Kairi was walking down a street in the middle of what looked like the largest city he had ever seen, with skyscrapers reaching heights that would amaze anyone, not to mention lower-rise buildings of more traditional and rustic construction. As he looked around, he found posters and brochures that obviously named a name: New York. It would surely be the name of the place where they were in that world now.
"Holy cow, I felt a little tight in there," mentioned Rena as she was walking behind Kairi with Edea and Nina.
"Needless to say, considering that you're both great in comparison to Eve, Kairi, and me in more ways than one," Edea replied.
"What you have is envy," Rena replied to Edea's comment, annoying her a little.
"Envy? I don't think I can have those two at my age. Chances are, I'd get caught in a fight."
"I've read somewhere that sometimes a large bust can distract the opponent," Nina stepped in to calm them both down.
"You don't fuel the fire, okay? That only works with men and animals coming out. But we face nightmarish monsters and beasts that attack by instinct," Edea said.
"Well, a dragon might be interested in that," the winged woman said.
"You say it for joking or by experience?" Rena asked as this one and Edea looked at Nina severely.
Nina got a little flushed and tried to change conversations as quickly as possible, looking at Kairi. "Kairi, is it a good idea to leave Eve and that ship alone in that... dump?"
"We have to expand the cabin's space a little bit," Kairi replied, turning around. "Besides, we must prevent people from seeing the Gummi Ship, not all worlds are prepared to know that there are more worlds out there. And she said there was enough material there to try to make a fix."
Nina nodded to that logic, but then thought of something else. "Kairi, I think in this case, you should hide for now," This made Kairi, Edea, and Rena fix their view on her. "For what you told me, one group wants you dead, while another group needs you because you are part of a key that can rewrite the cosmos. So I think it's best to no put on a show and keep them from knowing what you really are."
"Well, that's one way of looking at it," Kairi replied. "But you must know that I can't stand idly by while something bad happens around. I also have a responsibility after all."
"That's what I call a contradictory problem," Rena said. "And how do we solve it?
"I think I can help you," A voice said near them. When they turned they saw an open kiosk with many newspapers, magazines, and comics, occupied by an older man with whitish gray hair, a mustache of the same color, and glasses.
"And how, sir?" Edea asked, putting her hands on her hips.
"Well, I could do like the superheroes and disguise myself," The old man replied.
"Disguise me?" Kairi asked, confused.
"Yes, it is," He said and picked up a magazine, showing it to Kairi as it approached. "In this city, there are many superheroes helping people, and most of them go in disguise, and for good reason."
"A good reason, huh?" Asked Rena.
"That's right, the disguise not only protects the private life of those who wear the disguise but also all the people who are linked to that superhero, if you need to hide your identity, the easiest thing is to put on a disguise."
"It makes sense..." Nina said.
"You will not be thinking of listening to this old man, right?" Edea asked, seeing it as stupidity.
Kairi began to weigh the proposal that the old man gave her until she smiled. "It could work," Then he faced the old man. "Thanks for your help, sir..."
"Oh, my name is Stan Lee, but you can call me Stan if you want," The old man said with a smile.
Kairi handed the magazine back to the shopkeeper and approached her companions.
"Really? Disguise yourself?" Asked Rena.
"Where do you think we're going to get a costume at this point?" Nina asked.
"And where do we get it from, from a costume shop?" Edea asked.
"Calm girls, I do not need to buy a costume exactly," Said Kairi, and in a short time invoked upon her the light armor of her Chocobo Form. "I can wear this all the time."
"I've seen people disguise themselves quickly, but this is different," Stan Lee muttered seeing what was happening.
"I don't know..." Nina said thoughtfully. "Your face is still visible."
Kairi thought for a moment, coming up with an idea. She put her hands on her head, and soon with a flash, she was now wearing a yellow helmet with feathers that resembled a Chocobo, which could show her face, if it were not for a mask of the same material that covered the helmet at the area of the eyes. "And now?"
Rena sighed deeply. "There's no way to get the idea out of your head, right?"
"That seems," Edea commented, while Nina nodded, getting an idea of what Kairi is like.
"You already know that if something happens, I cannot sit still without doing anything," Kairi replied with a smile, just when she heard a loud noise as if something was destroying his surroundings, causing her to turn backward. "And speaking of the Devil," Then she started running towards the noise.
"Kairi, wait!" Rena said, running after her with the others.
When Kairi approached the site of the event, she saw something green flying backward, crashing into a truck, and leaving a mark on the truck. Before she could ask herself what was happening, what hit the truck jumped to the ground, seeing that was a man bigger than a normal person of green color and dark green hair with colossal musculature, wearing only pants torn by the height of the knees. The giant let out a roar before leaping forward with great force.
"Was that an ogre?" Edea asked, standing close to Kairi, seeing what she was doing, leaving both her and Rena confused.
"An ogre, here?" Nina asked, confused and looking at her book. "I can't find anything of ogres in this world in the book."
"Whatever it is, it's going where the problem is," Kairi said and kept running.
When they arrived at the place where the battle took place, the four hid behind a damaged car, seeing the situation from there, although there was a lot of dust flying around the area, while still seeing a lot.
"Okay, let's see what's here," Edea started. "The ogre, a man in red and yellow armor flying; a man dressed in blue, white, and red with a round shield painted red, white, red, and blue with a white star in the middle and a white A in the hood; a young man in a red and blue suit with yellow forearms and a machine on his back that generates crystal-red wings, like a hawk?; err, a blond man dressed in black armor, a red cape, a metal helmet with what looks like metal wings, wielding a hammer, it looks like a Viking or something; another blond man in a black suit and purple glasses, with a bow and a quiver, a redheaded woman in a dark blue suit with a yellow belt with a red stone and strange yellow wristbands, and- "
Suddenly a huge black hand came out of the cloud of dust, trying to catch a part of the present group, avoiding the grip.
"Come on, my creature! Get rid of them at once!" A voice shouted and out of the cloud of dust came a green-skinned man with a kind of armor with an orange robe over his body, on a floating mechanical platform. What surprised them most about this man was that the size of his skull was twice the normal, at least.
When the cloud of dust dissipated, a gigantic dark creature appeared that Kairi, Rena, and Edea recognized.
"A Heartless?!" Asked Rena in shock.
"A Dark Side!" Kairi said, seeing the huge Heartless.
The Dark Side was standing, with the big-headed man near his shoulder, looking at the group that was facing them. Then, Kairi noticed something strange in the Heartless: he had white marks all over his body, which surprised her a lot, since the Dark Side is a pure Heartless, and the pure ones do not have colors other than the typical black, purple very dark or very dark gray, the eyes being the only dissonant with the color scheme.
The group facing the Dark Side soon began attacking it from all sides. The green ogre and the Viking began to hit the body of the Heartless with superhuman strength, while the metal man and the hawk dress began to fly around the giant Heartless, one firing rays from his hands and another crystal feathers, while the archer and the woman attacked from the ground.
"Seems they know how to fight," Edea said.
"But none of their weapons can really hurt the Heartless," Rena said.
"And even less to a Dark Side, the largest of these," Nina said.
The three remained watching the battle until finally, they noticed that someone else was missing near them.
"But where is Kairi?!" Edea asked in shock, at the same time that Rena and Nina were looking at her.
The man on the giant platform watched the fight with a smile, soon releasing an evil laugh, until:
"Hey, melon head!" That cry made him stop laughing suddenly and after several seconds in shock, he began to look both ways looking for the source of the voice. "Down here!" That scream caused him to turn around and look down, soon seeing Kairi with her hands on her waist.
"But what does she do there?!" Asked Rena alarmed, seeing where Kairi was.
The giant-headed man looked at her with suspicion and doubt for a moment. "And, can I know who you are?"
