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[ Kyle ; Sora ; Riku ; Seymour ; Cloud : Hawaii : Clearing ]

"Hmm, that doesn't make much sense, since the Rangers don't even have magic and they can summon their Zords for extended periods," Kyle thought, rubbing his chin in thought (which he tended to do unconsciously). "Maybe it's a singular thing, if you were the only one in an actual Zord... to my knowledge, they were always summoned as a group..."

"I'm afraid that's unlikely to be the case, Sir Anthony," Seymour spoke up, preparing to tell them exactly what he'd told his own group while in the ship. "Since a new Emperor was crowned some time within the past month, they've been expanding rapidly and treating any refugees as slaves and experiment subjects. While it's possible that Ooze was somehow in the background, to my knowledge that I've learned with this group, Ooze has only been a scourge to this island since his own awakening, making the odds of him influencing the emperor slim."

He glanced at Louis with a raised brow. He was amused that the boy had picked this, of all the possible alibis, for his cover story, and almost pitied the situation his protege was put in as a result. Almost.

"And you claim it to be... a peaceful country? Perhaps for its people, who lie safely within its borders and ignorant of its war crimes..."

"I'm sure it's just a misunderstanding- he did leave, after all," Sora said, immediately coming to Louis' defense.

[[Louis : Hawaii : Clearing]]

"New emperor?" Louis muttered under his breath, his face tensing, almost cursing the prospect, If Vayne's emperor already, then we're in for an even greater danger than I thought. Sh*t...

The arcanist raised his voice to an audible tone, after Sora stood up for him, a genuine smile crossing his face, Seems I have Sora's support, that's a good sign, "It's true there are those in the army that do evil things, that's true anywhere, but not all do the things you speak of. That's why I wish I knew who's leading the fleet. There are those in the army with a reputation for being more understanding... others, not so much."

At this point, Louis turned his head to the side, thinking deeply on this extra bit of information Seymour lent him, if his eyes were visible, Louis would have given Seymour a look that said thank you, but he'd have to hope Seymour knew him well enough to guess. If Vayne is emperor, then Drace is probably dead, there goes the chance of that... the only other one I could hope for is Zargabaath... if he's involved, I'm sure he'd protect the people... he's loyal, but he has a good heart.

[John.:Hawaii:.Clearing]

Confusing things were confusing...

John looked to the speakers of the group, interrupting each other, talking over one another, babbling on about theories and raging about what other people had done. Blowing out their opinions on matters, disregarding others pretentiously...

Just... so... tired.......

Battle after battle after trying to figure out why the f*** they were bouncing from world to world with little to no direction on what the big plan was for them. They were aimless, and it really pissed him off. How they could go from battling to the death against mages and strikers and assassins and darkness to rushing straight into questioning every aspect of the situation. No break to actually clean some wounds because rein-f***ing-forcements decided it was time to finally break the enemy...

He said nothing as he had nothing to contribute. He knew nothing of mechas or the past of these people or what he could possibly say as it seemed everyone else had their plan just fine and dandy...

[Cory .:. Hawaii .:. Clearing]

Cory raised an eyebrow at Jacob's comment, followed by a sigh at Kichi's hostility. "You know, for a good guy you're rather quick to jump to insults. Are you sure you're not a villain?"

The rogue bumped Anthony's fist as his eyes locked onto Kyle, almost ignoring the greeting as he said, "Just to be clear, you still shouldn't trust me. It's only fair to warn you of that given the fact that I'm not even sure what I'm going to do next." Cory slipped his hands into his pockets before adding, "That being said, I'm fairly certain my allegiance won't sway again. I admit I still want to stay in this world, but when...she asks a favor of me, I can't really refuse."

[Joe, Kyle, Sora, Riku, Seymour: Hawaii: Clearing -> Village and Sky Above]

Kyle looked at Cory with narrowed eyes, though not out of suspicion-- rather, out of curiosity, like he was analyzing the man. Kyle liked to think he was a good reader of character; there was always the curve ball, of course, but generally, it was from the way the spoke.

Cory... sounded genuine about this... girl, woman, person of the female persuasion.

It was hard for Kyle not to trust what the man said, at least. Especially with the sympathetic weight behind his words.

"Well, at least you're honest," he said, nodding toward Cory, and the briefest sign of understanding flashed over his face. Not pity, not judgment, but understanding. "How about you just give us a head's up if you think a switch is coming, hmm?"

He'd meant it almost as a jab, but moreso as a joke, which would have been conveyed through his smirk and small chuckle.

