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[ Kyle ; Sora ; Kuja : Port Royal : Lounge Car ]

Kyle wanted to whistle slightly at the transformation process- reflections? Was that even an element? Perhaps it wasn't an element, but her weapons? He could only guess, however, as he heard Zell over the intercom finally speak up-

"Alright, everyone, we're about to touch down in Tortuga, thanks for riding the Zell Train, hope you guys- WHOA-"

Almost simultaneously, the train was hit with a powerful burst of turbulence, easily enough to knock some off their feet. Kyle was lucky enough to grab a nearby table to keep him steady. He immediately glared outside the nearby window- a strange wave of dark green energy had just passed by, likely the source of the turbulence.

Sora, on the contrary, fell straight onto James, yelping as he did so. He immediately jumped back to his feet to see what was going on, offering a hand to James to help him up.

"Sorry about that, loyal passengers, finding a spot to land this baby now..." Zell spoke once again over the intercom, only to release a low whistle, as if seeing something impressive. "Geez, this place looks like it was hit by a tornado..."

There was a small rumbling as the train landed in a valley just a short distance from the port of Tortuga. The large door in the side of the Lounge Car opened up, with stairs appearing toward the ground. The moment anyone stepped outside, they'd feel the powerful currents of the wind, as if there really was a tornado around.

.:It's him.:.

"Chaos..."

Kyle cursed under his breath; had he not just mentioned the Scion of Taurus the night prior? He should have kept his mouth shut. Turning to Sayrike, he tried to give a reassuring smile. "I don't expect you to tag along so readily, with so little answered- if you'd rather stay safe, then staying in the train would be your best bet."

"I suppose the neophytes would be frightened of a little breeze," Kuja said loftily as he entered the Lounge Car, apparently unaffected by everything that had just happened. It almost appeared he was gliding through the car, though on closer inspection he was on his feet.

"Oh, shut it, Kuja," Sora retorted for the others.


[ Zexion : Training Car]

The Nobody, now wearing what appeared to be a formal-casual suit of sorts, opened the Training Car door, immediately disturbing the Time Compression magics that kept the duo within unaware of what was going on. He looked as apathetic as ever.

"We've landed."

With that said, he walked away, heading back toward the front of the train.

{James : Train : Lounge Car -> Sleeping Car}

James watched with interest at the transformation of Sayrike's clothing, the mysterious reflection of himself that he saw for only a brief second made him very curious. Her clothing when it was said and done, made the corsair's eyes narrow in curiosity, it wasn't evident just what she was supposed to be, though the blue and gold kind of reminded him a bit of a Blue Mage, but he wasn't sure. That was when the announcement over the intercom from Zell came that they were about to land. Followed by the powerful turbulence. The corsair grabbed onto a bench to support himself. However, that didn't matter as Sora came crashing into him, knocking him onto the hard metal floor of the train.

"Gah! Dang it again Sora!?" James exclaimed as he took Sora's hand to rise back to his feet.

The corsair went over to a window just as Kyle did and looked out out the window and saw what Zell meant, the place did look like it was hit by a tornado. The gunner's attention was turned to Kyle, his enhanced hearing allowed him to hear Kyle's say "Chaos" and immediately he was put on guard. He remembered the name Chaos... he was a Scion just like Mateus was.

'So much for this being an easy trip to Tortuga...'

"I'm going to go get Noelle, meet you guys outside." He said, and headed back into the Dining Car, and continued back on into the Sleeping Car.

He walked down the corridor once again and opened the door. He wasn't sure how deep of sleep Noelle was in, so he wasn't sure if just knocking would have been enough to wake her up. He gently placed a hand on her shoulder.

"Noelle, we've arrived in Tortuga."

[Train ~ Sleeping Car]

"Julia . . . hey, Julia, wake up."

"Hmm? Whaaaaat?" She groaned, looking over the railing of her bunk at her step-sister.

"The dogs got in a fight again." Noelle told her softly, "There's a big mess."

