After Tak and Wolfa left, Ped and Aires sat in the café, Ped finishing his burger. After he did, both of them sat in silence.
"You had that kind of face on for a moment like you made the discovery of the century. If you don't mind me asking, what did you think about?"

"I think I figured out a way we can beat Wolfa. If it comes down to it that is." She spoke softly now, making sure not to get any looks from anyone. "I'm not so sure though... he might have a surprise or two he hasn't shown us yet. But I have a surprise as well." She raised one hand and looked to be concentrating when a small flicker of magic began to build up. "As long as he's got nothing too much better than this magic we should be able to overpower him. Especially if Tak is on our side." Extinguishing the flicker, she giggled.

"Uhh, well, I hope you're right." Ped said, his facial expression changing suddenly. "But I hope that never happens," he said, and smiled when he finished talking.
"So, Tak's with Wolfa right now. Got any bright ideas on where to go?"

Wolfa watched Maleficent He charged and attacked after a few blows his keyblade appeared...

It started to merge with his katana

Jason, who was co-piloting the ship Invincible, came flying towards the planet of Hollow Bastion. It was where Wolfa had called for evacuation. He turned the controls slowly left so the ship eased towards a flat opening near the middle of Hollow Bastion. He flipped on the com. and spoke, "Wolfa, this is Jason, im here at Hollow Bastion to pick you up."

Wolfa didn't even hear Jasons voice

He slashed down and although Maleficent dodged the air pressure blew her back against a wall...
he struck her "for my family"
He struck again "for my friends"
Again "for chin sei"

Maleficent disappeared into the darkness

"Wolfa do you copy? This is Jason, here to pick you up." Jason said again this time more urgently into the com.
Fearing that something was going wrong he unbuckled himself from his seat and got up and walked to the door. He opened the door and set down the walkway that fell down to the ground. He walked down the ramp and stepped off of it onto the ground. He had never been to Hollow Bastion and he didnt know what dangeres awaited him here other than the Heartless.
"Close up the door!" Jason called out behind him to the another man on board.
The man did as Jason asked and only when the door was completely closed, did Jason walk away from the ship and towards the edge of the platform he had landed on.

Wolfa heard this time

"Hey Jason...
nows not a good time...
give me a dock number and I'll come to you!"

"We should make sure Tak stays safe, even if he might not be on our side yet. We don't want to lose Tak if Wolfa loses it, do we?"

"So, following them?" Ped asked, already jumping out of his seat and towards the door.
"Come on, grandma!" he yelled back, smiling and turning to the right of the café's door, and stopping right next to the door, so that Aires wouldn't see her and would think he ran away.

"Jason, there was just a transmission from Wolfa, he asks what dock number this is." One of the men called out to Jason after opening the door again.
"Tell him it is dock 7." Jason called to the man, "Lower the ramp if you would, im coming back aboard."
Jason walked away from the ledge and back to the lowering ramp. He hadnt seen any heartless down below but he didnt want to take any chances, he would close the ship up until Wolfa came, until then he woulod wait in the ship for him.

"Hey!" She'd tried grabbing him before he ran but he was too fast and she missed by an inch. "Get back here!" She scrambled to stand up from the seat. Pushing the door open she looked around. "Where the..." She looked upwards, making sure that Ped hadn't flown off, then around once more. Damnit... Her best bet now was to go after Tak and Wolfa herself, hoping that Ped had run off that way.

Jason now sat upon the co-pilot chair and was looking out the front window of the ship. He had shut down the ship almost entirely, except for the enterior lights and thrusters, in case he needed to escape quickly. He turned on the ships com. in case anyone else needed to contact the ship. He kicked his feet up on the dashboard of the ship and leaned his chair back, he knew it was still early in the day but he was tired from the flight to Hollow Bastion. He had set his beyblade down on the ground, leaning against his chair. Jason closed his eyes and he started drifting off into sleep.

"Hey!" Ped said, as he jumped out from behind the corner. The door of the café was very near the edge of the house, so he could easily sneak behind there.
"So, do you know where they went?"

