I walked out of a DTN, just opening up one and randomly walking through to see what world I would be in, and...I was in Hawaii? “Well...better than some other places…” I muttered while looking around the place to see where I was specifically.

The first Nothingness ability I used was Camouflage Zero.

There’s a lot here. I thought while skimming over some of the mountains of notes and books here. Huh, this might come in handy.

Camouflage Zero.

This spell is rather interesting in it’s uses. It takes the true form of one of the Nobodies and makes you look like who they were.

The spell seems to work by placing the casters body in a small side dimension and brings a random Nobody to then have the caster almost poses. It is definitely unique and as far as my allies go, only I seem able to cast this spell successfully. Strange.

Huh… that could come in handy.

“Alright...time to test this…” I muttered while looking over myself real quick to see if I noticed any changes or if it was only for other people.

I immediately noticed...boobs… I’m a chick! Shit, the Nobody who’s true form this was is a woman… who sadly has knickers that rival Luna’s… well damn. I found a car and got a good look. While my clothes were normal I was now a Easy D cup, six foot woman, red hair, just the right amount of freckles, and green eyes… fuck with curves like this she must have been a model… damn… this is weird…

”Note to self...find this woman’s Nobody, bring her back...and marry her cause jesus christ.” I thought to myself, even though this was weird this woman was still pretty freaking hot...which is what I’m calling myself technically...fucking hell. ”Well...might as well look around town…” I thought to myself, wondering what I could do here.

“Well, best head into- Fuck even her voice is sexy!” I said, speaking in her voice. It was a bit scottish. Shaking my head I headed over to town. As I walked through and around I came across some locals. I got some eyes looking at me… shit, right, woman's body… that explains all the guy’s I saw rubbernecking…”Christ...if my wives saw me like this…” I thought to myself while continuing to ignore the many people staring at me. “What to do…” I hummed, never actually been to Hawaii.

Normal people would see the sights, but I’m not normal, and I came to see if there was anything to test out some abilities and spells on. I know my powers and weapons will be unaffected by this spell, and looking through there were spells that only certain weapons can cast. What to do. So far this place seems peaceful. As I looked around I spotted some missing dog poster- STITCH! I mentally yelled, taking a closer look at the poster… yup, that’s him, no mistaking it. So I’m on his world, so when I got his summon charm, he appeared with me… and I forgot to unsummon him… crap, he’s been missing this whole time!

“Uh...shit…” I muttered while moving to a place where no one was. “Shit shit shit...I completely forgot...god Stitch is gonna hate me…” I muttered sadly, getting to a hidden spot before pulling out the Ukulele charm. “I’m sorry Stitch...but come on out.” I muttered while trying to summon Stich.

In a small flash the little blue alien appeared. He looked around then at me. He looked confused at first, til he took some sniffs. “B-Ben?” He asked, his broken english managing to say my name.

“It’s me little guy…” I said. “God...I’m so sorry...I...want to go back to your home?” I asked, Stitch seeing I was really freaking upset about forgetting him and not sending him back home.

He then jumped up in panic. Did… did he forget also? “Of..” He said, proceeding to speak fast whatever language that was. Huh, not even that can be translated? Weird.

“Stitch calm down.” I said gently. “But...do you remember this place?” I asked gently.

He nodded. “L-Lilo!” He said, starting to walk out the alley, motioning for me to follow.

“Alright…” I nodded while following Stitch, still feeling like crap for forgetting to bring Stitch home. “God Stitch...I’m so sorry…”

“Egh. F-for...give and, for...forget.” He managed to say, leading the way still.

“Alright…” I sighed out. “Let’s hope...they won’t be too mad at me…” I muttered, not knowing how long it’s been for Lilo on this world.

After arriving at the house I saw it was at the time of at the end of the first movie, and how it was in the one where his cousins were introduced. “Well...at least the place isn’t destroyed…” I muttered, fearing that something bad could have happened without Stitch here. “Well...let’s hope they’re home.”

I knocked on the door, Lilo answering. She looked at me, then saw Stitch. “Stitch!” She cheered, the blue alien tackling her and the two rolling in a hug as Stitch licked her, covering her in his green saliva.

“He’s back!” That’s her sister, Nani if I remember. From the voice anyway. Yup, here she comes into frame. “Oh good.” She then noticed me. “Oh, um. Who are you?”

“I’m…a friend.” I said. “I...have somethings to explain...mind if I come in?” I asked, still a little weirded out that I’m a sexy scottish lady apparently.

“Oh, sure.” She said, moving aside for me to enter. “You a tourist?” She asked, closing the door behind me.

“Yeah.” I nodded while entering the house. “First time here actually.” I said honestly. “But yeah...um...somethings to explain…” I said nervously, wondering where to start.

“So where did you find him? Jumba, er… Lilo’s uncle, that is, helped her look all over the islands.”

“On my world actually.” I said. “I’m just uh...disguised is all, you know to fit in without causing a scene.” I said, not lying but not entirely telling the truth.

“Ah, well good to know, wish Pleakley knew this level of effort in his ‘disguises’.” She laughed. “Seriously, you could pass for some kind of super model. Is that tech or some crazy ability your kind can do… is that offensive to ask?”

“It’s not offensive at all.” I said honestly. “But this is an ability and...sadly I forgot to actually have a form in mind before turning. You know, not wanting to cause a scene for one reason but causing a scene for a completely different reason.”

“Heh, well if you ever want a date that body is the fastest way. So, how did stitch appear on your world? Did he fall out of the sky like he did for us?”

“No actually.” I said while pulling out the Ukulele charm. “You see, where I come from there are these Charms that can…’summon’ people from other worlds for certain things. It normally isn’t very long and it normally summons the being in question when they aren’t needed for anything or are by themselves. Just uh...I...sadly forgot to send him back.” I sighed out. “Just...when he came by I was happy about it but...then way too many things happened for me to go into any detail cause that’s a whole different story…” I sighed out. “If that...made any sense to you, please tell me how it didn’t cause I’m pretty sure it makes no sense.”

“Well, I’d rather not spend hours trying to wrap my head around how that works so I’ll just accept it. Well thank you for bringing him back. Actually… if it’s not too much trouble, can we have that?” She asked, pointing to the charm. “I know Stitch is a handful, and having something like that in case he is ever lost again would come in real handy. If you are willing to part with it I mean? Lilo would just be happy to have a means to keep Stitch out of anything that can hurt him.”

“Yeah.” I nodded while putting it on the table. “It’s best if it’s kept with his family.”

“Thank you.” She said, picking it up. “Knowing Lilo she’ll figure it out in no time. Well, if this was all, is there anything else you’d like to know about or see?”

I thought for a moment. “Two things, what would you say is a good spot to relax, and have there been any...strange monster sightings? Like strange creatures that aren’t aliens?” I asked curiously, hoping Heartless and Unversed haven’t gotten here.

“Hm… So aside from Stitch’s cousins, there is this new island across the ways north of this one. Just… appeared overnight. Police and navy won’t let anyone over to it. Sometimes on the beach facing it at night people swear they see it has eyes under the water. If that’s something you think is worth investigating go ahead.”

“That is most definitely something I should investigate.” I said nervously. “Cause it could be anything...like say an island size Kraken...and no one wants that.” I said nervously. “But it’s north from here, and it only occurs at night, anything else if I may ask?”

“Well none of the birds or anything want to go towards it. It’s all rocky and while it is barren, satellite photos make it looks like the formations form some kind of deep crater, like a meteor impact.”

I frowned. “Well that’s not good…” I muttered, thinking what could have been there. “Well looks like I’m going to have to do some searching…”

“Be safe.”

“I will.” I nodded. “But uh...if you hear explosions...don’t panic alright?” I said while heading to the door. “Can’t wait to figure out what’s going on here…” I muttered. “I’ll be back.” I said while heading off towards the new island that magically appeared.

Once there, the ground, for as far as I could tell, was regular rock. I used a simple spell to scanning spell to see if anything was abnormal. I did feel darkness… a lot of darkness.

“Oh dear…” I muttered. “That’s not good.” I shook my head while walking around. “I know you’re alive, can you hear me?” I called out, not sure if this thing could understand or even hear me but I wanted to try at least.

Just then, several MASSIVE Neo Shadows appeared around me… FUCK!!!

