Kingdom Hearts F.I.M: From One To Another

The cart that the two were riding in suddenly jerked back and into the air. They were soon turned around and came face to face by the largest creature Pinkie had ever seen. In fact, it was the largest thing she had ever seen, period. Larger than the mountains in Radiant Guardans, bigger than Pride Rock, and certainly bigger than Midgar’s largest tower. It looked like a massive, muscular giant with pitch black skin, feet that curled upward, and twisted warped wings on its back. There is a large, heart-shaped hole cut right through it’s body. It’s entire face seemed to be covered in long twisted crooked tentacles its small, glowing yellow eyes were the only things that seemed to be visible.

“Ehh, I’ve seen weirder.” Leaning over, he whispered something into Pinkie’s ear which caused her to laugh uncontrollably.

While she was giggling, Genie jumped out of the kart.  “That’s not how you pick up women!” he yelled as he slapped the creature with a giant hand, causing it to drop Pinkie.

Still giggling Pinkie picked herself off the ground. “W-with a toothbrush?”

“That’s right! Would you like to do the honors?”

“Yes sir!” With that, Pinkie jumped up and began attacking the beast, however she was quickly shoved back down on her rump by a swift backslap.”

“Well that was my idea, you got anything?” she asked looking up at her hero.

Genie couldn't answer, because at that moment the giant lifted his fist and crashed it deep into the ground in front of them, shoving them both backwards. Looking up they were shocked to see that the beast had actually shoved his into the ground, as if it passed right through it. Around it emerged an inky black puddle, and spawning from it, tiny miniature black bug like creatures. They squirmed and wiggled, their movements jerky and erratic, and they had the same beady yellow eyes that the giant did; as well as the sand creatures from before.

Genie ran up to one and plucked it from the ground. “Oh hay~! What’s up little buddy, havent seen you in centuries… or is it decades. You just can’t tell anymore! So how ya been~” he sang, seemingly understanding the creatures jerky as communication.

 “Uhuh, uhuh preachin’ to the choir buddy, being sealed away is no walk in the park. Mommy, do ya think Al would let me keep one as a pet? Doyadoyadoya?” he asked looking up at her in a childlike body, clutching the creature to his chest.”

 Pinkie Pie giggled and snorted as she watched Genie look up at her with bulbous sparkling eyes, even more so as she watched the black creature fail to struggle out of his grip. She stop giggling when she felt her butt twitching and she was forced to grab Genie and dodge as a large ball of dark energy on top of where they once stood.

 “Black Snootie!” Genie cried as he was forced to release the creature that he was holding.

Pinkie looked up and saw that large black spheres were dropping down like rain from the sky. Holding on to child Genie she quickly dodged the remainder of the attacks. “Genie do something!” she cried, now actually a little scared.

“Like what? I already tried hitting it.”

Before Pinkie could answer, one of the black creatures grabbed hold of her leg, causing both her and Genie to fall face first into the sand. Taking this chance all of the black creatures jumped on top of her fallen body.

“Pinkie!!”

In a polychromatic blur, each of the creatures were swiftly knocked away before they could harm her. Getting up, Pinkie saw her Dash floating above them.

Pinkie jumped up and hugged her savior. “Dashie, you came!”

“Of course I did, we could see that thing from the castle, what the hell is it!”

Pinkie disentangled herself from Dash.“I don’t know, where are the others.”

“Twilight’s on her way she had the gather everyone up.”

As if on cue, with a flash and a pop, 6 figures appeared in front of Dash and Pinkie. The first one forward was Shia, worriedly checking them for injuries. “Oh my gosh, are you two alright?”

Dash waved her off. “We’re fine. We just need to know what the hell that is!”

Twilight looked up at the towering colossus, eyes wide in fear and confusion. “T-that’s a Darkside, one of the highest level heartless,” she stammered. “What’s it doing here, and why is it so huge!?”

AJ summoned her keyblade and took a fighting stance. “Who cares what it is, or what its doin here, we need to get rid of it!”

Aladdin pulled out his twin scimitars. “Heartless huh? Haven't seen these in a while.”

“I know right, life just goes past so fast,” sniffed Genie.

Aladdin jumped in surprise. "Genie? When did you get here?"

"Oh, well now I am offended. I've been here this whole time, but does anyone check to see if I'm ok? Nooooo."

“Watch Out!” Acting quickly, AJ pushed both Genie and Aladdin out of the way just as the Darkside’s fist came crashing down. The rest of the girls began attacking it from every angle. Darkside’s fists remained in the ground continuously summoning more and more heartless.

Dash and Spike went right toward the head, however the tentacles wrapping around it’s face acted as both offence and defence. They continued to lash out at them each time she came close. Pinkie somehow made it on to it’s shoulders and began destroying the tentacles covering it’s face, trying to help Dash. Spike fended for himself, blazing emerald fire turned anything that got in his way into ash. He was certainly doing the most damage by far.

