister was much like herself. And the group were now getting to the tree of harmony that now had a nearby house built by the apple family so Jex had a place to sleep. Jex himself was talking with a pegasus that looked a lot like rainbow dash but the colors was not just the six in a rainbow as the colors blended together between the six colors of rainbow's mane. Her cutie mark was a prism. The darker blue pegasus seem to smirk once she spotted them.

"Ah I was wondering if you would imitate the version of you with emerl" I said and while Emerl's harmony resembled pinkie apparently the one before me was like rainbow.

"Hay beats just being a tree" said loyal harmony as I was calling her and by the amused look she read my mind and took the name in stride.

"Considering what Emerl goes through with his harmony no kidding. Anyway Jex you won't believe who just showed up" I said and the Roxas look a like rose a eye at the imagin.

"Hello there Jex james told me a bit about you" said my twin with a wave of her hand.

"Elizabeth! But how" said Jex wide eyed.

"You knew just from the voice I had to check that it really was her by asking her things I knew only my sister would know" I said facepalming.

"But if she is here where's steven" asked Jex confused.

"As far as I know my older brother might not have become a imagin" I said with a wince.

Not knowing the fate of your birth family was not a feeling that should be known. The fact my sister was a imagin was possibly a very rare chance.

I was lucky that my sister is still alive at least.

"That reminds me sis how did you get to equestria if earth is in a seperated dimension" I asked turning to look at her.

"My memory is a bit fuzzy there last I remember as a human mom died from cancer" said beth and I winced feeling pain bloom.

"Mom's dead! And to make things worse there isn't even a body after the timeline was erased" I said and my sister hugged me with Celestia and luna.

I even felt harmony join in.

"I knew that I should have expected it she had cancer when I went to the convention but still" I said.

"James you still have us" said applejack knowing how her own folks wasn't there.

"Plus we can work through this" said my wife taking on a human form and rubbing her hand over my back.

"Right now what are we going to do about housing. I still need to find a proper home for the twins as no offense chrysilas but your hive is more or less for the drones not you and the twins" I said.

"Point" agreed chrysilas.

"How about near my place there is a lot of space not taken up by the refuge camps of the other races" said fluttershy.

"Or we can use the castle after restoring it" I said feeling like that was for the better option.

"Good point it would make a good defending area against heartless I will get some drones on the build crew our resin is as good as cement" said my wife.

"Have rarity help with decor I am not the best at that and Spike as well we might need to make the castle a fall back point in case ponyville falls" I said.

"Of course we are on the job!" Said rarity.

"I can spare some griffin soldiers to help lift the stones into place" said gilda.

"I was about to suggest a team of pegasus as well but well your talons are better at gripping then hooves" said rainbow.

"I'll call my family over no works stone like my family" said pinkie.

"And maybe meet aunt mable and Maud again you three were pretty good at looking after us as children" said mirai thorn.

"We're still unsure of limestone" said mirai marie with a uneasy smile on her face.

"Good thing about singularity points meeting past or future versions of ourselves won't cause a paradox" I said.

I noticed twilight relax possibly worried about just that.

"A example of how I know this is that Sakurai yuuto who was the zeronos of my home had met his future self and even fought together to handle a troublesome imagin" I said.

"Yep I even met him once gave me tips on how to handle Deneb if he gets annoying" said talon a rather fixed look on his face.

"Displaced" I asked curious.

"Yep guy even trained me to fight as zeronos and I use custom cards so when I do become zeronos no one will forget me like his did until he got his twilight to do the same" talon said.

"Yeah that was one quirk I never really got about zeronos why was the cards needed to transform crafted from his memories erasing his presence to time" I said and as always trying to figure that out gave me a headache.

"Mainly because he was trying to hide from imagin and keep time stable in the process" guessed talon.

"I'll call up my clan to help move the stone" applejack suggested.

"And that leaves me to oversee this with my organization skills" said twilight.

"Oh yeah that's right you girls were already trying to restore the castle when you found me" I recalled.

With that we got to work and the Taros brothers and the rest joined in. Beth ended up testing to find if anything needed reinforcement or needed to be redone and rebuilt.

During the rebuild I found inspiration manifestation and placed that I'm my hammer space so I could see about making a weaker version as rarity didn't need it in this world heck I found out the thing attracts heartless though for a odd reason a wolf heartless wasn't attacking anything but other heartless and it had the coloration of a soldier heartless.

Turned out the amulet Emerl's Sombra gave me allowed me to control specific heartless and this particular one was identified by my older looking daughter as my pet darkwolf named valor. Turned out it was the heartless of a regular wolf and it's nobody counterpart was apparently jex's fraction like the samurai was to roxas.

It was mainly a case of a heartless retaining it's original mind and with the amulets control it warmed up to me quite well.

Seeing as I wasn't like Sora being more balanced then he was I found controlling a pack of these heartless to be easy and sent them as scouts to investigate other heartless activity.

Due to my bond with valor I can understand what their thinking. So there was my way of keeping tabs on the heartless. With the help of everyone and meeting pinkie's family breifly the work went quite quick. Me and mable got along great being similar enough to become fast friends. Limestone I'm not even going to ask because she creeps me the heck out.

All in all the castle was restored and now had elements of the cultures of those living in the area thanks to rarity who knew that the place was to be a evacuation point for everyone just in case. Loyal was even moving in explaining she didn't have a range on how far from her true body her avatar can go. Rarity and Spike really out did themselves in their work. I smiled as we all looked over the gothic yet pleasent decor and I took a deep breath.

"Wow feels like home" said chrysalis with a relaxed smile her wings humming a bit.

"James we filled out the appropriate paperwork to transfer the deed of this castle to you. its nice to see castle eclipse back to mint condition take good care of it you two" said Celestia and I smiled fondly remembering the six months I lived here when I first arrived.

"Man time flies hard to beleive how things can change so suddenly I still remember those six months I spent here before becoming stone. I'm kinda glad I used the stop spell on me as at the time my heart wouldn't have lasted in a statue over the years" I said.

"Yes lucky for you stopping time around yourself had saved your life even expanded it" said Celestia trying not to think on the fear she felt at loosing two siblings that day.

"This battle against Sombra won't stop until the key hole is found and the world is safeguarded from the heartless threat" I said as I looked over my keyblade armor again taking in its details.

"James how is your sister handling her sistuation" asked luna walking up.

"Other then the fact she's starting to be called princess by seig or that she seems to be developing a crush on him it's quite well I did warn seig on what we would do to him if he harms my sister. I know he won't but with his arrogance it's hard to tell" I said.

With that we looked to the sky as in the distance the sun rose and I gave Celestia a look. Yep her horn was faintly glowing.

"Celestia seems you got to the point your rising the sun subconsciously maybe to the point you can actually do it in your sleep" I said amused.

"I had practice with both the sun and moon" she said sheepishly.

"Well I'm beat took all night to even get all our belongings to their place" I said yawning and waved to the two as I headed to the room I shared with my wife ready to get some sleep.

(End chapter)
> Nightmare night escalation
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I woke up and smiled as I thought of the perfect way to keep the allience morale up. A nightmare night masqrade bash. I pitched the idea to chrysilas and she smirked and when asked about costumes I just gave a grin.

"I got that covered just have everyone enter the ballroom while I get pinkie to set up the party with everyone" I said with a smile that just screamed mischievous which made my wife interested.

I tracked down jex and loyal and asked them to help set up a nightmare night party in the ballroom. While I was tracking them down pinkie had already been at work when I went by the ballroom. I snapped my fingers creating invites to the party shaped like bat puppets and sent them off while the Taros brothers were helping to set up.

I had took a few weeks working out the spell that transformed me to fit in on a specific world and altered it to be casted on whoever entered the ball room and I honestly wondered how everyone would feel about the Halloween town feel of the spell. I made sure to place the counter on the condition on if they exit from the main doors which is the designated enterence and exit of the party just had to cast on different sides of the door.

With everything set up I and the others waited at the front door to the castle and when everyone arrived I led them to the ball room with a large grin.

"Welcome everyone I felt that we needed to relax so without further ado enjoy" I said waving them though the door and as they went through I was amused at what they became. Spike ended up looking like a undead version of himself while rarity had become a similar being. Twilight became a witch with luna and sweetie. Rainbow was interesting becoming half griffin half pegasus which made me wonder on her family because that form looked to natural for her. Applejack ended up a werewolf which surprised me a bit. Pinkie herself became a rag doll while my wife became a skeleton. The twins both versions became what I recognized as similar halloween town forms as me just altered to fit their gender. Gilda had become surprisingly a cyborg. Apple bloom was a werewolf and Scootaloo was a harpy. Fluttershy obviously became a vampire.

Everyone else had been altered generically. The minotaur guests became demons, the other griffins had become undead knights, the dragons had become what I recognized as bone dragons and the ponies was split between necromancer for unicorn, threstral for pegasus or behemoths for earth pony. Celestia ended up looking like a preist. Even loyal wasn't spared becoming a kitsune. Considering she took after dash and her love of pranks I wasn't surprised on this. Jex even became similar to me as a vampire. (Same as current cover art)

I was currently looking at my arms which normally my arms were not twigs but my arms did seem to have become quite thin when I transformed. The only difference I found between me and sora was the mask. While sora had what seemed like a orange bat/Jack-o-lantern mine was a black dragon.

Everyone was looking over there transformed states curiously.

"What I did say it was a nightmare night party I just made sure you had appropriate costumes. What I did was cast a spell normally used to blend in other worlds specifically this one was for a world known as halloween town. On earth halloween was the human version of nightmare night and it's the residents of halloween  town's job to keep the holiday alive it's basically what keeps their world in existance. your currently are what you would have looked if born there. Though dash after this we are looking through your family tree that form looks to natural on you!" I said giving her a look.

"I'll say until you said something I didn't even notice" said the cyan pegasus - griffin hybrid looking herself over.

