Kingdom Hearts: The Resistance

Leonardo yelled at Hooper. "Yeah, easier said than done!" He rolled over and pushed the Neo Shadow off of him. He turned tale and ran, following Hooper's directions. He slid over on the second turn and tripped slightly, hitting against the wall. He turned back to see nothing but shadow. He breathed out and walked to the right to find the dead end he was told about and pressed a marker on it. It pushed it and the wall shifted left, right, and pushed downward, leading deeper into the cavern. "You gotta be kidding me," he said, palm slapping his forehead and walked down. He stepped off the last step and noticed that his last step echoed louder than he had been before. "Woah . . . no way," he whispered.

He raised his keyblade higher and more light beamed from it. He was in a large room. He looked about and noted the painted walls of the room and in the center was a large pool of water leading to somewhere unknown. Ahead of him was a series of steps and a large stone door with a painted Heartless symbol. He clicked his microphone and his voice sounded kind of shaky, "Guys . . . you won't believe what I just found . . ."

He turned back to here the same rumbling noise and saw the same Neo Shadow followed by its lesser brothers, Shadows. "Shit, I've been followed. I'm going to engage the hostiles. Sorry Hooper." He raised his keyblade and began charging at the Heartless in front of him.

 

YouTube - Kingdom Hearts 3: The Resistance Soundtrack: Keyblader's Memories (Sora's Last Spirit)

"I'LL NEVER JOIN YOU!" Kawi screamed, almost immediately. "Do you think that I would join you after you killed my parents, experimented on me and...." He looked at his ice white hands. "...turn me into a forgotten?"
He remembered a boy's voice, as he got the keyblade and throughout his memories. He sounded kind, brave and Kawi knew he was from the light. Kawi wanted to be light and he wanted to help save the innocent. At that moment, he knew he had great power. A voice rang out in his mind. It was the same voice. His voice.
"You are the one who will bring peace. You have to leave here and go to Disney Castle."
Suddenly beams of light from his right hand enthrilled the darkness that was holding him but as he did so, that darkness was sucked into his right hand. He hovered across the ground, as he learnt a new ability from it; Dark Grip. His eyes turned black and as he summoned the Kingdom Key keyblade, a snake like stream of darkness came out of the blade's end and constricted against Masen. Kawi ran.

 

Zack and Nozomi saw it all from the other side of the wall. When the boy got angry both of them were startled as something crashed against the wall they were close to. Zack guessed it was the desk Masen had been working at. As both of them stepped back at the same time, Zack nearly tripped over something he didn't realize was right behind him. He turned around and swore under his breath. It was a statue that looked like a star almost and it's soft orange glow suddenly turned vibrant blue. There was a loud humming sound and he and Nozomi saw small beams of light weave their way through the air, some through even the walls and through the strange doors that they had seen going in weird places. The elevators all began moving then, including the one he and Nozomi were standing on.

"What did you do!" Nozomi whispered, alarmed as the two of them were now moving toward a door to the far right of the dark shaft. Neither of them knew where it would lead but they didn't have any choice but to go with it, there was no way off of the elevator now.

"I dont know." Zack retorted as he turned on the device he was using to talk to Crystle "Crystle we may have run into trouble. Stay airborne but can you still see us on your screen?" Crystle's answer was yes. "You just turned on the elevator system. That could be a bad thing for you if anyone notices because then you're presence there will be obvious." he heard her say. As the elevator got through the door, Zack and Nozomi saw that they were outside. Still on the elevator which was being held up by a thin beam of light. They were still apparently hundreds of feet off of the ground near the roof of the castle. But the alarming thing about it was that they could see a lot more beams of light around, through, and even some leading under the castle in the water, and elevators moving on them as well. They had somehow activated every one of them through the entire castle. "Perfect." Zack said sarcastically as the elevator was now taking him and Nozomi straight up along the outside wall of the castle. He noticed a ledge just above them and looked at Nozomi "When I give the word, jump onto that." he said, pointing at it. He then counted in his head 'three...two...one.." each second they got closer and then Zack said "Now." The both of them jumped off of the moving elevator and onto the ledge.

The ledge that they were now on looked like a balcony and there was a door back to the castle a couple feet away from them. "Ladies first." he said to Nozomi, looking at the door. He wondered how long it would be until the place got crazy because of that boy and because of the random activation of machinery in the castle that hadn't been used for centuries.

