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[Cory .:. Hawaii .:. Central Command]

"Now that we've established that everyone hates me, I have a favor to ask." The ronin turned his attention back to the Grand Councilwoman, his hands in his pockets as he said, "I don't supposed you have a few mechanics or engineers I could borrow, do you? I stole a ship from some of those 'mercenaries' a while back, and it still runs and all... But I did destroy it a bit. Falling through cockpits and whatnot tends to be very jarring for the inner workings of machinery, and I was hopeful that I could have someone who knows their way around a spaceship fix it, and perhaps modify it to better suit my style of combat. Besides, fixing my ship would also greatly enhance my own ability to transport citizens, a trait that we seem to be in dire need of right now."

[ Riku ; Cloud ; Seymour ; Grand Council Woman : Hawaii: Central Command ]

"I'll go ahead and contact Sora first, see if they're busy and give'em the situation," Riku said after a moment, personally not wanting to have to deal with what he knew to be a coming conversation around him.

The Grand Councilwoman nodded thankfully at everyone's responses, though she did not seem to be rid of tension; after all, they had no idea if the other group could help. However, she was momentarily distracted from her train of thought when Cory- the Ranger nobody seemed to trust and whom many seemed to wish gone- asked for a favor.

"You bring yourself before me, admit that you should be imprisoned for heinous crimes, do little to rid yourself of anyone's distrust, and you ask a favor of me before you've done anything to prove your worth?" she asked, the muscle where her eyebrow would be raising in confoundedness. "I would ask if you were being humorous or stupid, but from previous behavior, the answer is relatively obvious. Regardless, even if I were inclined to aid you, there are a number of issues. First, we have less than 30 minutes before their fleet arrives- no time to do anything of the sort. Second, the only ships they've had around for you to capture are small fighters- absolutely useless for mass transport, invalidating your point."

She sighed then, shaking her head. "However, I would ask that you bring the ship in regardless. We've had little opportunity to study their technology, and considering we're about to face a small armada, information on critical weaknesses would be advantageous. If you bring the ship in, if it's salvageable enough to garner any intel, and if you truly prove yourself a worthy ally in the coming fight, then I will see what I can do."

Turning to Kyle as the Grand Councilwoman spoke, Seymour nodded in agreement. "True, but is it not worth trying? After all, at the current moment, they seem to be our only hope of standing a chance, lest those reinforcements show up sometime soon."

"And even then, we'd have to be lucky," Cloud called out, shrugging as he crossed his arms in wait.

[Michelle : Shipwreck Cove : Dock/Water ]

Michelle was loathed to give up the fun freedom she felt being in the water. When Dawn's voice came to her through the charms she let out a sigh of bubbles. Flipping her tail in a few strong strokes she rose back to the surface, her head popping up with a little splash as she shook her hair.

"So where exactly do you think we are all heading to?" His tone sounded like a curious kitten, desperate to get into some trouble just to relieve his boredom.

Well, stay quiet for once as we all gather, so that I can listen properly, and you just might find out.

Since she was already at the dock technically, she decided to stay in the water. She folded her arms on the edge of the planking, resting her chin on her arms as she watched everyone else begin to draw closer. The girl figured that she could hop out quickly and easily enough, if they actually started to leave. Personally she was hoping to be able to sneak just a few more minutes of water time in. She didn't want to get out and return to being stuck dry dock until the last possible moment.

[Dawn : Shipwreck Cove : Balcony/Dock]

Dawn was about to answer Noelle, when Kyle took matters into his own hands and took Noelle down the way they had came up. She couldn't help but roll her eyes.

~"Showoff"~ Dawn and Garuda said at Kyle's antics. If anything at the end of the day, he was just a guy who liked to showoff for the ladies. Whatever made one happy, she supposed.

She soon turned towards Sora, who looked otherwise occupied. She was going to offer him help getting down, if he wished to take the short cut that her and Kyle took. Before she could ask what was wrong, he started to speak. Change of plans? What did he mean by that? Before she wrap her brain around what was going on, he was already gone.

"Uh... Okay," Dawn mumbled as she blinked, "I guess I'll see you there..."

She turned towards the balcony railing and pushed herself over the railing and jumped over the side as Kyle just did. The wind gathered around the dock where she landed behind the dragoon as he placed Noelle on the ground. Her landing was more graceful than Kyle's had been, her knees bending only slightly as she took landing. She didn't seem to hear anything that happened before. She seemed more in thought. Her mind trying to wrap around what Sora had just said.