Jason awoke in the later part of the evening, so that the sun was almost setting, and his stomach grumbled. He hadnt eaten for a while and he was starting to become hungry. He stood up out of his chair and picked up his keyblade, dismissing it and walking towards the back of the ship where all of the food had been put. He grabbed a loaf of bread, a few slices of ham, and a small bottle of beer(yeah my guys only 17 i know...), and then he walked back up to the controls. He sat down in the co-pilot chair and began to take small bites of the loaf of bread, and taking small sips of his beer. There had been no signs of the Heartless since Jason had fallen asleep and some other man had taken over. Jason finished off his beer, not quite drunk yet but not sober either, and finished his bread loaf off. He swallowed the last peices of ham off and leaned his chair back again, still looking out the window. He thought he saw a dragon-like heartless swoop down below the cliffside, but he was probably just halucinating from the beer and lack of sleep.

Tak watched as Wolfa killed the guy they had encountered.
"Bad history?" He mumbled, as he followed Wolfa, a little more cautiously then before.

"you could say that" said wolfa just hearing what he said...

He continued walking...
Eventually he smiled...
"One left..."

Jason awoke after only about fifteen minutes of sleep, due to the man who had been shaking him awake.
"What is it?" Jason mumbled, still half asleep.
"One of our gunners went out for some fresh-air and hasnt come back yet." the man told Jason, who at this news jumped up out of his chair, fully awake.
"When did he leave?" Jason asked now walking back to the door.
"About ten minutes ago..." the man said, "But some of our other men have said the've seen dark shapes moving around the ship all day."
"Dont open the door for anyone but me or Wolfa, should he come down this way." Jason told the man as he walked down the now lowering ramp.
"I will be back later, in about half-an-hour or so." Jason said as the man closed the gate and withdrew the ramp.
Jason walked away from the ship, not having summoned his keyblade yet, as he hadnt seen any heartless to speak of yet. He was still a bit drunk but not enough that he couldnt think for himself. He walked slowly towards a crevess in the stone, furthest away from Invincible. When he reached the crevess he saw nothing but darkness in it, but as his eyes adjusted to the evening light, he saw an unmoving form below. It was human-shaped, but Jason wasnt sure whether or not the heartless where involved, or whther the man had just fallen down and broken his back or something.
"Hey, are you alright?" Jason called down.
There was no answer, except for the small howling of the wind that was slowly coming across the dock.

As Tak and Wolfa headed back with the equipment, Tak thought of something.
"Hey Wolfa, if you're not a Keyblader, how come you're helping us?" He asked, interested in the answer.

"I am a keyblader."
Brings out Destroyer
"and to be honest your all helping ME since i was given the job of protecting kingdom hearts...
Which I failed at the cost of my wife and family."

She swung around, summoning her Keyblade and holding it to Ped's throat. As her instinct stopped and her consciousness took over Redemption disappeared in a flash of light. "You shouldn't have jumped out at me like that! I almost thought Heartless were attacking."

She breathed deeply then gestured for him to follow, "I think they went this way."

Wolfa and Tak got to the store and started getting the weapons they bought

Wolfa was carrying 3 boxes of gummi replacements while Tak carried two...

They had almost reached the cafe when they heard...

"Do you truly believe you killed me foolish destroyer of keyblades..."

"Hey! What was that?!" Ped said, surprised. "Who said that?"
He, naturally, turned his eyes towards where he heard the noises, and saw Wolfa and Tak, carrying gummi replacements. He summoned his keyblades, and then, purely from some inner instinct, he glided towards Wolfa and Tak. He was amazed at how fast he moved, and yet how little he lost altitude during it. He reached them before Aires could run to them, so when he did, he looked at Wolfa, and asked.
"Hey, what's going on? Who said something about 'killing, and 'keyblades'?!" Ped said angrily. "Who?"

"Maleficent."
wolfa looked at him.
"appears you perfected *glide* then."

After hearing THAT he wasn't in a good mood

Aires reached the three of them now and summoned her Keyblade in their defence. But Maleficent wasn't here any longer... She must have gone through a portal.

"Guys... I don't think we're safe here anymore." The group of Keybladers turned to Aires as she stared wide-eyed to the roof of a nearby building where a large Heartless now stood. A large spherical barrier seemed to cut off the world around them now, leaving them trapped with the constantly growing Heartless. It jumped down off of the roof, landed with a crash and pieced itself back together, now resembling a large knight with a Heartless emblem upon it's torso.

"Shit..." Aires swore audibly.

