Kingdom Hearts: an EEnE Story Ch 15

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Chapter Fifteen – A Prankster's Gift

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Out in the vastness of space with nothing following them, Double D presses his feet against the controls as he leans back in his seat and lets out a good snore. He put their ship on auto-pilot when the Eds boarded the Gummi ship, getting the ship at a moderate speed and pointing towards Traverse Town, so he could take a break and rest up from the weirdness. Eddy is doing the same thing, taking his cap and covering his eyes and snoring loudly as the others rest in the lounge.

Kevin opens up the door to the fridge that is in the lounge and checks around its content for anything for them to have and he notices a couple cans of soda, so he takes two and tosses them to Ed and Nazz as he takes one out for himself and opens it. Taking a sip, he looks over to Ed and then up to his hat to begin asking it questions. "So Ed's hat, do you know where this bucket of bolts is heading?" he asked. "I tried asking Double D but he doesn't want to wake up."

"We're heading back to Traverse Town," Normadomus replied. "The reasons we're heading back there is one: we're going to drop you off, and two: we need to get this ship a new Gummi block that will help explore more of this universe."

"But I don't get it. Why do you need to drop us off some place we don't know of and leave us there while you guys go exploring the universe?" Kevin said. "We can help out!"

"I know you can, but when it comes to the Heartless, you're just another meal," Ed's hat replied. "Also you won't be alone when you get to Traverse Town."

"We found others," Ed added. "We found Rolf, Lee and May."

"You guys found Rolf?" asked Kevin, a bit shocked. "Well, at least I have someone else to talk to when we get there."

"And you found two of the Kankers?" asked Nazz, taking a sip of her drink. "How did you guys survive that?"

"They went along with us," the tall Ed answered. "They didn't fight or kiss us at all."

"That doesn't sound like the Kankers at all," said Kevin. "Maybe they hit their heads when they came to this strange place."

"Uh, I like to ask a question," said Nazz. "Can we please change this music? I'm getting tired of listening to this song ever since I got on here."

Ed nods to this request and he leads the two out into the cockpit to go fiddle with the stereo once again. With the two Eds sleeping at the wheel, he is free to mess around with the music to get it to fit Nazz's request. Opening up the door to the stereo and looking over the many buttons and dials on the device, he turns the volume down and switches to the scan dial to search for a perfect tune. After scanning through, the Ed finds a new song and he removes his hand from the stereo, but before turning up the volume slightly and follow by closing the door.

Once he got up, the ship rocks from an impact, waking up the pilots and they look around in a panic by the sudden shock. The alarms are off and flashing red, which got Eddy out of his seat and rushing over to his turret as the tall Ed walks over to his terminal and climbs up to man the heavy Gravity cannon. The two Eds check around their surroundings to see where the attackers are, but there are no signs of Gummi Heartless, the Pirate Ship or the Silent Striker anywhere. This is making the two boys scratch their heads in confusion as another blow hits the ship.

"Eddy, we're dealing with an invisible adversary!" stated Double D.

"Isn't anything coming up on the radar?" the greedy Ed replied, spinning around his guns to find whoever is attacking them.

The medium Ed looks over at the radar and checks to see if their attacker is out there. Oddly there is nothing on the screen, which is getting the Eds to wonder if the enemy has gotten smarter and start using ways to block their receiver, or that their antenna is broken off during one of the strikes. The radar beeps one time meaning that it is still functioning and that the antenna is in place, which means that whoever they are facing is using something to block or deflect the radar's signals.

There is a bright light coming out from outside and the smart Ed looks out to see a giant wave of energy heading right towards their ship. He grabs onto the controls and swings hard to the left to evade the attack, sending everyone down to the port side. The wave clips the underside of the ship, glazing right by the cockpit, as the wave disperses and Double D levels out the Midnight Hummer. The Eds search all over for the search of the blast and another wave appears right before them, and Ed spins around and shoots a Gravity round at the incoming wave. The wave cuts right through the round and Double D tilts the ship once again to dodge, once again glazing by and leveling the ship.

"What the heck is going on?" barked Eddy. "Where are those things coming from?"

"I'm not sure Eddy," replied the smart Ed, "but if we know better, it's got to be one of the people hunting us."