"Explains why you got along with me so well at least" said gilda nudging her.

"Why do you look so different from us" asked Lyra to the only unique costumes curious.

"Has to do with their potential to wield a keyblade or has a ability similar to it. My wife is a changeling so being a exoskeleton in her case is expected and she has a sheild that was enchanted to be similar to the keyblade. Luna and Celestia has enough magic to conto the sun and moon and thus is strong enough to fight heartless without the risk of them reforming. Loyal there while new is connected to the tree of harmony protecting her from the heartless. The rest of you was just altered to fit basics. Though fluttershy is in her natural state for that world after she became part bat" I explained.

With that out of the way the party began with a concert by the Taros brothers and other imagin except my sister who was talking with my other family.

I warned them me and my sister are not that great at singing and I gave them a cue. The imagin went off into a rendition of this is halloween which was a hit as the band was going into other halloween songs. Though we soon had some unexpected guests in the form of jack skeleton and Sally from halloween town itself!

"Well this is surprising the pumpkin king and the duaghter of a mad scientist of halloween town what do I owe the visit tonight" I asked walking up to the two.

"We came by to check out the holiday spirit of course and I have to say you know how to set the mood" said jack.

"Thought have we met? Something tells me I should know you" Sally asked.

"This is the first time we met sorry" I said.

"Hmm odd I'm sure I never saw anyone like you before what is your name" asked jack.

"It's james del light" I said.

"Really hmm something is telling me we might meet again but why do I keep seeing blue eyes in my mind" said jack.

"Oh now I know what your talking about your talking your thinking of a different person we just really look alike I have green eyes but if you do meet him know his mask usually resembles a orange bat or jack-o-lantern on his head" I said with a thoughtful look.

'So I'm some point before the events of kingdom hearts currently that's interesting' I thought.

With that I told the two halloween town residents about what was going on and why I set up this party.

"Ah I see well its been fun but we got to head back halloween doesn't prepare itself after all. We might come by to visit next time and learn more about the equivalent of our holiday here if you ever want to visit just find the door" said jack after a moments thought.

"Maybe later jack!" I said and gave Sally a look.

"You might want to make the first move Sally, jack is really dense between you and me" I wispered to her and she nodded seeing my point.

After they left I was soon dragged into a discussion with spike and rarity.

"Hey james for some reason I got a sense of Deja vu" said Spike.

"That's because Sally is like you spike in love with someone a bit dense to notice" I said giving rarity a look which spike caught.

"Really who's the mare that has your heart" asked rarity and both of us just stared at her deadpanned.

"Case in point" I said and walked away hearing rarity ask spike what I meant.

Jeez looks like I was going to need to do some work if I'm going to get these two together.

I spotted my family watching the whole thing and I shook my head as I got to them.

"Man rarity Is really dense to spike's feelings for her" I said with a sigh.

"I can imagine I can feel the love between them but it's feeling blocked by something on rarity's end" said chrysalis in agreement.

On a hunch I used the scan ability to check if there was a mind alteration spell on her.

"Looks like I'm going to have a talk with blueblood! I was wondering why so many mares was into him despite his horrible personality" I growled through gritted teeth.

Just to be sure I checked celestia.

"Definitely going to have a little chat with him" I said rage on my face.

"What do you mean." Asked twilight curious.

"He used a mental alteration spell on rarity and Celestia and possibly his other admirers! The one on Celestia is to make her think he really was part of her family while the one on rarity was to compel her to find romance in a stallion but her natural personality and her passion for her work made sure the natural target of himself was dashed by his behavior. This means rarity is stuck in a cycle of trying to find the perfect stallion when it really isn't what is supposed to be for her life. Spike is currently everything that can be for her heart. He is a knight in every sense of the word, him being able to get his keyblade without going through a awakening or inheritance ceramony  is proof of his character. At the rate she's in rarity won't find her happiness without help" I said trying to remember where blueblood was currently.

"How do you know it's blueblood" asked luna with narrowed eyes.

"The scan ability normally is used to get info on enemies like how much life do they have before getting defeated, their names and their weakness. But I know scan has more uses depending on the situation. In this case I can see what magic is placed on someone and since I have met blueblood I recognized the feel of his magic and how it is shaped" I said and twilight remembered I identified the combined twins heartless form before they were restored.

"I see" said twilight understanding.

"Good thing I know a good spell to get rid of such trouble right now" I said seeing quite a few of the guests had blueblood's magical signature mainly amount the ponies.

"Ensuna" I intoned my magic making a pulse unseen as it swept through the whole room and those effected by blueblood's spell stumbled then looked horrified as they moved a limb over their stomach or in celestia's case confusion on what was going on in her minf. Rarity just was confused.

"Shit! Blueblood used the spell to rape them. Twilight get your therapy gear your going to need to help them get over the trauma" I said and she saluted.

"I'll have some changelings help her out" said my wife a serious look on her face.

"Everyone sorry to cut the party short but looks like most of the female pony guests was under a mind alteration spell and I just removed it! I will be back in a few minutes to aprehend the criminal responcible" I said as the wings of my costume twitched and enlarged to a scaled to fit version of my dragon wings as I flew out of the ballroom from the window and summoned my keyblade. As I still had scan on blueblood's magic I combined it with lock on to locate the apparently fake royal.

I spun my head to the tree of harmony and snarled using my dragon eyes to see he was trying to get at the elements of harmony by destroying the tree which would also kill loyal and alert the heartless to where the keyhole is.

With a sonic boom I dived and pointed at him.

"Gather!" I roared using magnet to yank him away and when I landed feet first before him I made a slight crater.

"For crimes against the crown your under arrest blueblood if that is your real name! Your crimes are mind manipulation, rape and impersonating being of royalty plus trying to end the world" I said glaring at him.

Before he could react I used thunder to knock him out and I dragged him to the party where luna had some night guards ready and dragged him to the dungeon after I explained what I found him trying to do.

I sighed as I pinched the bridge of my nose. After blueblood ruined the party with his stunt the total of pregnant mares was up to near a hundred with the only ones uneffected being the mane six, loyal, my family, the griffins, minotaur and surprisingly Octavia, lyra, vinyl, and sweetie drops aka bonbon and those that are married.

And that was just those that attended the party.

After that I went to every other place blueblood has been to under the guise of being celestia's nephew and not counting the crystal empire there was quite a lot of them that brought the total up to near most of the female population of the ponies and considering the female male ratio that was worrying.

Turned out he has been at this for years and no one was even able to spot anything different. Luckily it was just major cities and ponyville was counted as a major city due to being the place most of recent events took place like luna's return, discord and twilight's acsention to alicorn. Pretty much blueblood or as interogation with my pack of darkwolf heartless revealed mental glimmer was his real name had been trying to take over by becoming the most influential on the world and had used the spell so many times on Celestia to agree to laws that would help him with that goal but what got me was the fact I now knew he was related to starlight the only mlp villain that was a large threat because she created a spell to remove cutie marks which removes a lot of what makes the pony who they are.  I told luna about her but I did say that her operation won't be located until twilight investigates. Now I had quite a bit of dislike to the name glimmer as I worked through the various lawsuits being put on mental for his crimes. By my estimate he was being taken to tartarus for his sins. He had single handedly put most of our defenders from the pony side out of action and that wasn't good. I been getting reports that the heartless are getting more on the move feeling the difference.

Things just keep escalating from my dark wolves reports.
I sighed and looked over every token I had and besides the deactivated and locked token from Ben everyone else I can call for help would be needed for the times ahead.

I looked to my right arm where it had become black as I still remember when I lost the limb during the war of shadows and lee gave me a symbiote to replace the limb. I mentally informed him of the situation and did the same with my other tokens before I ran my left hand over my face.

"God's so much has gone wrong it's not even funny huh umbra" I asked my symbiote limb and I felt the mental agreement from it. I looked out the castle to the courtyard where various races were being trained to make up for the loss of defenders caused by this incident.

"Sometimes I never know how I handle the stress" I said with a sigh as I took a sip of my tea. I once again looked over the tokens I got from when I met Emerl, the ones I got after the war of shadows and then Kuuga's but I left Kuuga out of the conflict for now as I think I needed to have some space from last time.

(End chapter)
> Cross-raid: a pirates heart part 1
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(Equestria: Del Light home)
I sighed as I looked over some documents. The Nightmare Night party we had had been mostly a success to the morale of the alliance… if it wasn't for the fact Mental Glimmer aka Blueblood had caused most of the pony side of the army to be placed on sick leave to raise the foals the females of the army were pregnant with. And not for the first time I cursed blueblood for placing us in this situation. 

And there was the matter of what I had forgotten about when I found that inspiration manifestation while Castle Eclipse was being rebuilt. To be honest I wasn't sure what to do with the items I found as it painted a worrying image on one of my stories I wrote in the past. Specifically a ranger key. One I designed myself to boot. The figurine was of a sentai with a purple skeletal pirate design resembling the gokaiger suit. And a key that shouldn't have existed in the first place. 

“Gokai Skeletal, how did your key get here and why did it appear before me? Soul what happened in your universe” I wondered looking at the key.

Just then my wife entered with a sigh.

“James, it's getting to be late, are you still wondering about that key you found?” Asked Chrysalis giving me a concerned look.

“Yeah it’s just this key shows that one of my characters I created back home exists somewhere and I got no clue what happened to bring his key here. It's not a good message if that's anything to go by” I sighed thinking it over.

Both of us snapped our heads up as a token clattered onto my desk making us stare. It was yet another ranger key but of one of the original gokaigers I knew about. Gokai Silver. Picking it up I heard the message it had.

“To all that discover this hidden treasure, know that I am Gai Ikari, The Silver Scourge, Captain of the Gokai Galleon and leader of the Gokaigers. If you wish to call upon me and my crew, simply insert this key into any lock. But woe betide those who wish harm upon me, or those under my protection, for they will be consumed by the Black Fog.”

