After some time with Ben left Heart busy for the week, Eclipsa was determined to deal with these last two Heartless. Nathen tagging along for no reason Eclipsa could understand. The two were on Traverse Town, the final world of the Heartless that was on a world. “Looks way better than the game.” Nathen said, looking around at what was familiar and what was different compared to how the games portrayed this world.

"Yeah… and please ignore the giant chasm." Eclipsa said, wincing at the line of housing still not repaired from the first time Eclipsa used a X-blade. "Anyways, let's bag em and tag em."

"Just where are they though?" Nathen asked.

"If I were to guess, someplace not well traveled… hey, remember that cave that acted as another entrance into Merlin's house? That seems likely." Eclipsa said with a snap.

"Hmm. This is before KH1, so maybe. Not likely anyone is there. Well, let's check it out."

Eclipsa smiled before snapping, teleporting them into the cave. “Here we are.”

It was empty...mostly. where Merlin's house was meant to be, sat a swirling vortex of darkness… and Void. The void there was weak, yes, but Eclipsa felt it was supercharging the darkness. "That doesn't look good." Nathen said, summoning Starlight.

“No it isn’t.” Eclipsa said, summoning Better Half before walking up to it and placing her hand into the Void.

Upon touching it, her arm burned. An internal burn that hit deep into her code. She backed off, the black vine line scorcharks on her arm slowly fading. "How do we close this if you can't even touch it?" Nahen asked.

“Maybe…” Eclipsa said before focusing, grey pouring out of her as for a split second, She let all of her might out, the shear weight of her power shaking the entire world before it condenses at the end of Better half, Cracks of gray spreading through the blade as excess power is flowed into Eclipsa’s mark. With a stab, all that power, including Nothingness and Grey poured into the void.

It all swirled around for a while before, something began happening. It was becoming unstable. Suddenly through…

Shooting out from the portal came something that knocked Eclipsa into the wall back at the caves entrance. "About time." That voice… Eclipsa thought, looking up and seeing… Herself. Colin. A large number 4 tattooed on the left side of his face. "About time I get a field test." They said, sparking and clashing replica versions of Oathkeeper and Oblivion, their colors inverted.

The Heartless came out right behind them. "Clock is ticking." They said with a playful malice.

Eclipsa looked at their copy before chuckling. “Oh this is rich. Nathen, Hold off the heartless, I’ll show this wanna be why you can’t copy perfection~” Eclipsa said, her eyes and grin going predatory.

"I'll do what I can." Nathen said, zooming off towards the Heartless, matching his speed with their own trail of darkness.

The clone looked at me with a smile. "Shall we?" The clone asked, sparking their copy Keyblades, void tainted darkness's flowing over them.

Eclipsa summoned a shield into their free hand, pounding Better Half on it like a greek warrior. “Lets dance. Try to keep up!” Eclipsa said, letting her grey start to power up more.

They fought each other, a spike of energy cracking the walls of the cave and making the water itself levitate up as if gravity no longer held power. Each clang broke the cave more and more as Nahen struggled against the Heartless. It's artificial speed matching his as the two raced and fought across the breaking walls and floating water.

Eclipsa hissed as she blocked another strike before stabbing forward, using her tail to snap as suddenly hundreds of copies of Oblivion and Oathkeeper started to flow behind her. “Sick em.”

The Keyblades went out to attack the clone, they smirked. Arching their back in a grotesque way as suddenly, this haphazard looking version of the Dark Guardian bursting from their body in a splash of blood, this version had purple skin, red eyes, arms had another pair of replica Oathkeeper and Oblivion bound to it's arms and rather than a heart shaped hole in it's chest, it held a shape closer to a Keyhole. It battled Oath and Oblivion while the clone kept attacking me. "I've been waiting for this moment since I emerged from the production lines." The clone said, eyes shifting to a dark red. "I was handcrafted for this very moment."

"Oh? And what pray tell are you hoping to achieve?" Eclipsa said, her eyes turning silver as grey started to infuse with every strike, each getting exponentially more powerful. Right now they are at realm breaker power, and increasing, all in the span of half a second.

"Data collection… and sample extraction." They smirked, suddenly rushing the Naga as she saw this clone take an actual BITE from her aura of grey, swallowing it. "hehehehe. That's my purpose complete." They said, big the clone and Dark Guardian copy readying themselves. "Everything else I get is just extra for mother."