"You mean those one aliens from that one series I watch?" questioned Ed.

"Yeah, I don't think you're dealing with normal aliens here buddy," said an annoying voice over the intercom.

"What the…?" is the question from both Eddy and Double D as the view before the smart Ed shifts to a video screen with Prankster on the monitor. The Heartless ghost is laughing hysterically as the others watch in anticipation and worry. "Hello Ed boys," said the Heartless. "Bet you're wondering what's going on, right?"

"Yes," replied everyone in the cockpit.

"Well it's just so happen that I was in the neighborhood and when I saw you guys… I figure as much that I need to finally take you down for good."

"By shooting us down? Fat chance!" stated Eddy. "Double D here will fly away from all of your attacks no matter what you throw at us!"

When this got to Prankster's ears, he lets out a loud laugh before settling down. "Who said that I was going to take you on here in space?" he replied. "Those shots were just to get your vitals warm up."

"Are you planning what I think you are going to do?" asked Double D.

A nod comes from the ghost boy and the Eds take a gulp as they prepare themselves for the transfer to the Land that Was Forgotten. The boys are expecting to get envelop in a bright blue light just like they did before and after their fight with Blitzer, but nothing is happening at the moment. Eddy and Ed climb out of their terminals and walk up to the main dashboard, with a confused look on their faces, as they begin to wonder why they are not being transferring to the Land that Was Forgotten.

"What's going on?" asked Ed.

"Well I'm just wondering if I have all three of you here," said Prankster. "It's not like I'm going to be fighting just the Keyblade wielding boy, right?</i>"

"My friends are on this ship," Double D responded. "They were trying to fight you but we couldn't find any signs of you."

"If you guys are so worry about that, then what's the point of having a surprised welcome? It's no fun having a sneak attack if you can see us."

"Hey, aren't you going to fight us?" asked Eddy.

"Oh right, I completely forgot about that." And with a snap of his fingers, the Eds are surrounded in three balls of bright purple light and they vanish in an instant. Kevin and Nazz are startled by this and they check around to see where did the Eds vanish to, and they look up at the monitor to notice that Prankster is also gone. They figure that he left when the Eds did and they are off to whatever the Heartless is taking them to fight. Now once again alone, the two children sit down at the controls and wait for the Eds to return back.

"Kevin, there's something that I need to ask you," begins Nazz.

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Three purple balls of light appear in the air and the Eds find themselves right above the rocky grounds of the Land that Was Forgotten. They are not far off from the ground, but Normadomus prepares to do an Aero spell, but Ed takes his staff and casts a Terra spell, raising the ground and allowing the Eds to slip down the smooth surface of the rocks to get close to surface level. Once safely on the ground, the boys checks around their surroundings to see where Prankster is hiding, only to get the sound of clapping in their ears.

"Well, well, it looks like you boys are getting the hang of teleporting to this place," came from Prankster. "Maybe that battle with Blitzer has taught you something."

"Where are you?" asked Eddy.

"I'm right in front of you, duh," the Heartless replied.

The Eds look out in front of them to notice the ghost Heartless right before them, but oddly he is standing on the rocks instead of floating above them. On his shoulders is his staff, and the boys notice that there is a scythe blade on the butt of the staff. With his wizard hat tipped down to conceal his Heartless eyes, the Eds look down at the spiral belt buckle that is on the ghost's hat. An open smile widens on the Heartless and the ghost lifts his head up to reveal it to the Eds, showing the same face they recognized from Foster's.

"I have a question for you," asked Double D. "Why are you working for Father, and why are you fighting us?"

"Well for starters, I hear that Father is seeking out the king of all hearts," replied Prankster, "and being a Heartless, I applied with the idea. If it's true, Kingdom Hearts houses several of the more powerful hearts in the universe and eating just one will make me one strong Heartless!"

"Kingdom Hearts?" echoed all three Eds and Normadomus.

"Yes. The Mecca of all hearts and the goal for not only the Heartless, but whoever who craves power! Father may be just a man with an army of Ice Cream Men and two crazed being made from a man who was corrupted by the darkness, but he has an intention bigger than mine and Zip-fly's!"

