Zeke emerged from the DTL and onto Radiant Gardens main garden. The flowers in bloom amd kept so through magic, fountains and such both for cosmetic Appel and to deliver water to all the plant life. "Alright, sewer entrance has to be somewhere around here. A manhole cover at least?" Zeke questioned, calling forth their power as an admin, speaking to the world. "Come on, where are they, you can tell me."

The world replied, an image of the beast lurking the sewers rushed into Zeke's mind, as well as a path to them. Grinning, Zeke rushed towards the sewer entrance, a Manhole cover lead them down into the smelly depths. Rushing through the filth and muck, soon obvious tracks began showing up along the walls and ground. Rushing more so, Zeke found themselves in a large overhang metal floor, overhang above a mass drop where the water poured down into a large hole. “If this isn’t the perfect arena…” Zeke said, hearing the framilier chaotic movements of a being of darkness nearby. Looking up, they ducked back, avoiding a slash down attack. Before him was the first of these heartless. In its hands, a twisted and corrupted looking Fenrir.

”There you are, Father, Mother. My creator.” it said, walking towards Zeke while dragging Fenrir across the ground.

“Hey.” Zeke said, summoning X. “So you know why I’m here.”

”Yes. To kill us. Reclaim our siblings.” It said, waving Fenrir around a bit. ”We know your combat, your attacks, your- GAH!” It roared, a Kingdom Key shot into its shoulder, disbanding quickly.

Zeke stood a distance away, X shifted halfway into its glider form so it was a bow, not a sword. “I know. But you and I both know, my aim’s better.”

It roared, and the battle began, Zeke keeping distance as much as possible and shooting off Keyblades like arrows through X’s bow form. The heartless summoned forth dark tendrils all around as portals to the realm of darkness opened up, it shifting across the battlefield fast with Dark Rush. The extra enemies made Zeke jump to the air, taking aim downwards. “Light’s Tears!” Zeke said, the single shot splitting into thousands of light projectiles, taking out the tendrils and hitting the heartless. It countered by shooting off Darkness Magic.

“Frost’s Dark Night!” The heartless roared, casting a halestorm of black ice that froze all the water around and was making vision and sound hard to make out.

Zeke tried to keep the fight on even grounds, shifting into a defensive formation to hopefully react in time. "Shit." He huffed, their breath freezing as they spoke.

”What is it Father? Mother?” The heartless taunted, it’s voice everywhere as one by one, hundreds of yellow eyes could be seen in the shadows. ”Black Blood of Death.” The voices said, the ground below Zeke starting to be covered in a black, oily substance.

"Crap." Zeke said, aiming X, still in it's bow form down at the ground. "Reject Darkness!" They said, a shot of pure light hitting the darkness as the two began twirling and spinning around each other, forming a large bubble of sorts but also letting Zeke see the heartless. "Found you!" They said, taking aim. "Return to the Darkness that birthed you! Return to my heart!" They said, drawing back their shot.

”NO!” It yelled, a hint of genuine fear in its voice as it raised Fenrir to protect itself.

"Consume Darkness. Come forth Light Basilisk!" Zeke fired, a massive snake of light rushed at the heartless, mouth opening wide as it closed in on the monster. With an unholy, scream that would traumatize any other being, the heartless was consumed, darkness peeling back to show a young teen, before it two was consumed, leaving only a now purified Fenrir on the floor where the heartless once stood.

Zeke walked over, picking up Fenrir and disbanding it. "One down." He said, sighing. "It is not going to be easy dealing with the others. The one who has Discord especially. Maybe I should consider help?"

Heading out, Zeke was climbing out the Manhole cover when suddenly, a rush of wind and a trail of yellow lightning passed them. "The fuck?!" They said, catching themselves from falling back down the hole. As Zeke got themselves back out, the blur of yellow lightning rushed back over to him. "Oh come on…" As Zeke was ready for another fight, the blue stopped right in front of them, and once the lighting faded, they saw a familiar face. Small, skinny framed guy, blue jeans, messy black hair, red shirt.

“What the hell... Zeke?” Spoke the guy.

"Nathan? Holy fuck?! Where have you been?! And why are you so fast you make lightning?"

“Ever watched or read The Flash?” Nathan said, in a blur of lightning causing him to be next to his old friend. “God, it's been ages… when did you become a chick?”

“That’s a LONG story and despite living it, I still don’t fully understand it. Also you know I never read or watched super hero stuff. So, heh, God sent you out as some… Speedster?”

“That's the proper term, yes.” Nathan said, nodding. “So, you left earth as… a chick?”

“This happened much later on… like I said, long story. But I just finished fighting a Heartless version of me, and I have some more to deal with. Wanna help?”

“Hell yes! We need to catch up. Where to next?” Nathan asked, rubbing their hands together eagerly.

“The Badlands of a world known as The Keyblade Graveyard.” Zeke said with a smile, summoning X and opening a DTL.

“Oh, so you asked for that… Sweet.” Nathan said, zooming into the DTL as Zeke followed.