“Well...fuck me…” I muttered while summoning my X-blade. “Alright, so you’re not a good host.” I frowned while preparing to fight.

They attacked, but I was a quick dodger and managed to upper cut them. I summoned my new Gauntlets for that. I sent the giant Shadow Heartless flying up into space. “Who wants a good firsting?” I asked, cracking my knuckles and ready to fight. ”Jesus christ what did I just say in this sexy voice?” I thought to myself, thinking I just said something really dumb.

“Hehe.” I heard a laugh… a girl- OW! I yelped, getting a bullet shot through my leg. The damage undid Camouflage Zero and I returned to normal… Fuck. Why isn’t it healing?

“Well...fuck…” I muttered while summoning my Lexicon and casting a healing spell on myself, knowing if regen doesn’t work I might as well use a healing spell. “Who are you?” I asked the girl.

Ten DTD’s appeared around me… and from them walked out… Jenny… Ten Jenny’s… each with a number Tattooed on them. 12, 44, 45, 67, 99, 7, 88, 754, 909, 151… Clones… Those clones...

“Well…” I muttered. “This is just splendid…” I muttered. “Clones of my daughter huh? Kexez is gonna get his ass kicked for using them against me.”

They all lifted out… rather strange looking handguns and aimed them at me. Then, creepy enough, they all began to sing. ”Into the depths of dark, where no light shall shine at all. The thorns of death decay, and give way to chaos and fear for all of our future days. With gun in hand and sword in heart, will shall all of the light die.”

“Good.” I muttered while books slammed shut on all ten of them, sending them all to the land of Illusions. “Nice song, but no.” I frowned, thankful they decided to sing instead of actually hitting me so I could do that as I looked around ready for anything else.

On cue, all ten books began to...bleed… okay. The pages flew open, blood and darkness spilling everywhere as the Jenny’s crawled out. ”For on that day, when light is gone, will Nothing fall with it too.” They sang, aiming their guns and shooting, beams of… I don’t know what gunning for me. I ducked down, but they hit each other in the crossfire and the explosion they energy made threw me easy fifteen feet away. Crap, what was that!? I don’t feel my Nothingness!

“Well isn’t that just nifty…” I grumbled. “Wonder how long this sudden asspull lasts…” I muttered, hating myself for knowing full well there had to be a metal that negates certain things cause there always has to be like Carbonadium to Regeneration.

Thankfully, at a ten second mark I felt my Nothingness return. ”So ten seconds?” I thought, dodging their other shots. So short, either imperfect, or because of my title as king it’s so short. I figured, pulling out the Chakrams and firing off… grey fire? Right, right, forgot.

As King, I have noticed certain spells seems to gain extra potency from my excess of nothingness. For example, my ice spells turn the ice a shade of dark grey, fire light grey, and lightning looks almost like Nothingness Thorns. I figure this is side effect of my title, but a good one. Compared to the standard variants of this spell, my Nothingness enhanced ones can bypass all elemental resistances. Rather handy, and fun to kill a foe who is normally immune to Fire with fire. A very handy passive ability. I shall call it Infusion.

“This is one ability I am super happy about…” I muttered with a little smile, glad to know my strengths now supersede all immunities. “Okay...so after that whole...thing, I suppose I should get back to dealing with the kraken now…” I muttered, still sure this thing is a giant kraken made of Darkness.

Needing to deal with the Jenny’s… crap, I know I have to end them… but can I? They are a mix of her as she was human, and now. Must have gotten her DNA from the time in Rapture.

“Are you all still alive?” I asked, really nervous about killing them even if they were evil clones.

They were. All of them crawling on all fours grudge girl style at me… Nope! I summoned SharpShooters and began firing. I used a spell that I remembered only works for these weapons.

Sharpshooters while ranking lower in power than my and my allies other weapons do have their use. Asking I notice a high rate of critical hits compared to my archer, as well as more spells I can use that he can not. Sadly. He’d make grand use of them.

Such a spell is Zero Point. While the arrows fired are needle length and size, their strength lies in the fact the magazines of the weapon is able to fire much more. Ten thousand per magazine, and their critical hit rate if every shot. While low damage, the critical rate and fire, added to the amount fired each time, a calculated sixty darts a second, make this spell quite deadly in my hands. I should hope the Archer is not too jealous of this development. At least his aim is still better than mine.

“Zero Point…” I muttered while firing as fast as I physically could at the clones, hoping the things will die if I turn them into literal pin cushions at this point.

When the magazines were empty, all ten were bleeding out black ooze as they began to fade. What made it worse was that they all died with this… sadistic smile, all while keeping their eyes on me… that’s gonna give me nightmares...

“Well...that happened.” I muttered worriedly. “Hooray for more nightmares here…” I sighed out. “Alright, so back to Kraken killing I think…” I muttered while looking around to see if there was a good spot to try and deal with this thing. “Still wonder if this thing can hear me?”

As I looked around I found myself at the crater center. There, a pulsating bulge of darkness was resting. It looked kinda like those pods Sora was in at the Twilight Town mansion from KH2… only black.

“Well...that’s not good…” I muttered while scanning the thing with my Assistant to see what it was before I poked it with one of my weapons.

All that came up was that it was an incubation pod… for what?

“Well…” I muttered while pulling out Lindworm and gently poking the thing with the blunt end of it to see if something bad happens.

Something did happen… it began releasing this black myst from the top. Did I start this thing hatching? I backed up, watching as it opened. Inside was… a Dusk? No, no the colors are blue rather than silver and the sign on its head is… a Heartless?

“What the hell…?” I muttered while checking my Assistant on what the hell I’m looking at cause this shouldn’t be possible.

Before I could though it jumped me, wrapping around me like a rope. And getting tighter...

“Cause why not…” I muttered. “Alright, fine.” I muttered while changing into my Heir Valor Form and using that insane strength boost to get the thing off of me.

It ended up being weaker than expected as once I broke free it was killed. I then heard clapping. “Well done Ben, a test run well done.” Kexez...

I took a deep breath, knowing full well it was Zeke that needed to kill Kexez. “And what are you doing here?” I asked, Sharpshooters aimed right as him while my X-blade and Skysplitter were in my hands, Eternal Flames at my feet as I oh so wanted to beat the shit out of him.

“Observing. The clones were a test run and this… this was what I wanted to see in action.” He said, motioning to the pod. “A Dusk heartless. The Nobodies flexibility, and intelligence will come in handy. But since that’s your territory, I needed to work around that. Design wise, it acted just like a Dusk, tests on their intelligence will be conducted later on.”

“You don’t understand what your doing.” I frowned. “Just be glad I’m not the one who’s going to kill you, even though I’d love to.” I said while firing a needle at one of Kexez’s knees to prove my point.

To my surprise though, it bounced off. “You forget I’m still a living X-blade. Soul and Heart aside.” He said, walking around me. “So, Rumer among the Heartless say you know where my heart’s halves are.”

“Going to kill them so you can stay yourself?” I asked.

“On the contrary. I do plan on a reunion one day, but I need some more… fine tuning and grooming before that happens. Zeke will pay for wasting his existence.”

“Oh boo fucking hoo. Zeke hates being overpowered and you know it.” I said bluntly. “That’s probably just the Psychopath blood talking.” I said honestly.

“Maybe, maybe. But, the one reason he, and I exist he never took advantage of. Tell me, now that you have all this power, how much danger have you stopped single handedly? How many lives saved?”

“That would be...maybe a few hundred? I mean I did turn a few hundred from being Heartless a while back, but then after that I literally have had no time to learn my new abilities, and I just started world hopping. So I think your point might be a bit of a miss for me when I’ve barely had this new power for...I’d say less than four days now.” I said honestly.

“And yet arguably you’ve saved more in that short time frame then ever without it. Zeke believes power corrupts, and while true, you and I know him better. He knows he is stronger than it. Yet he caps the amount he uses, denying the destiny we were literally built for. Help me find my heart, and Ben, I can assure you the power Zeke will obtain will make it so no one dies pointlessly. You and I both know he is a fighter. As much as he will hate his power, he will use it for the right reasons. Is that not worth the sacrifice?”

“Your right on the both of us knowing he’s better than that.” I sighed out. “But what’s to say that if I help you find your other parts you won’t put them under your heel and use their powers to try and murder everyone?” I asked curiously.