“Well That’s something at least. I wonder if this has anything to do with what I was thinking about recently? It can't be just the multiverse giving me a hint at what to do. I wonder if he got my token as well. Seems he picked a similar way of being summoned as I did though. The irony is not lost on me” I noted somewhat amused and curious.



(Gokaiger Verse)

“Begin!” Gai shouted, bringing his arm down between the two combatants.

Pipsqueak charged at Flurry Heart, his wooden cutlass swinging down towards Flurry’s head, the former princess deftly blocked the strike, parrying the blade and singing her arm around, twisting Pipsqueak’s wrist and forcing him to drop his weapon.

Undeterred, Pipsqueak ducked under the strike aimed at his neck, smacking his palm on the underside of Flurry’s cutlass and forcing her to drop her blade as well. Both ponies squared off against each other, sizing up their opponent before Pipsqueak rushed in with a series of light jabs, forcing Flurry Heart back. Finally, he reared back to break through her weakened guard, that’s when Flurry Heart made her move.

The young alicorn leaned to the side while guiding Pipsqueak’s arm off into empty space, readjusting her footwork, she grabbed his arm and threw him over her shoulder, pinning him in an arm lock.

“Enough!” cried Gai, causing Flurry to release the downed earth pony, “Pipsqueak, that was an excellent counter in the first half, but you’re still rushing in too quickly. Flurry, that was masterful work with that throw.”

“However!” He continued, “the both of you are way too eager to go straight to hand-to-hand combat, I did say this was a swords-only sparring match, didn’t I?”

Both his students hung their heads, “sorry Captain,” Pipsqueak said, rubbing the back of his head, “I guess I just got carried away.”

“Don’t let that happen too often, the presence of a weapon in your hands could mean the difference between life and death sometimes.” Gai replied, “you’ve both improved quite a lot in the past month, go get cleaned up, it’s about time Kettle finished dinner.”

As if on cue, the door to the living quarters hissed open and Navi flew out, “Gai! We’ve got a situation!”

“What is it Navi?” 

“I found this on your chair, I think it’s a Displaced’s token.”

Gai picked up the pendant of two crossed keys with a hooked chain, the Displaced’s message ringing out in his mind:

"I am James Del Light Key Bearer of Equestria, if you ever need my aid for justice, attach this to your weapon and turn it like a key. And I shall come to your aid. If you have evil intent, then fear my blade, if you have a just heart know that you have found a worthy ally and friend in me”

“And, how is this a ‘situation’ exactly? I thought we were under attack for a second there!” Gai said sternly.

“It just randomly appeared out of thin air!”

“Pretty sure they’re supposed to do that, Navi.”

“Oh.”

Suddenly, the Galleon’s intruder alarm went off, the blaring sirens directing everyone’s attention to the bridge, “me and my big mouth,” Gai muttered, rushing into the living quarters, Pipsqueak and Flurry Heart following close behind.

“Status report!” Gai barked.

“There’s intruders in the secondary cargo hold! They just appeared there!” Rainbow Dash said, her eyes darting across the terminal’s security feed.

“Just my luck... I’ve got this, seal off the cargo hold, this probably won’t take five minutes.” Gai snapped his fingers, opening a portal into the cargo hold of the ship. He tucked the new token into his coat and jumped into the swirling vortex.

Upon entering, Gai blinked seeing the intruders were dark figures looking like demonic pirates with a stitched heart like emblem on their torsos, their yellow eyes turning to lock onto him.

“Oi,” Gai muttered, unfolding the Gokai Spear and pointing the three pronged weapon at the group of figures, “don’t you mugs know that jumping onto a pirate ship is the leading cause of death for scrubs like you? No?” Gai launched forward, knocking several of the pirate-like figures flying with a sweep of the spear, “then kindly get the fuck off my ship!”

The figures charged, each drawing various sabers, cutlasses and pistols. Some of the figures in the back even took to the air on purple wings, the limited space of the cargo hold only granting only a modicum of added maneuverability.

Gai drove the points of the trident through the belly of a larger figure, lifting it effortlessly and using the speared figure like a hammer, smashing entire groups of smaller figures. 

“Take this!” He cried, flicking the figure off the end of the trident and knocking a large group of enemies over like bowling pins.

The one that was pierced stilled before turning into black smoke letting the ones it landed on get back up.

As the fight dragged on however, Gai noticed that the figures only kept coming, not growing tired, and more importantly, not dying when being slammed with as much force as Gai could muster.

“Please don’t tell me these things are what I think they are...” he murmured, “I knew I should’ve made those TOQger keys when I had the chance!” 

(Equestria: James Del Light)

Me and my wife was walking through the halls when we both felt the familiar tug of being summoned.

“It’s been a while since it was just the two of us, everyone else went to bed. Well then let's go Chrysalis” I said summoning my keyblade armor as I summoned up my keyblade glider and the two of us entered the vortex and shot down the stained glass path that was forming to the world we had been summoned to.

(Gokaiger verse)

The army of Heartless began to advance on the silver-clad pirate, a wide grin split across his face as he raised the Gokai Spear in a salute, “koko wa… ore no shinibasho da?” He said grimly, Akira would be proud. 

As he was about to charge into another fracas with the Heartless, Gai felt a burning warmth in his coat pocket. Reaching inside, he almost burnt his hand on the twin key pendant, which was now glowing brightly, the light causing the Heartless to recoil with pain.

“Oh you have GOT to be kidding me, this is cliche’d beyond belief,” Gai said as he inserted the pendant into the keyhole on the Gokai Spear and turned it, “looks like you get your wish, Mr. Del Light.”

The light from the keys shot out of the end of the spear, coalescing into a large set of white double doors. The doors burst open and a figure wearing a set of white and silver armor leaped through the portal and into the crowd of Heartless, a blue cape fluttering behind him as the dragon-shaped helm swiveled, no doubt the wearer was taking in the situation.

The armored figure raised his right hand to the side, a large, key-shaped object appearing in a flash of light. The figure swung the large key in a wide arc, the Heartless vaporizing instantly at it’s touch. The figure continued to smash the key into each and every Heartless until all that remained were small clouds of black mist. 

Silence reigned in the cargo hold, only broken when Gai spoke, his trident raised towards the figure, “so, Mr. Del Light I presume?”

(James Del Light’s Perspective)

“Yes I'm James Del Light and this here is my wife Queen Chrysalis. We just got your token today so I was planning on talking with you in the morning back in my Equestria. Guess that plan got dashed” said the teen pointing his head to the teal haired woman Gai had missed with the armored figure as his armor vanished. giving a nod to Gai but had a odd look on his face that made Gai curious.

“Why are you looking at me like that?” He had to ask.

“some displaced I met had kept episodes of media I needed to see to catch up on future events of my equestria and what else I liked to watch.” James said looking a bit unsure how to think on that subject.

“I assume there’s a giant metaphysical keyhole that needs locking, right?” 

“As big Mac would say eeyup” James deadpanned dismissing his keyblade. He actually got the voice down on the last word sounding exactly like the big pony.

“Got any idea where it might be? I sure as hell don’t,” Gai asked.

“Nope, those things are quite well hidden unless a boss heartless or whatever is letting the Heartless in this world is beaten. So me and my wife are probably going to stick with you for a few days to locate it. If you got Navi with you we might be able to narrow the search” James said with a shrug. Those key holes were hard to track and like sora he had to stumble onto them to find them.

“We have to beat Sombra in order for ours to be revealed as he’s the one leading the Heartless back home” Chrysalis explained.

“We know where ours is but it's a different place for other Equestrias. Different variations makes it hard to locate” James explained. 

“Already knew how Keyholes and Heartless work, thanks,” Gai said, pulling out the Gokai Cellular, “Navi, we have guests, can you come down to the hold?”

“Aye sir!” She squawked.

Gai put the Cellular away and fixed his gaze onto the teenager, “tell me, have you ever seen this symbol before?” He asked, pulling out a sketch of a skull and crossbones, the skull was playing the trumpet.

“Yes, I watched Gokaiger back home. Let me guess, someone came with you as Basco?” James asked face palming.

“Eeyup, if you ever meet him, he’s likely already got a plan in mind to kill you. That, and drain you of your power. Just a warning.”

“Got it. So who do you got currently as a crew? I can already guess at least an element of harmony though from what you said about Basco, most of the mane six are dead here aren't they?” James said surprising Gai by how perceptive he was.

“Sharper than you look, kid. But he didn’t have anything to do with it, that was Zangyack’s doing, we showed up after the fact. Basco only hunts other Displaced. He’s admitted to killing five already.” Gai’s face darkened as he pulled out a silver hip flask and took a swig of the contents.

“Yikes, guess he doesn't care about this world and just wants to get back to your earth right? He was your friend wasn't he?”

Gai glared at James.

“If you need any help? I can try to see if some of my friends can help you out. One of them is Kamen Rider Kuuga so that's a heavy hitter there” James winced thinking of what happened to his own earth.

“The only thing you need to do is run as far and as fast as you can if you see him,” Gai replied, “Basco’s my mess to take care of.”

At this point Navi and the others arrived in the hold and Rainbow Dash looked a bit shocked at Chrysalis being with us.

“Oh right I don't think your Dash has met Chrysalis in a long time. … is that Princess Flurry? Guess we are far into Equestria’s future here aren't we.” James asked seeing the pink alicorn surprised.

“You know of me, sir?” Asked Flurry Heart.

“in my Equestria I'm your adoptive Grand-Uncle. My world’s Celestia and Luna adopted me as their brother. I'm the middle child there. Though back home you haven’t been born yet. Just had Fluttershy become Flutterbat over there. Had to give the other five a stern lecture about the consequences of your actions. She ended up permanently part bat. Luckily I knew stop but by then the fruit bat DNA had been in her long enough some had taken root and wasn't removed from her when twilight cast her counterspell. Avoided Applejack sacrificing her giant apple though she didn't take pride in winning that competition at the cost of what her actions did to Fluttershy. She’s getting used to being diurnal.” James told her and at that reminder James gave Rainbow a glare as that still happened in her past as well making her wince. Well recent for James still at his view.

