It seems I did. o-o
Chapter 10
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The gummi ship lay crumpled on the bed, while both Mitsuko and I were lying on the ground. The crash had been fatal; we wouldn’t be able to use the gummi ship anymore without any repairing
“Where are we?” I asked, rubbing my head. Mitsuko lay next to me, unconscious.
“Hey, wake up!” I shouted, shaking her.
“What’s going on?” she muttered, slowly opening her eyes.
There was a thump. I turned around. Another. Thump. Thump. Thump.
Oh no, I thought.
“COOL!” shouted a voice. It was a loud one; one that seemed too loud to belong to any human. But the monstrously loud voice didn’t match the tone that it made. It was like… a young boy’s voice. I felt something grab me—an immense hand. Then, I felt a tugging.
“I’m Hikaru the cowboy!” I said, without thought. What am I saying? I heard Mitsuko’s voice say
“Howdy,” she said as she hung limply from a hand beside me.
Were we actually toys now? I mean… was that really possible? We were being taken somewhere by the giant. I tried to wrench myself free, but it was too strong. It threw us onto the bed and ran off shouting “Thanks for the new toys, mum!” the giant boy called.
Sweet Jesus, we really were toys…
I was only just able grab onto the edge, Mitsuko, half asleep, hanging onto my boots. Boots? I lifted us up, to be confronted by two legs right it front of me. It appeared to belong to someone wearing some kind of spacesuit.
“Where am I?” I asked, pulling myself up. The guy in the suit whipped around and pressed a button on his arm sending a small beam of light out of his arm.
I jumped back, just in case. “What the hell?!” I screamed, jumping out of the way.
“Woody?” he asked.
“What? Woody?” I replied, not sure what to think. Mitsuko lifted herself up and was regaining consciousness again.
“Who the hell are you, anyway?” I asked.
“I’m Buzz Lightyear! Space Ranger!” he replied.
“What? Space ranger?” I asked. I didn’t remember ever knowing about any space rangers.
“That’s right. I’m the defender of galaxies. The hero of the stars…”
A cowboy stepped in and interrupted.
“Don’t mind Buzz.”
I stared at this new person, noticing that his attire basically matched mine. He had a leather hat… no, a plastic hat, a jacket, a yellow shirt and jeans.
There is a cowboy talking with some space nerd, I thought. Where am I…?
“Do you know these people, Woody? That one there looks kinda like you,” said the space guy, Buzz, pointing at me.
“What the hell do you want?” I asked.
A pig walked up to me from behind; I hadn’t noticed it before.
“Hey kiddo, what’re you doing here?” it asked.
“What’s going on?!”
What the goddamn hell is happening? Talking pigs? I kept running and running until I ran into a massive pillow.
“So, where are we?” Mitsuko asked.
“This, this is Andy’s room; where else?” Woody replied. “Oh! You must be Andy’s new toys! Welcome to Andy’s room. He’s a pretty good kid. He’s owned me for quite a while and has taken good care of me too. You’ll love him.”
There was a deep rumbling. “Oh no! Not again!” Buzz shouted.
“ZURG!” Woody screamed. I looked down from the bed and saw a purple man in a robe. “BUZZ LIGHTYEAR! IT IS TIME FOR YOU TO DIE!” Zurg shouted.
The line was ridiculously corny, but I think he really meant it. The space ranger jumped off the bed and pressed a button on his chest. A set of gliding wings exploded from his back, and he drifted down to the ground safely. He landed perfectly, like a cat.
“Wait, Buzz!” Woody looked over at us. “I don’t know what you can do, but I’m guessing you can help us somehow. Zurg is another toy. He comes from next door. He’s Buzz’s arch nemesis. He comes once in a while to ‘greet’ us,” Woody explained throwing a lasso from his belt, letting it hook onto a lamp. When it was secure, Woody swung off it and landed on the ground safely.
“C’mon Hikaru,” Mitsuko said, getting ready to jump. She was back to her normal self again. She had tied the staff to her back with a piece of rope, so that she’d be able to carry it around with a little more ease. “We gotta help them, right? I got my magic and you’ve got your sword.”
“Let’s roll!” I shouted brightly. I jumped off the bed, soon to realise that I didn’t have wings like Buzz, and I didn’t have a lasso like Woody.
“Damn…” I muttered as I prepared myself for the fall.
“Gravity!” Mitsuko shouted from above. I fell… but as if I was in slow-motion. It was like I was but a feather. Hey, it’s just like in that dream… I thought. I reached the ground and my feet touched down lightly. I saw Mitsuko land on the ground like I had, but with a little more grace.
“You owe me one,” she said, winking.
I released the Keyblade from its keychain form and prepared for battle.
Zurg lifted his arms into the air. Small balls of black energy began to form, and then, little black things began appearing. At once I knew: somehow, the Heartless were here as well.
“Not the Heartless!” Woody wailed. It seemed that Woody and his friends had already seen the Heartless before.
Mitsuko readied her staff for an attack. “THUNDER!” she shouted as huge bolts of lighting pelted down on the Heartless, crushing them instantly.
“NO! MY HEARTLESS!” Zurg shouted.
It looks like Heartless are all over the Universe, then, I thought. The Heartless continued appearing, but in different forms. One was a big black ball with eyes. Another was what appeared to be a toy soldier. And the last was a spinning top. This one was the most deadly of them all, and I was about to find out why. SMACK!