“Without my soul I can’t even summon the X-blade if that is your concern. I would be able to store Keyblades within me, but I doubt my heart would let me draw them for the wrong reasons. Without my soul I can’t access their power. And with my soul I’d return to being nothing more than the body. Mindless and controlled by my soul, my true mind. I’d cease to exist, and we both know a lot of people would be happy about that happening. You included.”

“I’m still sensing a massive drawback here.” I brought up. “What do you gain out of this? Cause right now you’re just bitching Zeke doesn’t want to be able to solve everyone’s problem.”

Even though he had that mask on, I could feel him smiling under it. “Vendetta. But even you can agree, the good to come out of it will vastly outweigh Zeke’s feelings on the matter.”

“Should I even bring up Cript here?” I asked curiously. “You know, the guy that can literally solve everyone’s problems but he doesn’t? He’s you, and as you can clearly see Cript is just like Zeke, so are you going to bitch about him as well?”

“Heh. You forget I’m not expecting for Zeke to do anything with his power. I know him much, much better than you ever will. If he fights, then hey, easy win, if not, and I expect he won’t, well, it’s not like he’ll have much choice when his friends and family need saving. He won’t sit back and let them die. Cript doesn’t.”

“So you’re going to force him to go one hundred percent when your whole?” I asked curiously.

“Oh I won’t be in control. I can’t force Zeke to do anything… something else big and bad will later on. We both know once one threat is gone, another emerges. I’m just speeding along our predetermined destiny.”

“Good to know.” I said. “Wouldn’t be surprised if Zeke actually does do that whole thing but...to be perfectly honest I don’t know where Drezke and Lake are at the moment. I know where they were but I doubt they’re there...even though that town was nice.” I said. “Cause you know...they might be hunting things that were spawned because of Drezke on...pure accident.” I said nervously, remembering those shadow creatures that spawned when Drezke’s darkness was leveled out.

“A lead is a lead, outdated or not it’s better than nothing.” Kexez said. “Take me, and I’ll give you a reward. No tricks, promise.” Kexez said, hands raised up.

“I’m still expecting when you find them to knock them out and strap them to a machine to give power to all your subordinates…” I frowned. “Cause you know, you found a material that negates Nothingness somehow so I wouldn’t be surprised if you did that.”

“Nothingness, no. Those handgun negates nothing. It’s simply an altered variation of the stop spell, halting all special abilities and powers. Nothing was negated, just paused. I’m not a marvel comic writer.”

“Or just a comic book writer in general.” I shrugged, thinking back to that town and remembering how the Heartless had their personalities back and worried Kexez would abuse that newfound knowledge. “Sorry if I’m not immediately saying ‘let’s go’, but you’ve done several things...like apparently create the world’s first Abomination with Spoiled.” I brought up.

“What can I say, Zeke’s always had a kink for Milfs.”

“Jesus christ.” I face palmed. “Except that Spoiled tried killing your family before, I know you’re a Nobody but come on man.”

“No Heart for emotions, no soul for a conscience. Now then, on to my heart’s last known location?”

I sighed out and opened a DTN to there last known location. “Come on...let’s hope this entire thing won’t end up backfiring like I think it will…” I muttered. “But let’s get going.” I said, wanting to follow along just to make sure Kexez doesn’t do something terrible.

As we walked out, the place looked… better. Grass and trees were growing back. “I can feel them.” Kexez said. “They most likely know I’m here too.”

“I’m pretty sure they do, and I have a feeling a fight’s going to arise from it so…” I muttered while summoning my lexicon. “Create item.” I said while making a white flag and handed it to Kexez. “Better wave this when we get close to any guards, just so they know you aren’t here for a fight.” I said, not wanting a fight between the three of them when life is starting to bloom on this world.

Once we arrived at Drezke’s castle what I saw was… surprising. A heart, pulsating darkness but glowing with a bright, calming light… and was a shade of blue… They reunited. So this is what Zeke’s heart looks like. “Haven’t seen that in a while.” Kexez said.

“So this is what your heart looks like.” I said, looking at it. “Surprising...it looks wonderful.” I said while walking close to the front door. “Hello!?” I called out, hoping they could hear me from out here.

“Heh...look.” Kexez said, pointing at the walls. They were painted, crudely, but this is a world of only children after all. It looked like it showed Drezke, then Lake appearing, then the two turning back to their true form, then Zeke walking up, then Zeke with the heart over, I guess meant to be within, his chest. “Heh, kids drew a prophecy.”

“Well glad to know some people had faith.” I said honestly. “Wonder if they also drew a prophecy about you coming here?”

“Well, time to come back.” Kexez said, reaching out to the heart. When he touched it, the heart flew into him, so fast it knocked him over. His body glowing blue, white and black as it expelled all his darkness he had within to replace his heart The darkness dispelled in the air. Kexez then stood up. “Heh… wow…”

“How you doing?” I asked, not wanting to draw a weapon but still concerned about him suddenly gaining his heart. “Feeling better?”

“Hehe… It’s strange. I can feel it’s weight again… I almost forgot how that felt. I can feel it’s emotions. The pain and agony and guilt of my actions hitting… hehehe, and I just… I don’t seem to care despite my heart hurting. It’s so surreal.”

“Well that’s why we’re going to be finding your soul soon.” I said, still thinking his ‘reward’ is a knife to the back.

“Not just yet… I’m not ready to stop existing just yet. Just a bit more time… Now then, your reward.” Kexez said, standing back up.

“Is it an actual reward or are you going to stab me in the back?” I asked.

“No, not with my heart back I don’t think I can… But, I can give you something useful. Spoiled wanted to keep it, but I rather find it distasteful.” He said, tossing me a book. “This is the prison of your Psychopath clone from earth. He’s inside. Keep him there, kill him, use him. I don’t care, I think?” He said, opening a DTD. “I’ll be seeing you… maybe? God this is messing with my train of thought.” Kexez said, walking in the DTD as it closed. Leaving me alone with the book prison of my Psychopath other.

I looked at the book and sighed out. “Well, might as well let him now.” I said while opening the book. “I summon thee my Psychopath version.” I said, not sure if it’ll happen.

The book began bleeding, the puddle it formed out crawled my other… beaten, legs broken, and a broken X-blade through his stomach. “You...are… stupid.” He said, collapsing over.

I blinked before summoning my Lexicon. “Well...can’t have you die before you start explaining things.” I muttered while casting a powerful cure spell on the guy, wondering how the fuck this all happened. ”Hooray, I probably fucked up a bunch. Go me.” I thought to myself bitterly. “I know you can survive this…” I muttered, honestly a bit scared on how the hell he got his ass kicked this much as I tried to heal him the best I could.

The spells were keeping him alive, barely. “Kexez needed his heart. He needed a True X-blade, he and X are the only ones who share such a direct link to Kingdom Hearts.”

“Okay, so far so many things I already know.” I said. “So, plain and simple, how hard did I fuck up?” I asked curiously. “Cause right now it mostly sounded like Kexez wanted to be back together, just removing limits on Zeke cause he’s a dick.”

“Heh, first off, what did he tell you?”

“He wants to be whole.” I said. “He specifically said that, but he said he wanted to…’fine tune’ his heart and body, which when he kept talking was just him sounding like a cry baby that Zeke isn't using his full power.” I said honestly. “Am I getting it right so far?” I asked curiously.

“Heh, yeah. Sure he told you that without his soul he can’t use his hearts power, which is true, it takes a soul to access one's power, but in his X-blade form all that is passive. Without his heart, his X-blade form is just a big chunk of metal, with it, there’s power behind it. Kexez wants to recreate the event that turned him, Zeke into a living X-blade.”

“Alright, so what...he wants to make more of himself? Or does he plan on removing any limiters Zeke would normally have when he becomes whole?” I asked curiously.

“He wants more than that. It’s a backup. If he can’t figure out how to break the cap Zeke always uses, he wants to make it so the energy let out is far more potent. Imagine Zeke’s capped one percent of power he lets himself use, can end ten reflections? He wants to make others he can find with Balanced hearts into X-blades like he and Zeke, then, store them inside his heart. While power wise they’d be equal, Zeke’s heart is the oldest compared to whoever's he turns. He’s take them in, their body stuck as a X-blade and heart bound with his own. He doesn't want to just break Zeke’s cap he wants to make any restrictions he puts on himself pointless.”