Twilight and Rarity worked long range, sending spells and summoned blades at the creatures heart devoid chest.

“This ain't good!” cried AJ. Surrounding her was several of the small black heartless, each time she smacked one away another would take it’s place. Aladdin found himself in a similar position. Twilight and Rarity were protected by twilight’s barrier, and the two Avians were flying around and attacking the beast itself. Dash resorted to backing off and shoot off precision strikes with her gun Spiral. However, they weren't doing much damage by themselves. “Ah can’t get close enough to hit that thing without these little things gettin’ in mah way!” she grunted, smacking one that tried to jump her.

 Aladdin did the same, briefly glancing over to the blonde haired girl. “Perhaps we can bolt through together. Genie!” he called.

From under his fez Genie leaned down to look at his friend. “Whattup?”

“I need to you make a distraction so I can get over there and help her. If we’re together we’ll be able to burst through and fight the main one.”

Genie began to fidget nervously. “Gee, I don’t know, today’s kind of a bad day for me. I need to get my socks washed and my room clean. It’s a pretty big deal.”

“Genie! We need you!”

Unable to ignore his friends call, Genie summoned up his magic and multiplied himself, several identical versions of him appeared, each holding a different weapon, ranging from a tire iron, to an oddly familiar keyblade. “I gotcha back bro! Go get the girl!” they said.

After Genie made an opening, Aladdin ran over to AJ’s circle and began attacking from the outside. His plan had worked, and now they were both free to attack the beast while Genie fought the rest of small army of heartless. What they didn't notice, was how heavily the genies were breathing.

Twilight looked over and saw both Aladdin and AJ running up to the beast. “Great, we needed some help!” she said.

Rarity looked at her friend. “Twilight, you obviously know what this is, how do we defeat it?”

“The books weren't very clear, this kind of heartless isn't very commonly seen. My only guess is to attack the head.”

“Most of us are already doing that, darling. Is there any other method?”

Twilight began casting a new spell. “I don’t know! I never thought I’d even see one of these!” Beginning to panic, Twilight messed up and the spell backfired and shattered not only her focus, but the barrier around them; leaving them vulnerable to the heartless around them.

Seeing their chance, all of the heartless jumped at the two, the only reason they weren't immediately swallowed was that Rarity had retracted all of her keyblades and began attacking all of them at once. At least 12 individual keyblades swung through the air, viciously attacking anything that got close, and since each one had to be controlled by Rarity herself, it become a task that was incredibly strenuous for her. “Twi… light” she groaned.

“I’m sorry! I’m sorry!” Shaking her head twilight got up and began to recreate the barrier. However, a blind spot in Rarity’s offence turned defence allowed a single heartless to get past her and attack Twilight.

Her scream caught the attention of everyone around as the heartless’ claws dug three deep scratches in her arm. Dash, Spike, AJ, Pinkie, Shia, and Aladdin were all at her side in an instant, creating a protective circle around the two. Rarity fell to one knee from mental exhaustion and the others took over the fighting. Shia quickly got to healing Twilight.

“We’re backed into a corner!” Dash screamed.

“There’s just too many to fight off,” AJ added.

Twilight flinched as her wounds were being healed. “Ugh… we have to take down the one bringing them all here!”

AJ angrily swatted away a few heartless, slightly annoyed that she was back in the same position as before. “Yeah, we got that. But we can’t do that as long as we’re stuck here!”

Rarity groaned in annoyance. “And it doesn't help that he’s making more. They look like a burnt toast, all black and icky!”

“What do we do then?”

“Worst, birthday... EVER!!”

“Pinkie, do you think Pinkamena cou--” Before Twilight could finish her idea, Spike stepped out into the open.

“Twilight, make a barrier around you and the girls. A strong one.”

“What? Why?”

Spike’s keyblade began to glow red hot, and steam rose from his entire body. “This deserts about to get a little bit hotter.”

Taking the hint. Twilight casted her strongest barrier spell. “Be careful,” she said.

 “Don’t do anything stupid,” Dash added.

Nodding, Spike took a step toward the heartless. His smile got wider. “I guess it has been awhile hasn't it? Since I let the flames roar freely,” he thought.

Aladdin looked out from under the barrier. “What’s he doing?” Dash looked at him, a wide smirk stuck on her face.

“Something awesome!”

Spike was now in the middle of the heartless army. The only reason he wasn't being attacked was that the heat that radiated from him acted as a temporary repellant.

Breathing out slowly, Spike closed his eyes and held his keyblade with both hands. In his mind, a lock appeared, one of several. Taking his emerald colored keyblade, he broke the first lock.

On the outside, Spike’s keyblade began to shimmer brightly before splitting into two. A bright silver keyblade, and a pitch black one. They both held the same shape as his original; fire shaped teeth attached to long a shaft with chain link decorations that wrapped around the circular handle. A single dragon scale swung freely at the end of the key chain. Spike crossed both of them in front of his chest and opened his eyes.