"Well something is certainly up..." she thought out loud, though it was unclear if she was saying it to Kyle and Noelle.

[Kyla:Hawaii: Alien Ship]
(( Warning HUGE catch up post!))

‘If Memory serves me correct, regardless of the form of the Zord, all usually seemed capable of flight when in use.’ Kyla responded across the Trinity Charms in reaction to Kyle’s response and Bobbi’s inquiry. She remembered watching various Zords in the past, frogs, tigers, bears, somehow they all managed to take flight to assemble some kind megazord, regardless of their referenced form. Why would this be any different?

‘As for initial summoning, we can try a few things. After the briefing.’ Suddenly their current remaining heartless companion made his opinion of their decisions known and she smirked at him on the edge of her peripheral vision.

“Awww, you’re too sweet Demyx.” Kyla retorted to the Melodious Nocturne. She wasn’t even sure if that was supposed to be obnoxious or not. In all honestly she wasn’t sure.
Not like the nobody felt anything; but his synthesized annoyance at their blatant actions was somewhat touching in its own way. Which reminded her, she REALLY needed to get a chance to talk with him about the subject she had intended before.

And then… the other missing part to the plot was revealed. The reasons why these space pirates were buzzing around like pissed off yellow jackets in the sky was finally brought up on the big screen for them.
“Treasure Planet... now it makes sense…” she muttered as her finger flipped her pages ahead and she jotted down this new development into her notes. She made a replica map of the energy grid, and the check points where they were focalized.

Bobbi, Cloud and Kichi brought up some good points.
“heh…” she didn’t realize she made that small chuckle under her breath before it was too late.


…

!!!
Something clicked in her mind at that moment. A moment of clarity that nearly made her knees weak. The girl backed up into the wall of the ship just to keep herself together.

~Kyla? What is it?! Whats wrong?~

‘…My God…that’s it.. that’s it isn’t it? That’s what you’re planning…but how?’
~Kyla?!! Snap out of it!~

And she did, as quickly as that started look appeared she masked it over again, pushing those thoughts as far back as possible. She labeled them red as in important, but they would have to wait till the next available chance arose to address them.

When the pictomancer came back to herself completely, it was right about the time when Riku established that it was magical energy they were dealing with. Suddenly the face of Terra crossed her mind.
Was the Volcano where she was last seen headed?
All eyes turned towards the screen and another familiar face appeared. Kyla’s grip on her book tightened a little more, eyes narrowed. She copied his likeness as quickly as possible. It was the Judge.

After that little nearly non-existent negotiations the Judge ended the call.

“I don’t trust him about his methods of evacuations… judging from what I remember about him…but that doesn’t really matter anymore, that information isn’t sound in this space and time.. but I wonder what his idea of resistance is classified as?”

“What a d**k.”

Those words alone made her blood run cold. Not the words, but the voice they belonged to.
It was hard to describe the emotions bubbling to the surface. She could have sworn a strange pang crossed her front and her quill holding hand touched the place where the severe wound used to exist.
The one he put there.
Perhaps in more ways than one.
It wasn’t fair. Not enough time had passed since they rescued her. Heck, not enough time had passed for her to forget anything.
Agrabah, the maze, the train, Narnia, Beasts Castle, right up to the kidnapping and beyond. He was a mess of confusing and perhaps the biggest reflective mirror of the most traumatic things she’d ever experience or witnessed. She couldn’t’ even look at him. She refused to turn to look at him.

The helmet of her suit reformed to hide her face as she focused on the screen and the Alien commander, but she couldn’t ignore the dampness that she felt slid down her cheeks, and the tremble in her hands, and the rapid beating in her chest.

It bothered her, it bothered her even more THAT it bothered her more then she expected, or wanted it to. She was frozen, and yet she wanted to run as far away as possible. Was she afraid?

It was the council woman’s words that brought her the strength she needed to not react, to not scream and remain as stony quiet as always. She bottled them up once again, and thus time, it made her feel a bit sick to her stomach, but it had to be done. She wasn’t a child to be coddled, and besides adult do it all the time. Cloud was a fabulous example of it’s semi-success.