"And that is?" asked Ed's hat.

"If you want to know, you're gonna have to defeat me!" the Heartless stated, swinging his scythe around and charging right for the boys.

The Eds got themselves ready to fight Prankster by having their weapons out, and just when Eddy tosses his shield, his weapon simply phases right through the ghost and left him wondering why it just did that. Prankster takes his scythe and swings it down, but Eddy recovers his shield and blocks the blade, and he tries kicking the Heartless but that fails as well.

"What's going on?" he asked. "Why aren't my attacks working?"

"Allow me to try," said Double D.

He preps his Keyblade and prepares to parry the Heartless, but Prankster notices this and snaps his staff away from Eddy to shift his attention on the sock-wearing Ed boy. With his open smile growing, the ghost launches himself forward and gets ready to strike, but Double D flashes a smile of his own and casts a Blizzard right in front of the ghost. Prankster notices this coming and he casts his scythe blade away as he phases through the ice and leaves the spell unscathed, leaving the Eds baffled by the turn of events.

"Hey, no fair!" shouted Eddy. "That's cheating!"

The Heartless replies to this remark with sticking his tongue out and Double D takes this moment to strike the Heartless. He raises his Keyblade to strike but when he hits Prankster, the Ed notices that he is hitting the ghost's staff instead and the others are getting annoyed by this. Eddy charges forward and gets kicked back by Prankster's feet and Ed charges up a Thunder spell in hopes of taking the ghost down. Instead Prankster flies up into the air and shocks Double D, turning the smart Ed brown and black from the intense shock.

"Oh man, this is too great!" Prankster laughed. "If you guys keep this up, I'm going to die from laughter!"

"Then just die!" shouted Eddy, taking his shield and tossing it.

Just as Money Maker hits the Heartless, the Eds notice that the ghost is just a clone and they can see the real Prankster in the distance. The greedy Ed lets out a stream of angry rants about how annoying this enemy is and then starts to vent out his frustration by getting a lecture from Double D. After calming down, the boys look into the distance and begin to figure out a way to take on this enemy, but they notice several boulders heading right towards them. Normadomus casts a Reflectara to stop the incoming boulders, and Eddy and Double D got to work on cutting the rocks down to prevent getting hit. Far away, several tall Shadow-like Heartless are picking up some of the rocks and tossing them as Prankster leans back and watches the battle before him.

"Oh boy, this is just great," said Prankster, letting out a few laughs. "As long as those boys stay far away from me, I can concentrate my energy on summoning a couple of my helpers and then this battle will be all mine!"

Over at the Ed's end, the two boys with cutting weapons are getting tired with slicing through the rocks, so they ask Ed to use some of his magic. The tall Ed grabs his staff and calls forth a Thundara spell, sending the massive bolt of electricity right for the Heartless. Prankster watches as the bolt heads right towards him and he gets hit with the full force of the lightning, as the attack shocks the other Heartless as well and vaporizing them. Once the spell is done, the ghost looks around and shrugs himself off from the blow.

"I wasn't expecting that," he said. "Maybe they're catching on with my plan."

"I don't get it," said Double D. "It seems that whatever we can throw at him, he seems to allow each attack to phase right through him."

"That's not an uncommon thing around here," said Normadomus. "I know that there are Heartless who are immune to physical attacks and magic spells, but those kind of Heartless are hard to find around here."

"What exactly are we dealing with here?" asked the greedy Ed.

"Well, I know that a Trick Ghost is immune to physical attacks, so it must be taken down with magic. That is then reversed for Magic Phantoms, as they are immune to magic attacks and must be taken down with physical attacks."

"So, what does that make Prankster?" asked the smart Ed.

"Let's see… he is immune to physical attack, that makes him a Trick Ghost, and he's immune to magic, so that makes him a Magic Phantom as well," the hat explained as it then hits him. "That's impossible! There's no explanation, but that Heartless is a fusion of a Trick Ghost and a Magic Phantom!"

"So what you are saying is that we're fighting an invincible Heartless all this time?" growled Eddy as he looks at Prankster in the distance.

"But that's impossible," repeated Normadomus. "There's no way that a Heartless could be immune to both physical and magical attacks! There has to be some form of weakness to him, even if I have to resort to using Cure on him!"