 In an instant, pitch black flames burst from his body, incinerating anything and everything, except the girls, completely. All the heartless in the immediate vicinity suddenly met a fiery death. The rest of the heatless took this as the start of a war and swarmed Spike. Eventually, enough of them made it past the initial burst of flames to engulf Spike’s body, smothering the flames. A second past before the flames burst forward once more. However, this time Spike was on the move, taking the flames with him. Like an enraged phoenix, he moved through the crowd, his every step caused a small burst of flames and his every Strike sent out torrent of fiery death. However, just as he began to really let loose, he heard a scream.

Seeing that Spike had began destroying more heartless than it could produce, the Darkside lifted his arm and targeted the girls and Aladdin directly. With one massive punch, it shattered Twilight’s strongest barrier and knocked nearly everyone unconscious. Spike turned just in time to see it raise it’s fist once more.

“NO!” Raising both his keyblades, he tossed them straight at the Darkside. Moving his arm he maneuvered them the fly just above it’s head. Once they joined at the hilt, Spike thrust both his arms down and the keyblades began to spin rapidly above the Darkside’s head.

“Grand Black Flame Pillar!”

Immediately, an enormous tower of pitch black flames engulfed the Darkside’s body. Spike poured all he had into the fire, increasing its circumference and intensity. It wasn't helping that Spike also had to concentrate hard to contain the heat inside the pillar so he wouldn't burn his friends.

Eventually, his fire ran out and the flames began to recede. Spike fell to one knee gasping for air. Looking up, his face contorted into one of pure shock, when he saw that the heartless still there. It was not undamaged, however. It was severely injured. Part of it’s body had been burnt off and most of it’s face tentacles were gone. The entire section of ground under him had been turned into superheated glass.

However, the hand it was going to use to crush his friends was still raised and ready to strike. Spike quickly looked inside of his mind and summoned two more locks; but before he could break them he heard a pop next to him. Opening his eyes, he saw that the 6 Genies from before were standing right next to him, holding all 6 of his friends. They looked badly injured from the Darkside’s attack. Spike’s heart fell when he noticed that some of them had serious burns on them.

        “Looks like Genie’s gotta save the day again!” they said. Gently dropping the group, Genie fused together into a singular Genie that grew to a height rivaling the Darkside. After stomping around and crushing a few hundred heartless, Genie turned to the dark creature and adjusted his cigar and fedora.

        “You come into my world on the day of my friend’s birthday. You interrupt my race. You infest this place, and you threaten my friends.” Suddenly, Genie threw away his hat, his cigar, and his fake fake italian accent, and instead looked at Darkside with all the anger of a god.

“WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE?! COME HERE!” Grabbing the beast by the tentacles, Genie pulled it close and wrapped his own arms around them both several times. “You and me are gonna gonna go on a little trip, see?” He turned back to his friends and spoke in a softer, gentler tone. “Hey guys.”

Aladdin opened his eyes and looked up at him in confusion. His normally jolly friend looked sad, and more importantly, tired. “Genie... what are you doing?” he asked worriedly.

“Ahh nothing much, just gonna shoot me and Black Snootie here into the air. Should be a pretty good last show, right?”

Aladdin jumped up from the ground, but stumbled until Spike caught him. “Wait, what? Last show? You’re coming back right?”

Genie slowly shook his head, a sad smile still gracing his face. His legs morphed into a large rocket and began to charge, smoke started billowing out from under him. “I mean that this might just be goodbye, Al. I’m out, runnin on empty. I tried, I really did, but at least I can go out like this.”

“We don’t understand, why are you suddenly talking like you’re saying goodbye?” Spike yelled up.

Genie shook his head, a sad smile still on his face. “Sorry we couldnt have a birthday party for the girl, but at least she’ll get some fireworks!” With that, Genie shot himself into the air, taking the colossal Darkside with him. Fire and smoke from his lift off sent the two guys and the still unconscious girls tumbling backward.

 Aladdin was up first, still confused beyond belief, “GENIE!”

True to his word, several gorgeous explosions appeared in the sky, each one a myriad of colors and shapes. There were even a few new colors that no human had ever seen before. They spontaneously brought a smile to everyone in the land, from the kingdom of Agrabah, to even the black hearted men in the den of thieves. Somehow, the fireworks even managed to appear in the skies of other worlds. Somewhere in the vast existence, a small pink pony got her cutie mark.

The only ones that felt no joy from it, however, were the 2 that stood the closest.

Next to the others, Pinkie fidgeted before opening her eyes slightly. Her blurry vision had instantly filled with colors and sparkles that caused a small smile appeared on her face. “Best birthday fireworks... ever,” she mumbled. Slowly, she fell back to sleep, blissfully unaware of the sacrifice that took place that day.