"Well, this is my first day," Kairi lied, but nobody knew. "And I have not really thought about the name I should use... but I think you can call me: Warrior Bird."
"Really?" Edea asked with a raised eyebrow. "What a bad name."
"Well, who are you, and what do you do with a Heartless the size of a house?" Kairi asked, aka 'Warrior Bird', adding. "I read about them."
"Well, I'm surprised that someone has information about this creature," said the man putting his hands behind his back. "And if you want to know who I am, you can call me: the Leader."
"The what?" Kairi asked, raising an eyebrow inside the helmet.
"The one who will rule all humans, so, the Leader," He responded with a complacent grimace.
"And I thought Warrior Bird was bad," Rena commented from her hiding place.
"Yes, it would have been better the Grand Master, or the Green Doctor, or even the Overlord, but the Leader?, that is the most lacking in originality name that I have ever heard!" Edea commented also.
"The Leader? Seriously, to have such a big head, and surely a big brain, choosing a name is not that you're very good," Kairi said to the named Leader, causing him to have a small twitch in his eye.
"You know what that girl is doing? She's going to get her killed, and that getting angry with the villains is up to me," said the archer, watching the conversation.
"Maybe, Hawkeye, but I'm detecting a strange energy signal coming from her, I'm sure she's hiding something," The steel man said, scanning the energy signal from a screen inside the armor's helm.
The Leader tried to calm down and answered her politely. "Well, it could not be such a bombastic name as 'Emperor of the Earth', it had to be something simple, easy to memorize, and to fear when listening to it."
"Whatever you say," Kairi answered, not caring much about what he said. "Anyway, you should know that the Heartless never act as you want, and if you get distracted, it will take away your heart."
"Do you think I cannot control it? Maybe this will make you change your mind, my little rookie. Attack, my beast!" The Leader stretched his hand toward her, indicating the direction to attack the Dark Side.
The giant Heartless turned to Kairi and reached out to grab it, but when he was about to grab it, something hit the palm of his arm, pushing it back.
"Maybe I'm a rookie, but I know how to deal with the Heartless and how to hurt them!" Said Kairi, now holding her Keyblade, showing a smile.
"What the hell is going on?!" The Leader asked, surprised to see that his monster's attack was blocked.
"What the hell is that weapon? It just damaged that thing's hand," said the man dressed as a hawk.
"I have no idea, but it seems like a mix between a sword, a club, and a key," The steel man answered, and looked at the Viking with the hammer. "Do you know what it is by chance, Thor?" He asked, but he did not receive an answer. "Thor?"
"For Odin, that weapon is a Keyblade! I thought they were gone!" The Viking named Thor answered.
"A Keyblade? And what does it do, open giant doors?" The archer named Hawkeye asked.
"More than that, it's the only weapon capable of harming a Shadow Walker," Thor answered.
The Dark Side tried to catch her again, but she avoided the grip as she jumped to the side, and launched a Firaga against the Heartless, hitting the head fully.
"What are you doing, useless monster! Catch that Warrior Bird at once!" The Leader demanded, seeing that the Dark Side could not catch Kairi, but a laser skimmed over his head, providing from the man with the steel armor's hand.
"Do not forget us, Leader!" The armored man replied. "Avengers, change plans! Somebody take that weapon and embed it in the monster!"
"It will not work, Iron Man, only its owner can use it!" Warned Thor.
"Like your hammer? You're kidding!" Said Hawkeye.
"Then cover her until she finishes with that thing!" He ordered Iron Man.
"You've heard, Hawkeye," The red-haired woman said, firing from her bracelets at the Dark Side.
The Heartless, despite all the attacks it received, was still focused on Kairi, throwing his fist at her, who dodged the punch, but when she touched the ground, the area around it was covered with darkness with white traces from where Shadows and Neoshadows emerged, also with the white traces.
"And to think that with the big one there wed was enough," Kairi cursed softly.
Soon a Neoshadow pounced at Kairi, but a flying shield hit him fully, disintegrating it with the blow. When another rushed forward, the shield man appeared and blocked the advance of the Heartless, soon giving him a punch that evaporated him.
"Thank you, sir..." Kairi began.
"You can call me Captain America for now, Warrior Bird," The man on the shield responded and put his finger on his ear, where there was an earphone. "Tony, have you seen it?"
"Yes, Captain, I've seen it!" He answered Iron Man, answering Tony's name.
"I hallucinate!" He started Hawkeye. "Before we went crazy trying to destroy even the smallest of these bugs, and now they're like butter!"
"Maybe it's that weapon she's using," said the man dressed as a hawk.
"It's possible, that weapon she's carrying is generating a kind of background radiation that affects the molecular structure of these creatures, and that's more reason to cover the rookie," Explained Iron Man.
With that the whole group began to attack with what they could the Dark Side, avoiding that he could focus completely on Kairi.
"Any idea, Warrior Bird?" Captain America asked Kairi.
"If I could get to the head, I could thrust the weapon in and kill it, but I don't know how," reasoned Kairi.
"I do," said a loud voice, and Kairi was caught from the plate from behind, seeing that it was the ogre who was holding her.
"Hulk, be careful," The Captain said to the ogre he called Hulk.
"Hey, you're not thinking about doing what I think you're going to do, right?" Kairi asked, beginning to worry, but soon Hulk lifted her more and threw her like a stone to the Dark Side, she let out a scream at the sudden act.
"IT HAS GONE MAD?!" Edea, Rena, and Nina shouted at the same time, terrified to see Kairi flying through the air like a rocket.
Kairi was frightened flying until she saw that it was heading toward the head of the Dark Side. Then she grabbed her Key Sword and pointed it to the Heartless, getting to embed itself in the forehead when she reached it. When the Dark Side began to fade, Kairi jumped back, away from the shadowy giant.
"No, no, no, my monster!" The Leader shouted, soon looking at Kairi. "You'll pay for this, I swear!" Then he noticed that Kairi was pointing her weapon to the sky with electricity in it, and when the Leader looked up, he saw an electric orb above him. "Oh oh."
The lightning bolt fell on the leader's machine, although it leaped instinctively avoiding the beam, but soon saw that it was a bad idea, screaming in terror at the fall. But soon Iron Man grabbed him by the suit and began to lower it, while he gave a snort and crossed his arms angrily.
While Kairi managed to land on the ground on her legs, breathing in relief, but soon looked at the Hulk. "You could warn before doing that, right?"
"Forgive him, it's his way to be," The Captain defended the Hulk.
"Are you okay? If you're fine, then everything's fine," Simply said the green giant.
"I don't know how to take that comment," Answered Kairi.
"This will not end here, I swear to you!" The Leader cursed when he hit the ground and pulled away from the steel man's grip. "You can be sure that next time you will not be so lucky!"
Kairi looked at the Leader frowning through the helmet, and threw a Blizzaga to the ground at the Leader's feet, freezing it and causing him to fall to the ground, hitting his back and letting out a groan from the blow. Later she advanced until she was right in front of him, and pointed her Keyblade at his enormous head.
"Now listen to me, you bighead! You're going to tell me where you've found that Heartless exactly, or you'll end up pretty messy!" Kairi threatened the Leader. Obviously, she did not intend to fulfill her threat, but he must scare him to get information.
"I'm not going to tell you anything, Warrior Bird! You'll never get any information about the monster!" The Leader said defiantly, but suddenly his face changed to pure worry with his eyes wide open. "Oh oh!"
Raising an eyebrow in doubt. Apparently, behind her there was something that scared him more than herself, so she looked towards where the Leader was looking, soon seeing a huge aircraft carrier the size of an aircraft flying over the city, but high enough so that the wind of the propellers of the such ship wouldn't affect the city.