The spinning top crashed into me, sending me flying. I was shaken, but amazingly, I was able to get up.
“Take this!” I shouted, madly swinging the Keyblade around. There was another SMASH, and I looked to see the spinning top fly into one of the black balls, making it explode like a balloon. As I watched the ball fizz up into the air I heard a roar that amazingly seemed to belong to a dinosaur. Then, looking up, I realised it was a dinosaur.
It came crashing down on Woody and the space guy.
“Hiya Buzz,” it said.
This place is getting stranger and stranger with each passing second… I thought.
“Hiya Woody. Need some help?” the dinosaur asked.
“Hey Rex, smash Zurg with one of those famous head-butts of yours,” Woody suggested.
Rex the toy dinosaur prepared himself and screamed as he charged into Zurg headfirst. Now was my chance. I sliced through the spinning tops, the soldiers and the huge balls with little effort until I reached Zurg.
“Who are you?” Zurg asked.
“I’m Hikaru, and I’m gonna kick your ass!” I shouted.
Zurg stepped back and began shooting me. A yellow ball made its way towards me and met me in the jewels.
“Oh, for the love of God,” I muttered as I fell to the ground clutching myself.
“PITIFUL FOOL!” Zurg laughed.
I was too confident in myself, and that caused my downfall. He prepared himself for a final attack. I covered my face with my Keyblade, unable to bear defeat.
Then, like the voice of an angel, someone’s mouth exploded with the words, “To infinity and beyond!”
Buzz jumped on Zurg, toppling him over. Woody ran over and helped me up.
“Hurry! Before Zurg gets up!” he shouted. Still nursing my injury, I got up and limped away, trying to reduce the throbbing pain.
Zurg blasted the space ranger off of him and aimed his gun at Mitsuko.
Her mouth opened wide, eyes blank.
He was merely metres away from her. Or was it centimetres?
There was a flash of pink and Zurg fell to the ground.
He screamed as his head collided with the ground.
Mitsuko was standing still, frozen with fear.
“What just happened…?” she asked, still slightly shaken.
Standing in front of her was the pig. Where it came from I didn’t know, but it saved Mitsuko so I appreciated its presence.
“Good job, Ham. I’m proud to have you on my side!” Buzz shouted.
The pig had launched himself straight into Zurg’s chest before he could fire.
“Hey, I had to do it. If it was you, you wouldn’t have been so lucky,” the pig, Ham, joked.
Mitsuko lifted her staff. “I think I’ll help this time,” Mitsuko said.
“What’s she doing?” Woody asked, obviously having no knowledge of magic.
“I have no idea,” I muttered.
“Uh… well, get him while he’s still down!” Woody called.
Buzz jumped on Zurg again and held him down. “GO! GET HIM!” he shouted.
A surge of blue lighting encircled Mitsuko.
What kind of magic was this? This wasn’t any element that I knew of. I had flicked through the magic book that Merlin gave her, but didn’t find anything with this description.
“Ultima!” she shouted.
A ball of black and blue energy filled the area. Everything began to warp as if it were being pulled into a black hole.
I don’t think she knew how to use that spell all to well.
“Oh, I messed it up!” she shouted, stamping her feet.
Seconds later, we were all warped into another place.
I seemed to remember this place from something. Holy crap, I think this is the same place from the dream. This was definitely the same place.
Although there was one difference. The stained glass image had changed. It was now a picture of the number three. It was beautifully detailed; it had intricate designs in and around the normally plain and dull number.
“Where’s Zurg?” Buzz, asked. We all looked around.
“Mitsuko…? What did you do…?” I asked, trying my best to stay calm.
I didn’t like this place. I sensed something evil, of pure malevolence stalking us. I could feel its breath against my neck, but when I turned around, nothing was there. Mitsuko was lying on the ground, upset that she had failed.
“How can we get out of here?” Woody asked.
“You tell me,” Ham replied.
“Curse him. Zurg must have done this!” Buzz shouted. I was getting to know these, people, toys, whatever pretty well.
Buzz seemed like he was from some kind of video game. “Welcome,” said a voice, breaking the silence abruptly. I turned around.
It was a man in a coat, a black coat, the black coat.
“Do you still seek the Keyblade master?” he asked.
Woody, Buzz, Ham and Mitsuko looked at me in confusion. It was as if they couldn’t see him.
“Who is the Keyblade master?” I asked, remembering my reason for starting this ‘adventure’.
“I cannot answer that question, as it is too obvious,” the man replied.
I looked down at my hand. Sure enough, a Keyblade was in it. Was I the Keyblade master? Was the death of my mother my fault?
“And now, for that fight that I promised,” he added.
I eyed him, struggling to recall when he had promised a fight, but then I remembered that he had said that I needed to fight him before I could escape; but that was right before he disappeared. He lifted his hand out of his sleeve and clicked his fingers.
“Whaoh!” Mitsuko shouted. The others were being sucked into a gaping hole floating above the pillar.
“Help!” she shouted. They all began to spiral around and eventually disappeared.
I couldn’t move my legs. I was alone. No Mitsuko. No Buzz. No Woody. No Ham. No Rex. Alone.
“Do not worry. They have just been transported back to the world you were in before,” the man said. He opened his palm and readied himself.
I held the Keyblade in front of me with both hands. A small ball of energy formed in his hands. Blue turned to red, and two glowing red and orange beams of light appeared in both of his arms. “This is it. PROOVE YOURSELF, BOY!”
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