The Eds look up at Ed's hat in disbelief by this statement, knowing that Cure is going to heal them and not do any sort of damage to Prankster. "Hey, it's a suggestion," he replied. "Besides, I know of a Heartless that can be defeated by only Cure."

"But we're not dealing with that kind of Heartless," Double D pointed out. "We're dealing with a hybrid here, one that is a mix of a Trick Ghost and a Magic Phantom."

"You may want to throw in Cressendo into that mix," the wizard hat added. "They're known for using their trumpets to not only heal Heartless but resurrect them from the dead."

"That explains his summoning motif," the smart Ed said, now getting the connection. "But how do we take down this Heartless if we know what it is made of?"

The hat shrugs in response. "Our hope is keep attacking until we can get a breach in his defense. Until one of our hits hit him and he receives real pain, then we're on the right path."

"My turn!" stated Ed, getting his staff ready for a Shadara attack.

"No Ed, wait!" stated Double D, but his plea is too late.

The tall Ed launches his attack forward at the Heartless in hopes that this will do some damage to him. Prankster can see the dark aura heading right towards him and he stands around waiting for the wave to pass right through him and not allow the pain to succumb him. Just as the wave hits, he immediately feels the effect of Darkness affecting him and his eyesight blackens, causing him to drop his staff and rub his eyes in hopes of clearing them.

"Ed you dolt, are you not listening to your hat?" snapped the greedy Ed, grabbing onto his friend's coat and shaking the tall boy. "That Heartless is invincible to all of our attacks and that's not even going to affect him one bit!"

"Um Eddy, I believe that attack did affect him," mumbled the smart Ed, pointing out towards the blinded Prankster struggling to regain his eyesight.

Eddy stops his shaking and drops Ed so that he can look out and watch Prankster float about back and forth. "Oh yeah, you're right. Now this is our chance to strike!"

"You're right!" Double D stated, getting his Keyblade ready as all three Ed charge towards the Heartless to finally lay some damage on him.

Prankster continues to wipe his eyes in hopes of regaining his sight, but he can hear the sound of the Eds charging right towards him. He panics slightly and feels around the ground for his staff so that he can get away from the boys. Once finding his weapon, the ghost zips away, heading straight thanks to him being blind, and he begins to wonder which end of the staff he picked up.

Which end, which end, which end? he questioned in his head, feeling back and forth until bumping his head on the ring that makes the top of his staff. He lets out a sigh of relief as a bolt of lightning strikes down on him and slows him down to recover from that blast. The ghost can hear the Eds closing in on him and he is starting to regain his eyesight back, so he stops in his track and flips his staff around to summon the scythe blade and fight the Eds up and close.

The Heartless leaps in and swings down with his scythe, but Double D intercepts this attack by using his Keyblade and Eddy steps in to use his shield's sharp corners on the Heartless. With the Darkness fading away, the ghost can finally see what is happening and he allows the shield to phase through him while he backs away from the Fire spell from Ed and uses his staff to block it. The smart Ed uses a Thunder spell but Prankster conducts it through his staff and he sends the bolt back down on the Eds and disperses them while giving his typical laughing.

Eddy is getting furious with this so he takes his shield and tosses one again, and Prankster reacts by heading towards the ground and watches the shield fly overhead. However, he not suspect the shield to come from behind and this finally got the Eds their first major blow by having Money Maker pierce the Heartless right in the back and carry over right back to the Ed who tossed it. Once Eddy got his shield back, the boys cheer for this as Prankster feels his back to touch the wound.

"There's… There's no way that they could have done that," he said. "I must've forgotten that his shield comes back to him. But… how did he control it like that?"

As the Heartless is left to puzzle over his wound, this gives the Eds the opportunity to strike once again. With a glimpse in the side of his eye, the ghost takes notice of the boys and begins to deflect their attacks his with staff, knocking away blow after blow as they continue to strike down the Heartless. Prankster takes his staff, gives it a good twirl with one hand, and he slices through with one clean sweep, knocking the boys back as the ghost continues to wonder about the wound that is on his back.

