Equestrian Hearts: The Guiding Key

World: Radiant Garden

Orange Wonder spent the last five-ish minutes sitting there as Roxas and Mickey spoke about whatever those things were. But Orange Wonder looked to the side and saw... a cloaked figure holding an object... That's a chaos shard, why do they have one as they only exist in Chaos Castle? Orange Wonder thought as the figure started moving towards the outdoors area, Orange Wonder followed them as Roxas and Mickey followed Orange Wonder.

The figure stood in the center of the town the chaos shard glowing, "Let my revenge be known. Arise Vengeful Hunter!" The figure said when the chaos shard started floating, Roxas and Mickey had caught up but it was to late. The figure vanished in a portal as the chaos shard transformed into a massive hunter like creature that, if it had a face, would have a face of pure vengefulness on it.

"What the heck?! What is that?!" Roxas said as the Vengeful Hunter aimed it's shotgun towards Orange Wonder who dodged to the side. Orange Wonder shakily grabbed her rapier as the Vengeful Hunter did three shots into the air summoning three smaller gunmen... all equipped with Chaos Shards, "No way... Chaos Shards... how did..." Orange Wonder said to herself as Roxas got into battle before immediately being shot down.

Orange Wonder drew her rapier and started to attack the Chaos Shooters, as she's calling the gunmen enemies. Each one killed dropped a Chaos Shard which she grabbed before anyone else could be ruined by them. She then moved to attack the Vengeful Hunter, she hit multiple points and made sure to avoid being up close when the gun was about to fire. Mickey was about to go when the Vengeful Hunter dropped to the ground and poofed, leaving just the Chaos Shard which Orange Wonder grabbed.

It didn't take long to see a man with silver hair and a mostly grey attire holding a blade himself, "Seems I missed a lot of action," the man said approaching the Nobody filly and stuck a hand out, "Name's Riku, you are?" As Orange Wonder reached out carefully to touch Riku's hand, she gulped, "O-Orange Wonder, a Nobody in search of her heart," Orange Wonder said as Riku nodded.

Riku, Roxas, and Mickey had spent lots of time with Orange Wonder. Of course they had questions.

"I just wanna know... what the heck is a Chaos Shard?" Roxas asked.

"Tough to describe. Hmm... basically they're a rare material from my world as they come from a place that only appears every once in a while called Chaos Castle," Orange Wonder responded.

"And what might these be used for?" Riku asked.

"Lots of things. Enhancing equipment, enhancing one's self, taking over entire towns. One thing is common about all of those cases, usually the user is corrupted by using or even touching such power. I'm immune due to having no heart," Orange Wonder explained like Purple Smart would have.

Purple Smart...

"Who was that cloaked figure?" Mickey asked.

"I don't know... never met them nor heard their voice. All I can say is that we might encounter... them... again..." Orange Wonder started trailing off at the end.

"I could take you to other worlds to search for your heart, if you want me to," Roxas said catching Orange Wonder off guard.

Not that she objected.

World: None
Inside Roxas' Gummi Ship

Orange Wonder just waited, Roxas said it'd take a while to get to a world with raising amounts of Heartless, so while she waited, she studied the Chaos Shards she acquired from the battle.

How did that figure get hold of you? And more importantly... how were they not corrupted? Were they also a Nobody but that doesn't seem likely as they had a heart... did they have a spell on to be immune to the corruptive effect of the Chaos Shard? That doesn't seem likely either since there isn't a spell to fit that description, in fact the only spell in relation to Chaos Shards is a curse that speeds up the process... so what is the explanation? I wonder if... no, don't mention her again. She's an enemy of my home as Chaos Castle's librarian just as Blue Fast guards the Castle Drop. I miss better days before Chaos Castle started appearing and changing ponies...

Orange Wonder kept deep in thought as she studied the Chaos Shards. Despite it not making sense, Orange Wonder shown no signs of disbelief, just wonder. When Orange Wonder placed her Rapier near the Chaos Shard, the two merged turning her Rapier into the rare quality Vengeful Rapier. "Interesting... the Vengeful Rapier and it's counterparts were long thought myths of an era long gone, why did fusing with a random Chaos Shard cause my uncommon quality Rapier to turn into the rare quality Vengeful Rapier?" She asked herself before remembering what the monster that Chaos Shard came from was called... Vengeful Hunter. The Chaos Shard was especially tuned to vengence as an emotion so it carried that into its merge properties.

And just in time, Roxas found a world for the two to enter. Orange Wonder looked at the fragment of world visible and grew curious. The world didn't feel familiar nor unfamiliar. It was somewhere inbetween. A large castle was visible from her point of view with signs of being pony-like but not the signs she's used to. Reminds her a bit of White Solar and Navy Lunar's castle, if she's honest.

World: Equestria
Location: Ponyville Train Station.

Orange Wonder found herself standing in a green point of swirling light with a... interesting form. Her coat, normally an orange, was now a vivid green with her mane turning from purple to dull yellow. Her flank still has the Nobody emblem though... Roxas joined her not long afterwards, showing him as a caramel colored pony which his outfit properly resized and his hair perfectly translating to his mane. He had the cutie mark of a key.

It wasn't long before Heartless showed their ugly mugs, Shadows and Soldiers raising and giving passerbies a scare. Meanwhile, some more of the charging enemies, Chargers as they were called by Orange Wonder, also appeared. Roxas agreed he should focus on the Heartless while Orange Wonder focused on the Chargers.

To say the battle took long would be a lie. It didn't and Orange Wonder realized that Chargers don't leave Chaos Shards behind, "Does that mean that not every type of these enemies will be important to defeat to save everyone since defeating Chargers don't leave behind Chaos Shards?" Orange Wonder said in wonder to which Roxas shrugged. "No idea, Chargers don't seem intentionally hostile but it's still better to be safe than sorry," Roxas said.

As the two stepped out into the town proper, they realized just how... innocent it seems. The town didn't look that advanced and yet, asode from the ambush in the train station, there were no signs of Heartless or Chargers in the town.

There were Chaos Shard signals though. Orange Wonder started dashing towards a castle that seemed like a crystal tree if anything and wouldn't you know it? Chargers and a new type were seen blocking the entrance as the castle was stormed. The new type seemed more tank-y so Orange Wonder called the tank-y one Tanker. Roxas amd Orange Wonder defeated the Chargers and Tankers with ease.

In the castle, it took time but piece by piece they climbed up and found a cloaked filly with claws made of shadow visible, "Now hand meh that gem," she spoke in a country accent before the alicorn who reminded Orange Wonder of Purple Smart rejected the order. "No, I will not, I have more experiments to run and I don't want a filly to ruin my research," She said in an air of knowledge. That was before the cloaked filly pulled out a Chaos Shard, "Shame. Ah was hopin' ta not have ta force ya ta hand it ova," the filly said as she threw the Chaos Shard at Twilight and she was hit by it, causing her to compliently hand the filly the red Ruby, "Now, ah hope ya don't mind fightin' and defeatin' our little watchas," the filly said as she vanished in a bright light.

The pony's horn lit and she fired a beam of magic... and that was it. She didn't do anything more. "I don't know what that filly did but I am not going to fight you two, that goes against the very principals of friendship," she said.

Tell that to Purple Smart and Blue Fast who wouldn't hesitate to fight you if you refuse to comply to their wishes. Orange Wonder thought to herself as the pony and Roxas got to know each other. Orange Wonder just listened to their conversation.