“Alrighty then.” I said with a nod. “I mean, Zeke getting full power was gonna happen anyway, that’s just how our stories go ya know? But yeah I don’t entirely want that to happen...actually wait, the Master of Masters will keep Kexez in check with that shit considering he’s a bastard who destroyed Daybreak because he’s scared of the X-blade.” I brought up, knowing full damn well that lingering bastard would do something against Kexez.

“He can try, but he lacks his heart and body. Even with the Void Key keyblade there’s little he can do. Besides, Kexes has him on his list, he’ll meet a worse fate.”

“Oh, so Kexez didn’t like the fact that guy blew up his home and nearly killed his family?” I asked curiously. “Well...makes sense, he may not have emotions at the time but he still has the memories of his family.” I shrugged.

“Heh, that’s not why. Remember, Kexez has a machine, a Keyblade that holds within it a whole other reflection, and he can extract whatever he wants from it, items, people… Hearts and bodies. This list of his is people he plans on changing. He knows who is a perfect candidate, and who would just be some extra filler. You best keep an eye on everyone. He won’t stop at just one each, he’ll take all their reflections.”

“Well shit…” I muttered. “Well, I better go find the bastard before he does something stupid in my world...cause if he targets my family...oh he’ll understand what true pain is.” I growled. “But...that won’t be for a little while...come on, let’s get you to a doctor.” I said while carefully picking up my clone. “No need for you to die when you still need a decent life to live ya know?” I said while opening a DTN back home. “Or are you going to try and fight me?”

“I wouldn’t do that if I were you. Besides, I killed so many on your world already. Why help?”

“You know me.” I said while looking down at him, my Psychopath other saw my eyes turn into both the black and red Psychopath and Blue and Gold eye of Humanity. “Everyone deserves a second chance, and I promised to figure out a way to save Psychopaths from their pain...if you can’t stop Facts from existing without taking a few million years, might as well make them more coherent and less omnicidal ya know?” I brought up. “Besides...you said you have a girlfriend right? Would you want to live a happy life with her, without anymore bloodshed?” I asked, even if he wasn’t me fully I knew myself well enough sooner or later I’d rather just stop fighting and raise a family with the one I loved.

“Psst. Whatever. Don’t have that much of a choice either way, I go where that book goes.”

I chuckled while holding the book as well as my reflection. “Yeah yeah, keep acting all tough.” I said while entering the DTN. “You’ll get your better life...I promise.” I said honestly. “And...you said you had a Ventral as a girlfriend correct?”

“Yup. My sexy little sociopath.”

While my reflection was recovering in the ER, I was going over some reports about Daybreak trying to contact us. Makes sense given my relations with Zeke… then my bathroom mirror rang like skype asking me to answer…

“What is this Spaceballs?” I muttered while making sure I was decent and answering the call from my bathroom mirror. “Hello?”

It answered and Lord Mors appeared. “Hey Howdy! Long time no see Ben. Was hoping this would work.”

“Sup Mors, how you doing?” I asked curiously. “Hope everything’s been going well where your at.”

“Well everything is calming down from the Daybreak Incident. Thankfully the amount of world’s in our unity made sure there was plenty of options for the refugees.”

“That’s good.” I nodded. “And I suppose you heard the news about me being King?” I asked, wondering if word traveled to other reflections about thing really big thing.

“Yes. Quite good for you indeed. I’d throw you a party but, well I seem to be a bit of a pickle.”

“Ancient bad guy was summoned or something?” I asked, remembering some things about Soul Eater.

“No, nothing of the sort. You know how my soul is bound to the city and because of that I am unable to leave it?”

“Yes I do.” I nodded. “I have a feeling my powers are involved in this cause Nothingness is about the body and soul?” I asked curiously.

“Yes, well, I am afraid it might be a lit late for that. You see, I believe our common enemy Kexez has, how to say, stolen all of Death City. He made sure there was enough time to evacuate others…. But know I could not. I am unsure of what he wants me for, but I just wanted to inform you. I need you to inform Zeke of this development. I gave Leon charge of Daybreak in my absence but-” There was a loud bang. “Welp, I’m out of time. Hope I see you later Ben.” The call ended, and I was looking at my own reflection.

I opened up a DTN and a Clone of mine rushed through it to try and save Mors from Kexez while pulled out my Lexicon. “Greater Communication, call Zeke.” I said, my lexicon glowing as it used Nothingness to try and contact Zeke mentally. “Please let this work…” I muttered, hearing the ring.

My clone exited the DTN and when I arrived in the Realm of Darkness… Core’s castle was gone? Wait, wha? All and any signs of anything that was Core’s or Kexez… is gone?

“I have several problems with what I’m not seeing.” My clone said. “This isn’t right...where the fuck is everything?” My clone muttered as it summoned Eternal flames to help give my clone a light as it started to search around for any signs of...well anything really.

Sadly as the minutes turned to hours… nothing. Aside from Heartless, there was no sign Kexez or Core’s stuff was ever here. What happened?

“Okay, can someone with an actual brain come out and tell me what the fuck happened?” I called out in the vast Darkness. “I know someone’s here watching me, so mind telling me what’s going on?”

“They relocated.” I turned around, a Nancy clone was there, the number 598 on her right hand. “Someplace inaccessible to anyone other than Kexez. He knew you and others would come try and save those he’d be taking, he’s no fool.”

“Cause why fucking not.” I grumbled. “Great, is there anything else you need to tell me?” I asked curiously. “Like how many Kexez has already kidnapped?”

“Now that, heh, you’ll have to find out for yourself.”

I took a deep breath. “Give Kexez a warning from me, if he dares do this again to any of my people, my friends, or my family, I will make him wish he never left the shadows.” I growled.

“Heheheheh. He knew you’d say that. He said not to fret, there are only twenty people he is after. And their reflections of course. Counting Mors as an addition, he now has two so far.”

“Good to know.” I nodded. “But let me ask...you and your family of clones...I suppose you are all perfectly happy fighting still? None of you ever wanted to have a normal life?” I asked curiously, not knowing much about the whole clone thing on their side.

“Hehehe. We are not like our original versions. We are stronger, faster, and more lethal. We have no ties to the emotions of guilt, sadness or worry you lot have. We are made to fight, and that is what we will always do. Fight until we die. It’s as simple as that. We were built strong, but also expendable.”

“So your only dolls for others to puppet?” I asked.

“If you see us like so, yes.”

“Of course…cause why not.” I said bitterly. “Well good to know all of this...things only keep getting worse.”

“They always do.” The clone Nancy said, vanishing into a DTD opening under her.

“Crap…” I muttered. “Good going me...and here I was hoping it would...wait, no I think I know a thing.” I said while pulling out Skysplitter. “Wait...no, I was told he had that Matrix Keybalde...fucking bullshit.” I frowned while putting that away. “Well...should I go back to seeing new abilities...or hunt down the eighteen to ninteen people he needs and stop him?”

Back home I kept watch over the world from the tallest tower. Who could these other people be?

“He needs people of pure heart…” I muttered, thinking about all the people I would know and could think of that had it. “Tempest can’t cause all her darkness was taken away...Ventus can’t cause of some things…” I muttered, having told Zeke about the situation and well…

“... Oh for FUCKS SAKE!!!!!!!!!!!!”

He took it about as well as anyone would. “God damn it…”

Sighing, I know Kexez would need people with balanced hearts. Thinking it over who has… wait, Trixie has one, the one Zeke is borrowing her body from… does that mean...

“Fuck.” I muttered while sending a clone to where Zeke is to try and keep Kexez from fucking with her. “Okay….he can’t touch my Trixie cause she’s apart of my council, her heart isn’t balanced with light and dark to be forced into a Keyblade…” I muttered, thinking faster and faster about what people that could be targeted. “Shit...shit...um...the Master of Masters is somehow on that list...which doesn’t make sense cause he doesn’t have a heart or body and most of his reflections should be dead…”

I then Remembered his Matrix Keyblade… that’s how he knew and why he’s on the list. Shit, he can just make them like a factory pumping out...something, fuck!

“Fuck…” I groaned. “So I can’t do anything right now...wonders.” I muttered, really hating this at the moment. “And I wanted to test that new ability with Skysplitter...I really wanted to use that, that one’s cool.” I huffed a little.

I ran over to where my Trixie was, she was in her office. Didn’t look like she does much since she was messing with her cards… what does she do? “Oh, Ben… what are you doing here?”