"Oh why thank you for that~" Eclipsa says with a smile before taking control of the grey from inside them. "You forget. Everything is Grey. I am Grey." She said, her eyes becoming hard, mercyless before she ripped it out, along with all the darkness and void.

"Is everything grey though?" It asked, still smiling and collapsed as the grey reached her. The burning returned, but worse as it flowed into the naga. The void was eating away her grey, the pain made her drop Better Half as she tried to use Nothingness to counter the Voids almost poison like effect on Eclipsa.

"No… no you are not taking this from me!" Eclipsa growled before activating everything, cracks appearing over her body as the mark worked overtime. "-------------------" Eclipsa said as she reached her true power, filling the void, nullifying it, and trying to force it into submission.

It was failing. It hit her like a brick… void is not part of grey… it came before it… Desperate, she began scratching at her own skin, making deep gashes to try and remove it. As it was making its way to her neck…

Blinking, Eclipsa looked up, seeing the clone, back up and in that earlier stance as before. The grey, darkness and void ripped out of it.

It was deja vu, and suddenly before it reached her, she was suddenly across the cave, hitting and making the walls where she stood before melt. "Rewinding time… " Nathen said, taking deep breaths. "First time I got it to work."

"Thanks… I got in over my head there." Eclipsa said, massaging her arms and neck. "What to do about it though…."

"Well, thankfully, whatever that was is dead… just leaves Heartless speedy there… and that." Nathen said, pointing at the portal the fast Heartless was running around. Restabilizing get it. "I think… I think if I run fast enough the opposite way I can destabilize it and close it, you just have to keep Speedy there busy."

Eclipsa took a breath, letting her grey open, and Nathen saw the universe of grey before she condenced it into herself, her soul, everything. She unsummoned her weapons, her body glowing. "When in doubt, your body and heart are your greatest weapons." Eclipsa said, her voice echoing as she made her body into a soul weapon, and charged at the heartless as equal speed.

At this speed, Eclipsa saw the world almost as if time was still, the Heartless gave a growl as he rushed off, trying to stay ahead of the Naga. Nathen for to work, moving faster and faster around the portal, slowly but surely, it began to destabilize again. Seeing what was happening, the Heartless tried to stop it, Eclipsa got in the way.

"You want to know why I fight so hard? Why I refuse to die, even when I have been erased from existence?" Eclipsa spoke out loud, knowing that it was possible for Nexus to listen from the copy's body. She grabbed the heartless by the head and smashed him into a dead stop on the ground. "It's because no matter how much you break me. No matter the time, place, or body, I will always stand up for those I love, for those whom I have always been with. Go ahead and try to kill me. Last time you did that? I just came back stronger."

The heartless growled as it tried to get up… Without thinking, Eclipsa raised up her tail, suddenly ethereal Keyblade tips spied out from under her scales, spinning in a loud rotation, much like a chainsaw, and she impaled the heartless this way. It’s body shredded and remains faded away as the portal closed.

New Limit Attack Unlocked: AP Piercing Key.

"That's new." Eclipsa commented as her body stopped glowing, her eyes though not changing back. "Nathen, you good?"

“Speed Healing…” They huffed, laid on the floor, clothes nearly burned off completely, and skin as if the just came out of a house fire. “Just need a few… hours…”

"Grey Curaga." Eclipsa cast over him, green mist falling over him

His wounds healed, but his clothes were still tattered. “Shit. God made those speed friction resistant…” He said, looking over the clothes. “That vortex must have burned them.”

"Don't worry, when we get back to Daybreak, we can set you up with some more, and make them stronger." Eclipsa said with a smile, reaching and hand down to lift him up. "Now, how many skill points do I have… haven't checked in ages…." Eclipsa muttered before checking her assistant.

Skill Points: 77,982

"......Well shit. Time to actually use these ..." Eclipsa muttered before looking over to see what to put them in.

A trip back to Daybreak and getting Nathen some new, better clothes to resist speed friction, the skill points mostly allocated, and now, the two were pondering on where in The Lanes Between is the final heartless and, Discord. The one at Traverse Town had Pumpkin Head, which was kinda disappointing.