That was still a sore memory for her and could only imagine the lecture her counterpart got at the time. She hoped that Fluttershy forgave her counterpart eventually.

“Right… Navi, can you do a fortune for us? We’re looking for the Heart of the World.”

“Aye sir!” Navi said, flying around at high speed until her head impacted one of the walls. Dazed, she tottered around like a drunk, her next words were cryptic: 

“To the center of crime you must go, repay your debts, perhaps somepony knows...”

She shook her head, “That’s all!” she replied cheerily.

“The center of crime? So our next stop is the criminal underground to look for a informant does anyone know that particular location? I haven't traveled my Equestria much” James asked confused.

Gai scowled, “it’s not really ‘underground’ anymore kid, and there’s no way I’m bringing a minor to that place. Especially one who doesn’t know how to handle himself in that setting.”

“Guess that means just me, Rainbow, you, and my wife are the group heading there while the chef handles watching pip and Flurry here. And don't argue Flurry you're still a princess having you there is just asking for you to be kidnapped and used for ransom. We don't need to have that worry on us until you know how to fight properly. On the way I'm sure my wife can help you with your magic” James said thinking deeply.

Flurry Heart glared at him with an indignant expression, while Pipsqueak looked as if he was trying to contain his laughter.

“I was talking about you, kid,” Gai said, flicking James in the forehead, knocking him back a few steps, “I can handle the criminal world just fine. You on the other hand would draw way too much attention.”

“One, I'm not a kid I'm a thousand and twenty one years old and second who said I was going as a human?” James asked shifting into a large black Dragon giving Gai a deadpan look then back.

“Being a half dragon has it’s perks. Believe it or not there is a war going on back home as well and at times intimidation is needed to handle some situations. Besides Sombra back home is already a heartless his powers at the crystal empire when Spike helped retrieve the crystal heart already showed that much” he gave them a look at that.

“You can turn into the Red-Eyes Black Dragon? What the hell...” Gai muttered, confusing James

“Wait that's what my dragon form looks like? I didn't have the time to check” james asked blinking.

“Darkness variant, but yes” clarified Gai.

“So? Let’s go then,” James said.

“A dragon where there shouldn’t even be any dragons at all. That definitely won’t draw any attention,” Gai deadpanned, “and I don’t need to be scary to get what I want, just sit tight kid, I’ll handle the info-gathering. You just hang out here for now, it shouldn’t take too long. The ship is open to you, but I suggest avoiding the engine room and my personal quarters.” 

With that, Gai snapped open a portal under himself and fell through, leaving his crew alone standing awkwardly with James and Chrysalis.

Navi sighed, “sorry, Gai’s never been very accepting of outside help. And he’s also not known for putting things gently.” 

(Gai’s Perspective)

Gai stared at the once magnificent white walls around his destination, the structure was now crumbled and faded, the gates hung open on rusted hinges. In the distance, Gai could barely make out the cries of various hawkers trying to sell their wares in the market, such wares included but were not limited to: weapons, narcotics, slaves, and dark magic artifacts. 

“Welcome to Canterlot, you’ll never find a greater hive of scum and villainy,” Gai muttered to himself, pulling the hood of his cloak over his head a little tighter so as to obscure his features more. The last thing he needed was a bounty hunter thinking he had gotten lucky, partially why he had left James and his crew behind, less risk of exposure that way. 

Gai ducked into the nearest back alley, out of sight of the Gormin patrol on the main thoroughfare, carefully making his way into the depths of the ruined city. 

(Gokai galleon, James’ perspective)

James stood on the deck of the ship looking at the sky with a frown fiddling with the shoulder armor that was his keyblade armor in standby mode.

“Maybe I should have made this a gauntlet I really don't have time in battle to activate this like ventus but I can definitely activate it by bumping my hands together. Guess I should talk with Rainbow about her uniform and what it means for her” he said turning to go and talk with her. His wife was already with Flurry Heart teaching her how to control her magic as with being married to a changeling he had picked up how to sense how much a being can control magic and a variant use of scan. 

He found the pegasus in the crow's nest and stood next to her. He looked in the direction of Ponyville from there sadly.

“What do you want James?” Asked Rainbow.

“I just want to talk. Did Gai ever explain about that uniform you're wearing? What it means. It is something that makes me wonder what is it with your potential in the multiverse” he sighed as he turned to look at her.

“What do you mean?” Asked Rainbow surprised by where this was going.

“The Rainbow dash and her friends, plus the CMC and Spike in my world have the potential to awaken keyblades. Spike had already awoken his own which represents his bond to a certain phoenix he took care of. That phoenix made a return and is now renamed Bravefire. Now Spike is the town blacksmith and is assisted by Rarity due to her eye for detail. They were the ones who managed to remake keyblade armor. Trust me when I say I was surprised at how Spike changed when he came back from getting the dragons over to ponyville so the entire races could band together to stop the Heartless. He even picked up a title in the process. Stormslayer the knight amongst Dragons. He fought a boss heartless solo and won. He didn't awaken the keyblade in the two ways I know of and found a third way of getting a keyblade. He had to realize just how different he was to other dragons and accept it while having a strong desire to protect his home and family. That shouts a lot about your potential back home.” James explained looking up and chuckled thinking back to how everyone was surprised by how Spike changed that day.

“what's that have to do with my uniform?” Rainbow asked wondering where this was going.

“Rainbow that uniform is that of Gokai Blue’s civilian identity, it means Gai has saw you fit to take on the mantle and is trying to teach you the skills you need to actually take it on and use it with pride. If you want, I can tell you of the Gokai Blue I know of and see if it will help you know just how big of a shoe you're going to fill” James explained then offered.

Rainbow felt her jaw drop and suddenly was reminded of her counterpart in Cruger’s equestria. 

“y-yeah that would be nice” said Rainbow trying to get over her shock a bit.

“the original Gokai Blue, Joe Gibken, believe it or not was once a member of zangyack. He grew disillusioned with the Empire after he thought his teacher in the way of swords was killed until he met the original gokai red who was the original leader of the Gokaigers Captain Marvelous. The two fought off a squad of Zangyack’s forces officially making Joe a traitor of Zangyack. Joe’s dream was to become the best swordsman in the universe. Gokaigers each had some kind of dream they wanted to pursue and would chase the ends of the universe to see them come true. So together with Gokai Red and the other future members they fought Zangyack. In fact Flurry Heart is reminding me a bit of Gokai Pink. Their situations are similar. Only the original Gokai Pink had lost her entire planet. Everyone but her was wiped out.” James told her before frowning at his grandniece’s counterparts story that Chrysalis managed to get out for a bit.

“trust me Rainbow I'll make sure when Flurry is born in my Equestria I won't let her live like this world’s version. I'll make sure she still has a world to live in. like Gokai Pink, I don't have a Earth to return to” he said deeply troubled still on the fact his Earth was gone.

Unaware to James, Flurry Heart was listening in going wide eyed at that last part.

“What! You don't have a Earth to return to?” said Rainbow shocked.

“Did Gai tell you about the Kamen Riders? There is a rider who protects time from collapsing by just existing. People who can exist outside of time and not be affected by changes to it are known as singularity points. They act as anchors to the timeline. I didn't learn I was one until a long time had past since I became displaced. Without me my whole earth collapsed without the anchor to that timeline. Everyone I knew had practically died in a fate worse than death. Somehow my twin sister back on earth had survived as a being from the sands of time. An imagin. I'm glad I still have her but now I'm worried about what happened to the rest of my family. I am still grieving the fact shortly after I was displaced my mom died of cancer. I don't know what happened to my brother or my dad. So I'm just trying to make do in protecting my own equestria as it’s pretty much my home now. At least I still have more family in Celestia, Luna, Twilight, Shining, Cadance, Spike, and Chrysalis. Plus my kids who traveled from the future. With my sister their all I got left and I'll be Damned if i don't try to protect them with all I got. Nothing is more dangerous than someone with nothing to lose. To a key bearer like me our strength comes from our bonds we Literally get stronger with friendship and the like. Heart is quite Literally a requirement. Connections are practically everything for a key bearer. And trust me being a Gokaiger in training, you lot are on your way to being a family yourself. Flurry Heart practically does see you as you as an aunt Rainbow, and it’s up to you to keep an eye on her in the times ahead. You are considered family since she was born. She grew up with you being her aunt Twilight’s best friend all her life. The bond you six had was similar to that of sisters. As a relative from another equestria I'm coming to see my main six besides Twilight as family as well. So from one uncle to adoptive aunt, keep what family you have close for you don't know what you might face” James explained before giving Rainbow a deep look.

“Right that's something I'll do till the day I die. I guess it just hits me now that me and Flurry Heart are all each other has left out of the lives we had before Zangyack.” said Rainbow.

“Don't forget Scootaloo she’s your sister as well with Applebloom and Sweetie Belle Belle. The five of you share a bond like no other. And before you ask,Flurry Flurry is eavesdropping below on the rope ladders” James said and smirked at hearing a squeak of shock as Flurry climbed into the nest.

“Dragon hearing” explained James to Rainbow’s bemused look.

“So you really think of me as family?” Asked Flurry.