“There are several problems going around and...what do you even do?” I asked. “I don’t really know the jobs of my council members...so I’m just wondering.”

“Well given my past as a performer I got stuck approving or rejecting public events for the kingdom. So far there hasn’t been much in terms of submissions. So what’s up?”

“Huh...you’d think Pinkie would have been hounding you with so much shit…” I said in honest surprise. “But uh...there be a problem.” I said as I explained what Kexez has planned.

“Oh… Oh… so, what do we do then?”

“Well first up he needs twenty people and all their reflections with balanced hearts, and given Zeke’s reflection of you has such a balanced heart I thought he would be targeting you as well...then there’s just a lot of shit running through my head…” I sighed out, rubbing my temple and not liking not knowing things here.

“Well, can you check? See if I am or not?”

“Um...I believe so.” I said while using my assistant to check if she had a balanced heart cause I wasn’t sure if I could do that by myself.

Checking for Balanced Hearts:

For a Keyblade Master to check and see if their ally, student, etc, has such a rare heart, raise your Keyblade to their heart, and say the phrase, ’Who holds onto light, and bathes in dark, who walks the line no others can, whose heart can guard the heart of all worlds Show to me it’s light, and also its shadow’

If they have a Balanced heart, their chest will glow with a bright light, and under them a large shadow will form.

“Alrighty then…” I muttered while pulling out No Heart and pointing it at Trixie’s heart. Who holds onto light, and bathes in dark, who walks the line no others can, whose heart can guard the heart of all worlds Show to me it’s light, and also its shadow.” I said, hoping this works.

Trixie’s chest glowed bright, and the floor became covered in a shadow. She then covered her chest. “Perv!”

“Fuck…” I muttered. “Congrats Trixie, you have a balanced heart.” I said honestly. “And also I literally had to do that for this to work.”

“Still feels weird… So, what do I do now then?”

“Well...your going to have guards posted around to make sure you won’t get attacked by Kexez.”

“Joy… there goes my privacy… Anything else?”

“You’ll still have your privacy, I’m not gonna let the guards go that far jeez.” I said. “But...do you have any idea who might also have a balanced heart?” I asked curiously.

“I have one, but that doesn’t mean I know everyone who might also have one.”

“Any one person would help.” I said. “Anything at all would be the best right now.”

“I got nothing…”

I sighed out. “Sorry…” I said. “Well...good to know of this...just be careful alright?”

“So what are you gonna do Next?”

“Either continue testing my new abilities...or try and hunt down Kexez before things get worse…” I sighed out. “God...here I was hoping for a simple day.”

“You should take your mind off things. Why not chat with some of your new wives? I know each has a clone of you but take some time for them. Princess Luna made a new garden in the castles garden area.”

“I should probably go down there…” I sighed out. “Thanks Trixie.” I said, thinking I should head down to the castle gardens to see how Luna’s garden is doing.

“Anytime.”

I headed on down. The Castle Garden alone was twice the size of Ponyville, a large open place full of various plant life and even animals to give it a proper ecosystem. Lots of the wives were here, but Luna was by a… river, wow this place is big. She noticed me and looked up. “Hi Ben.”

“Hey Luna.” I said. “How you doing?”

“Good. I was just planting some Moon Drop Moss. It makes a very good anti infection medicine and tea. Has a mint and cinnamon taste to it.”

“That’s good.” I said while sitting down near the river. “How is everyone else?”

“Settling in well. So, anything interesting happen?”

“I think I screwed up...a lot.” I sighed out. “As per usual…” I sighed out as I explained everything to her, hoping to at least feel better to get this off my chest to someone close.

“Hmm, well Kexez definitely has a silver tongue and knows how to get what he needs even from his enemies.”

“Or maybe because I'm an idiot…” I sighed out.

“Ben, anyone would have fallen for that. He knew where to poke, and he took advantage of your hopes that this whole thing could be resolved quickly.”

“I do hope it ends quickly…” I sighed. “Is rather this not continue and cost more lives…”

“Well, one day such trifles will end. Maybe not forever, but long enough for the next generations of heros to rise up.”

“True.” I said honestly. “Lets just...hope things will end well...and here I hoped for a normal day…”

“Well, how about you take a small vacation?”

“But I have so much crap to do…” I said. “Also uh...how many kids have I not been around to see born?” I asked, remembering a long time ago all my wives were pregnant.

“Sadly, lots.”

“Well...better see them all…” I said. “I'm...a bad dad…”

“No your not. There’s hundreds born if not more born daily given your, eheh, the families reproduction abilities. You can’t be there for them all.”

“I should be there for my kids…” I said honestly. “Even if they are...countless.”

“Well, then take a break, spend time with them. Start with the first to arrive then move onto the new additions, then use that crazy app thing on your arm to speak to the infants.”

“Alright...I will.” I nodded. “I just...want to be good for my family…” I said. “Be a good dad...be a good husband...even with all my powers...I fear I’m not good enough sometimes given how busy I am half the time.”

“Well, clones. It’s your only real upperhand at the moment love.”

“Yeah...that is true.” I said honestly. “Clones are a hell of a thing, especially when I have such a big family.” I said while laying down on the ground.

“It will be good for you. Why not ask Cript for advice on it? He does the same thing, doesn't he?”

“Yeah…” I nodded. “And hey, given we’re talking about him giving me advice he might just suddenly appear out of nowhere.” I said honestly.

“While that does sound like him, he has things going on at the moment too, remember? Best not expect that to happen.”

“That’s what he said the last four times.” I rolled my eyes. “Maybe I should ask Mom...sure I’m not a mother but it would be good to have some pointers…”

“Do as you wish love. We support you either way.”

“Thanks.” I said, really wanting answers but knowing I’ll have to find mom. “Alright…time to call mom…” I muttered while checking my Assistant’s contacts list to see if Den was available.

Sadly, she wasn’t. So I decided to check to see if any of my other mothers were available just so I could get some advice on being a parent.

Thankfully, one was. Her name was Kira.

“Well...alright…” I muttered while calling Kira in hopes of getting to her.

“Hello?” She picked up. There was no image, just audio.

“Hello.” I said. “My names Ben and uh...mind if I get some advice?” I asked, hoping for some advice here.

“Ben? Oh, is this Den’s boy?”

“Yep.” I nodded. “Current King of Nothingness if that helps.”

“Yes, that’s the one. Hang on, I’ll be over.” She hung up… then the castle shook… okay...

“Uh...why did the castle shake?” I asked worriedly, standing up and summoning my Lexicon. “Greater Scrying.” I said, a small view portal opening up as I tried to see why my castle just shook.

Through it, I saw… A giant… barbarian dressed woman… standing next to the castle. It then got dark over us. I looked up, and there she was. “Hi, Ben, right?” She asked.

I blinked. “Uh…” I looked at her wide eyed. “Excuse me but...I’m sorry but how?” I asked, Kira most likely having been asked this before. “Uh...do you...know how to...ya know...shrink down?” I asked nervously, not wanting to be rude but also not wanting her to accidentally break my house.

She rolled her eyes, a quick ‘pop’ sound and she was our size. “Seriously, every time.” She sighed. “So, what did you need help with?”

“Sorry.” I said while scratching the back of my head. “But uh...I need some advice on...being a good parent.” I said. “Cause having an ass ton of kids is going to be a nightmare for me, even if I have clones.”

“Well, what Cript and us all do is clones. Each child gets a pair of their parents, and all the attention, while also I get a clone of him and… well, no explanation needed. He manages that with pocket dimensions.”

“Alrighty then.” I said. “Sounds too simple but…” I sighed out. “I don’t feel like I still good be a good parent, especially when I’m as busy as I am right now. I’m told ‘take a break’, but I doubt hero’s can take breaks half the time…”

“The pocket dimensions also have a rather fast time setting. Once the kids grow to a certain age in there, for you it can range from a day to a month for them to grow up then at any age, say, thirteen, fifteen, they exit it, and do...whatever it is they want to do. In the family it varies. A good half of the kids go into hero works, others do normal stuff.”

“Good thing I don’t know how to make Pocket Dimensions…” I sighed out. ”Now that I think about it, I have yet to learn anything special from being Cript’s son, cause I think you get powers and strengths from that...and I also didn’t get that humanity blade from that deal oh so long ago...oh well.” I thought to myself, knowing it was going to happen sooner or later. “But Pocket Dimensions are helpful apparently.”