Julia let out a frustrated sigh and jumped down from her bunk, following Noelle through the living room and into the kitchen. She hadn't even noticed Ellie in the corner next to the couch, cowering because she thought she was in trouble. The moment they walked into the kitchen they could see the terrible mess of blood the dogs had left. There was blood splattered everywhere and a few puddles here and there on the floor. Noelle hardly reacted, going for the disinfectant to start wiping things up. Julia stood near the doorway, frozen in fear with her hands cupped over her mouth.

"Oh . . . my god." She mumbled. The ammount of blood was ridiculous. She didn't join Noelle in cleaning, instead going to check on the dogs. She returned afterwards with a frown on her face.

"Ellie is fine, no cuts." Noelle said, telling her what she already knew. She supposed she should have told her earlier so she wouldn't have been so worried, but she hadn't thought about it. "Autumn is okay too, the blood came from a cut on the inside of her mouth. Autumn pulled trash out of the trash can, which started the fight."

"Woulda been nice if you told me earlier. I thought one of them was dying."

"Sorry."

"I'll start cleaning Ellie. She's absolutely coated in blood."

Noelle continued mopping up the blood. She was strangely unphased by it, normally it would have made her queezy. Maybe it was because it was late at night and she was still groggy. The blonde scrubbed the bottoms of the cabinates and moved to the fridge. She took the magnets off and gathered the papers underneath them. They were mainly drawings, all with a few splatters of blood on them. Catching sight of one, Noelle paused to look at it. It was a crayon sunset on a piece of light burgundy colored paper. On the top it said, "To: Lloyed, From: Mandi." She always spelled his name wrong.

Noelle's eyes stung as tears filled them. 'Oh, Mandi . . .'

---

Noelle awoke as the train lurched. She was bounced by it, but luckily not thrown out of bed. She kept still, eyes still closed, almost forgetting where she was for a moment. When things stopped she tried to think about her dream, it still being fresh in her memory. For the past few nights she had been having bad dreams like that. They always left her heart aching.

Jumping slightly when James touched her shoulder (she hadn't heard him come in), the agromancer blinked and looked up at him. They were heading out already? She hadn't gotten nearly enough sleep--she felt like she could sleep for another day at least.

"Just toss me in a small suitcase and roll me along behind you." She murmured, rubbing her eyes, "I'll fit."

[[Louis : Train : Lounge Car]]

Louis sat, all thwe while as explanations were passed around, holding back a chuckle as Kyle desperately tried to cover up the word, game. As if it's that big of a deal. I'm sure that it would make just as much sense if our connection to their world came in the form of an electronic. After all, Tron was connected to Radiant Garden by a computer interface. The existence of Kingdom Hearts in our world is probably the very reason we were targeted by the Heartless that devoured our world n the first place. We were connected and our door had been opened.

Louis coninued to stay sillent even as others filed out of the car and explored the rest of the train. Part of him tugged on going to meet with Jessie again, but he knew once the wind impacted the train that would have been a mistake. Glass shattered in the back of Louis' mind as he overheard Kyle mutter on word, "Chaos."

Chaos? It can't be... why is he here? Louis thought just before having himself thrown to the side along with his chair onto the floor by another gust just before they landed, D#@% it... if he's reacting anything like Mateus did to Ultima's presence, this is a disaster. I doubt without using Mateus' power I could even scratch the surface of Chaos' ability. If things go as I expect, my entire plan could be ruined and following Seymour's orders may become impossible. D^$% it, D&#@ it, D*%# it!

Louis slammed his palm onto the floor and pushed himself up, glancing to Kyle with a irritated glare, passing off a joke along with his frustration, "I know the weather by the ocean can change pretty fast, but this is just ridiculous don't you think?"

After standing up entirely and setting his chair back upright he looked around and asked, "Is everyone alright?"

{James : Train : Sleeping Car}

James quickly withdrew his hand as Noelle jumped slightly, he hadn't meant to startle her. Apparently though she hadn't heard him come in. Based upon the way she was acting, it was pretty evident that she had not gotten enough sleep. He couldn't help but chuckle at her response regarding the suitcase. For some reason, he didn't doubt that if she folded herself up right, she probably could fit in one.

"Without a suitcase, that really isn't an option." He replied, still chuckling lightly, offering his hand to help her up if she needed it.