“Yes, it came as a shock to find Cadance was my unknown niece after a thousand years but you are one of the only family I have left. In fact I wouldn't mind if you guys visited my Equestria sometimes. I'm sure we will need the help. Thanks to Blueblood most of the female pony part of the Alliance is out of commission thanks to mind alteration spells. Luckily he’s being put to justice soon. Last I heard, his crimes are enough to get him executed. He tried to destroy the tree of harmony which was where my world’s keyhole is hidden. Destroying the tree would attracted the Heartless like a neon sign. It was only thanks thanks to a scan that I was able to tell what the guy did. I was a bit suspicious about Rarity’s lack of luck in getting a boyfriend. Turns out she was stuck in a loop of trying to find the perfect stallion because Blueblood tried to make her love struck on him. But Rainbow remembers how that gala went, his own behavior ruined that spell’s target stallion and put the spell on a feedback loop. Maybe now she and Spike back home will get together.” James said and it struck them that James looked stressed about the war back in his equestria.

“Damn just what job do you have?” Asked Rainbow.

“Running an army to fight a literal darkness seeking to destroy everything. Losing a nearly whole fraction to medical leave put a lot more strain in keeping the Heartless out of the areas. You know about the female to male ratio of the pony populace before Zangyack, Rainbow. Blueblood’s actions took a lot of the pony part of the forces from battle. Maternity leave. It's hard trying to keep so many diverse races from fighting amongst each other in one place. This is practically a break for me from the work. We still don't know where Sombra is back home and I'm worried about what he has planned there. I'm trying to actually use the military background my family had on earth to get this through to Equestria’s favor in surviving. My Equestria is right on the edge of a separate multiverse cluster so once I'm sure my Equestria is safe. I’ve got to be sure what other worlds are in my universe that I have to safeguard from the heartless. I don't know how the guy I went as before I was displaced does this kind of thing for years. It's tiring work,” James sighed before noting it had become night.

“it's getting late let's get some sleep maybe Gai will have some information for us when he gets back.” James suggested standing up to lead the way down back to their separate rooms. 

Rainbow looked at her ceiling in her room thinking over what she talked about with James. How Gai saw fit to make her Gokai Blue, how she still has family to protect, and about what he told her of the original Gokai Blue. Raising her head to look at the cutlass leaning on on her desk she gave a determined nod. 

“I’ll make Captain proud to uphold that mantle, James is right. I’ve got a big pair of shoes to fill. My dream may be to beat Zangyack, but now I'm adding on to it to protect my family. And to do that I'll take on that goal of the original Gokai Blue in being the best swordsman in the universe. As a swordsman James himself might have something to teach me that can help out...” she thought to herself going to sleep unaware that in the Ranger Key chest the Gokai blue key glowed a bit. 

(Canterlot)

Gai moved quickly and quietly through the streets of lower Canterlot, ignoring the various beggars, back alley dealers, and illicit stalls, his anger flaring little by little at the various crimes against everypony around him.

“Is this really what Canterlot has become?” He muttered, “this was once a shining beacon to all the world, and now it’s gone to the dogs.”

Gai stopped suddenly, looking up and checking the battered wooden sign hanging above the saloon entrance, it read: The Rogue’s Gallery, followed by the subtext: Bar and Brothel. Sighing heavily, Gai pushed his way through the twin saloon doors.

The tables of the establishment were empty, the building silent. Most of the ‘working mares’ were likely retired to their rooms on the second floor, the only one still up was behind the bar, cleaning the glasses from the previous night’s revelries. Gai walked up to the bar and sat down on one of several stools lined up in front of it.

“Take a look around, stranger, we’re closed,” the mare intoned, not bothering to look up at the human. She was an earth pony and had a slightly poofy orange mane and tail with a yellow coat. She was wearing nothing but lacy black lingerie, with a matching choker and a tiny, frilly black apron attached to her garter belt.

“That’s a shame, I was looking for the Carrot Special,” Gai replied, grinning a bit.
The mare’s green eyes widened, she nearly dropped the glass she was wiping clean as she spun to stare at the cloaked human, who lowered his hood, revealing his grinning face and brown hair, “hey, Carrot Top.”

The mare carefully set down her glass and slapped him, hard, “you bastard! I thought you were dead!”

“I suppose I deserved that,” Gai muttered, rubbing his stinging cheek, “I assume you heard about what went down in Manehattan?”

“Yes! I knew you were reckless, but blowing up half the compound? What the buck were you thinking!?” Carrot Top ranted, placing her palms on the bar and giving Gai a clear view of her cleavage.

“Let’s be honest, you were wondering where your finder’s fee was gonna go, right?” Gai said, giving the mare a sly smirk.

Carrot Top cringed a little at that before sighing heavily, causing her breasts to jiggle a bit, “I keep forgetting that I’m paid to enable idiots, not worry about them on the job,” she leaned back, crossing her arms under her bust, “so? Where is it then?”

“And for a second there I thought you cared!” Gai teased, placing a bag of bits on the counter, “there’s a little extra in there as a late fee, let’s just say shit hit the fan and it took me a while to clean up the mess.”

“Pleasure doing business with you, hon!” Carrot said with a sultry wink as she quickly scooped the bag under the bar top before propping her head up on her elbows and giving Gai a half-lidded stare, “so, anything else I can offer the Silver Scourge? Maybe a ‘Carrot Special’?” She asked, her voice husky.

“Some other time maybe, right now, I’m looking for something… interesting,” Gai replied, reaching into his cloak and retrieving another, slightly larger bag of bits, “I’ll be paying in advance this time, because I’m not sure when I’d be able to swing by again.”

Carrot Top made to snatch the bag, only for Gai to pull it back out of her reach, “nopony else hears about this one, right?” Gai asked sternly, his hard gaze penetrating Carrot’s eyes.   

Carrot chuckled a bit, “hon, if I had loose lips I would be terrible at my job, wouldn’t I?”

Gai’s grin returned, “heh, guess so,” this earned him a smack upside the head.

Gai handed over the bit bag and a piece of paper with a sketch of the Heartless symbol on it, “the job has to do with this symbol, supposedly, large groups of monsters are looking for this ‘something interesting’ I mentioned earlier. All of them have this mark on their bodies somewhere.”

Carrot eyed the sketch warily, “this wouldn’t happen to have anything to do with that shit hitting the fan, would it?”

“You’re not thinking of backing out are you, Carrot?” Gai asked.

Carrot scoffed, taking the picture, “please, I’m a professional. I’ll get the girls on the rumor mill, see what they can dig up. Is that all, hon?”

Gai shook his head, placing a few bits on the table, “can I get a drink before I head out? Something decently strong, but not enough to get me piss drunk.” 

Carrot nodded, sweeping up Gai’s bits and turning to the wall of bottles behind her. She soon returned with a stein of minotaurian ale, which Gai took thankfully, taking a long pull from the beverage.

“So? You don’t usually care for drinks when you come here on business, did something happen?” Carrot asked, leaning over the counter and giving him that half-lidded stare again.

“Wouldn’t you like to know?” Gai replied, taking another sip from his drink, I swear, if James is responsible for my little stalker... “It’s nothing, just a bit grumpy I guess.”

“Aww, does the big, bad pirate want to talk about it?” Carrot teased in a patronizing tone.

“Nope.” Gai said, chugging a bit of his drink.

As if on cue, the doors slammed open, revealing a group of four ponies, all of them brandishing some form of weapon. The first wielded a wooden bat with nails and bolts embedded in it, the second had a machete, the third had a pair of butterfly knives, and the fourth looked as if he had cobbled together a gun out of spare hardware.

“Oi, slut! Me an’ my colts here need a drink on the double!” The gun wielding stallion, presumably the leader, shouted at Carrot Top.

“Sorry hon! We’re closed right now,” Carrot replied sweetly, “we’ll be open real soon though, the girls and I will be sure to take care of all your needs then...” she let her voice trail off suggestively.

“Bitch, don’t bullshit me! You’re already giving that bastard some service, aren’t you?” The lead stallion shouted indignantly.

“He’s… a special case,” Carrot replied, her eyes darting between the stone-faced pirate and the group of thugs. Gai nodded almost imperceptibly, slowly pulling a small knife from the inside of his sleeve, the movement masked by the cloak.

“Buck that!” The machete-wielding pony said, raising the blade towards Gai, “hey buddy, you already got the bitch to spread her legs for you, how’s about you help a brother out, huh?”

“I believe she told you guys to come back later,” Gai said gruffly, “leave before you piss me off.”

“The buck!? Buddy, you’ve got no idea who you’re messing with- GAH!” The thug cried out in pain as Gai’s throwing knife pierced his shoulder.

“I warned you, didn’t I? Leave.” 

“Waste ‘em!” The leader cried out as the three uninjured combatants charged the human.

Suddenly a blur went past them, tripping them up as Gai finally got a look at who was following him. She was a female, that much he could tell and resembled a humanoid rabbit who scoffed at the thugs.

“So that’s what my stalker looks like, did James send you?” Gai said casually, finishing off the dregs of his drink and handing the stein back to Carrot Top.

“Yep my name is Beth, James’ twin! nice to meet you. And trust me my brother definitely had a good reason as he felt like you shouldn't be alone here. After all, isn't a sentai stronger with teamwork then alone? That's a Kamen Rider’s thing after all” she said leaning on the counter.

“Bah, I told the kid to leave me alone, not to send his sister to stalk me like some creeper,” Gai growled, getting up from his chair and cracking his knuckles, “I can handle these deadbeats just fine without you, so enjoy the show.”

“One, this is for the creeper comment” she said before kicking Gai in the area between his legs and folded her arms, “second these bozos were not alone. There is about sixteen more on their way and armed or not someone has to watch you back” she continued.

“Is that all?” Gai said, shrugging off the hit, “they should’ve bought an army instead,” With that, Gai charged, grabbing two of the uninjured ponies by the arms and swinging them through the door before grabbing the other two by their manes and dragging them behind him, kicking and screaming. 

“Fine be that way but at least let me arm you better than that knife” she said transforming into a sword with her face above the guard that flew into his hand.

“I never go unarmed, lady,” Gai said, thrusting the sword into the floorboards and withdrawing a scarlet cutlass, “like I told your brother, I don’t need help with this.”

“Fine but trust me if there is one thing my brother knows it's that you don't have to always do things alone.” she said with a huff.