The dusty air hit Nathan like razors. An unnatural darkness filled the air, chilling them to the core. “Yeesh. This Heartless versions of you… how strong are they?”

“As strong as I am.” Zeke said, closing the DTL behind them as they looked around. “Just follow the darkness. The stronger it gets, the closer we are to it. Hopefully this is the one who has Discord.”

“Discord?”

A person from the world I was placed on, he was turned into a Keyblade. It’s a long story but hopefully I can find the one that has him.”

“Ah. Gotcha. I’ll rush around for a quick search.” Nathan said, in a flash of red zoomed deep into the badlands, and after a minute or so, rushed back. “Alright, I think I found it, I recognized it’s weapon, a Starlight, so not your friend, but it’s not alone.”

“I can handle the heartless it can summon, they obey me.”

“I don’t think those were heartless...”

“Hm?”

Nathan rushed Zeke with them, atop a high rock formation, Zeke was a bit dizzy from the sudden movement, but recovered quickly and shook it off. Looking down, they saw the heartless, as well as someone Zeke knew about. Tanya. “Who’s the kid?”

“Tanya. She’s… not on our side. She’s psychotic. Don’t let her age dupe you, she will kill you, but what is she doing here?”

“Is she working for that thing?”

“No, she works for Vincent.”

“Let me guess, another bad guy of yours.”

“One of too fucking many.”

“So, how do we go about this?”

“We need to know what they are talking about.”

“Hmm...” Nathan hummed, raiding their pockets but finding nothing. “Damn it, left it back home.”

“What?”

“I had this spy tool I got after knocking out some robbers back on the world I was placed on. It’s been useful, but I left it charging back home.”

“We’ll just have to wait.”

“Can’t we take them? My speed, your skill, should be fair.”

“Should and will be are two vary different things. Tanya is stronger and faster than she gives off. And the Heartless me, well it’s as skilled as I am, I barely beat that last one back at Radiant Garden.”

“Hmm… I might have an idea.”

“What?”

“I can move so fast time completely freezes for me, it’s called Flash Time. I can use it to knock out Tanya, then deal some damage to your Heartless so you can go in for the kill. I can only do it for at most a minute in normal time flow, but for me it will feel like half an hour.”

“That can work, and bringing in Tanya for interrogation and imprisonment will be a huge win for us. Alright Nathan, when you’re ready.”

“I always am.” Nathan said, giving a grin as their eyes flashed with red lightning.

Zeke looked back at the scene below, blinking and seeing Tanya on the ground already, not moving and bound by duct tape restraints, and the Heartless staggering a bit. Nathan was already down there, barely standing. “He wasn’t kidding.” Zeke said, rushing down and summoning Chains of Light, wrapping the Heartless up tightly then, upon landing and tugging on the chain, pulled the heartless full force into the tip of X, impaling it half way before it faded, the Starlight loosing it’s dark aura and falling to the ground. Once the heartless’s form was gone, Zeke picked up the Starlight, and disbanded it. “That was smooth and clean.”

“Yeah...” Nathan said, breathing deeply. “Worked perfectly. Damn… Flash Time takes the most out of me.”

Zeke pat his friend on the back, helping them up. “Come on, let’s take Tanya there to Daybreak, before she wakes up.”

Back at Daybreak, Tanya woke up to much more restrictive restraints, Nothingness infused cuffs and just for good measure, a code nullifying choker so any Admin based powers she can use are useless. Anti-magic wards were also decorated around her cell and even along her body for safe measure. She would not speak, but speaking isn’t the only way Daybreak can get information.

Zeke and Nathan took a break out in the town, Nathan seeing the amazingly huge city Zeke co-ruled with the others as well as got his own Keyblade, ironically called, Flash Point. “Gotta say, it’s impressive the son of criminals ended up ruling basically the whole of creation.”

“Yeah well, not my first career path.” Zeke said with a chuckle. “That speed of yours must come in real handy.”

“Was a bitch to master but once I did it has.”

“So, that’s two down, three to go.”

“Between my speed and abilities, your tactics and power, they won’t stand a chance.”

“Yeah… so, you still mad we never teamed up back on earth?”

“Hey, I was an idiot high school kid and you were the son of a criminal son who could hack anything and plan effectively. In all honesty it was just so we could keep hanging out. Doing hero work and hanging out is better though.”

“Just pays less.”

“Ugh. Don’t remind me.” Nathan laughed. “Back home I have a part time job to get the over ten thousand calories of food I need to eat a day to fuel me and my speed.”

“Damn! Buffet places must hate you.”

“I’m banned from all but four.” He laughed.

“You know, this kingdom rewards heroism. How’s about you quit your day job and work for Daybreak. Far as I know there isn’t anybody with your kind of powers in Daybreak’s armies.”

“How much am I getting paid?” Zeke took out their assistant, the upgrade making it something akin to a tattoo in appearance, but all it’s functions were still the same. A screen appeared and Zeke wrote out the numbers. Then showed it to Nathan. He whistled. “Is that a month?”

“An hour.”

“Deal!”