"No… no, it isn't possible. There's no such way for a shield to pierce me," he mumbled, sounding bewildered. "Yeah, there's no way that anything can hurt me. I am invincible to all attacks, and that one attack was just nothing. Yes, that shield was only an illusion in my insane mind of mine!"

"Uh Eddy, is he all right?" asked Ed.

The small Ed opens his mouth to respond but the Heartless lets out a maniacal laughter loud enough and chilling enough to put all three Eds on nerves. Prankster is going to a deep ramble about how everything is nothing to him and about the insanity he suffering all while bursting out a stream of crazed and lunatic laughs in-between gasps of breaths. The boys would take this opportunity to strike, but they are too afraid to get near a Heartless that is on the verge of snapping from reality and go into his own crazy little world.

"I'm insane," the Heartless replied. "Completely and utterly insane, I'll tell ya! There's no stopping the insanity! The only way to prevent that is to have a weak heart, but where's the fun of not having a little insanity in ya?"

"Man, this guy got more than a few screws loose in his noggin," Eddy replied.

"I don't want to know what kind of person he used to be," Normadomus answered, sounding a bit frighten.

"Oh, my former host wasn't that bad of a host," Prankster replied. "In fact, he was a very sane man ever since he began his research. It's too bad that his heart was powerful enough to make both me and Zip-fly, and that he died a tragic death, but I can say that Death has better plans for him… but for us, that's an entirely different story."

"Uh, should we continue fighting him?" asked Ed.

"Ha, please! If you were to continue fighting me, you're going to be running out of breath and be left here to die!" the Heartless ripped. "You've already tried everything you can throw at me and you only got one hit in. You're gonna have to try harder than that to take me down!"

"We'll do whatever it takes you down," Double D replied. "We will defeat you and we will return to our ship safe and sound."

The ghost lets out a laugh in response. "I like to see you try. In case you forgot, there's no way of getting off this world, and I'm the only one left that's capable of sending you guys back! If you take me down, there's no way of getting you back!"

"Just. Shut. UP!" roared Eddy as he takes his shield and gives it a mighty throw.

Prankster moves back out of range and begins to take off in the opposite direction, letting out a "Catch me if you can!" before leaving the Eds behind. Eddy grits his teeth in anger as he turns to his smart friend and asks to summon his motorcycle. Double D nods to this and he holds out his Keyblade so that he can get ready to ride the Joker Hovercycle. After a few seconds of waiting, Joker's Wild turns into the hovercycle and Ed got himself behind Double D as Eddy takes out his yo-yo to wrap around the spoiler and plant his shield on the ground so that he can ride it.

With the engine roaring to life, Double D takes off and begins the pursuit of Prankster as the Eds ride off on the Joker Hovercycle to chase down their adversary. The Heartless takes notice of the motorcycle riding Ed boys heading right towards him and he begins to use whatever he can conjure up in hopes of slowing them down. With using rocks and small Heartless, Double D out-maneuvers through these obstacles as they continue to chase down Prankster and hope to lay another hit on the Heartless. Eddy swings from the back and gets ready to strike, but Prankster takes his scythe and swings it, missing not only the small Ed but the other boys as well.

The chase continues for a few minutes until the ghost decides to come up with a perfect way to defeat the hovercycle. Taking his staff, he gives it a good spin and summons a wall ahead of him. The low wall is enough, in his mind, to stop the Eds dead in their tracks and they can go flying into the rocky ground below. The Heartless flies over the wall he created and stops to watch the Eds crash into the wall, and waits for his results to come true. Double D notices the wall coming up and tries to steer to be parallel with the wall, but he did not get enough time to slow down, so the crash was predicted.

The boys are sent flying over the wall, getting Eddy and Ed flying farther than the smart Ed. The hovercycle disappears from Double D and transforms back to its Keyblade form, as the smart Ed hits the ground and skids across the rocky surface for a bit. The other two are not that lucky as Ed comes to a tumbling halt, and Eddy is sailing on for a bit before hitting a flat rock with his face and falls onto his back. Prankster lets out a heavy laugh for the boys' crash and landing, mocking them for their attempt to get around the barrier and prevent from crashing.