"It seems that the Tricarrier is flying a little lower today than usual, don't you think?" Iron Man commented looking at the huge ship.
"I've never seen a ship that size!" Edea commented from her hiding place.
"I went in one, and it was not of that size," Rena said.
"There could fit a whole town without problems," Nina said.
"Wow, what a ship!" Kairi commented, looking at the ship in amazement.
"Warrior Bird!" A voice shouted from behind her, making her startle with shock, turning around. There he found a man with dark skin, bald, black beard, a brown eye, and a patch on his left eye, dressed in very dark gray military clothes and a black raincoat with matching black boots. The man seemed to stare at Kairi at that moment.
"Just what we need, Fury's here," Commented Hawkeye.
"Wow, Nick, I didn't expect to see you here so soon," Iron Man said as if he did not care.
"Excuse me?" Kairi asked, confused by the situation.
"Nick Fury, director of S.H.I.E.L.D., or what is the same: Strategic Homeland Intervention, Enforcement, and Logistics Division," The woman said. "And he's the owner of the ship up there," The explanation left Kairi dumbfounded for a moment.
"Say, Nick, have you come to pick up the Leader in person?" Asked Iron Man.
"I'm not here for that," Fury replied, without looking away from Kairi, approaching her. "Do you have any idea of the mess you've been about to get into?"
"Well, I just wanted to help, you know?" Answered Kairi.
"Calm down, Director Fury," Captán America told to Fury. "If it weren't for her, we would not have finished with that monster."
"Anyway, this kind of problem is not for amateurs, you know?"
"Amateur, me? I'm sorry, but I've done this job before I came here, I just wanted to help, and now, if you don't mind, I want to look for the origin of that original Heartless," Kairi said, turning around and walking away from Fury.
"Not so fast, Kairi!" He ordered Fury, and Kairi stopped in the act. Edea, Rena, and Nina were surprised too, seeing that the 'cover' of Kairi had been discovered so easily.
Kairi immediately turned to Nick. "You know it?!"
"I know everything."
"But how?!"
"I'm a super spy, so do not be offended, after all, we've monitored you and the others for some time now."
Kairi stared at Fury for a moment, until she sighed and touched her helmet with one hand, making it disappear. "So much trouble for nothing. Tell me, since when are you watching me?"
"Since Xehanort's Heartless made his move and started using Malefica for his plans," Nick answered.
Since then? That meant that these people were already aware of the existence of other worlds, and not only that, they also knew about the incident in which she was kidnapped, and Sora had to save her in Radiant Garden, then called Hollow Bastion. That incident! And have they monitored it since then?
"Even after the Second Keyblade War?!" She asked him.
"Even Death's first attack." He simply said with a smile.
"Natasha, what's going on here?" Hawkeye asked the woman.
"If I'm not mistaken, surely our 'Warrior Bird' is really one, Princess of the Heart, if I'm not mistaken."
"A Princess of the Heart you say?" Thor asked. "One of the seven princesses in whose hearts darkness does not reside, and yet they are part of a weapon that could control a power that can alter creation itself? Here in Midgard?"
"Well, look, one thing that Thor knows and I do not, this gets interesting," said Iron Man.
"The great Iron Man not knowing something? Watch out, it's the end of the world!" Joked Hawkeye.
"But what is she doing here?" The boy dressed as a hawk asked.
"Shh!" Natasha silenced the others.
"I must assume that this is a stop in that search of yours to know your origins, right?" Fury asked Kairi.
"Yes, I already have several worlds, and I have only found memories of my mother, whom I barely recognize," Answered Kairi, with sadness in her voice.
"If you're interested in knowing, I met your mother a long time ago," Nick answered.
Kairi looked at him in surprise. "Really?!"
"Yes, but I think I'm not the right person to talk about it," Said Fury. "At the moment, if you want to take care of this issue of the Heartless, it will have to be by our rules," Then he looked at Iron Man. "Stark?"
"Don't worry, I think we can deal with this."
"Excuse me Director Fury, but aren't you going to put our guest in a safe place?" Hawkeye asked pointing at Kairi.
"I think that in the current situation, you can take better care of her," Nick answered and looked towards the hiding place where the girls were. "They too."
The three were hidden in the act even more, nervous to see that they had been discovered that easily.
"Come, come out, I'm not going to eat you or anything like that," Fury replied with a smile.
The girls hesitated for a moment, but came out from behind the car slowly, with some distrust of the situation.
"That's better," Said Fury and looked at Iron Man. "By the way, there's a fifth person in the dump nearby."
"I'll take care of it. Falcon, take care of our guests," said Iron Man and flew off in the direction of where Eve was obviously.
"As you say, I'll take care of this," said the young man dressed as a hawk.
Kairi still didn't leave her amazement at the fact they knew more about them than she thought. Whoever these people were, they knew everything about it.
Sometime later, Kairi, Edea, Rena, and Nina were taken inside an enormous building with a strange structure and an A in the highest part of the building, and surprisingly the elevated part of the building had a large number of rooms where they could carry a 'normal life', although some rooms were quite rare: to list at least two, one was filled with crystal statuettes, and another seemed to extend eternally to heaven. After the guided tour, they were taken to a laboratory, waiting for Iron Man, and Eve.
"Well, let's see if I figure it out," Rena said, after hearing the stories of each of the so-called 'Avengers' present in the room. "You, Thor, are the son of the god Odin of Asgard, and you are here to help with a hammer that only you can wield; the big man, Hulk, is actually a brilliant scientist who after a failed experiment, became a huge monster of a huge force that can be angry with the slightest annoyance; Sam, you're Falcon, one of the new members of this group and also quite intelligent; you two, Hawkeye and Black Widow, or what is the same, Burton and Natasha, you are very well trained spy agents; the name of Captain America is Steve Rogers, and he is an enhanced soldier of a past war that ended up frozen for more than 60 years."
"To be a concise summary, yes," Answered Hawkeye. "And I must assume that I've never seen an elf before... Tell me, do all those of your race have such huge bazongas?" He asked as a joke, but soon regretted it when he had Rena right in front of his face with an annoyed face by that question.
"Let's avoid asking those kinds of questions, okay?" Kairi asked, separating Rena from Hawkeye with the help of Edea.
"By the way, can you tell us something about the other member, Iron Man?" Nina asked, looking at Captain America.
"Tony? Well, I only know what we all know."
Then Natasha started talking. "Anthony Stark is the president of Stark Industries, and one of the richest men in the world, and much of his fortune was achieved by creating weapons."
"Is he a weapons manufacturer?" Kairi asked.
"He was, until one of his weapons almost killed him, forcing him to carry a small ARK reactor in his chest so that the shrapnel he has there does not reach his heart, and since then he has not been involved in arms production. "
"But besides that, Stark is what you could say is a genius, a billionaire, a playboy, and a philanthropist..." He listed Hawkeye.
"And he also has a very long hand and a very big mouth," Eve said, entering the room next to Iron Man without his helmet, with the mark of a purple hand on his cheek.
"What happened to you?" Falcon asked when he saw the bruise on Stark.
"This? When I heard about our guest, that she was the queen of a race of robots-"
"You couldn't help but try to convince her to do some tests, right?" Captain America asked, not surprised as if he already imagined it.
"You said it yourself, and seriously, I never thought there was anyone else who would hit as hard as our Captain, ouch," Stark commented with his hand on his cheek.
"And the Gummi Ship?" Kairi asked.
"It's in a kind of hangar, while several machines are dedicated to making some improvements, but the possibility of an acceptable improvement is very low," Eve said.
"Well, now that we are here, we must now focus on the Heartless," Said Kairi.
"You should not worry about that, princess," Stark said. "Currently we have it quite controlled."