Joe shook his head. He was...almost like he was beginning to run out of fuel to be angry. It was draining, aggravating, and kept his anger alive. Of course, the anger got displaced upon hearing shouts upon the wind....

Poking his head out of the branches and leaves of his tree, Joe, along with everyone else, would hear shouts of panic and fear coming from the village. Shortly after, people started filtering into the clearing, led and corralled by space police, all running for the giant ship for cover.

And with a large tremor, laughter was echoed across the island, booming into the ears of everyone, as in the distance, a giant megazord appeared, the laughter of Ooze coming from it as it moved towards the village. The Ivalician fleet also seemed to moved forward, the Leviathan and its other ships spewing out numerous small fighter ships to add to the other ships as it headed towards the volcano in the center of the island.

"It's begun!" Joe said into the wind, which carried it to the rest of the group. Not that it mattered, cause at the same time, Kyle himself called out, along the charms and aloud, "They're here!" Plus it was fairly obvious.

Joe 'took flight', hopping from treetop to tree top until a flash of light, akin to a firefly lighting up, happened near his ear, and then he was leaping high into the air, his two Sylph circling him until they formed a small bird zord, green and blue with two long, long tail 'feathers' following behind, sectioned off like a metal whip or whip-sword, and was about two stories tall with a four story wingspan.. With what almost seemed like a sonic boom, the bird flew off towards the flying ships.

Kyle, of course, summoned a zord of his own, with Ultima taking the form of a very large(about four stories in height, and twice as long), very gold dragon. It had a long, serpentine neck that culminated in a single, large eye over its mouth. On its back, there seemed to be a small... cannon? The dragon let out a mighty roar into the night sky, which caused a few of the enemy ships to power down for a second and start to tilt down to the ground before lighting back up and resuming their courses. The dragon, with it's dragoon pilot, flapped it's six wings and took flight, following after Joe with barely any effort as Kyle called out to everyone over the charms 'Call to your hearts! Despite the ABSURDITY level of the cliché, it works.'

Sora let out a low whistle at the sight of Kyle's dragon. It was a sight to behold, that's for sure. Of course, then he remembered about the village, and gave a smirk to Riku. "Ready?" he asked before running off, keyblade in hand.

Riku chuckled. "Just like old times." Then he, as well, ran after Sora, catching up with him easily thanks to his longer legs and then keeping up with Sora, his keyblade also out and at the ready.

The Guado mage simply started to jog after the group, keeping up surprisingly easily, though when one had Guado blood, things like this weren't an issue, mage or not.

Upon getting to the village, they would see Ooze, towering over the homes, standing at at least fifteen stories, along with numerous airships flying around, the ground littered with Heartless and Tengu. Kyle and Joe started to rip through the smaller airships, Joe's Zord's tail slicing into them and whipping about with spins and turns, and Kyle's dragon biting, crushing, and spewing out lasers of light out of it's eyes.

Sora, Riku, and Seymour started helping by working on the ground units, the two keybladers tearing through the heartless as Seymour casted a Firaga, the explosion of the spell blasting some of the Tengu and Heartless with ease.

Of course, some would notice that, among the heartless and tengu, there were two more units. Beatrix and Terra were on the battlefield as well.

The war had begun.

[[ Captain's Edit: LOLOL gotz internet. Anyway, just some references for my Zord: Fanart and official art.

Edit #2 : Oh, and for future reference about the large fleet, check here. There are four destroyers that have large cannons, a carrier that houses the many many ships, the main ship, and a cruiser, among the dozens and dozens of flyers. ]]

[Dawn ; Terra ; Quina : Hawaii : Clearing]

When Bobbi approached her and embraced her, Dawn remained silent. Though she didn't return the hug, she closed her eyes as a couple more tears went down her face.

Dawn let out a small gasp at both the sudden quake and the call over the charms, though she wasn't on a blood thirty rampage as Bobbi was, she couldn't help but agree that this was a good time as ever to get rid of some much build up stress. She looked up over the distance as the attack began on the volcano. She glanced over her shoulder as Joe and Kyle were already jumping into action. Joe summoning a Bird like Zord. While Kyle summoned a dragon...

[cue: Music]

'Wait a minute...' Dawn thought as she narrowed her eyes upon Kyle's zord. She knew she recognized it from somewhere. The long neck, several wings. If it looked like the something from Legend of the Dragoon. Her favorite game, then it clicked.

"Seriously Kyle?! Of all the forms your zords yours could be yours had to be the Divine Dragon. I am not sure if I should either be extremely ecstatic, jealous or what." Dawn said over the charms.