Eddy picks himself up from his fall and he takes his shield to swing at the Heartless, but he misses every swing he throws at him. "Hey stand still, O mighty ruler of my nether cheese," he said in a woozy tone before falling back to the ground.

"You said that all wrong Eddy," Ed pointed out.

"You're friend is not immune to the non-sequitur thuds, is he?" asked Prankster.

"Apparently, he does not," replied the smart Ed.

"Oh well, that gives the chance to do this!" The Heartless takes his tail and forms a single leg so that he can kick Eddy up send him flying in the air. Prankster takes off to chase down the Ed and he whips his staff around, beating the small boy up as the Heartless' smile goes wider in anticipation. Once they are at the peak, Prankster takes his staff and summons his scythe blade, getting it ready to swing it down, but Ed spins his staff and shoots off a Fire spell right at the ghost. The fireball hits the ghost, burning him and knocking him back to the ground as the fallen Ed heads back down to the ground. Normadomus got an Aerora going to help Eddy from his fall, and he quickly restores the boy back to normal by using Curaga, allowing the Ed to get back on his feet and get ready to fight once again, but right before the smart Ed stops them all and acknowledges what he is thinking.

"I think I just solve this dilemma!" stated Double D. "I now know how to defeat Prankster now!"

"How so?" asked Ed.

"It's all about his staff! The reason why we can't do any damage to him is all because of his staff," the smart Ed explained. "It's all like this: whenever he has his scythe blade out and up and close to us, he has immunity to our physical attacks meaning that our magic should do the trick. Whenever he has his staff upright and further away from us, he has immunity to magic attacks and our normal attacks will do the trick."

"I see where you are going with this," said Ed's hat. "Whenever Prankster is close to us with his scythe, he is preventing us from using our magic by provoking us to resort to our physical attacks. And then when he is farther away from us, our physical attacks won't even touch him and we have no worries of using our magic."

"So that means we should knock that staff out of his hands," said Eddy. "If that thing is out of his hands, then that means he's a sitting duck!"

"But we don't know what will happen if his staff is out of his hands," Double D pointed out. "He may be invincible to all of our attacks or he could be weak to them, so we can't just rely on knocking his staff out of his hands."

"Well, well, it looks like you figure out my secret," said Prankster, overhearing the boys' conversation. "Yes, my staff is the key to my survival in this fight and without it I'm much of a sitting duck. But you think you can knock this thing out of my hand. Guess what? You're gonna have to get through my bag of tricks before reaching me!"

The Heartless got his staff spinning and he allows his scythe to cut through the air and create a rift right in front of him. Prankster takes a hand and reaches into the rift, feeling around for something to use and he pulls out his arm to reveal what he is grabbing for. What he pulled out is a massive bazooka large enough to stick a human into the barrel, and he aims the gun and preps the rocket inside to launch. The Eds panic by the sight of the massive gun and Eddy raises his shield nervously as Prankster pulls the trigger and launches the large projectile.

As the rocket draws near, Double D casts a Blizzard spell in hopes that he can freeze the projectile. However, the projectile hits the large crystal and explodes on impact, sending millions of small ice shards flying away from the epicenter. Those shards are blocked by Normadomus' Reflectara but Prankster is not that lucky as he is not holding onto his staff and is getting cuts all over his body. Once the explosion fades away, Prankster looks down at himself and he tosses the bazooka into the rift in anger after its failed attempt, and he reaches back into the rift to see if he can use something else.

A cold metal objects hits his hand and the Heartless smiles widely as he pulls out a really large drill from the rift. The Ed boys look in astonishment by the sheer size of the drill and the Heartless lowers it right at the boy as he prepares to send the drill right for them. With the drill spinning, Prankster pushes the drill forward and Eddy got his shield in the way as sparks begin flying from the impact. The ghost is laughing at the top of his lungs as Eddy struggles to prevent the drill from getting any nearer, and Ed taps him on the shoulder to ask the small Ed a question.