"Well, it did not look like it when I saw you fight against the Dark Side," Replied Kairi. "Look, I've been dealing with the Heartless problem for quite some time now, and I can tell you with absolute certainty that I've never seen one like today, the pure Heartless are totally dark, with no white lines, so this may be affected by another element."
"Well, maybe you have some reason," Stark said, soon operating with holograms that showed a lot of data. "From what we have been able to verify, the Heartless generate a very unique signal, but I have also been detecting a smaller signal in them, a signal very similar to that of your weapon, princess."
"But that is impossible! If that is true, we would be faced with an impossible. Pure Heartless are pure darkness, and the only way one could have properties of light would be to be an artificial one, but these were of the pure type."
"So, does that mean that something is altering them?" Natasha asked.
"If so, they would be playing with the laws of creation, since light and darkness are basic elements in the creation of the universe," said Thor.
"As if we no longer had enough with the Fallen," Edea commented.
"The Fallen?" Thor asked interested in the name.
"Later."
Falcon then said, "If it is as you say, the person behind these alterations should be a true genius..."
"Or a complete madman," Stark finished. "And I don't know many geniuses capable of doing something like that."
"Don't you also include yourself, Tony?" Hawkeye asked.
"Do you think I could dare to do something like this?" Stark asked looking at the group, but the Avengers just stared at him. "Ok, I'll take it back."
"If we knew at least where they attack," Nina commented.
"Show us the map of the city, J.A.R.V.I.S.," Tony said and soon a hologram appeared with the map of the city where they were.
"J.A.R.V.I.S.?" Kairi asked.
"It's the building helper's AI," Eve answered.
"AI? As Artificial Intelligence? Oh, they're advanced here, in my world, the only thing resembling are golems and possessed armor." Nina commented.
"This is nothing," Tony said. "This is the map of the city, and these are the points where Heartless has appeared, so far this week," Then the map showed a large number of red dots throughout the map.
"So many? You have a whole infestation here!" Kairi said looking at the map. "Like this, we can never find out where they come from."
Eve thought for a moment but then approached the map hologram. "J.A.R.V.I.S., could you be so kind as to point out all the places where the Heartless have appeared so far, including the points where the Avengers have not acted and just sightings without damage?"
"Do as she says, J.A.R.V.I.S., let's see where this leads."
"As you say, Mr. Stark," A voice sounded, and soon the map was full of red dots, showing all the attacks to date of the Heartless.
"I'll take it back, that's too much!" Edea exclaimed, seeing so many points in the map.
Eve began to observe the whole map for a long time until she spoke again. "Could you join with a line the most distant points of appearance taking into account the map?" Soon a line started, joining several of the farthest points that appeared on the map. "Now do the same, but below the first line," The hologram repeated the previous process as she said. "Again," And another line was shown on the map.
"Good idea, Miss Eve, why would not I think of it before?" Stark said putting his hands on Eve's shoulders. "J.A.R.V.I.S., you know what you have to do!"
After a few seconds, the map was full of circles and lines connected between all the points on the map, each circle smaller than the previous one.
"What happened?" Kairi asked.
"That also makes me wonder," Natasha commented.
"Our guest has executed a pattern of closeness and agglomeration," Stark replied. "The more apparitions are grouped in an area, the closer they are to the epicenter, Eve, if it were not for the risk of receiving another slap, I would kiss you!" Obviously, Eve ignored the comment as if it didn't affect her.
"So, if we consider this pattern, this area is where we should look," Captain America said pointing to the most clustered patterns.
"Is there a building or place that has what it takes to cause this colorful effect in the Heartless?"
After a few seconds, a hologram appeared showing a large two-story square building with a large garden surrounded by trees and a stone wall around the place. The girls noticed that the Avengers let out a gasp when they saw the image, with Stark being the only one to speak. "Oh, Victor, what the hell have you done?"
"Victor?" Kairi asked curiously.
"Víctor Von Doom, also known as Doctor Doom," Captain America replied. "Absolute ruler of Latveria, and one of the most dangerous villains in the world, trying to conquer the world thanks to his knowledge about science and magic."
"A villain? And why do not you arrest him, period?" Asked Rena.
"Very simple, diplomatic immunity," answered Hawkeye. "A real pain in the ass."
"Diplomatic immunity you say? In my world, when a ruler went over the line, he was stopped, period, no matter where he was, especially if he is a tyrant who wants to conquer the world!" Edea replied energetically.
"That's in 'you' world, here we have laws, and even a god like me has to fulfill them, no matter how much they dislike me," Thor answered.
"Well at least free that Latveria from his tyranny at least!"
"Doom, despite being a villain, has always cared for and protected its people, if we did that, we would only attract the wrath of an entire country," Captain America responded, making Edea stop protesting.
"Does this Doom have the knowledge to alter the Heartless?" Nina asked.
"Not only that, once he tried to control the great Serpent of Midgard," Falcon replied.
"The Serpent of Midgard, the one who says that if he wakes up he will devour the world?" Nina asked.
Without warning Hulk stomped on the ground, drawing everyone's attention. "Let's stop talking and crush that asshole! I'm sick of those damn living shadows!"
"The truth is that has a bit of reason," Rena said, pointing to Hulk.
"But we cannot enter the building without any reason, it is the embassy of Latveria, and therefore sovereign territory," Stark replied. "And I do not believe that S.H.I.E.L.D. is willing to help us get through without more evidence than a map full of points and lines and an assumption."
"Maybe you cannot but, we're not from here," Kairi replied with a smile, making the Avengers look at her in silence for a moment.
Kairi, Edea, Rena, and Nina were in front of the gate of Latveria's embassy, with the Avengers at some distance, since they had a clear idea of what might happen now. While Eve was in the tower of the Avengers to supervise what happened with the help of JARVIS. Kairi was the first to advance to the gate.
"Doctor Doom, we want to talk to you about the attacks of the Heartless, so open the gate, or I'll have to knock it down!" Kairi demanded, but nobody answered.
"Let's smash the door then!" Exclaimed Hulk.
"I'm with you, my green friend!" Thor said, raising his hammer.
Kairi, meanwhile, extended her arm to the side. "No, leave it to me, I'm going to try something."
Thor and Hulk looked at Kairi confused, while Kairi closed her eyes to concentrate on her magic. After a few seconds, Kairi shone and ended up invoking another form, new from her point of view. At that moment he was now wearing a golden breastplate with only a pair of golden shoulder pads, a brown skirt that did not reach the knees, a pair of golden gauntlets, and golden boots.
With the change, and after fixing a bit on his attire of the Titan Form, he invoked her Keyblade, positioning himself to strike the fence. After several seconds of silence, Kairi threw a blow to the fence, destroying it and sending it flying into the enclosure, with just one blow. Kairi herself was surprised to see the strength of the current form, beginning to have several ideas in mind for the future. Meanwhile, Thor and Hulk were left with their mouths wide open, while the other Avengers were stunned by what happened.
"I cannot believe there could be someone stronger than these two!" Hawkeye said, referring to Thor and the Hulk.
"Girl smash well," was the only thing Hulk said.
"You can say it," Affirmed Thor.
Kairi and the girls entered the compound until soon several alarms began to sound all over the place, causing everyone to prepare to fight. Expecting an attack, the four remained watching around, until the alarm fell silent, and from the main door of the building came a woman of greenish skin with black clothes and a scepter.
"I have to admit that you are really reckless, Princess of the Heart, really reckless," said the woman, as Kairi was surprised to see her, but soon put a face of contempt towards her.
"Maleficent," was the only word Kairi said.
"Who?" Edea asked.
"A dark fairy I met once, the one who kidnapped me under Xehanort's orders," Kairi answered and advanced several steps toward Maleficent. "It surprises me to see you in this place."