His thoughts turned to what Kyle said regarding Chaos, just because the Scion was causing trouble didn't mean that they were going to be attacked. Still though, if Chaos reacted to Ultima the way that Mateus had... it was going to be trouble.

{Leon : Angel Grove : Command Center}

Leon appeared in the command center in the same flash of light as the other's though just in a flash of white since he did not have one of the strange suits that the kids had gained. He looked around the strange room that they had been teleported to. It reminded him a bit of the lab that they had found in Radiant Garden where the DTD was. Though it was definitely more hi-tech. He turned to look at the head of the room and daw the large projected head that Cloud was now talking to.

"Didn't expect to see something like this... Who is this Ivan Ooze?" He asked of Billy, turning his attention away from Zordon.

{Kuro Oni : The Flying Dutchman : Deck}

{{Cue: Man on Fire}}

After the replicas had finished their meeting, Kuro Oni had walked back onto the deck. His unversed, an eery ghost of James' life, hadn't moved. He stayed where he was, his back leaning against the railing of the ship. In a burst of dark energy, Kuro Oni's version of "The Black Coffin" the hexagun that his original had, was in his hand. A look of disgust evident on his face, the weapon was nice for causing pain, the bullets so fast that one couldn't really dodge them.

'It's so limited in it's abilities... Why do I continue to use it.?' He thought, his blood red eyes not leaving the gun.

"I should just... get rid of it!" He yelled out, tossing it into the air where it disappeared into darkness.

He brought his arms up, crossing them over his chest, beginning to gather the dark energies that surrounded him. He then brought his hands up above his head and brought them down, a shock wave erupting from the released Dark Wave. The energy mostly dispersed aside from what looked like dark red and black flames that lingered on his hands. He looked at them for a minute with a twisted smirk on his face and then clenched them into fists, the flames dying out. He looked out at the sea once again and cackled, feeling the power course through his body.

((Kuro Oni has activated Lunatic Pandora))

[Joe: Port Royal: Training Car -> Stable Car -> On the Way to Tortuga]

Joe shortly followed Dawn out of the training car, smiling. Yeah, him and Dawn definitely made progress. Always a good thing.

Of course, with that giant wind flowing into the stable car, Joe was automatically at the door, feeling already that the wind wasn't normal. Looking. Searching. Watching...Kyle vault off towards the town. Greeeeat.

"JESUS F***ING CHRIST WHAT IS F*** IS WRONG WITH HIM?!" Joe yelled, partially out of anger at the apparently stupid move on the dragoon's part, as well as to be heard over the roaring of the wind.

"Dawn! Gather everyone willing and head them out towards the place where the wind is coming from! I'm going to make sure Kyle survives whatever he's trying to pull. Be fast, but be prepared, too!"

Looking where Kyle vaulted off, Joe nodded. "Be strong!" He yelled, partially to Dawn, partially to himself. And with that, he ran off in the direction Kyle went off, and the source of the wind, bo ready in his hand and his own wind fighting off the wind that blew and howled in the air from whatever was causing it.

I swear to God, Kyle, I'm going to wring your neck.

[Kichi :: Angel Grove :: Outside Red Rose -> Command Center]

Kichi nodded to Billy, indicating he was ready, and soon after that, found himself in the Power Ranger Command Center. He looked around excitedly, before they were greeted by Alpha 5. "Hello." He said, and looked up to the tube where Zordon would appear, when he did. Then he was nudged in the ribs by Amy. Teleporting must have not kept their placement in the group. "Hey, that's Zordon." He whispered, followed by a quiet "Man...this is awesome."

He noted Cloud talking to Zordon, who asked of why the rangers had appeared without notice. Taking a few steps forward, Kichi spoke. "Zordon, we are eager to help, but we are also on a mission. We are looking for a companion of ours, a mouse of nobility. We think, he might know of what is going on, and what is causing all this ruckus, here and elsewhere. He may even have found a way to fix things. Unfortunately, we do not know of his whereabouts, and thus, we are on a mission to find him. If you've seen him and could tell us where he was heading, or could at least help us figure that out, that would be most appreciated." Finishing with a nod and a slight bow (as per his habit), he looked hopefully to the floating face, waiting on a response.