Eddy nods in response and he quickly moves out of the way to allow Ed to do his thing. The thing in particular deals with the drill and the tall Ed opens his mouth and chomps down on the spinning tip. The drill continues to move, quickly losing speed before stopping all together. Prankster begins to wonder if the Ed has enough force to prevent the drill from spinning, but the force of the spin is driving into his arm and the Heartless is consume by the spin. Still gripping on to the drill, the ghost is spinning around and around, making him a black blur, until he loses his grip and is sent flying across the field. Ed lets his mouth free from the drill and he tosses it back into the rift, in which it seals up and cuts itself off from this dimension.

"All right, that's it!" stated Prankster. "It's about time that I finish this, and I'm going to do it with just my scythe!"

He reaches for his weapon of choice and he charges right for the Eds, with rage burning in his eyes and gripping hard onto his staff. Double D decides to take this attack and draws his Keyblade so that he can intercept this and block it. Prankster raises his scythe blade and Double D got his Keyblade into position, and the two made contact, causing a small trade of power between the two before the both of them notice a small spark. Just when they saw the spark, Prankster is sent flying backwards as if he got hit with a powerful blow into his chest, and the Heartless hits the ground rolling with his staff tumbling off and finally breaking into two.

"His staff…" said Eddy. "It broke… then that means…"

Ed takes this moment to get a Fire spell going and launch the fireball, sending it towards the fallen Heartless and burning him. Eddy got his shield ready and he gives it a few tosses as Double D casts all of the spells he knows, including his Light spell. The boys spent most of their time trading blows, each giving off different attacks before all three unite for a finishing attack on the Heartless. Eddy takes his shield and gives it a good toss, as Double D got a Blizzard spell right above Prankster and Ed shooting a Thundara at Eddy's shield. With all three attacks meet, the following cause an explosion powerful enough to rip away the rocks surrounding the area and to get Normadomus to create a barrier to protect them. Once the explosion is over, the barrier is drop and they notice that Prankster has taken serious damage, meaning that the attack is a success.

Finally, the Eds got their moment of victory and they wait in anticipation for Prankster to disappear and leave behind his heart. However, the only thing coming from the Heartless is his maniacal laughter, and the Eds look in horror as the ghost rises up from his devastating blow and laughs off the pain. Prankster picks up his broken staff and swings it onto his shoulder, conjuring up his scythe blade as he looks at the boys in gleeful rage.

"Come on!" screamed Eddy. "Is there anything that is going to take this guy down?"

"There might be something," said Double D, taking out one of his charms. In his hands is the first charm that he picked up back in Washington, D.C, and he fears for whatever this charm is going to call. He flips the back to see the name of the charm written there, and he looks up to notice the Heartless heading right towards the boys with his scythe ready to swing. "I hope this works!"

The smart Ed takes a step back and pitches the charm right at the charging Heartless. The charm hits Prankster in the forehead, causing him to stop in his tracks and grab his head in pain before noticing the shiny charm right at his feet. "Ooh, shiny," he cooed, picking the charm up. "Cool, a summoning charm. I wonder what it summons."

The Heartless flips the back and he reads off the name of the charm, before mumbling the name to himself. "There's something about that name that seems so…" Prankster said before the answer dawns on him. "Oh… crap."

The charm drops to the ground and it begins to spark vigorously, casting up ropes and smoke as the Heartless backs away from the summon charm. The ropes take notice of Prankster and wraps around his arms and waist as the being of the charm comes out from the gem and presents itself before the terrified Heartless. A stitched smile appears on the summon's hood and he spins around the Heartless ghost before stopping right in front of Prankster.

"Well, well, it appears that someone hasn't learned his lesson," the ghost said. "You can't trust this charm, whether you're using this on someone or yourself."

"Hey, I wasn't trying to summon you!" snapped Prankster. "It was their idea! They're the ones that threw the charm at me and forced me to say your name!"

"You still said my name," the ghost replied. "If you say it, I will come and take you away."

"That's no fair! I want a fair trial for all of this! I want to…" A spare rope whips around the Heartless' mouth and cuts off the rest of his sentence as the hooded ghost takes the end of the rope around Prankster's waist and drags the Heartless away. Just as the ghost begins to disappear, it turns around and gives the boys a small salute, and it continues to drag Prankster away from the Land that Was Forgotten.