“Why do you think I’m building a crew? They’re just not ready yet.” With that, Gai tossed the two ponies out onto the street and exited the building.

“you mean the ones you left alone without making a backup plan. I don't think you want to reveal who you are to this place just yet. I managed to see that there was a few minotaurs in the group heading here.” she replied.

“I’ve tussled with dragons, I’m pretty sure I can handle minotaurs, just sit tight, kid,” Gai leaned back into the bar, “Oi, Carrot, is it ok if I play bouncer for a bit?”

The mare behind the bar gave him a thumbs up before busying herself with cleaning the stein he’d just used, “just make sure not to wreck the place too much, Gai.”

“Will do.”  

“Guess I'll just sit here and talk with Carrot then. By the way, I should warn you Gai, my brother has seventeen generations of Irish blood and their temper so try not to get him mad, alright? He’s stressed enough as it is” Beth told him changing back and moving to sit at the counter.

“Meh, if anyone should be pissed right about now, it’s me. No one interrupts my drinks, boards my ship, or sends their sisters in their place without paying for it.” Gai said as the first members of the mob rounded the corner, “sorry gentlecolts, the bar is closed as of right now, please wait until business hours have started before drinking yourselves stupid!” He called out in a patronizing voice.

A large minotaur wearing nothing but a loincloth and a torn tank top strode forward, “outta the way, little one, we’ve got words with the harlot in charge of this place.”

“Ah, sorry, you’ve kind of put me in an awkward position here. You see, I’m suppsed to stop you from doing exactly that, my apologies.” Gai replied, smiling up at the thuggish minotaur.

The minotaur snorted and moved to push past him, only to be stopped in his tracks when Gai placed the tips of his fingers against his solar plexus, “I believe I told you to stop!” With that, Gai completed his one-inch punch, sending the minotaur flying through his posse behind him and crashing into an very unfortunate produce cart.

“MY CABBAGES!” The vendor cried, as all the heads of cabbage were crushed under the weight of the minotaur’s large body. 

“Huh Gai really replicated that move well, if it was over the heart that punch is deadly” noted Beth looking to Carrot, amused.

“That tends to happen when you’re the only one stupid enough to fight Zangyack without resorting to suicide tactics,” Carrot murmured.

“GET HIM!” The head pony of the crowd shouted, spurring the group of thugs into a wild charge, makeshift weapons raised.

“Heh.”

Gai whirled into action, stepping in low under the first pony’s guard and grabbing his leg, lifting him effortlessly and using him as a baseball bat against the next pony right behind him, then flung his makeshift weapon into the minotaur with enough force to knock the recovering leader down again.

The next pair got smashed where the sun didn’t shine when Gai stomped his foot, elevating a fist size chunk of the road into their weak points for massive damage, a soft *crunch* echoing through the street. 

“Brutal,” Gai muttered, as he twisted a knife-wielding mare’s arm, forcing her to let go of the weapon before taking it and throwing it into the knee of another enemy rushing toward him with a spiked bat.

“Skyrim jokes anypony? Bueller? Bueller?” The somewhat smaller minotaur he was currently gut-punching repeatedly didn’t seem too amused. “Nopony? Fine then,” he sighed casually as he let the minotaur slump to the ground, wheezing.

Gai sized up the few opponents who could still stand, each of them seeming much less sure of themselves than before, “huh, eight left, if you all come at me at once, you might hit me.” He said, standing among the groaning bodies of seven of their compatriots, “so, how’s about it? Fancy a shot at me?”   

“Okay now I'm being reminded of my brother when someone threatens family. He’s playing with their heads now” Beth winced, remembering the few times her brother was truly enraged.

“He’s not even seriously mad yet, this is just him being grumpy over having his drinking time interrupted by those loud mouthed idiots, If he was really mad, we’d need to scrape the poor saps off every flat surface,” Carrot said, absentmindedly filing her nails while watching the carnage outside.  

“Oh god he shares that with my brother? Interrupt him from having some tea and he goes scary prankster on anyone. Trust me, my brother can scare anyone with his dragon form and dragon fire. I remember when he chased a certain idiot for scaring his kids, not pretty,” Beth asked amused and with a bit of dread.

Carrot Top remained silent at this, blowing some dust off her newly-filed nails.

Just then, Gai came in, stretching and sighing, “welp, they chose to retreat, smarter than the average mook, although I’m not sure whether or not you’ll get much business tonight,” he tossed several of the thugs’ purses onto the counter, “that should take care of tonight’s profits, right?”

Carrot Top nodded, “thanks for the help, hon,” she said placing a glass of icewater on the table, which Gai took and drank down. 

“Yeah I think you would get along with my brother just fine. He always had the habit of shouldering the burden alone out of a need to keep those close to him safe. You’re reminding me a lot of him growing up,” Beth told Gai with with a sigh.

“That a fact? Still doesn’t fight the fact he sent his sister to do his dirty work,” he returned the glass to Carrot Top, “why was that group of thugs so eager to get at this place anyway?” Gai asked.

“I… may have kicked out one of their lieutenants last night for being too rough with the girls, I’m guessing he didn’t take kindly to that...”

Gai winced, “ouch, you gonna be ok?”

“Please hon, I’ll just call in a few favors and this will all be forgiven, perks of being an information broker. I get easy access to favors.” She replied, flipping her mane over her shoulder.

“And Gai, my brother knows better than to follow someone being hugely stubborn. That and I volunteered to do this. Unlike you, I'm made of sand now. I'm not that easily hurt. At least I'm way stronger then when I was human. I barely had muscle tone so this body is way better than my old one. Shame that being from the sands of time erased some of my old memories,” Beth informed Gai.

“It really doesn’t matter, getting Displaced is a raw deal, no matter which way you slice it.”

“That's the thing, I'm not a Displaced. You know singularity points?”

“Can the lecture wait until we’re not knee deep in the most crime-ridden city in Equestria?” Gai said, “all I’m saying is that anyone who ever met The Merchant got shafted big time.” 

“I never met him last I remember was reality unraveling into oblivion. My brother was anchoring time on our earth and now it’s gone. I don't know how I ended up in his equestria in the first place. I might have just followed that twin bond we had or something. It's a mystery” Beth shrugged. “Anyway you done here? I'm heading back to my brother to rest. That and I got to check on my nieces’ younger selves.” 

“Yeah, we’re done,” Gai said, turning to Carrot Top, “contact me the usual route, ok?”

Carrot Top nodded, “it’s about time to open up anyways, say hi to Navi for me!”

“Will do,” Gai replied, snapping open a portal in the floor, “ladies first.”

“Don't think this excuses those insults you gave me, trust me even my brother knows not to piss me off. He always said I had a hair trigger temper.” Beth stated before turning Into an orb of golden light that shot through the vortex.

“Why must every girl I meet be a tsundere…?” Gai muttered Before following her through.

“Maybe it’s because you don't think before you speak” muttered Carrot Top to the empty room.

(End part 1)

> Cross raid a pirate's heart part 2
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------

James was waiting on the deck and blinked when Gai returned with a familiar figure.

“Sis? When did you get here I thought you were back at Castle Eclipse!” He asked, making her freeze.

“Um, well…” she said laughing nervously.

“You snuck in here with me and Chrysalis, then snuck off on your own to follow Gai, didn't you.” James stated groaning as he facepalmed. 

He turned to Gai, “sorry about her, she has the habit of sneaking off and causing trouble even back when she was human. Scared the crap out of us when she did it at the mall a few times and got lost. Looks like she went and did it again, sis get home before I decide to have you clean the ship as punishment for following me here and running off again.” 

With a wide eyed look Beth vanished through a portal, “anything but that! This ship is huge! I'm going!” She yelped and I shook my head.

“God damn it, I really didn't think my twin would still have that habit... and this time she was as much a ninja as I can be at times” he sighed pinching the bridge of his nose.

“It’s fine, I guess. Really I’m more worried about what she may have seen there,” Gai replied, scratching his head.

“Yeah, fair warning: she is incredibly friendly to people and can get into trouble that way, though she seemed tense. Did you say something to offend her?” James asked giving Gai a look.

“Nope, got no idea what you’re talking about James,” Gai said, giving him his best poker face, “I just tend to have that effect on girls. Anyways, I had my contact put their feelers out, we should have a lead in about a few hours.”

“Oh great, so you are the type to not think before you speak. That explains why my sister was tense.” He sighed, “anyway, looks like while we’re waiting, I can try and teach your crew something that can help out in the future,” James said thinking of what he knew in terms of fighting.

“That would be helpful, though they haven’t graduated as Gokaigers just yet. They’re still apprentices.”

“Just going to teach them something handy for crowd control, don't worry. It's variable in nature. Believe it or not not just unicorns and alicorns can use magic among the ponies,” James smiled.

“Dash can already use her ambient magic, but Pip and Flurry could use it as well...” Gai said, rubbing his chin, “I guess that would be ok.”

“Good, I'll get on it after everyone has eaten… say do you know what happened to the local Changelings? They are good informants during this kind of crisis,” James nodded before looking curious.

“Nopony’s seen a changeling in around a decade, they hid themselves after Zangyack invaded, and haven’t come out since. Of course, they’ve tried to find them, but so far no luck.” Gai replied, turning to the Galleon’s living quarters, “time for dinner! Can’t kick ass on an empty stomach!” And with that, Gai marched off.

James shook his head and followed after, “well, if anything I'm being reminded of Naruto. Guy can sometimes be focused solely on food,” he chuckled.

“Oi, there are some things only a good meal can cure. And Kettle’s the best doctor I’ve got, so come on!”

“Hai, Gai-san” James smiled before chasing after him.





After the meal, James stood on the deck looking at the four current ponies of the crew.