"Yes, it surprises me as well seeing you in this place, Kairi," Maleficent replied, showing that he did not care about that situation.
"Tell me, Maleficent, what is all this about?"
"It's simple: if I ever want to gain control of Kingdom Hearts, I should not only know how to control darkness, but also light, and as you know, Kingdom Hearts is light, but as such an investigation requires a great mind, I had to contact with this humble gentleman."
Soon a man in gray armor covering his body, with a green robe with a cape and a hood, his brown eyes being the only human that was seen through the mask that looked like a face.
"Doctor Doom, I presume," Edea commented.
"Indeed, Edea Lee, daughter of Braev Lee the Templar," Doctor Doom said, surprising Edea. "Yes, I know perfectly well who you three are: Nina, princess of Windia; Rena Elindel, the elf archer; and Eve, the queen of the Nasod, who will surely be right now in the tower of the Avengers," Said the villain, surprising each of the girls. "And now that things are clear, you should know that, even though you are not of this world, you should not get involved in the affairs of others, even those of another country."
"We wouldn't be here if it were not for your experiments!" Replied Kairi. "I'm not going to let you keep making more Heartless with those white lines!"
Doctor Death laughed when he heard Kairi. "Do you think the Heartless with white stripes are an adverse effect to my experiments with light? Do not make me laugh, you fool!"
"What do you mean?" Asked Rena.
"From my point of view, the only fault that I see these Heartless are the black parts of their body, that is the color that should disappear with the experiments."
"Are you saying what I think it is?"
"That is," Said Pete as he appeared behind them. "The experiments are not only to control light but to be able to create Heartless that are based primarily on light, with no trace of darkness. Pretty clever, isn't it?"
"If you do that, the result will make-"
"That the Heartless will be able to roam the worlds of light and darkness, no matter how much light or darkness they have in the worlds," Maleficent explained. "And you can't do anything to stop it when after it turns into a reality."
"Sorry to interrupt," Said Iron Man, landing near Kairi.
"What the hell are you doing?!" Demanded Doctor Doom seeing that the other Avengers entered his garden.
"It is true that we cannot enter here for good, but if something happens like now, our duty is to make sure it doesn't get worse," Answered Hawkeye.
"Changing the subject, I admit that I am intrigued by the experiment, what do you use for it? I say that to cause such an effect in these beings, a gigantic source of energy is required that generates that much light, and I don't know anything that matches with that," Explained Iron Man.
"It's true, but Maleficent has given me a creature with a power over the light that surpasses everything known, it has many names, but most people know it by the name of Alexander."
"Alexander, like the great conqueror Alexander the Great?" Falcon asked.
"No!" Thor said without warning. "Doom, do you mean Alexander, the living fortress?!"
"It was quite difficult for us to find him, but to capture him was another story thanks to our Heartless," Pete answered.
"Who is Alexander?" Edea asked, referring to what Thor was referring to.
"He is known for being a living fortress with the power to launch an attack so bright that it can volatilize anything in front of him, a creature that only the most expert sorcerers can ever summon," Thor explained.
"'Can ever summon'? Are you saying it's an Eidolon?" Kairi asked.
"That is one of the names for which he is referred."
"In any case, it is already impossible to stop the process, very soon, the light will not have secrets for me," said Doom, entering the building.
Before Maleficent and Pete entered the building too, he snapped his fingers, causing several Heartless to appear around them, these being Shadows, Neo Shadows, Soldiers, and Fat Guys.
"Heartless!" Kairi answered, recognizing the dark creatures.
One of the Neo Shadows attempted to attack Kairi, but the shield launched by Captain America blocked his advance.
"We must follow them! Surely they go to where the Eidolon is!" Nina said, throwing lightning at several Soldiers.
"We take care of this, you follow them, and be careful, who knows what traps Doom will have prepared inside," Iron Man said, firing several lasers from his hands at the Heartless.
"Stark, are you sure about that?" Asked Hawkeye, firing several arrows at a pair of Dusks.
"Some don't complain about the plan," Falcon commented, watching Thor and Hulk tear apart several Fat Guys without problems.
"I'll make sure they're safe!" Captain America said and ran towards the girls, who were already heading towards the entrance of the mansion.
"Don't do any nonsense, okay?" Asked Black Widow, while holding a Soldier with his legs before turning it 180 degrees and throwing it against a couple of Heartless, and then throw a projectile at them from her bracelets.
Kairi and the others were in a hall inside the embassy, although it was too elegant to be the hall of one.
"Are you sure this is really an embassy?" Asked Rena, looking around.
"You must know that that term is not more than a word for Doom," The Captain said when he arrived at them.
Kairi looked at the Captain for a moment, before looking around. "Any idea where Doom and Maleficent might be?"
"Surely under the building, but we must figure out how to get there," The Captain replied.
"Good question," Edea said, looking around. "Will there be an elevator around here?"
"If there is, it will be strongly secured," The Avenger replied.
Nina started thinking for a moment until she looked at the floor. Rena soon noticed her. "You will not be thinking about what I believe?"
"It's the only idea I can think of to get off," Nina said.
"Well, if there is no other way, everyone moves aside," Kairi said, and soon everyone moved away from the center of the room.
Nina raised an arm to the sky, beginning to conjure a spell, soon throwing a ball of fire against the ground, causing an explosion that destroyed the ground, causing a great cloud of dust that covered part of the room. When the cloud dissipated, there was a large hole through which one could enter what looked like a tunnel.
Captain America was the first to jump into the tunnel, checking that it was safe for the girls to get off as well. Already in the tunnel, the small group moved slowly, trying not to cause too much noise in it.
In a corner, the Captain stopped and looked for her, making them all stop. When they went to look, they were surprised to see Doom in the hallway.
"What is he doing here?" Edea asked.
"Quiet, it's not him, it's one of his Doombots. Robots designed to be like him and act as a decoy," The Captain warned.
"And what is that?" Asked Rena, carefully pointing to a kind of rectangular box-shaped machine.
"I don't know," The Captain replied and put his hand on the transmitter of his ear. "Stark, I'm in front of a Doombot, and there seems to be a machine across the corridor too, could it be a trap?"
"I doubt it," Iron Man replied: "Since we are here I am detecting quite a lot of unknown energy coming from underground, probably from that Alexander, even some of my systems are failing now, the most likely thing is that the Doombot don't work with that energy out there. I bet whatever that machine you're talking about is a wireless power generator to work with despite the energy of the Eidolon, if you destroy it, surely the nearby Doombots will be deactivated. "
"It's possible, it would be a good idea to try to see that theory," Eve answered from the communicator.
"Who gave you permission to answer on this frequency?"
"You when you gave me access to your systems for this mission."
Without wanting to listen to the conversation, Rogers stopped listening and talked to the girls about the situation.
"If that's true, how will we go through that phony robot?" Nina asked.
Kairi began to think for a moment until she remembered Gallowmere's journey. "I have an idea," She said and soon activated her Diabolos Form, surprising both Nina and Captain America.
"Wow, that's a change of look, but seriously, I doubt very much that it seems minimally to a succubus deceive a Doombot."
"You only watch, it's good that there's hardly any lighting here," Kairi replied, and acquired her Neo Shadow form before leaving her hiding place.
Kairi advanced down the corridor, managing to avoid being attacked by the Doombot, leaving the Captain open-mouthed. Kairi was already close to the machine, when without warning strange lines began to appear on the floor, creating a curtain of light that, after being touched Kairi by one of the curtains, undid his disguise.
"Crud!" Cursed Kairi, when the Doombot turned to her.
"You do not have the authorization to be here! Get ready to be eliminated!" The robot said, pointing his arm towards Kairi.