The Eds watch as their latest victory fades away into thin air, and the sudden realization that they are trap on this world hits them hard. All three boys got to panicking about how they are going to get back to their ship, but at that moment three bright lights circle around the boys and cover them. The balls of light pick the boys up and takes them up into space before disappearing and teleporting back to their ship, allowing them to get a small glimpse of what really is the Land that Was Forgotten.

***

"Yes Nazz?"

"You remember us kissing back at that one world, right?"

"Yeah, I remember that. Why you ask?"

"Well… it's just that…" the blonde got her words stuck in her throat and she chokes for a bit before facing Kevin with a serious look on her face. "I don't think that you really kissed me."

"What? What are you talking about?" the jock replied. "I did kiss you!"

"No you didn't!" snapped Nazz. "I can feel that you kissed another girl back there! Just who did you kissed anyway?"

The young mechanic looks at the blonde with his face red in embarrassment and he turns away to hide his face. He knows that Nazz thinks he has kissed a different girl, but that girl that he saw… was she someone that he knows or was that really a figment of his imagination? Or was she from another form of reality, since she does bear some resemblance to Double D, as if she was his twin sister or something, but he knows for a fact that the Ed does not have a sister. Or does he?

"Kevin!"

"Oh… right, I forgot."

"You forgot? How could you forget?"

"No, I don't mean it like that! I was spacing out there and I was trying to remember that girl, but I don't think she was anyone you know."

"Then who was it?" asked Nazz.

Just as Kevin opens his mouth to speak, three balls of light illuminate right over the two children and the two got out of their chairs as two of the lights lower down and materialize Eddy and Double D. Ed materialize right behind Kevin and Nazz, startling the two as Ed walks up and begins to talk to the two driving the ship. The jock and the blonde got up and start asking the Eds where they have been and how did they got back here, which also got the Eds to ask the same question.

"Say, how long were we gone for?" asked Double D.

"About a minute," replied Nazz.

"I thought so. I guess that we must have traveled to a different dimension, which explains the time difference, but what puzzles me is how we got back this time. Prankster explains that only he has the ability to send us back and the other person who can do that was Blitzer, so was Prankster nice enough to send us back?"

"Are you kidding?" replied Eddy. "That Heartless was a maniac! There's no way that he was nice to send us back!"

"But still, how did we get back here?" the smart Ed questioned.

There is silence for the moment, until Ed offers a suggestion. "Spiral power?"

"I don't think that is the source of getting us back," said Normadomus. "For all that I know about magic, someone must be pulling the strings and must be helping us out from the outside."

"Maybe, or it could be that Prankster was nice enough to accept his defeat and send us back after being dragged away," added Double D. He looks down at the radar and is getting readings of a world far away. "Well, at least this little experience helped us clear the field down."

"Yeah," Eddy sighs. "We got rid of that Unversed and the Heartless. All that remains is that Nobody…"

"… Zip-fly," mumbled Double D, gripping onto the controls. "And once we are done with him, we still have to deal with that pilot and Father, for all we know are tough adversaries."

"Then we have our work cut out," the greedy Ed said, letting out a smirk. "We'll just keep on fighting until we're strong enough to take those three down, and then it'll be no time before everyone's reunited and possibly back on our world!"

"Row, row, fight the power!" Ed blurted randomly.

"I like your encouragement, Ed," said Nazz, chiming in. "And you don't want to forget about us, dude. We'll be rooting for you all the way."

"No matter what happens, all that we need is for you to come back in one piece," added Kevin and the Eds nod in return.

"Well, let's call up Dexter and inform him to get our ship ready for repairs," the smart Ed said, flipping some switches to get the Midnight Hummer off auto-pilot and back under his control.

Once the auto-pilot is off, Double D grabs onto the throttle and increases the speed of the thrusters, adding more thrust as the Gummi ship takes off for Traverse Town one more time. With their fighting spirit guiding them and the encouragement from the others, the Eds can continue their fight against the Heartless and Father as they continue their travels across this universe. In the distance, the Silent Striker sits perfectly still, with Mask watching the Midnight Hummer fly off towards Traverse Town, and the teen is leaning back in his chair with a smile on his masked face.

"Fight on, my friends," he said out loud. "You're going to need if you're going to fight Father and Zip-fly."

OOO

End of Act II