Jason heard a sound behind him, it sounded like the soft padding of footsteps and he turned around to see a heartless creeping towards him.
"I don't think so..." Jason muttered almost to himself, summoning his Keyblade, Last Judgement, he stood up facing the heartless, "So i finally see you ugly things again huh..."
Jason waited for the heartless to come nearer to him, within his striking reach, when he saw more heartless creeping out of the shadows, trying to surround him. The moment one was within striking distance, Jason swung his keyblade in an arc, cutting down three of the heartless. When this happened however, they all jumped at him. He dodged one's jump and cut it in half with his keyblade, within the same movement he turned it and cut another heartless down.
They seemed to just keep coming back together after being destroyed, but he kept at it, slicing into any heartless that got into his swing. After cutting down another two heartless he felt a singing feeling that grazed his shoulder and smashed into the dock. He turned to see a floating heartless, red in color, that was casting fireballs at him! He ducked below another fireball and swung his keyblade up to cut into the heartless, sending it away in a wisp of smoke.
He felt something land on his back and smash its head against the back of his head, causing him to stumble closer to the edge of the platform, but Jason regained his balance and thrust his keyblade back into the heartless. He felt the weight leave his shoulders and turned around to face the remaining few heartless. The others had started to retreat into the shadows, as if they had only been testing his skills. As he cut down the last of the heartless, the ships doors opened and one of the men called out to Jason, "We were wondering if you had found the man yet?"
"Yes, i found him... but he wont be coming back anytime soon... Not untill we can find the heartless that took his heart." Jason muttered the last bit to himself, not wanting to alarm the crew by telling them that there were heartless outside the ship.
"Okay..." the man said in a questioning voice, not understanding what Jason had implied.
"Turn on the ships exterior lights and get the com. ready for me to send out a message." Jason called to the man, dissmissing his keyblade and walking up the ramp.
The man nodded and as Jason walked on the ship, he closed the door and retracted to the ramp. Jason walked back up to the controls, flipped on the com. and turned on all of the exterior lights. Light flooded the once darkened platform, and no heartless could be seen.
"Wolfa, come in this is Jason. I am still waiting for you to arrive at the ship..." Jason lowered his voice that the other man could'nt hear, "...And i've encountered some heartless... i'll tell you how many and what happened when you arrive at the ship."
With that, Jason sat back in his chair and waited for Wolfa's reply.

"you're not the only one with dead trouble."

Wolfa turned and pulled out his katana.

"damn heartless."

Maleficent appeared.

"Foolish BOY to think you could fight me..."

Wolfa charged up the wall towards her.

Spurting something quickly, Ped said: "Hey, Aires, Tak. Since Wolfa's so set on fighting Maleficent, let's take down this Guard Armor!" Ped ran towards the Guard Armor, jumping into the air and hitting the Guard Armor's head a few times, due to which the Heartless' limbs and head started acting on their own. Ped knew this was the moment to strike more, but he looked behind, and saw Aires and Tak, both running towards the Heartless.

The Guard Armour split it's Hammerlegs and Gauntlets to attack the other two Keybladers, leaving Ped to fight the Armour itself.

The Hammerlegs came flying towards Aires, both from above in an attempt to crush her. She rolled rather ungracefully out of the way as they collided with solid ground and she turned, stabbing into one of the legs with her Keyblade. The satisfying sound of the Keyblade meeting metal let her know she had succeeded in her first attack.

But that hadn't stopped the Heartless' limbs. The Hammerlegs swung about wildly, aiming to pummel the Keyblader mercilessly. She defended many of the attacks but soon she found the tireless attacks to be too much and her guard dropped. The limbs took advantage of the opportunity and kicked Aires powerfully into a wall. She fell to the floor, coughing some droplets of blood onto the ground.

You'll regret that, Heartless...

Tak ducked to avoid the Gauntlets that had decided to target him.
"Holy shit!" He summoned his keyblade and got ready for a counter attack. The Gauntlets came rushing back through the air. He jumped up, dodging the first one and landing on the second one. He thrust his keyblade into the Gauntlet as it tried to throw him off.
"Aaargh, its like riding one of those bull things!" He yelled, trying to hold onto the handle of his keyblade.

Maleficent blasted wolfa back
He sliced at the armours head while he passed to help him slow down.
Everyones keyblades flashed.
they heard voices telling them to back away...
"This is gonna sting later" wolfa mumbled

He summoned his keyblade and it began to merge he threw a slash at maleficent and she faded to darkness... Again...

Wolfa then fell back against a wall and fainted

Oh and his hit didn't touch the heartless
(its all yours.)

Tak regained his balance, and managed to stab the left Gauntlet again. "Heh, I'm getting the hang of this!" He said, before realising the right one was heading straight for him.
"Oh shit."