As Eclipsa pondered she heard someone calling her name. Turning to the side she smiled. "Hey Star, Blitz, you two okay?" She asked her gender bent spouses. While they were Futa, they kept their male names to keep them separate from the others.

"Sup sexy." Blitz said.

"We heard you have been busy." Star added. "Is something happening?"

“Well, I have yet to find and talk to Scotch, I apparently am this Universe’s Positive to the reality full of negitives, just found out that Void of any kind in me will cause me to try and kill myself to get it out, and am currently hunting Heart’s heartlesses to get back Discord. So its a typical Tuesday.” Eclipsa said with a shrug.

"Huh…" Star said. "Well, do you know where this final Heartless is?"

“Somewhere in the Lanes Between. Who knows where they are.” Eclipsa admitted

"Well, they are a Heartless, where would one of those things go in such a vast place?" Blitz said. "I know if I had that much free space to fly around in, I'd need a rest on a cloud or something someplace comfy."

“....Wait, what is a resting place in the lanes between!” Eclipsa said, hit by inspiration.

"Mostly asteroids and such." Star said. "The largest ones are typically used as rest stops but there are a few that aren't touched because of hazardous materials in them."

Eclipsa pulled up her Assistant and started looking specifically for the Hazardous ones, marking each on their map. “This might just be it.” In her searching she came across one candidate better than the others. A large asteroid called CCK78. It's rich In Dark Electronium. An Ore she remembered came from Cript's realm. It spawns Shadow Creatures and if mined ,wrong will explode. A dangerous source of darkness. “Bingo.”

The fly there had to be by ship. Eclipsa nor Nathen had ever traveled by spaceship before. It amazed the two at how much like a private airplane it was. The flight would take a while, and it left the two together. There was an admitted awkward silence for a while.

“So…. How’s Starlight liking you?” Eclipsa asked, looking at the keyblade.

"Good. I think. It comes when I call for it so I assume that's good." He replied. "So you were like Ze- er, Heart, before?"

“Like him how?” Eclipsa asked

"Ya know. Human. Dude."

“Oh yeah. I was also a Dude once upon a time.” Eclipsa said with a smile

"So, what world did you pick when God picked you up as the world went to hell?"

“Equestria with Oblivion and Oathkeeper. Ended up as Twilight’s fraternal twin.”

"Twin huh? What was that like?"

"Back on Earth I was an only child, so being reborn as a twin was… nice. I have an older brother who lives and looks out for me, even though I don't need it, powers wise we are on quite different planes these days. And Twilight as my sister has been the best second life ever. She's such a dork, worries a lot about the little insignificant things, but I love her. I've had to remind her to calm down so often it often feels like I'm the only one who could calm her down. Then Spike came along and heh, a little brother who the family basically raised all together. Shining and I got him into Comics, Heh, Twi taught him how to read before that. Dad, pony dad, taught him to write, and mom showed him how to cook."

"Sounds like you prefer your life in Equestria over your life from earth."

"My life from earth was… not that good." Eclipsa said, sighing as she began slouching in her seat. “Being a bastard, red eyed Ventral sucked. Watching my mom die in a snuff film before my eyes was worse. Being the cause of it destroyed me. I had no friends even as I got older, no one adopted me even when I got contacts to hide my red eyes. My only escape was Kh, and later MLP. Hell, when the End of the world happened, I saw the chaos outside my apartment, and all I did was close my blinds and get back on my game, not caring.”

"Heh. I was at ground zero. Worked in the city and when shit hit the fan, it hit the ground. I was running with the panic, not even sure how but next thing I knew I was meeting God."

“Oh I burned to death. Let me tell you, not fun.” Eclipsa chuckled

"I still think I must have been shot." Nathen said. "I asked for Speed and had him dropped me off in The Flash's world. He and I teamed up but I often just ran across helping out outside Star City. It had the most Meta Humans but there were still some outside the city and country."

“Very noble.” Eclipsa nodded approvingly

They shrugged. "I once asked Zeke if he'd take me into the world he lived in. Criminals, I know those skills of his could have been used for good, but he didn't want to risk my life, and he was pretty dense on the matter. Guess in the end though he still became the hero I knew he could be."

"He has a way of becoming what people expect him to be." That thought was meant to be factual, but stung bitterly on Eclipsa's mouth. He was always what others expected, never what he wanted. Those Nexus hands of fate still had Heart in their grip, and she would die ripping them off if that was what it took.