“What I'm about to teach you four is something I’ve been planning on teaching back in my Equestria. Dash, Gai mentioned you had a grip on your pegasus magic right? How long has it been since you last used it with clouds? Navi told me how you were imprisoned. So I got to know if what I am going to teach you is going to be easy if you forgot how to use the basics of your magic,” James started looking at the four while his Wife stood with them joining in the lesson.

“Depends on what you're actually teaching us, right?” Asked Rainbow confused at why that was important.

“Because I'm going to teach you to channel elemental magic into your weapons. As former weather manager for ponyville your natural elements are wind, water and lightning. The power of storms themselves. This is a method I came up with to train in a elemental version of one of a keyblade users techniques: the Strike Raid. The elemental magic is closely tied to your personality. Take Twilight Sparkle for example, she was passionate about learning and applying knowledge. She would put her heart into mastering her magic. In Flurry’s case she has access to a good range of elemental magic but her strongest looks to be wind and water. Pip you’re likely a wind elemental, mainly along side earth because of your eager yet hard personality, along with some fire from being passionate about defeating Zangyack as well. I don't know much about Kettle to get a read of his personality, so we’ll have to resort to trial and error.” 

A white, fluffy creature with red devil wings and a big red nose popped up onto James’ shoulder.

“As a demonstration, I'll teach you all how to use the normal Strike Raid first. Which is why I tracked down this Moogle on the ship to enchant the cutlasses and the flintlocks to have the same properties as a keyblade... for the most part, anyway. It helps make them a better magic medium. My wife’s shield has the same properties, so she will help teach the technique if you need assistance,” James said as the Moogle flew over handing each of the four a cutlass and a flintlock. 

Turning towards a training dummy he’d set up for this, James summoned his Lunar Nocturne keyblade and threw it at the dummy making it whirl as it spun through the air, trailing crescent moons before striking the dummy and returning to James’ hand, only for the action to be repeated three more times.

“This technique is good for mid to long range, and thanks to the enchantments, you won't be unarmed for long. Now, here is a demonstration for the elemental version” James stated before letting his sword become charged with magic before moving it like a certain spell making the blade look like it was covered in ice before tossing it in a Strike Raid. On striking the dummy, it froze solid.

“As you can see, for the elemental version you have to know how magic moves to get a reaction in the way you want. You can also use this for normal combat as a separate technique on its own. For the ice version, you have to feel the magic cool down and become rigid. These techniques become handy for facing a large amount of foes and even for dazing a single one if done properly. For lightning, it has to move quickly and rapidly. There are also certain tiers to the techniques. I'll let you figure out the rest of the applications on your own.”

More dummies popped up.

“For now practice Strike Raid on these dummies I’ve got set up. To recall your weapon, just imagine yourself tugging a kind of line attached to your weapon. Chrysalis here will oversee your training in this and time you on it. Though she will join you when it comes to the elemental raids. Good luck, I'll be talking to your Captain for a bit” James stated, chuckling inwardly at the amazed expressions on the four faces. 

“Before I go, one last tip. It helps if you let your emotions guide the magic as what you feel effects the technique itself. Rainbow, you know this having seen Twilight do it when she was trying to figure out the Pinkie Sense,” He added before walking away to leave them to their training.

He found Gai sitting on the prow of the ship, legs crossed and eyes closed in meditation, “You know, Rainbow’s not that rusty, training like hers doesn’t go away that easily,” he said, his eyes still closed, “and with her somewhat competitive nature, she’s likely to master Strike Raids by tomorrow.”

“I know but I figured it would help her to redo the basics. Better control from the foundation so to speak. Plus, people don't really know about how emotions effect magic. Changelings like my wife are masters at that part of magic. I quickly mastered Strike Raid because of Discord. Turned Luna suicidal with his dulling color trick before he was sealed into stone the first time. Plus it would help in the long run.”

“I guess,” Gai said, not breaking his meditation. 

“So do you know where Spike is in this world? It might help if you locate him and convince him to be a blacksmith he has that profession back home” James said with a chuckle watching the four practicing the recall of their weapons. 

“Spike’s not someone I should bother. Ever.” Gai replied, a slight edge to his voice.

“Also that Moogle I found has agreed to being the mechanic to help keep this ship going. Technically, the Galleon counts also as a Gummi ship in Kingdom Hearts terms. You're going to need a mechanic at some point.”

“True, but I’d rather pick members of my crew myself.” Gai groused, lazily opening one eye, “If he’s gonna stick around, I might as well give the little guy a name.”

Thinking of something James sighed and pulled out the Gokai Skeletal ranger key looking at the skull based helmet of it. This caught Gai’s eye.

“What’s that? Looks like a Ranger Key, but there definately hasn’t ever been a Sentai member like that.”

“That's because for all intents and purposes he didn't exist normally. This Gokaiger key is actually a impossibility. This is the key of the undead pirate who guards the realm of the dead, Gokai Skeletal. A key I designed in a story back before I was Displaced. Which means that the original character I created to use this key existed somewhere and something sent the key across reality. I based it off the skeleton key pirates used to use in the past. You can't possibly imagine what that has done to my mind on figuring out how it exists” James told him with a look at the key still trying to come to terms with that. The implications alone were scary enough.

“Hmm...” Gai hummed as he stared at the impossible Ranger Key in James’ hand, “at this point, I’m just willing to just roll with it, fact of the matter is that it exists, I’m sure the reason why is going to present itself eventually.” Gai said, shrugging.

At that moment the key begins to glow, blinding the two as they found themselves in a white void that both recognized.

“This is-!” James said wide eyed.

“What’re we doing here…?” Gai mumbled, looking around.

“That would be because of me” said a younger voice as walking up to them was a blue haired teen in a purple tattered pirate coat and jeans with boots.

“Tamashii Souto!” James said, a bit surprised and nervous.

“You know this guy?” Gai asked, cocking an eyebrow towards James.

“Remember when I said this key was for my OC?” Asked James giving him a deadpan look. “He’s Gokai Skeletal” he pointed at Tamashii.

“Ok...” Gai muttered, turning to Tamashii, “so, what does James’ old OC want with us?”

“Simple, to let you be able to give my powers to someone to help out your world. Basco won't expect SEVEN Gokaigers. That should throw him off, though what do you mean I'm a OC?” Asked Tamashii after explaining.

“Don’t worry about it. Though, Basco is my mess to clean up, I’ll be the one to do so.” Gai stated, “I won’t say no to an additional member though.”

“This is awkward already. In a way I created your key” James sighed scratching his head.

“Ah… I can see why that's awkward and yeah that I can understand. Also, I came to hand you my remaining gear to go with the key. Just ask James here what they are as if he made my key, he knows the rest of my gear.” Said Tamashii mirroring my action before clearing his throat.

Gai turned back to James, “well?”

“he uses his own version of the mobirates called a Skullbirate, a scythe version of your spear and his own skipper that becomes it's own mech. Plus his own extra mode called reaper mode. That's pretty much it” James told him as it has been years since he thought of those.

“So basically, Gokai Silver. Just with a bit more edge?” Gai asked.

“More like a mix of regular Gokaigers with a ghost theme. It is kind of his thing. I was inspired by the ghost ship movie there.” James shrugged.

“Well, like I said, I won’t turn down an additional crew member, just need to find one more person than I originally intended,” Gai said, turning back to Tamashii, “welcome aboard, Souto.” 

“Then we are finished here, though remember it's just my powers, my time has already past. Just make sure whoever does get my mantle has enough spiritual awareness. I'm known as the Guardian of the land of the dead for a reason,” said Tamashii.

“Got it, but it’s always good practice to welcome someone who’s lending their power to you. Doesn’t matter if they’ve kicked the bucket already,” Gai said holding out his hand, “looking forward to working with you, Souto-kun.”

He clasped his hand and gave it a shake. “Likewise, and to let you know I'm sure the Gai I know is proud of you. Just don't be hard on your crew and your set” Tamashii laughed.

With that the two found themselves back on the ship. James looked at the key before handing it to Gai. It glowed as a skeleton themed mobirates formed with a brace with a keyhole and a scythe gun appeared on the deck nearby.

“Well, that was something” James said, noting that there was also a Ranger Key of his keyblade armor there as well.

“Definitely a first,” Gai sighed, “guess things are just gonna get weirder the longer I’m at this ‘Displaced’ thing, huh?” He snapped a portal open under the newly acquired equipment, “now then… we wait for the information to come through. Should be here around closing time...”

“You did remember to let your informant know how to contact you right?” Asked James not sure if he did.

“Please, she’s been at this a long time. We got over that particular hiccup a long time ago,” Gai said, waving his hand dismissively, “she just can’t get the message to us during business hours.”

“Just making sure. Say have you ever met Insarn? I'm not exactly sure on if she actually died.  It's been awhile since I saw the show” James said, leaning on the railing to look at the landscape from there.

“No, Basco’s the only high-ranking Zangyack official on Equus, pretty sure the Conquest Fleet has better things to do than to mess around near a planet they’ve already conquered.”

“Wait I just thought of something. What happened to a certain mirror Twilight kept? The one where Sunset Shimmer is” James asked confused on if Zangyack found it.

“I don’t know if Rainbow told you, but Ponyville’s pretty much cinders by now. Basco knew exactly where to hit to make sure the Equestrians had no resources left to defend themselves or run.”

“Shit, unless Rainbow saw what happened you might not be able to warn Sunset about Zangyack. If they got into that universe well that's two worlds in danger.” James sighed feeling that things definitely looked grim on the odds here.

“I don’t think we need to worry about Sunset, that mirror portal can only be opened once every moon without Twilight’s modifications, and I’m sure she destroyed the mirror itself in order to protect her friends on the other side. Otherwise, I know for a fact there’d be two Rainbow Dashes here.”

“Well that's a relief, I'm going to take a short nap and get some rest. Wake me when you got news” James said looking up at the moon and heading towards the group who was packing up and nodded to them as he passed.

“Will do, James...” Gai muttered as he resumed his meditation again.