~'Now is not the time to be worrying about that. Time to focus.'~

Dawn nodded as she focused on the inside, much as Kyle had described. It wasn't long before Garuda was summoned in the form of a Red-tailed Hawk with a light blue armor. On where the breast feathers would normally be for a bird, it was covered in a white shell. The wings spread about 5 and a half stories, while the body of the bird was about three.

"Garuda..." Dawn said timidly as she sat at the helm of Garuda, "How am I supposed to do this? I don't even know how to drive a car for crying out loud."

Garuda let out a loud sigh, ignoring Dawn as her and her summoner joined the fray by shooting a large burst of air at several of the flying Tengu.

As the heartless and Tengu started to attack on the ground, Quina quickly jumped into action by shooting a spray of Aqua Breath
at those that came in his direction.

In the shadows, Terra watched as several of the children summon forth their zords and went into the sky. Her eyes were, however, locked onto the group that remained on the ground, heading towards the village. Without a warning she fired an Ice Beam in the direction of Riku.

[John.:Hawaii:.Clearing]

The megazord combined with the Leviathan combined with the asplosions and the noises and the chaos left John in an indescribable state... he felt so... so...

Cue Music: Battle Theme

"Yippee Kai-aye mothaf***ers!!!" John spouted as out of seemingly no where a large zord in the shape of a Unicorn leaped in the direction of the village. Ixion would try and focus on Ivan Ooze while trampling the poor helpless thousands of heartless beneath.

Continuing to go with the entire 'yeehaw, country boy gon' shoot some fellers', John casually spouted, "Dats a good 10-4 I say on dere. Ya'll tell me when we need to coordinate some gitcheh gitcheh ya ya spunk on their faces, k? I'ma just go ahead and charge right up here and ya'll can fall in all nice like you please... oh, and has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?"

He continued to trample and trample and trample as much as he could with Ixion being merry in his newfound ability to be a large building with a giant spike at the end of it with the ability to murder thousands of heartless by simply running.

"Hit'em hard!" John yelled hoarse with excitement as Ixion's horn surged with electricity and Ixion charged straight for Ivan Ooze wanting to spear the hulking mass and at least get him focused on one target.

[Michelle : Hawaii: Clearing]

Michelle had quietly and simply given her name when the roll call went around but she was staying back from the group not trusting the lull enough to dismiss her shock spikes, or swords. When discussions raged about how to go zord she listened with both ears waiting to be told what to do next. She just hated fighting so much that, unless that little switch got flicked inside, she was always bordering on lethargic when it came to proactive attacking. She really really didn't like violence.

Cory's presence and talk made her want to bury his head in the ground just to shut up the voice and hide the face, but she was more concerned with the momentary suggestion that their approaching enemy was non-violent. That they were only under the control of Ooze. It gave her great relief to hear trusted people denounce the idea. Michell could never have engaged in the coming fray if she thought in the back of her mind she was killing unwilling innocents.

When Dawn swamped everyone with her vivid recollection of James' departure and the whole episode she crumpled. But what can you expect from the poor woman, she was barely coping with his absence as it is. Reliving the moment of you husbands abduction, through your sisters eye's, when she hadn't even been their herself, it brought her to her knees. Arms wrapped around herself, huddle in a ball shaking and crying. Ah crap this was lousy timing.

As the sound of mechanics and booming and battle cries began to fill the clearing, all of her alies getting going and bringing out their summons zords she cringed.

WHY! WHY! WHY! was all the girl could scream in her head and heart against the pain of being separated form her love, and the chaos of a giant impending mecha battle that she wanted nothing to do with.

Call to me little one, or will you stand by once more and watch things happen that you will later regret. He sounded so old, full of kindness but also tough as nails. His words were not an invitation, or a suggestion, or a question. He was her summon, he knew what his human needed right now, and that was action. The words were a command.

Screaming something feral and akin to bloody murder Michelle flung her body off the ground, yanking out of her huddled ball of pain and self focus. Next thing she knew she was airborne in the cockpit of a giant yellow metal bird. A bolt of lightning flashed in the sky near her zord, as she streaked towards the nearest target. Pulling up short just before she reached a ship, her wings came around in front of her a large ball of electricity forming between them in the air. The blast was unleashed, aimed at the center of the ship. Baring dispersive shields and unknown magics or technology, Michelle was a bad enemy to be facing. He was a lighting summon pure and simple, and Michelle was flying about in a nice giant conductor, her mentality focused on who wants to short circuit or blow up next. She had completely rejected all emotion for the moment falling back on years of suppressive habits as a child, it was all logic and furry right now. Time to fight.