“Yeah. I’ll get Cript, wait here.” She said, vanishing then Cript appearing.

“Dude, never ask her to shrink. She hates being small, well, small by her standards.”

“I said I was sorry, and that was literally the first time I met her...or anyone like her.” I said honestly. “But hi, how you doing?”

“Well, good. So, Pocket Dimensions, also, here.” Cript said, handing me a glowing silver sword. “Humanity blade. Anyone that can be saved, will be saved.”

I grabbed the sword. “Thanks.” I nodded. “So, onto Pocket Dimensions?” I asked while creating myself a sword sheath with my Lexicon and sheathing it and putting it at my side.

“Come, let’s find a place to set it up.” Cript said, helping me up and leading the way.

“Thanks.” I said while following along. “But...how do you handle all of this? Being a good dad and all...clones and pocket dimensions just help with time mostly.”

“Well remember, all your clones you are connected too. Omnipresent. You’re all of them at once, so when you want to, all their experiences with them are yours also.”

“That saves me an ass load of time but...actually being a father is a whole different thing.” I said honestly. “I know I’m going to literally have all the time in the world but…” I trailed off, my ears flattening against my head in fear that I won’t be a good father to my kids. “Just...new to it all.”

“No one is perfect Ben, there’s no such thing as the perfect parents, just so long as the kids grow up happy and grow up respecting you, it will all work out

“I’d rather be alive to raise my kids…” I muttered, remembering my parents murders, but thankfully they were living happy lives after they were resurrected in my kingdom, still get postcards from their travels given how much money I gave them. “I just...want to be a good father to them all...even if I have a few million kids…”

“Then time to teach you some things that will help you out a crap ton. Good?”

“Please.” I said. “I’d really like to know.”

“Great. First off, time to deal with your family needs. Ah, here we are.” Cript said, stopping at a large empty section of wall in the hallway. He placed a hand to it, and a doorway of swirling greys and whites began to form. “This part will take a bit.”

Cript ended up creating a pocket dimension as the Nursery. Inside the girls could take the kids, and become sorta… well, hard to explain. Basically once they enter, each entered their own reality of their world, where they and their infant will raise them with a clone of me, then when the kids turns eighteen, they and the moms leave the pocket reality, where time is different in there. One year in there is an hour in reality, so in less than a day the kids are grown, and the clones send the kids full lives growing up from the clones perspective, all the combined experience compiled in my head. The initial effect gave me a headache, but I got used to it pretty quickly thankfully.

“As long as I’m there for them…” I muttered with a warm smile.

“Hashtag life hack.” Cript said simply, all the memories are mine. Flowing into me… such, precious memories. “Now, for your wives, because they have needs and while you got clones in the pocket reality you need them here. This is gonna hurt.”

Two hours later.

...Ouch…”But...why though?” I groaned in pain.

“As you know your Starfish cloning ability takes your own body parts, or some form of DNA to generate a copy. I made one for each of your wives, as well as made fifteen extra. Can you guess what these fifteen extra are for?”

“Um...no idea…” I said. “What are they for?” I asked, having some idea’s but not sure.

“Another life hack, of mine personally. While you are strong, there is no doubt about that, but you lack true skills in combat. Thirteen of your clones will each train endlessly with one of each of your weapons til your skills with them surpass any of their past wielders of the old king. The fourteenth will practice endlessly with special combat attacks, both known to you from when you saw Reality as fiction and a video game, and the fifteenth spells. You, will work with me one on one. This method will train you the fastest way possible while you are also with your family, there for your children, and satisfying your wives. I also included another clone who will do your duties as king. This way, you are everywhere at once and there is nothing left to chance.”

“And what about True Nothingness?” I asked curiously.

“That is what I will be helping you with. You’ve already tapped into it, but physically you literally killed yourself with it. I’m not gonna stand and tell you I know everything about it, cause frankly little is known about Nothingness in general, and anything that is known are in the old kings notes yet another copy is reading over. Four actually. There are a lot of those notes…”

“Yeah, I tested a few of them but sadly I didn’t get to all of them.” I said honestly. “There’s still an ass ton of things I have yet to do with all my new found powers.” I brought up. “But glad for all the training cause...I’m gonna need it.”

“Yes. What I will be teaching you is how to handle such energies slowly, working your body gradually.”

“Alright.” I nodded. “So...where to start with this new training?”

“First off, for these exercises you can’t use any weapons. Understood?”

“Makes sense.” I said honestly. “Need to have my body know it without using any catalysts right?”

“Exactly. While Catalysts such as your Weapons, Keyblades included, are helpful, in the long run they actually suppress your energy more by limiting the flow you can let out.”

“Makes sense.” I said honestly. “Catalysts can only go so far for moving energy and such.”

“Exactly. Growing up my teachers explained there is no better catalyst for energy than your own body, because it’s adaptable and have more if not the most focal points for the energy to be used and utilized in unique ways. Now then, you first need to know exactly how this energy acts within you, and along what pathways within the body it travels.”

“Yes, cause I’d rather not blow up for instance.” I said honestly.

“Correct. There are five basic ways energy travels inside the body when under your control. First and most commonly, is along the Nervous system. Traveling through all your receptors and such. Second and more rare, is through your blood veins, arguably the strongest means for the energy to travel as even is you lose a limb you can use the energy flowing through your blood to either reattach, regrow, or even create a new limb out of the energy. Third is with your muscle fibers, this means of energy typically means your energy is used in your body more physically, such as enhanced strength and agility. Fourth is along your bone structure. The most straightforward as the energy dense your bones so they can’t break, at least easily, and it can exit easy, through your fingertips for example. Fifth and the hardest to control on any level is that the energy is a mix of the four, traveling through all of these pathways but not all at once, it would be constantly shifting about.between them, so one outburst of energy can and will be different from the last one.”

“Alrighty then...that’s a lot of things.” I blinked at that.

“Yes, given you seem to have a more higher form of control, and from how your unique double jump ability works I’d give a safe bet your energy travels along your bones.”

“So...my power goes through my bones…” I said, thinking about how this works and wondering if I could do something like what Luffy’s Gear forms can do.

“Yes, it’s safe to say that since your Double jump ability also has a unique AoE effect, such an ability would actually fall under the category of attack or offensive power, and normally it would require focus, but when you use it, it’s passive. Such attacks and abilities come natural for those who’s energy travels along their bone structure.”

“Cool.” I said. “But here’s a curious question, I remember Luffy was able to do fancy things with his blood, bones and muscle, ‘switching gears’ as he put it, can that principle be used for this stuff as well?”

“Not likely, not unless your energy can naturally switch between the means of flow. Gaining control of where and when your energy can switch can lead to such possibilities. Since you don’t have that luxury, the runes I sewed into your body will give you some extra leverage.”

“Yes, and I am still thankful I found a rune that makes me immune to stop effects.” I said while pulling off my left glove and showing said rune was on the back of my hand.

“That will come in handy. Now then, you need to know something off the bat. You can’t just use certain parts of your body to have the switch on for their power, you’ll end up breaking your own body. The right means of learning how to measure how much of this energy you use is to have the energy flow into all of your body at once, but not at such a large percentage. You, for now, will need to learn to cap your power so you don’t injure yourself, or have a repeat of your last incident. Try turning the power on, but keep it at say, two percent for now.”

“Alrighty then…” I said while taking a deep breath, closing my eyes and doing something that helps a lot, visualizing things instead of just trying to think of a number. I felt my power swelling up but I visualized it all as a single cup that was being drip fed water, and at the moment it felt like it was working, the power slowly rising at an even pace as I focused on controlling my new powers. “Alright...so far...so good…” I muttered carefully, feeling my power flow through my body as I kept my visualization to keep it under control. “This good?”

“Yes. Now, raise it steadily until it begins to burn. Once you feel the power in you begin to burn you, then you know your limit. For now at least.”

“Alright…” I said while visualizing the slow drip to a small trickle, letting it flow a little faster as I saw it fill the cup a little faster as I waited to see where my limit was. “Slow and Steady…”

Everything seemed fine as I let the power grow, then I began to feel the burning. I stopped, lowering it back to a safe spot where the burning stopped. “Good, that is about sixteen percent.” Cript said.