(Click here if you are confused about what the elevators look like. They come in at about 2 minutes and 30 seconds into this video.)

 

"YAARGH!" Hooper yelled as he had followed Leo to the chambers, now slashing trought the many Heartless. "Boy, don't place too much trust on your blade..." he groaned as one Shadow tried to attack him from one side, merely scratching him. "... Trust in your strength and abilities!" He punched the Shadow with his left hand, making it disappear. He cleared the staircase of the remaining Heartless before lightning his pipe once again, coughing little after the fighting.

"Whew. Now boy, first things first. Take a good grip of this when next battle comes." He tossed a rusty longsword just before Leonardo's feet. "And tell me now, what do you think that you see?" He said, now leaning to the wall and smoking his pipe.

 

Leonardo looked up at Hooper and said with a concerned look on his face. "Why did you just give me this when I already have a weapon?!" He looked back as the giant pool bubbled. After only a few moments, the water pushed outward, splashing on the stone floor and drenching Leo. He looked up to see a large Heartless looming over him. He stepped back once, looked at Hooper and began to run to the stone wall, but they closed down on them. "You have got to be kidding me."

 

"Grab on to that sword, since you'll be in lot more trouble if Zack and Nozomi get spotted. If you use Keyblade, it will surely caught Masen's and his minions attention, and that is the last thing that we want." Hooper said as he picked the sword and made Leonardo take it. "Keep it until now and don't use macigs. You're not even worthy as a peasant if you can't fight with your will and as you only rely on that." He said, pointing the Keyblade.

"Oh." Hooper said with his almost comical elderly voice when he "spotted" the large Heartless. "Well well now boy, this puts you to a test, as you're quite new with your nerve-training. Bring that what you seek from here, defeat the Heartless with only that sword and come back to me alive, and you have my trust in you son. If not, consider yourself as a coward and a recruit from now on." He said, laughing, coughing and while smoking before going in to the staircase. "I'm going back to the guard's position, and if you're back alive with that what you seek, good for you." He climbed up to the staircase, and shut the secret door which they came from in the first place, leaving Leonardo again into the dark halls.

 

Leonardo gritted his teeth and tightened the grip on his Keyblade. "Oh, yeah?! I'll show you who's the coward, bring it on!!!" he declared running towards the Heartless, Keyblade dispelled. The monster swirled towards him and rushed at him with amazing speed. Leonardo rolled to the side and stabbed his newly gained sword into the Heartless, breaking it completely. "WHAT, WHAT THE HECK IS THIS SUPPOSED TO BE A JOKE?!" He looked at the monster again with eyes of defiance and summoned Kingdom Key. "I don't give a damn, I'll take this thing down anyway I want!" He ran forward to the once again rushing Heartless. He leaped up, ready to strike but was cut by its sharp skin. "UGH!" he called out as the warm blood fell from his side. He landed on the ground, side bleeding and clothing ripped.

He huffed and puffed, ready for the next attack. The Heartless got on the ground and ran at him and unleashed a devastating flurry of claws and teeth. Leonardo rolled over and slid on the cold stone ground, bleeding out. You have got to be kidding me . . . Am I really about to die now?!

 

Leonardo lay face down on the cold stone floor, mouth tasting nothing else but water and blood. He heard the large Heartless hiss over him and tried to get up, but couldn't move. "Shit . . . only a few months in here and I'm already about to die. Some soldier I am . . ." he looked at his keyblade that remained tightly gripped and began to think of his times before joining the Resistance. He watched helplessly as his friends, brothers, and even parents were brutally gunned down at an execution line within a concentration camp remembered the sinister smile on Masen's face. A tear of frustration trickled down hi face and he clenched his teeth, rasping for air. "No . . . I'm not done . . . not by a long shot!"

He slowly got up to his feet and looked at the Heartless seemingly astonished by his will to live. He swirled towards him and stopped looking at him with its yellow eyes. Even though he had his left eye covered with his own blood he looked at the Heartless with defiance and without fear. He pursed his lips together and welled up a blob of blood and spat into the face of the Heartless. It roared as it was temporarly blinded and Leonardo saw that as his chance. With his good arm, he raised his Keyblade and charged forward, dragging it as he went. The Heartless shot out its tail at him but missed, getting it stuck in the stone. Leo jumped on the tail of the Heartless and run up to its face and raised his keyblade. A red aura shined on it and he called out, "ZANTETSUKEN!!!"