“Okay what did your informant find out?” Asked James once everyone gathered to do a briefing.

“All we’ve got is one incident where noises had been heard deep in the caverns under Canterlot Castle… or what remains of it anyway,” Gai began, reading off the message on his Gokai Cellular, “when ponies went to investigate, they found the Heartless symbol splashed all over the walls, as if someone had painted them there.”

Gai put away the Cellular, “so, we’ve either found them, or we have a lead on some vandals that happen to know what the symbol looks like. Either way, it’s worth looking into.” 

“So the old Canterlot Caverns, those should still be there in the mountain. Chrysalis can teleport us in there and we can sneak our way up that way. It's the same place she once trapped Cadence back home.” James noted looking at a map.

“I already already apologized for that, Flurry. I was desperate for my Hive at the time” she told the princess across from her. She had made the mistake of telling Flurry about how she met her parents while Gai was away, and was still trying to make up for her part in that adventure. Even if she wasn't the Chrysalis from this world.

“Regardless, James and I will investigate the Castle, it could still be nothing after all,” Gai said, glaring at Flurry for her stubbornness, “we’ll call if it turns out to be the real deal.”

“Right, well better get ready hun” James told his wife as he stood up and followed Gai.

“I’ve got this,” Gai said, snapping a portal in front of them, “Chryssi should stay here in case more Heartless show up. We can handle a little spelunking on our own, right James?”

“Dude I work pretty well with my wife. Plus your weapons are enchanted to be able to be fight them now. Plus this is still a thing” James said as his wife vanished as as orb of light covered him, when it died down he was now in crimson versions of his clothes and held two keyblades. “Drive Forms are a result of our bond” he explained with as smirk.

“Fine, we’ll be right back then, Rainbow and Navi are in charge.” Gai said, stepping through the portal.

“Aye!” came the reply from the crew as the portal snapped shut behind Gai and James.

James took as look at the familiar caverns with green crystals. “I'm  surprised Zangyack hasn't found these yet. These crystals are like magic batteries, if used right” he said with with a whistle.

“Kinda helps when the criminal scum of Canterlot make anything more than patrols nearly impossible,” Gai said, walking forward, “this way, the report said that the first symbol was further in.”

Walking down it they eventually found the area with the Heartless emblem all over the place.

“Yeesh, these are as detailed as Namine’s drawings! But why draw these like this? It makes no sense at all?” James said examining one.

“Since when has Kingdom Hearts made sense?” Gai grumbled as he inspected one of the symbols, “this one’s still relatively fresh. Culprit must be nearby.”

“it stopped making sense when Xehanort revealed he can time travel,” James said with with a wince before nodding to Gai.

“Seriously, when can dig a grave for that bastard?” Gai groused as he inspected more of the symbols.

“You’re not the first to think so. Hey these symbols are pointing in the same direction! They must be the path the culprit took!” James said before noticing something about the emblems. “this is starting to feel like a trap.”

“Pretty sure that was the intention, this doesn’t look like the random act of a brainless Heartless.”

“The only one who might do something like this is a certain former fairy turned witch dragon” James said with a frown.

“Oi, she wasn’t totally evil, or were you Displaced before that movie came out?” Gai joked, following the trail of emblems.

“The latter, I got teased enough by fellow Displaced for missing it. Though it explained a lot that was missing from that story” James told him knowing not to take offense.

“Shame, it was a good one.”

Soon enough they could hear voices from down the tunnel and they started to slow down to sneak down it and eavesdrop. James and Gai peered inside the cavern.

A pair of colossal double doors dominated the room ahead. Both doors each having a motif of a sun and moon respectively. Various runes and spell circles meant to seal the door shut were carved into the designs, all centered around a lock shaped like a starburst over a crystalline heart, a large black keyhole looked as though it had burned it’s way through the material however. Before the doors was a massive suit of armor, stoically standing guard over the doors, a large Heartless Emblem left no doubt as to why it was there. James gave off a annoyed sigh before donning his keyblade armor.

“You take the legs I get the hands then tag team the torso work for you? This thing won't be easy if it switches to the opposite armor. I remember how strong that thing gets in that form” James offered up a strategy looking at the heartless.

“As good a plan as any… on your go?” Gai asked, unfolding the Gokai Spear and preparing himself to lunge at the giant Heartless.

“on three… one, two, three!” James counted down as both of them went after their designated targets. James leapt at one of the hands slashing with his keyblade building momentum as he spun keeping himself aloft which worked to keep the other hand from knocking him away by striking it too. With a quick mutter of aero and fire the technique made him look like a firestorm which helped destroy the limbs he was facing.

Gai’s Spear crackled with electricity as he stabbed the prongs into the knee of the giant Heartless, grabbing the spear in both hands, he tore it across, rending a line of lightning to the other leg. Destroying the limbs with a loud sizzle of electrified metal.

With their targets taken care of both made short work of the torso using hit and run tactics not letting it be able to target one without the other covering until it shuddered and fell a large crystalline heart rising from it and it vanished.

“Phew, guess together we are quite high level” James said resting his keyblade on his shoulder. Turning to the keyhole that was revealed he pointed his keyblade at it. Streams of light gathered at the tip before it released a beam into the keyhole and with a loud click sound it vanished letting a object drop from where it was. Curious, James picked it up.

“A ranger key… of my keyblade armor! Guess this is yours Gai!” James said tossing it to the space pirate. Looking around he sighed. “guess whoever was here is long gone now. They must have missed the keyhole and set the guard armor as a well, guard, for the area just in case. Let's head back you won't have anymore heartless trouble at least.”

Gai caught the key, staring at it. It looked like a regular suit of armor crossed with one of the main Gokaiger suits. There was a sudden hissing noise as Gai snapped his head up to see several pools of dark energy appearing around the cavern.

“Admiral Akbar would be having a field day right now...” Gai muttered, “Oi, James, looks like Murphy decided to screw us.” 

Looking up James frowned. “those are corridors of darkness used by organization Xlll! Those are not heartless portals! Their Nobody portals! By the look of it it's the twelve currently existing members!” he said recognizing the human sized holes of darkness.

With that revealed twelve beings in black coats appeared on the roof of the ruined castle.

“Well, well, look at this a keyblade wielder I thought they died out about eight years ago” said one of the figures sounding like a surfer.

‘guess I know when in the timeline I'm at now, two years before Sora gained a keyblade’ James thought glaring at the center figure of the group and the tallest one at that.

“What brings beings like you here! I thought you prefered to watch from the shadows why reveal yourselves now” James stated gripping his keyblade.

“Oh looks like someone is well informed it seems. We just wanted to see why there was a influx of Heartless being destroyed recently and now we know” said a cold calculating voice that made James glare more in hate.

“how about we test your skills little keyblade wielder.” said the only female of the group with a sadistic tone.

“I'm going to have to decline there!” James said as he threw down a smoke bomb which covered the area in smoke and when one of the figures made a gust of wind blow it away both James and Gai were gone.

“smart of him. He knew he wasn't ready to face us yet so he pulled a retreat. But it will only be a matter of time before we cross paths again” said one of the teen sized figures.

“We got what we came for let's return” said their leader as they left this world.

-Gokai galleon-

James panted as he leaned against the railing a bit shook up. “Damn it! I thought I had more time before they caught wind of me! At least I have a time frame to get ready more” he said looking up to meet the worried eyes of his wife.

“What the hell are you talking about” Asked Rainbow.

“How much does your Captain know about kingdom hearts?” James asked thinking on how much to explain to them depending on the answer.

“Enough to know that Organization Xlll is bad news, if they’re here, then we’re in for another world’s worth of problems...” Gai grumbled, “would’ve probably been better to fight them off.”

“Nope not a good idea. For one each member is a master of a elemental nature. Their leader Xemnas is the remains of the person Ansem seeker of darkness originated from.” 

“Only one element mastered for each member?” Gai asked, “I’d like to see them get through Sensei’s teachings then.”

“Better not, for here’s the kicker: Xemnas is a former keyblade master in another keyblade user’s body. Who knows how much experience he retains there. It took Sora and Riku together to beat him. Which if what they’re saying is right, won't be for another 4 years” James sighed, “I'm not at the level to fight them yet and I hoped to stay off their radar for a while longer”

“Even so, if they’re here, then there’s some kind of plan involved. Sitting around and waiting for it to happen isn’t going to do much in our favor.”

“I don't really have a choice on that front, their plan is to use a keyblade holder to defeat so many heartless and create a false kingdom hearts. With them knowing about me, now they will soon have five of them to pick from. Luckily they don't know about Jexmas my own nobody, so he should be safe. Until we are both ready to help stop them. They possibly left back to their base off world so it's high time me and my wife returned. I got to give the others the news. Oh, and when Halloween swings by your welcome over to my world we’ll be visited by the Pumpkin King Jack, I could introduce you sometime then”

“I’ll keep that in mind,” Gai replied, holding out a fist, “‘till next time then.”

James smirked and bumped it. “you know it! Later Gai, and you guys better make sure he doesn't do anything too idiotic I'm sure there might be stories to hear next time we meet!”

“Oi!” Gai sputtered indignantly, “the hell do you mean by ‘idiotic’!?”

“Anything that embarrasses you more than the original Gai has endured at least the kind that ends up as blackmail or teasing material!” James laughed.

“Just get back to your verse already,” Gai grumbled while crossing his arms, his ears burning red.

With that both keyblade wielder and changeling vanished the token falling to the deck.

“Gai…? Mind telling me about this Organization Xlll stuff James was talking about?” Dash asked, giving her Captain a quizzical look.

Gai just sighed and scratched his head, withdrawing the two new keys he’d received and picking up James’ token from the deck, “honestly Dash? This is another thing that’ll keep you sane by not knowing enough about. Especially with Kingdom Hearts’ crazy timeline.”

With that, Gai turned and headed for the Galleon’s living quarters, juggling the three items in his hand.