“Cool...sixteen percent...wonder how strong that actually is.” I said honestly.

“One way to find out.” Cript said, raising his hand up as four pillars of various metals appeared near us, like, ten or so feet away. “Each pillar is various pure metals. I need you to shoot out a single Nothingness thorn from your fingertip to them. They are already in order from weakest to strongest. When you hit one that doesn’t dent, then we’ll know how strong you are.”

“Alright…” I said while raising a hand up and firing a Nothingness Thorn at the weakest just to test things out.

It hit, and the metal was ripped like wet paper. “Good. That was pure copper. Next onto bronze.”

“Okay…” I muttered while firing another Thorn at the solid bronze pillar.

Like the copper, shredded like paper. “Good. Next is Iron.”

“Right.” I said while doing the same thing, wondering why I was attacking what is normally pretty flimsy compared to all the metals that we all have access to now a days, the thorn shooting out towards the iron pillar.

Again, like paper. “Good. Now try steel.”

“Okay...so we’re only doing normal metals…” I said while firing at the steel pillar.

“Basic metals. Metals you knew of on earth, common, easily acquired. On your earth at least. I decided to start with metals you know, after Titanium, you’ll be entering metals commonly known on my earth.”

“Makes sense.” I said while seeing the Thorn hit the steel pillar.

Again, like Paper, same with Titanium. I now was facing a metal that I didn’t know what it was. “This is Calsifitrote. When at its melting point, it’s easily moldable, but it’s cooled off form makes it a very strong metal, typically we use this for Spaceship frames and even as high quality artificial joints and even bones since it’s not toxic to the human or most organic bodies.”

“Cool.” I said, thinking it might be a bit tough to break since it’s used for spaceship frames as I fired a thorn at the thing.

The metal tore, but not easy like the others. “Good, now onto Girosilphio. It’s the little brother of Vibranium. Easy to absorb energy, and makes good utility as a conducting adjent. It’s cheaper than Vibranium too so it’s used for riot gear and suppressors since it makes the sound near mute for even large calibers.”

“That sounds wonderful.” I said while firing at it as well, thinking this metal can withstand my attack.

The impact created a big explosion, but the result was rather than being ripped up, the whole thing was warped. “Impressive. Now onto Kelo Tridote. It’s a mixed metal blend of High grade Carbon Steel, Diamond and Vibranium. We use this metal to make shelters in the event of large scale atomic war, spaceship evacuations, and as the drills for large scale mining of hard to mine materials or as a means of quick mining since it can dig through most any materials.”

“Um...an explosion caused it to warp like that...right then.” I said while firing at the new material that was really useful.

“Yes.” Cript said as I hit the new metal. The result was another blast, but it only dented it. “Good. Given that info you likely can’t dent the next one. This means you're attacks are equal to the impact force of a nuclear warhead going off, but compressed into single shots. Not too shabby.”

“Yeah, but having all that force put into such a small area is probably a lot worse then you say it is.” I said honestly.

“Not as long as you keep a good control over it, you can keep the force but make it a lot less lethal by only using the force at a means of propulsion rather than for impact. For your training, you’ll have to get so used to the energy you have now that it becomes passive to you. Meaning you’ll have to use even higher levels of your energy. The best and fastest means to do that is non stop combat. I’ll be sending high level shadow creatures your way that should be around your strength so it won’t be too easy on you. And remember, no weapons. Find more unique and creative means other than just the Thorns to attack and defend. Understand?”

“Oh wonders.” I rolled my eyes. “But yeah, I understand.”

“Good. Now good luck, and remember, none of your weapons.”

Back home, I was at the throne, looking over paperwork stuff when something came up. Something for Aperture sciences… isn’t that from Portal? It was a request to show off their portal gun to me… huh.

“Um...sure why not.” I said honestly. “Didn’t expect Aperture to come up…” I muttered. “I presume we have a visitor because of this?” I asked Consequence while bringing up the Portal gun paper.

“We have many, but this is the first to send in a form.” He replied.

“Alrighty then.” I said honestly while reading the paper to see if there was anything else besides ‘test portal gun’.

From how the paper was phrased it seemed to me marketing the device… huh, would come in handy I guess. I had Consequence bring whoever it was in, and they entered. Those two Robots from Portal two entered, one with the Portal gun, the other with a Screen showing… Glados? “Greetings.” Glados said.

“Greetings.” I nodded. “How may I help you today?”

“I am here to demonstrate the Aperture Science Portal Gun for use in your armies, or even construction.”

“That would be useful. No iffy lifts.” Trixie said. My council was here mainly for advice and to help process the endless paperwork.

“That is true.” I said. “Is there any known issues with said gun?” I asked curiously.

“A few. Water causes the device to short circuit, and the portals it creates must be on a still, unmoving surface. Any movement will disrupt the portal. While there are exceptions, such as the surface material, it all depends on the stability the portal has on the surface it is opened on.”

“Is there anyway to fix those pretty glaring issues?” I asked curiously.

“With time and funding definitely. Would you care for a demonstration? One portal was left open at the Aperture science labs cafeteria, where when we open the new portal here, will link the two, even through the dimensions.”

“Any objections?” I asked curiously to my council just before I say something.

“Sounds useful. And a means of transport between this realm and others other than DTN’s would be useful.” Dante said.

“Yeah, and the uses are pretty multi.” Trixie added.

“Then we will begin.” Glados said, the robot with the device pointing it at the nearby wall and fiering, the blue one opening, showing a kitchen filled with cake. “Please. Have some.” Glados said.

“Dibs!” Trixie said, rushing over to the portal. When she entered it, the portal closed, and the portal gun vanprized to burned metals and scrap.

“That was easier than Kexez expected.” Glados spoke, sparking some anger in me.

“Excuse me but mind if I ask what you did, and why I shouldn’t rip you apart piece by shittily made piece?” I growled.

“These bots are expendable, and I am safe and sound in Kexez’s new lab. He needs that reflection to complete his work. It’s nothing personal, just, a mutual partnership between us. He did want to tell you something however. He wanted to say ‘Not even your realm is safe.’ Already he is taking the other here on your world that has the proper heart. What? Did you think Trixie was the only one?”

I magically pulled out a Script and flipped to the proper page. “Oh, so Kexez can do literally whatever he wants without challenge and we can’t touch him at all because bullshit pocket dimensions?” I asked. “Well goody for him, if he wanted to tell me I couldn’t do anything to stop him why didn’t he just say so in the first place, at least then I wouldn’t be absolutely fucking livid about it.”

“Cause he knew you’d capture him. It’s all about mental strength now, like chess.”

“There’s a difference here.” I said honestly. “The difference being chess can actually have someone be challenged, this is going over the line of Fuck About at this point.” I frowned, having a lot of clones of mine looking for the person Kexez might kidnap here so I can stop him from getting closer to his goal.

“Is it? It all varies on how far ahead you prepare compared to your opponent? Tell me, King of Nothing, how far ahead are you of-” The sentence was interrupted by Luxu smashing the screen and bots.

“That was getting on my nerves.” Luxu grunted. “Ben, the enemy just gloated before you, in your own realm, in your own castle. Shall I make a suggestion?”

“Find them and torture them for their insolence?” I took a wild guess.

“No. More strategic. We are already going into a Keyblade war… Let’s begin preparing for it, faster, and with extreme prejudice. The next time Kexez shows his face, we’ll be ready. Just tell me, do you want him captured, or killed?”

I sighed out. “The main problem is that if Kexez dies I don’t know what’ll happen to Zeke’s Spirit and all that crap…” I said, still hating that little tidbit of unknown. “Capture, cause I don’t want to damn his Soul, but I will personally find the breaking point on the X-blade’s Durability.” I growled. “Now...onto the how here, cause we’ve got the why.”

“So what’s our first move then?” Vergil asked.

“Well Glados oh so happily told us Kexez is either preparing or moving out to hunt for one of my citizens, which I sent out clones of me to search for as fast as possible.” I said while thinking for a moment. “Do I have any suggestions on how to start?” I asked curiously, trying to come up with anything to help and hoping the others had any ideas.

“It might be risky but we should warn them.” Zuko spoke up. “While it might cause chaos, or worry, it’s better than them discovering we are hiding this information from them, leading to distrust in you and us as their leaders.”

“That’s a start, get the people to help out in the search.” I said honestly. “Anything else?” I asked, looking at the others for help.