A large blade of energy came from the keyblade and made devastating contact with the Heartless. It reared its head back and roared in pain. Leo channeled his energy in his right arm and held his keyblade out. Light glowed at the tip of the keyblade and beamed out, shooting multiple beams of light. "RAGNAROK!!!" The beams swirled up and then together and hit the heartless again.

He landed on his feet and collasped to his knees from the shock of the landing. The Heartless roared, shanking the foundations of the large chamber and stopped moving. It began to piece apart and when it was completely gone, a red heart floated and disappeared. Leonardo breathed heavily and balanced himself on his keyblade. He tapped the miraculously unbroken microphone and spoke, speak slurred and hard to understand, "I-I did it . . . I took out the Heartless Hooper. I'm hurt pretty bad and I don't think that there is a way out . . ." his transmission clicked off and fizzed out. "Wh-what?!"

 

Kawi, as he hit the girl head first, felt dizzy but then shook his head, returning to his normal state. He looked suspiciously at the girl, thinking she was about to attack him but as he looked deeper into her eyes, he could feel light emitting from her pupils. His purple and blue eyes stared away and looked down the hallway.
"We need to get out of here. I can feel you're from the light"
He started to run and he could hear them running behind.
“You’re that boy...he looks like him doesn’t he?”
Kawi found her comments confusing. Who did he look like? Did he look like the boy in his dreams and the boy who has been talking to him? Why did she say, "You're that boy..."
Kawi shook his head off the thoughts and sprinted down the black hallways. Suddenly shadow heartless appeared ahead of him. In response, Kawi summoned kingdom key and thrown his weapon like a boomerang and slashed them away into dust. He ran forwards and caught it. He continued forward, almost heading towards the exit, which was a few feet away.

 

Masen chuckled, not even resisting Kawi's actions. "Run. Run away. As fast as you can. You'll never escape me. Forgotten child. You have confirmed my suspicions. Disney Castle. The last stronghold. Be glad.... Until I personally go there. Disney Castle shall remain free." Masen took a deep breath, the darkness that was constricting him was then absorbed into him. Masen then began speaking. His voice carried throughout the castle. Everybody in the castle heard him. "The child has escaped. He is armed with a keyblade and is to be killed upon sight. Expect resistance. From him and denizens of the light."

Tom heard all the commotion. He heard Masen's voice, he heard something attack the heartless. And he sensed keyblade wielders on this world. He ran through a doorway, seeing three individuals going in the direction he came from. "So these are the people that alerted the castle. Figures." Tom thought to himself. He then saw the keyblade. "You..... There's another keyblade wielder? Oh, if only it was a time other than now." Tom stopped Kawi, placing his hand on Kawi's chest. "You.... Masen has imbued part of himself inside of you." Tom's hand glowed. The light purged Kawi of Masen's presence, but not of the rest of Kawi's darkness. "I see you're a Forgotten. If I see you again, I promise I'll work to fix the damage Masen's done." Several heartless appeared. Tom got into an offensive stance, his keyblade in his hand. "All of you, leave!" Tom's body sent out a burst of light, pusing Kawi, Nozomi, and Zack out of the area. He then formed a wall of light, preventing them from turning back. Several guards appeared behind the heartless. Tom charged to the group.

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Masen felt a piece of him get forcefully pulled out of Kawi. He felt some pain, but nothing Masen couldn't just brush off. "Only a Keyblade Master could do that." Masen started drawing more darkness to him. "Come and get me, Keyblade Master. Come and get me so I can finish you off. And cause all the knowledge of the keyblade to be lost forever."

 

Kawi turned back to Tom, wanting to help but was pushed back by the light barriers. He was a keyblader like him. He wanted to know the meaning of the keyblade. What was it? Who was the boy talking to him? What is the mission he must fulfill?....but beforehe could ask, the gates at the end of the hallway were starting to close. He dashed down the hallway, trying to reach the door in time.

