Chronicles of the Keyblade Book 3: Meet the Doctor

Chapter 1: "What?!"

One rule you should always follow when you're traveling in space fighting Heartless; ALWAYS check the gummi ship over before take off. We learned this the hard way.

We were transmitting a message to King Mickey when the power went out. Roxas said that the Gummi Naturally made Oxygen, but I had a horrible feeling that something was wrong… And I was right.

One of my worst enemies bugs had gotten into the Gummi Ship. Now, this wasn't a simple little cockroach, this thing was a spider that stood as tall as Ty. In front of it were three grubs that looked like the bigger trouble.

"This…" Roxas said. "Aint good."

"Aint aint a word!" Solas scolded him.

"Nows not the time squirt!" Roxas scolded back.

The Spider screeched and the grubs attacked. Ty, Riku and Roxas attacked the grubs, but the Spider was coming after me. I drew my sword and got in a fighting position. Metal flexed his hands, revealing sharp claws that used to haunt Sonic's nightmares. Solas snarled beside me, but it was sadly not very intimidating. It sounded more like a four week old puppy growling at his sibling… no matter how hard he'd try, his growls made him cuter.

"Solas, watch over Jade and Joe!" I ordered him, having a feeling that they were after them.

Solas looked at me. "No! I want to stay wi-"

"No time to argue!" I told him. "Go make sure they're safe! Go!"

Solas still looked like he didn't want to go, but he charged and darted into the infirmary where Jade and Joe slept. The bugs didn't even glance at him, nor did they follow him into the infirmary.

Metal stood in front of me protectively. "There's no programing in them…" He said, his voice holding something I never thought Metal would have… fear.

"How are they attacking then?!" Riku asked.

"There's pilots!" I shouted. "Something inside!"

"Heartless!" Ty added as a grub lunged at him.

I was about to run to help him when the spider finally lunged. Before Metal could react it smacked him away and into a corner of a wall. The impact must of been hard enough to daze him because he didn't get up right away.

The spider advanced toward me fast enough that barely gave me time to react. I slashed at one of it's legs, but another leg slashed and gave me a deep gash in my arm. I yelp at the burning pain. The spider hissed at me and shoved me into a wall before pinning me there.

"EM!" I heard Ty yell.

Looking over I saw my boyfriend trying to defeat the grub that was keeping him at bay.

That's when I heard Metal shout me an order. "GET OUT OF HERE! CHAOS CONTROL OUT! NOW!"

I barely thought twice. I was feeling dizzy from being thrown around, and I didn't want to look at my wound. My fighting hand was barely gripping my sword as my left hand went to my watch and turned the dial, opening the chaos energy hidden inside all the way on. I was hit with a wave of chaos energy that made me even more dizzy. "Chaos, CONTROL!" I shouted, half screaming it.

A second later the Gummie ship desolved and a different room appeared. It was likely the engine room from the whining engine. But it didn't sound like the Gummie, it sounded like a car having trouble starting.

"What?!" Came a voice I didn't recognize.

I look around, my vision coming in and out from the fight and my wounds. I was literally willing my legs to keep me upright. But I could see who spoke. it was a tall man in a suit, suspenders, a bow-tie and silly looking hair. To me he looked like a well loved rag doll. But my sixth sense told me he was old… much older than he looked… he was older than Shadow, that was for sure. He was also lonely… too many goodbyes for his taste... But there was one more life on this weird ship. I couldn't see her, I'm not even sure how I knew it was a her, but she was there… almost everywhere.