They arrived at the asteroid, immediately were attacked by Shadow Creatures. While they had numbers they also fell fast, easily. The two were much stronger than the monsters here, but their source was all around them, Eclipsa could destroy the blasted place bit between the blast from.the unstable dark ore would send her flying several billion light-years away, likely kill Nathen, and that heartless would escape.

They needed to search, but with an unending wave it was a matter of how, how to pull off the impossible. As the battling reached into the hours, both parties felt an ever growing tiredness. They needed help, But how to-

Snap.

In a sudden flash, every Shadow Creature was missing. Gone, and none were showing up. "Did we win?" Nathen asked, tired as they fell to the ground.

"No… who was?" Eclipsa asked.

"It's about fucking time!" That voice. Eclipsa knew it well, not quote Hearts, but also, a familiar one. Soon, the Heart Heartless showed up. But it's colors, it's eyes… those horns and wings.

"Discord?!" Eclipsa asked in surprise.

"Well duh. What were you expecting?" They draconequus Keyblade asked sarcastically.

"How are you...what?"

"When those Heartless things were made and this one took me, I could feel it's ever growing darkness. It came here to feed off the darkness and negativity of the Dark Electronium to power up. But l, lucky for me, this darkness is very very chaotic."

"You… as it ate the darkness you also got powered up!" Eclipsa said with wide eyes.

"Yup! All the chaos already in me, add what it was eating just powered me enough to possess them, once I had access to my own magic again after I took over I made this body my own. I can still shift to a Keyblade form, but at least now I have a body again."

"How long have you been like this?"

"Few months."

"What?! You mean to tell me that you could have come home at any moment?! Why didn't you go back to Heart?!"

"Because, A, this asteroid is Rich in chaotic darkness. I and my reflections are the only chaotic darkness allowed in this reality! And B, after I felt Zeke, well, Heart now, become Kingdom Hearts and the Admin of Balance, I knew if I wanted to keep helping, I needed to be on your levels."

"You… have been trying to become an Admin?"

"Discord! The Admin of Chaos! Has a nice ring to it huh?" He chuckled. "This asteroid has been feeding me the power since I thought of that plan. It's harmless to me, but these fucking rocks don't drain easy. I drain one section and the next thing I know I come back after draining another and it's recharged!"

"That… would be a problem." Eclipsa said.

"Why not just eat it?" Nathen asked, half asleep.

"Eat it? Hmm… crazy, I like it!" Discord said happily.

"So, how you gonna pull that off?" Eclipsa asked.

"First, let's hope aboard your ship, then I can get to work." They did just that, Nathen crashing asleep as they flew a fair distance from the asteroid. Once they were far enough, Discord took two fingers, acted as if they were going to grab the rock with them… then actually did, the once massive asteroid of chaotic darkness now a marble sized ball between his fingers. Nathen was too tired to question the act and Eclipsa just shrugged it off as Discord swallowed the small orb.

Eclipsa felt the rush of power enter Discord. The Chaos in him multiplying to incredible levels. He was ready to take on Code. With a nod, Eclipsa set course back home to have The Mother make Discord an admin, but they did enjoy a feast first of many food items Discord popped into the ship at will. Both Eclipsa and Nathan are their body weight easily in food.

When they arrived home the trio quickly made their way to The Mother's statue. "She uses a statue to talk and act. She as well as all of us are using starfish clones to both be safe inside a hidden area within Nothingness, and also be out here to do our jobs and such." Eclipsa said.

"I guess that makes sense. Keeps the kids safe, right?" Discord said with a nod.

"That is correct." The Mother statue said, moving and talking now. "My, an Admin to be standing here. Am I correct in that assumption?"

"Yes." Eclipsa said.

"Then come. Claim your Code." She said, reaching a hand out to Discord as a ball of pure Code formed in her hand.

Discord took it, the rush of power hurt, but they endured. The Mother had left the Statue body already, her job done as Discord was now an Admin. The Admin of Chaos.

Eclipsa's Assistant beeped. "Hm?" She pondered, looking at it.

Skill Tree Unlocked: Chaos Code.

Race Skill Tree Unlocked: Draconequus.

"... Wait what?" Eclipsa asked.