Before she could do anything, Kairi hit the machine hard, causing it to stop working, and immediately the Doombot made a muffled noise, arms hanging and the torso leaning forward, no longer moving. Kairi gave a deep sigh, as the girls and Captain America ran toward her.
"We were lucky that Tony's plan worked," Rogers said and looked at Kairi. "But seriously, what happened?"
"I don't know, the Diabolos Form allows me to disguise myself as a Heartless, which allows me to infiltrate somewhere, hoping that they confuse me with one, surely these robots are programmed not to attack the Heartless, but it disappears when I come into contact with light, but this curtain of light... " Kairi said, putting her hand on the curtain.
"I bet the experiments with Alexander have something to do with this," Edea said.
"It's more than that," Nina replied. "It's... like the light is trapped in these stones and tries to get out, whatever it is, I doubt we have much time."
"Let's hurry, let's try to avoid any patrol as much as possible, I don't think the disguise of Kairi's Diabolos Form can always work if more light curtains begin to appear," Rena said.
"And I'm afraid that may be the prelude to something much worse," said Kairi, getting into the worst of the situation.
During the whole journey, the group advanced as quickly as possible, trying to avoid problems with the Doombots who patrolled the entire place, or destroying the machines feeding them, Kairi trying to avoid the constant light curtains that were appearing, being more numerous as they moved further through the underground tunnels.
Finally, the group arrived at what looked like a large laboratory with a large number of cybernetic instruments on all sides, despite being quite dark. In this same room, they found Pete and Doom, but not Maleficent, in front of the dark silhouette of something huge.
"It's over! Leave it alone!" Said Kairi.
"Do not you see what's happening now?" Asked Rena, emphasizing the curtains of light that came from the 'light cracks' that formed.
"There is no way you can stop us now at this point, although I must admire your persistence in getting here," Said Doctor Doom.
"Yeah, but when this experiment reaches its end, the light will no longer be an impediment to our plans," Pete followed.
"Enough! Where do you have the creature?" Rogers demanded both.
"Uhm, the correct term is Eidolon, you know?" Nina said looking at him.
"If you want the creature so much, here you have it," Soon several lights began to light, revealing more parts of the lab.
Soon they saw that at the back of the room, there was a huge mechanical structure supported by what looked like arms as big as the machine, with a more than surprising appearance of a fortress, with the head of the robot in the shape of a helmet.
"This thing..." Edea started asking, surprised.
"... it's Alexander?" Rena finished, surprised as well as the others the size of Eidolon.
"Obviously, I already understand what was the term 'living fortress' that Thor said," Captain America said, trying to keep his composure before such a creature.
"Look!" Kairi said, pointing to a large number of wires that connected with the entire body of the mechanical Eidolon. It was evident that this was how they absorbed its energy. "Release him!"
"You have no right to order us, child," Said Pete and then looked at Doom. "Doctor?"
"I'll take care of them, so you should not worry," Answered Doom.
"Try not to kill the princess, we still will surely need her if Maleficent decides to get Kingdom Hearts after this," Said Pete, directing his gaze to Kairi, just before surrounding himself with the energy of a Dark Corridor. "A good thing the brat isn't around, isn't it?" After these words, Pete disappeared next to the Corridor of Darkness.
"Now you will comprehend a universal law in this world," said Doom, beginning to float until being over Alexander, approaching a machine in form of an open cabin that was over the mechanic Eidolon. Upon landing inside, some holograms began to appear in front of the supervillain. "Nobody defies Victor Von Doom. Never."
Doom began to manipulate the cabin's holograms, and soon Alexander began to move slowly, as being a heavy puppet, and Doom was controlling it. Soon some strange flying robots surrounded them and aimed at them.
"Scatter!" shouts Captain America while holding up his shield to block one of the shots from these robots.
The girls soon began to scatter, while Rena began to shoot her arrows against Doom's cabin, trying to cause some damage to it, but they don't seem to sport any damage, the same was when Kairi shot some of her Firaga and Thundaga spells against the target.
Luckily, Edea was aiding the Captain to take down at least one of the drones, while Nina kept avoiding the shots and sending some fireballs and ice blocks at the cabin.
Edea saw the effects… which were none and she shouts in frustration "What does it take to crush that thing? A hit from a summon?"
"These things seem to be energized by the Eidolon," Said Nina. "Only maybe… can anybody of you throw any of these robots to the cabin?"
Kairi nodded and jumps to reach one of the still airborne ones and strikes it as hard as she could with her Keyblade to aim in the direction of the cabin. When it struck, caused a type of overcharge on the cabin, soon causing an explosion of light inside it, taking Doom out of the cabin, and landing hard on the ground.
Seeing it, Edea commented "Now we have our chance!" and rushes at their enemy, with her blade raised. But Dr. Doom stood up and blocked her sword with a hand. "WHAT?"
"Pathetic," Doom said and threw her away, making her land hard on the ground, soon his back being hit by arrows.
"She isn't alone!" was Rena's call and keeps on shooting arrows.
"Elves should stay in forests, not in cities," He said and aimed a hand at her, but the Capitan's shield hit it, making a shot of his hand miss the elf.
She still moves away to be not a stationary target as she kept on, while Kairi shot into the back of the metal man a Firaga.
He turned around staring at her and rushed at Kairi to punch her. She was able to raise her blade in a defensive position but the hit still sends her back and nearly makes her lose the balance to keep standing.
"Kairi!" shouts Edea before she rushes up and coats her blade in magical electricity before striking hard at Doom, but was only enough to force him to stare at her, making her gulp at his stare. "I just wished I had my asterisks here,"
Doom was to attack her, but Kairi got the opportunity to hit his head with her Keyblade, making him wince a little, and giving Edea the opportunity to retreat. "Are you kidding me? His head is the weak spot?" as she gets into a safe distance.
Doom was going to attack Kairi, but the captain tackled him from the side, sending him away. "Not, just hit him with enough strength!"
"Are you telling me I lack strength?"
"No. Is only that he is sturdy, and I'm a super soldier," He replied and blocked a blast from Doom with his shield.
"How assuring," she muttered then looked at the cabin "But since Doom is busy here…" and she aims her sword "Ok… what was the spells indication again?" and thought for a moment, while Kairi and Captain America are in close combat with Doom, Rena trying to find a good spot to shoot at.
"All you are really stubborn," Said Doom and flying back to the cabin, getting control of all the systems again.
"So much for that round."
They saw how one of the Eidolon's legs began to rise and generate some energy on the foot of it. And they are going to a distance to be not hit what obviously came next. When the leg hit the ground, it caused a shockwave of light that expanded around the leg some distance, but luckily they avoided the attack.
"So we have to break Doom out of it again?" asks Edea annoyed.
"You sound like one of our friends back there in that another world," Said Rena
"They had an effect," she replied.
Soon appeared more drones, beginning to shoot at them, but this time at more distance, being harder to use them as baseball balls against Doom. And the problem was now bigger with Alexander's stomping and shockwaves.
"Seems we have to find a form of sending them back to Doom," Said Kairi, avoiding some blasts from the drones.
"Yeah, but how do we lower them?" Asked Rena, shooting at some of the drones to try to damage some of them.
"I think I have an idea," said Nina and flew to one of the drones, soon sending a spell that was able to freeze the drone, making it fall.
"That's one way!" said Kairi and rushes up and hits the drone towards the captain so he could bring more strength into the flight.
He punched the drone with his shield, sending it flying to the cabin, soon causing an explosion at contact and causing Doom to be knocked away from it. And Edea took the chance and attacks him while he was still in the air.
Even with that strike, he got to his feet and raised his arms, causing bolts to shoot from his fingers and land around him, acting as a shield, forcing the group to move away until the attack finished.
"Now he uses a new trick?" Kairi asked staring at the villain.
"I am not asking how," said Rena while shooting her next arrow.