At Least Seymour was on the same page as her. His confirmation clarified if this ‘version’ of the Judge was the same as the one she read about and watched in the games.
As some negotiations began, Riku said he was going to open up communications with the other team, again another wave of emotions threatened to rise but this time she shut them all down systematically. It was times like this, she wished she didn’t have a heart.She was regretting letting it be open again after so many years. It didn't seem worth all of this drama.

“I… I wonder if I could…” she mumbled out loud. She was already thinking about the main issue, the separation of the coveted treasure from the volcano.

[Cory .:. Hawaii .:. Central Command -> Clearing]

"Fair enough, Councilwoman. Though while we're on the subject of transports, I do have an 'ally' of sorts who has access to a rather large flying ship. I shall procure his aid as well." The rogue felt like he had already won. Despite the conversation being nothing but a list of the things Cory had done wrong in the past, he had won by default, if only because they wanted to see what they were up against. He turned and made his way out of the space ship, stopping at the exit for a moment before Skyward Bursting away without another word. The ronin landed with a crash a few yards away from the large bush he had hidden his ship.

~

"Huh? Who? What?"

~

Cory only stood silently for a moment, staring at the ground before saying, "I don't deserve her forgiveness anyway. I've done too much to be forgiven." Cory approached the ship and ripped the underbrush from its surface, revealing it to be just as he had left it. The ronin climbed into the cockpit and flipped the switches on, thankful that the engine had managed to stay in working condition.

~

"More than anyone will understand." The voice of the samurai was suddenly blocked out by the roar of the engine, the small ship taking off towards the Alien Mothership.

"Me? I---" Sayrike began, but she was interrupted by Dawn's incoming Trinity Charm message. She probably looked kind of funny, staring blankly out into space for a few seconds. Snapping back to present company, Sayrike said a bit mournfully, "Sorry, I guess I'll have to cut the Spanish Inquisition short, haha. Seems like everyone is meeting by the docks now." She sighed. "Hmm, not much of a break, was it?" The young woman stood up, dusting off her butt from whatever grime got lodged on her pants, and waited for Louis to stand up as well. Sayrike figured he didn't need her help with that. She mused, "I wonder what we're going to do? I'm kind of vague on the details about what's happening. I always seem to pay attention to the wrong things." As soon as Louis was ready, she'd wait to see if he offered his hand first before taking it. With a little more time, it might almost become routine between us, she chuckled to herself.

[ Riku ; Cloud ; Seymour ; Grand Council Woman : Hawaii: Central Command ]

There was around 5 minutes of silence from Riku as he continued to speak with Sora. His expression had slowly faded to frustration over time, though over what had yet to be seen. The Grand Coucilwoman had reverted back to giving commands to those around her- the ship was now on high alert, and they had quickly sent out runners to bring the villagers inside the ship for the inevitable attack.

"Sora says they're in a place called Shipwreck Cove in Port Royal," Riku said finally, his frustration more than apparent. "Demyx, if you don't know where that is, I think I can send an image to Kyla for her to draw up. Anyway, Sora's going to ask the others, since they're gathering now anyway. In the meantime, he gave me a bit of a head's-up."

He hesitated for a moment, glancing toward Bobbi- he remembered she'd been particularly close to the person in question. "When using the charms, make sure to exclude James from your targets. Ajora brainwashed him earlier in the afternoon, and he's been with the Replicas ever since. That's how he's had access to the Charms, and-"

It was at that moment that the entire room began to flash red as a warning siren went off. Some of the computer technicians were scrambling at their desks, pulling up separate charts and maps. The Grand Councilwoman quickly pulled up her own map again.

"The pirates have started attacking!" she shouted, her anger flaring up. "Those scoundrels never intended to wait! Scramble the cruisers, now!"

"Your Honor, they have ground troops attacking the village, as well!" Pleakley shouted, looking as though he were about to pass out from nervousness alone. "A large batch of those bird things and Heartless- and some unknowns! We don't have enough officers to fight in the air and on the ground!"

"Yuffie and the others," Cloud said, immediately looking to Leon with a stern gaze. "We need to go."

"We'll try to handle the ground forces, Your Honor, just keep those ships off our backs!" Riku said with a nod to everyone- there was no other option. If they waited here, the village would be burned before they could get those reinforcements. He didn't wait to start running outside.

[[If anyone wants to just 'get there' after this, that's fine, just assume everyone else is with you as well. There should be Tengu and Heartless scattered around the village.]]

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