 

Kilet giggled eerily as he gave a nod to Crystle. "Kan-deeew!" He cackled, entering the tomb-passage on the ship. The moment he entered the graveyard, he activated his Ghostly gate and reached the castle within mere moments. A keen sense of perception told him that there'd be guards coming up quickly on his right - and indeed they did - so he fired several pumpkins in that general direction, setting alight the nameless mooks who dare challenge such a creep. Most of the guards were beginning to center in on the light group's position, so getting in was a much easier deal for him than the others; Also, the more guards he found, the closer he got.

"Mirror, Mirror on the wall, who is the most Gruesome one of all?" The Carver conjured, creating his body double. He immediately gave his double a few bones to pummel the guards ahead with as well as create a distraction. Finally, he reached the allied party, his double leading a portion of the incoming enemies away. He told them, "Must hurry - Kilet's dopple can't hold very long on his own! Cover your ears now!" before sucking in a large amount of air. Immediately after, he released it in a horrendous shriek, stunning the few guards that remained in their way.

 

The stone door opened in the end of the staircase, and Hooper arrived again to the scene, this time clapping his hand few times together. He saw the injured Leonardo, and slightly sighed. "Youngsters these days don't even know how to use the old blade... hmh." He still stared at Leonardo, and quickly after that gazed around the room. He then completely ignored Leonardo and disappeared to the dark room.

A moment later he returned and picked Leonardo to his shoulder. "Let's keep this between us two, and I've got something to show you back at the camp that I wanted you to find. That's my point in sending you down there, but just keep this to yourself. Now we've got to hurry to the graveyard so Crystle picks us up. Use your magics as I run in the halls, hmh?" He turned his back as one Neo Shadow had appeared and was trying to attack Leonardo by jumping into him. Hooper swung his large axe in the Neo's head, making it disappear into the darkness.

"Hold on now!" Hooper yelled as he began to run through the halls, when multiple Heartless' appeared and chased the two.

 

Leonardo's body boobed lightly up and down with every step Hooper took. He raised his head slightly to see more Heartless coming at them. "These things just won't let up!" he thought to himself wearily. He weakly raised his keyblade and ball of flame began to charge up. The ball of flame got bigger and he whispered out, "Firaga . . ." the blame of flame shot out at the Heartless. Upon making contact, the ball of flame expolded and engulfed the Heartless, killing them.

Leo tried his very best to stay awake but then lowered his eyes and fell into unconsciousness.

 

Kawi looked straight at Nozomi's eyes and felt a pulse of light radiate hit him like waves of the ocean but it never stopped going back. Kawi smiled, feeling hope but he shook his head and turned to the exit, which was in the shape of a heart. It was two miles away and the colossal doors were barely visible. The surroundings were entirely black and you could not tell if any heartless were around until they attacked. He wanted to escape as soon as possible. As he thought this, his keyblade glew red. Suddenly his keyblade made his rise in the air and Kawi felt a pulse of energy coming from within the weapon. The thirteen year old held out his hand towards Nozomi.
"Take my hand. We're going to get out of here. Tell your friend to do the same"

 

Tom cut through the waves and waves of enemies, never slowing down. He would do various attacks, shooting random blasts of magic while slashing through anything that got too close. Before he realized it, he was standing in Masen's office. Masen was in the center of the room, staring at Tom. "So, you have finally come Keyblade Master. You have come to finally submit to the darkness."

"Never. I will never submit. As long as there is a drop of light left in this world, I will continue to fight."

"I see." Masen said. He held his hand out. Darkness formed, revealing Masen's massive sword. "In that case, I shall have to snuff out that last drop. After all, darkness conquers everything." Masen swung his sword at Tom.

 

"You'd better not die on me", Hooper said as they reached the surface behind the large doors. He left them open that if there would be a chance that Nozomi and the others would come back from that way. After they got to the graveyard, Hooper put Leon into the ground. He then tapped on his mic trying to see if it would work.

"Crystle! We're at the graveyard, when are you gonna pick us up?" He said and wated anxiously for the answer.

 

Leonardo heard the comotion going on still. "Damn, why can't I just get up and do something?! They need my help!" Leonardo's hand began to slowly clench into a shaking fist on the ground and his eyes pressed together tighter even though they were closed. "Get up, get up, get up!" Immediately, he shot up next to Hooper, breathing heavily. He staggered back to get up, clothing torn and tattered and body still bleeding. "All right . . . I'm ready to go to work," he said with a thumbs-up.