The impact on the villain's body just got his attention and rushed to punch her, but she jumped backward to avoid the strike while losing two more arrows to irritate the enemy more.
He prepared his hand for a shot at the elf, but a fragment of a broken drone hit his head.
"Hey! Bully somebody of your size!" Called Edea, throwing another fragment to him with the sword. While Rena would run off to a safe distance.
Doom shoots a blast destroying another fragment, surprising Edea, and he shoots another one, making her duck for avoiding the shot. "Are you afraid of ANYTHING?" she shouts frustrated.
Rogers just threw his shield to Doom, stunning him a little, while Kairi jumped behind him, striking his head with her Keyblade which is followed by a Firaga at the head.
After a while, he got out of the explosion's smoke and went to attack Kairi again, blocking his attacks with her Keyblade. But this time, she unleashed her Titan Form, holding the strike with ease.
Edea, Rena, and Nina looked at each other, knowing nods to each other. Edea runs and began to attack Doom from behind while Rena shoots arrows at a distance and Nina unleashed some fireballs and ice rocks over him. The three finished up with a thunder-charged Phoenix Strike which is aided by ice. Kairi got away in time for avoiding the attack and let it hit Doom directly, pushing him back various meters.
"That should take care of a few things," Said Rena but then Doom waved angrily his arm dispersing the smoke caused by the attack. "More or less…"
"This is really tiring my patience," Doom said, floating again and returning inside the cabin.
"It is tiring that we have a third round," admits Kairi and looks at Captain America "Is he always that persistent?"
"The only one more persistent I know is Tony."
Now Alexander was repeating his attack patron with his legs but now began to cause pillars of light to appear, being the only signal some light cracks on the ground before bursting.
"Great, now this turned into a minefield," Said Edea, avoiding the pillars of light.
"Yes, and now these drones are far from us, and even they avoid my spells," Said Nina, trying to freeze one of the drones.
And they are looking at each other "Any idea?"
Kairi avoided another burst of light and then looked at a drone over them and then at the Captain. "I think I have an idea!"
He looked up and then at Kairi. "Are you sure of this?" he said preparing his shield as a trampoline.
"Just now, we have no more options," Kairi said.
She ran at the Captain and jumped on the shield. Then Rogers impulsed her up with all his strength while Kairi jumped with the impulse, just reaching the drone in the air, striking it with her keyblade. The hit of her keyblade alongside the additional strength of the Titan Form sent the drone directly to the Cabin, repeating the process and taking Doom out with a burst of light from the inside.
Rena greeted him with an arrow while Nina covers him with a Fireblast spell, engulfing him in a flaming pyramid for a moment.
Doom got on his feet even after that attack and began to shoot beams from his hands at the group, but the Captain stopped some of the blasts with his shield covering Edea.
Kairi came from the side and attacked the side of Doom with a swing strike, which thanks to the enhanced strength of her actual form was able to push him some meters away. Then she runs after him and gets to attack again.
But he jumped high and charged energy on his fist, slamming it on the ground when landed, causing a shocking area around him, making her fly in pain.
Rena began to shoot arrows at him to give Kairi time to get away, while Nina kept using her spells on him.
Then Doom extended his hand and shoot a laser in the direction of Kairi while throwing some red blinking dots in the direction of Captain America. Instinctively Kairi formed a magic shield around her, repelling the blast, while the Captain used his shield to block the attack.
During the smoke of the explosives, something else hit America's feet… and felt very cold. Some of the thrown grenades were freezing ones, rendering his movement while Doom shoots his laser at the others, who had no chance but to run to safe spots to avoid being hit.
Edea blocked narrowly some of the blasts while getting in the way, while Nina flew away from the shots, at the time that Rena shot her arrows to stop his attack.
"Girls, when I say it, all use the best you can on him!" Said Kairi, avoiding the shots.
All three began to charge their best attack and nodded to her, being ready. Then Kairi shot a Fira at him, hitting directly and covering him in smoke. With that, Rena shot a huge mana arrow at Doom, while Nina summoned three large flames in the form of claws that flew to him. When he was able to see and saw what was coming, he tried to move but Kairi's keyblade stroke him hard, placing him on the place, and Edea rushed at him, and in a second, she made a slash and appeared behind him, just when the other two attacks collided on Doom. The explosion was so big that even shattered part of the ice on the Captain's feet, allowing him to get free.
Who then runs up to where it happened to either confirm that Doom is down or hit him while he wasn't able to react in his recovery from this blast. He saw that Doom was still up, but completely beaten up by that hit.
"Cursed meddlers… I'm tired of your games!" He said and returned flying to the cabin. "I will end this here and now!"
Then in front of Alexander's head appeared a white energy orb that slowly was growing.
"I have a bad feeling about this," Said Rena.
"Girls, can you hear me?!" Called Eve from their communicators. "I'm detecting a lot of energy accumulating where you are!"
"Don't tell me! I didn't know it!" Said Edea sarcastically.
Nina looked at Kairi "Any IDEA how to stop that from blowing it to our ancestors?"
"Everybody, behind me!" Said the Captain and got his shield ready to block any attack.
"I don't know if-
"Just do it!" Said Kairi to Edea and all ran behind him.
When the orb got a massive size, Kairi added her magic shield to the Captain's shield just when the orb turned into a massive beam of light directly at them. The group was engulfed by the beam, and if wasn't for the combination of both shields, they would be erased, but how much that can resist?
"Any idea?!" Asked Edea, looking around her, nearly blinded by the light.
Rena looked around, having problems with the blight, but soon spotted something. "Look! Seems that the shield is reflecting part of the beam to that spot!"
Evidently, the part of the beam that hits the shield was being redirected to one of the legs of Alexander.
"But how is that possible?" Asked Nina.
"Vibranium! This shield is done of that alloy, and can block any incoming attack because can repel any type of vibration!" Said the Captain, resisting as he could. "And can reflect lasers too if you ask!"
"Wait, if we can reflect part of the attack…" began to say Kairi.
"Letting him taste his own medicine? Like the idea!" said Edea.
"But watch out, don't rush to fast," Said Nina.
"I don't know if will work, but okay," Replied the Captain.
Rogers began to move slowly the shield, moving the reflected beam at a slow pace to avoid getting open to the large blast, passing for all the body of the Eidolon, until finally, the laser began to touch the cabin. After a while of holding it, the attack stopped suddenly, and the cabin began to suffer from electricity sparks and jolts while Doom tried to regain control. But then, and finally, the cabin exploded, sending Doom flying away, and landing hard on the ground. The explosion also caused the cables linked to Alexander to drop, cutting any connection with him.
The group looked at Doom, who was trying to get up without much success, while his armor was running electric shocks because of the explosion.
Kairi stared at Doom for a moment, until she instinctively glanced at the huge Eidolon, who barely began to move slowly, tilting his head towards the group.
Everyone was on guard for another fight, but Kairi stared at Alexander for several seconds, while there was barely a voice that could not be translated from the mechanical Eidolon. When it came to silence, Kairi nodded.
"You're free, go in peace."
Alexander tried to stand upright, and then his body was covered in a huge pillar of light, which could be seen even from the surface. When the pillar disappeared, there was no trace of the Eidolon. Just a small orb of white light, which flew into Kairi.
"What was that?" Rogers asked, confused by what happened.
"His thanks for helping him," Rena said, leaving Rogers even more confused.
"Hey, are you okay down there?" The voice of Stark sounded through the communicators.
"Yes perfectly," Rogers answered.
"Very well, and now, what the hell happened? We just cleaned the garden of those white things, and suddenly a huge pillar of light comes through the embassy, then I discover that the signal has disappeared."
"Let's say Alexander has left. Doom has no control over him anymore," Edea replied.