“Posters.” Kat said. “We know what Kexez looks like and we know no normal Heartless can enter this realm, it might be possible to have the people and social media help identify any abnormal Nobodies or people acting strangely. After all Kexez sent Robots here, so it’s safe to assume he is either sending another or has already sent someone here to search for this other person. Putting up informational posters both in the streets and in social media will give citizens the information needed to identify anything suspicious.”

I nodded. “Alright, welI better get the presses on that…” I muttered while still thinking of what to do. “We’ve got the people…” I hummed, knowing the people are one of my strongest allies here but still thinking of someway to beat him at his own game.

“It might be extreme, but what about a full kingdom wide curfew? It would limit the nightly activities and therefore give us better chance at discovering who this rat is when they move to acquire their target.” Vergil voiced.

“Might cause a bit of a stir but I’m sure people would understand when there’s a bad guy hunting down people…” I muttered. “But what will we do in the meantime while the people are acting as our eyes and ears?” I asked curiously.

“Ready the troops.” Rogers said. “Keep them in the streets, even as patrols it will give the people a means of security, the enemy a leash, and a force to act when the enemy does. All in all we will have the streets covered. We should also keep one or two aboard plains and other travel systems as a precaution. Can’t give the enemy any wiggle room.”

“Better make the patrols unpredictable, cause if they learn the routines then they have time in between to strike.” I brought up, scratching my chin in thought of what else to do.

“That would mainly leave figuring out just who this target is and where they are.” Zuko spoke. “We can’t go one by one testing the citizens for who this person might be, even if we do find one, it might not be exactly who they are looking for.”

“They are looking for twenty people…” I muttered, thinking for a moment. “There has to be another way to see who has a balanced heart…” I muttered, pulling out my X-blade and using my Assistant to see if it could let it talk. “Alright, can you talk?” I asked, hoping my Assistant could work in helping keyblades talk considering they all have their own personality. “The Assistant can do many things...please let one of them be letting a Keyblade talk…”

Sadly that didn’t work. “Let me try.” Luxu said, walking up to me. “Speaking with a Keyblade normally requires years of practice and a clear, calmed mind. I might have a means to bypass it for you though.”

“Please.” I said. “I’d really like to know...cause I’m pretty sure at least one of my keyblades is annoyed I haven’t been hearing them.” I said honestly.

“Alright. This will sting though.” Luxu said, touching my X-blade and from it’s Keychain a string of light grew. He then too the the other end and jabbed me in the chest… ouch… “There, you should be able to hear him now, though, hurry, this won’t last too long. Ten minutes at most.”

“Alright…” I muttered. “Can you hear me?” I asked my No heart, hoping this worked.

Yes, and for once you can hear me. Spoke a voice almost exactly like mine, only… older, more mature.

“Sorry, don't know much about this to begin with.” I said. “So, given your an X-blade, is there any other way to know who has a balanced heart besides saying the magic words?” I asked curiously.

Well, being I am a Keyblade of Nothingness I can’t actually feel the hearts… but I can feel the body, and in the few times we were near Kexez, I got a pretty good feel of how his is, and I can find one similar.

“Excellent.” I nodded. “Feel any close by?” I asked curiously.

Define close. It’s a she, and she is way off out in the edge of Equestria’s borders.

“Close enough.” I said while summoning Foudre, knowing the speed boost will help a lot. “Question, how can I talk to you without forcing it like this?” I asked curiously. “And the other Keyblades?”

Well aside from turning into what your pal Zeke is, meditation. Lots of meditation.

“Oh goody.” I muttered. “But...Question, what happened to Zeke's Trixie? Cause I have a...bad feeling about that.”

She’s like Zeke now. A living X-blade.

“Fuck.” I muttered while getting up from my throne. “Well...better get going before Kexez manages to get to her.” I said while casting Haste on myself to increase my speed. “Anything you want to talk about before I run off?”

Not that much at the moment.

“Alrighty then.” I said while lightning arced off of me. ‘Well, let’s get going before Kexez gets there.” I said, vanishing from pure speed as I bolted towards where No-Heart told me where the person was. “Let’s hope I’m not too late…”

As I arrived I found myself in… a rather strange village… everyone here had smiles that were just...creepy.

“Okay…” I started. “Who’s the mayor of this town?” I asked.

I was lead to a mare named Starlight Glimmer. No Heart informing me that this was the pony in question before whatever Luxu did wore off. “Welcome, what does our little town owe the honor to the worlds new king?”

“Well a few things.” I said. “First of them would be what did you do to the people?” I asked curiously.

“Why, what do you mean?”

“The creepy, fake as fuck smiles, the slight grey discoloration on everyone but you, and the sense that people don’t have their actual cutie marks.” I said honestly, seeing a whole lot of equal signs on people’s shirts for some reason.

“Oh that, well it’s just the town policy. If you want to live and experience True Friendship, then taking away those pesky Cutie marks is the way to go about it.”

“So take away individuality for false friendship right?” I asked curiously. “Let me just start with how that doesn’t work.” I said. “Or should I start asking if there’s some underlying problem you aren’t willing to face?”

Over the next few hours I chewed this crazy mare a new one, then when she actually tried to attack and escape I knocked her out. I managed to find where she had everyone's Cutie marks and returned them. After that, I had her tossed into a dungeon cell. “Yeah, that’s not going to happen.” I frowned. “And what’s funny is that she could have just told me what was bothering her mid way through my rant.” I said honestly. “But...when she wakes up I better explain things to her...before she tries to do something stupid.”

It would be a while before she wakes up so I headed back out to oversee some things.

“Fucking hell!” The guard yelled, throwing a younger man into a cell. “You’re a real piece of work ya freak.” He said, leaving.

“...heh. Well that was easy.” He said, getting up. “Now then, this is D-6. My target is in D-18. Even’s are on the side I’m on already… might as well do a little spring cleaning for the guards.” He said, placing his hands against the stone walls and the stone itself began rotting.

“Such a bizarre case.” Consequence said aloud.

“What is that?” I asked curiously. “I believe it’s one of the new prisoners?” I asked curiously.

“Yes, taken into the castle dungeon just a few hours ago. A tourist it seems, out of the blue began breaking peoples arms and nearly killing them. No cause for such an event according to witnesses and victims, he just began doing so.”

“How has he been injuring the people?” I asked, having a bad feeling that I just allowed someone in to hunt for someone.

“Standard cracks and fractures, though there is one case where when he grabbed the victim paramedics reported it was almost as if the victims arm began to rot in the shape of the attackers hand grip.”

“And was his jail cell rot proof?” I asked.

“It is stone and steel… do those rot?”

I looked at him. “Where...where’s the dungeons?” I sighed out.

“B-below the castle. Floor D cell 6.”

“Thank you.” I said while teleporting down to the specific cell given this was my domain and my castle. “Excuse me.” I called out in the dungeon. “I presume you're trying to break out with someone here?” I asked curiously, looking around the place for the bastard.

The cell was empty, cells 6, 8, 10, 12,14, 16… and 18, Starlights, were broken into. The stone cracked and like sand breaking apart. “Cause apparently Kexez can only go unopposed against me for some reason.” I frowned. “He either goes completely unopposed because bullshit, or he loses everything against me...fucking wonders.” I rolled my eyes, finding it a lot more annoying that I have a bad guy that can only go unopposed or else things for him fall apart.

Kexez has allies, allies that he can use to negate his own weaknesses and shortcomings… Fucking hell…

I later found out the guys name was Tomura Shigaraki, a villain from another world who can decay anything he touches… figures. I sent more guards and began working on stronger security for this to never happen again...

“I might need to head to that person's world just to make sure of some things…” I muttered. “Plus I still need to find a replacement for Trixie cause fuck hard work.” I rolled my eyes. “Fucking hell...not to mention I still have yet to train with all the new things and see what else Nothingness can do…” I took a deep breath. “Can I just get a fucking break for once?” I sighed out while pinching the bridge of my nose.

The days passed. I was taking a break from it all for a while before needing to get back to it. After just enjoying the gardens No Heart summoned itself in my hand.

“Yes?” I asked my No Heart. “What do you need No Heart?”

It… actually pulled me. It PULLED me up right, and opened a DTN before me.

“Alright alright fine.” I said. “Better than just doing nothing…” I muttered while entering the DTN.