"That's good, I think from now on, the Heartless that will appear will be black, as usual, come on, get out of there, let's celebrate."
"Hey, what about him?" Edea asked, pointing to Doom, still on the ground.
"Anyway, this place is sovereign territory, so we cannot arrest him, but this defeat will be enough for him," Captain America responded.
"Right, we'd better get going, before he decides to sue us for whatever," Kairi teased and everyone started walking to the exit.
Doom, still on the ground, looked up at the group. "You damn brats... nobody makes fun of Doctor Doom... Nobody!" Then he raised his arm and fired a missile hidden in the armor towards them.
Kairi turned around, standing behind the group, putting her arm to block just as the missile reached them, causing an explosion.
"That will teach you," Doom said seeing the smoke of the explosion, but then his eyes widened without believing what he saw.
When the smoke cleared, the group was intact, including Kairi who now appeared to be wearing an elegant white female armor that covered her body, wearing a helmet that allowed showed her face, and letting her hair loose from behind. Apparently, the impact of the missile didn't cause any damage, let alone the arm which blocked the projectile.
"Uh, Alexander Form?" Asked Rena, confused by what had just happened.
"Accept it, Victor, you've lost," Kairi simply said, turning around, and heading for the exit with the others, while Doom collapsed on the ground.
Sometime later, the group and the Avengers returned to the tower, where they began to celebrate the victory against Death. The girls could see how these superheroes often celebrate victories like these: Hawkeye bragging about his aim with Black Widow, which was questioned by Rena; the pulses between Hulk and Thor, showing their enormous strength between them, leaving Edea speechless; Falcon talking to Nina and Eve, probably educated to avoid one of the second's slaps; Tony Stark adding more fuel to the fire with the snacks and drinks he offered, etc.
"You have to admit that you do it really well with your parties," Kairi said, watching the show they were riding.
"Well, you will not expect them to stay idle after solving a problem like this," Steve answered, near Kairi.
"No, but this, is not it too much?"
"Do not worry, Tony pays for everything."
Kairi nodded, keeping her gaze on the party.
"Enjoying the party?"
Kairi turned in surprise, meeting director Fury inside the room.
"Wow, Nick, why are you here, or are you coming to celebrate a victory at Victor's expense?" Stark asked with a drink in his hand.
"No, thanks, I've only come for official reasons," Fury answered and looked at Kairi.
"And what do you want?"
"Well, if I'm right, one of the things you do is locate open Keyholes to close them just in case they're open."
"Keyholes?" Falcon asked.
"Accesses that give directly to the Heart of a world, if the so-called Heartless enter through there, they would destroy the world in seconds," Thor answered, not forgetting his pulse with the Hulk.
"Ok, I understand," Answered Hawkeye.
"If you're talking about the Keyholes, do you know about one here?"
"It's more than that, dear," He answered and looked at Stark. "Mr. Stark?"
"Do not say more," Tony replied. "J.A.R.V.I.S., activate 'Giant Gate' system."
"Where, sir?"
"On that wall, for example," Stark replied, pointing to a wall.
"Yes, Sir."
After a few seconds nothing happened, but soon a Keyhole appeared on the wall, surprising everyone present, while Kairi took a step back after the surprise, before looking at Fury.
"Is that what I think it is?" Hawkeye asked.
"Yes, that seems," Rena answered.
"But... but how?" Kairi asked Fury.
"Some time ago we located this Keyhole in the vicinity, and asked Mr. Stark if he could create something with which to camouflage or hide it to prevent it from being used with bad intentions," Fury answered, moving his hand towards the lock. "Go ahead."
Kairi looked at the lock for a moment. Then she summoned her Keyblade and aimed it at the Keyhole, throwing a thread of light into it. It released a flash, completely blinding Kairi in a white light.
Her eyes now only observed another kind of memory from when she was a baby, inside her crib. From there she could see her mother, who seemed to be worried about something while talking to three people, although she could not hear the words. Two of them seemed short, long enough not to see them perfectly, but the third was tall enough to see him, and although he was young, she recognized him before his vision disappeared.
Kairi began to open her eyes, seeing her friends and the Avengers, watching her with concern, although they didn't ask anything since surely the girls explained it to her while she was unconscious. Soon she noticed that she was lying on the sofa, probably because she fainted after closing the Lock. When he sat on the couch, he saw that Fury was looking out the window at that moment.
"I told you I knew your mother, right?" Furia commented. "Surely what you saw answers your doubts about me."
Kairi was several seconds without answering, looking towards the ground. He looked up and asked, "Why, why did you go to see my mother?"
"We had to warn her, something was coming, and we tried to warn her, but now I don't know exactly what happened," Nick answered.
"The director of S.H.I.E.L.D unknowns something? Is it some type of joke?" Stark asked, but then he saw him pierce him with his eye. "Okay, I shut up."
Fury turned to Kairi. "I have no knowledge of your mother's last known location or where you were born, but two others I know might have some idea."
"Who?" Kairi asked.
"The first one is a short man, an old man, I think his name was Makarov, I think, it's not of this world that I know of, and I have not seen him again," Nick answered. "The second is also a little old man, but I do not know his name, all I know is that he wears a long green tunic with white sleeves and a long red tippet, a white handkerchief hanging on the back, and a gold medal. around his neck and he has a big cane shaped like a sewing wheel... I think."
"And he also usually behaves like a pervert when there are women nearby?" Edea asked abruptly, surprising Fury. "Yes, I know him well, he never fails to leave a mark on people's minds."
"Edea, is that man from your world?" Nina asked, looking at Edea.
"Man? More like an old geezer!" Edea said. "Hey, and I think I know what you're thinking, and let me answer you, I have no idea where the hell Luxendarc is!"
"Well... we'll have to look for it then," Rena answered.
Then Eve looked at Stark.
"Don't worry, the ship is ready, and everything is ready to take off," Stark replied.
"I hope so, I do not want to question your ability."
"By the way, what will happen to Doctor Doom?" Kairi asked.
"Do not worry, I think he has already received his due."
Pete was in the underground laboratory of Doctor Doom's embassy, trying to access the data of a computer that was in the installation, with little success, being unable to access the system. "Argh, why this man can't make this system easier?"
"Are you trying to steal my data?" There was a voice behind him. When he turned around, he found Doom, having some problems for a walk normally.
"It seems you haven't had much luck either, Victor," Pete answered, seeing the battered Doom. "And I was not going to steal your data, just collect what we already know so far, after all, we lost the Eidolon, and with it the whole project. I don't want to present myself in front of Maleficent without the data after she left us with the task."
"I would not say so much," Doom said arriving at the computer and after operating it, he accessed the data.
On the screen began to appear a large number of data related to the experiments with Alexander, the effects caused by them, and the failures that occurred with the metamorphosis of the Heartless.
"We may have lost the Eidolon, but we still have the project information and all the data we've found so far, we just have to capture it again, and then those brats will know no one insults Doctor Doom," Victor Von Doom said, turning his gaze to Isa. "Nobody does it."
Without warning, lightning struck the computer, severely damaging and surprising both people. When Doom saw what happened to his computer, he tried to recover the data from the computer, hitting the keyboard with force when he saw that the data had been lost. Pete, on the other hand, turned his gaze to whoever threw the beam.
"What have you done?!" Asked Pete, looking angry at the mysterious woman, making Doom look too. "Do you have any idea how mad Maleficent is going to be when she finds out what happened?"
"You must not play with that power, and no one should use it for evil," The woman answered, hidden in her tunic.
"Damn bitch, you'll pay for what you've done!" Doom screamed, pointing his hand toward her.
"Surrender now as you can, don't make things worse," said the woman, extending her hand, and invoking in her hand a Keyblade, which scared Pete. "You have no chance."
