3 Doors Down-Citizen Soldier

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Chapter 10:Out of Time

The demonic form of Antomus laughed manically,”You cannot comprehend the power I have!”

“Who cares!?No one does!”Mario yelled.

“I shall show you fools a taste of my power!”Antomus sneered, and two blue orbs appeared in his hands. He threw them into the air. The blue orbs collided with each other and formed a portal. The portal starting sucking up everything. Antomus laughed again and flew right into the portal. Sora and the others tried to hold on to something but the force of the portal sucked them up anyway.

The next thing they knew they were at some place where it was a plain white realm. The gruesome form of Antomus stood a couple of feet away. The place was totally silent.

“Where are we?”King Mickey asked.

“A place where time stands still, doesn’t exist. Here, you could live forever and never grow old. But that doesn’t mean you can’t die!!”Antomus grinned,”I’m afriad your time is up!”

The ground around Antomus suddenly became black and spread all around him. From the blackness, two weapons shot into his hands. An axe and a mace. The final round had begun. The death match.

The battle was fierce. Antomus tried with all his might to strike down Sora and the others. Flying through the air and slashing at them. Mario and Sora ended the battle when Sora clashed weapons with Antomus while Mario snuck behind him. When Antomus finally saw Mario it was too late. Antomus tried to fly away but Mario jumped on his back and drove his keyblade through Antomus’ back. Antomus screamed in pain and fell to the ground. Mario was slung ten feet away, skidding to a halt. Antomus was on the ground twisting the way and that, coughing madly.

“Why….why me?”Antomus coughed.

“Because you messed with our friends and family. Because you sought to kill good, thus destroying the universe.”King Mickey answered.

“You guys are still fools. You were too late to kill me. You are out of time.”Antomus sneered.

“What are you talking about?”Mario asked.

Antomus coughed loudly and ignored the question. With his dying breath, he said,”I hate spiky-haired teens, talking rats, but most of all I hate plumbers.”Antomus’ body went limp and remained on the ground.

“What was he talking about?”King Mickey asked.

“Beats me.Well, what now?How do we even get out of here?”Sora asked.

At that moment a portal opened to their side and a dragon came from the portal. The dragon was white and had a long slender body with many legs. The dragon was beautiful and it hovered above their heads.

“What now!”Mario moaned.

“Do not be alarmed. I come in peace.”the dragon replied.

They were surprised to see that the dragon could talk.King Mickey finally said,”Who are you and what do you want?”

“I am Father Time and I come to thank you.”the dragon replied.

“”Father Time!?”Sora yelled.

“Uhm…okay. Why did you want to thank us?”Mario said.

“You have destroyed a great threat to the universe. Antomus was a very vile villain that needed to be stopped. “the dragon replied.

“You knew Antomus?”Sora said.

“Well I should. He was my son.”Father Time answered.

“What!?”Mario, Sora, and King Mickey said at the same time.

“Yes, Antomus was my son. Although when I knew him he wasn’t this Antomus. He used to be kind and loving and was going to take my place as Father Time when my time had passed.

“Then what had made him so bad?”King Mikcey asked.

“People who live their lives outside of time learn everything in the universe. Being Father Time, you had to be the guardian of time and space, to make sure the space/time continuum never broke. Knowing everything, Antomus knew about Kingdom Hearts and a way to open it without using the keyblades. He didn’t want to guard space and time, he wanted to rule it. He left this realm and went to the mortal realm, where he broke the sacred laws and broke the dimensional walls. Then he formed alliances with people just as evil as he was and together, they planned to rule the universe. I am sorry that Antomus is dead but he had to die. An evil as great as him could never be permitted to live.”

“Before Antomus died, he told us that we were too late.What did he mean?”King Mickey asked.

“I’m afraid Antomus was right. By breaking the dimensional walls he interrupted the natural balance of all the dimensions. Thanks to him things had happened that should not have happened. He changed the course of life. Doing this, he broke the space/time continuum and as of now, the universe is destroyed.”

“What!? You mean we’ve failed.”Sora said.

“What about our friends and family?”Mario asked.

“I’m sorry. Everything living is dead. The universe is no more. There’s nothing left.”Father Time said gravely.

“It can’t be!There’s got to be something we can do!”Sora yelled, tears in his eyes for the lose of his friends.

“There is. I can reverse time. All the way back before the dimensional barriers were broken.It will make things the way it should have been. That also means everyone that has died during this time will be once again alive. Villains and heroes. So that they may face their own enemies in their own dimension, the way it should have been.”Father Time replied.

“Does this mean my brother will be alive!”Mario asked, and Father Time nodded yes. Mario jumped in the air and cheered.

“But what about Antomus?Won’t he be brought back to life too?”King Mickey asked.

“Antomus died here. Outside time and space. So he shall remain dead, forever.”Father Time answered.

“But I’m afraid everything that has happened recently will be forgotten. Like it never happened.”Father Time said.

“Does that mean we won’t remember each other?”Sora and Mickey asked, looking at Mario, who had become like a part of their family.

“That’s the way it has to be. There’s no other way.”Father Time answered,”I’ll give some moments to yourself.”Father Time then floated a couple of yards away.

“This sucks guys. Mario, you were a good friend.”Sora said.

“I’ve made so many friends, Amy, Ratchet, and you guys. And I’ve been to cool and amazing worlds. I don’t want to forget you guys.”Mario said.

“Don’t worry fellas. Even if we forget one another, we’ll meet again. I know we will. We may forget each other in our minds but never in our hearts. True friends can never forget each other.”King Mickey said. Sora and Mario smiled at Mickey and they all embraced one another.

They all turned to Father Time and Sora asked what do we have to do?”

” You heroes have done enough. Just leave everything to me.”Father Time said and started to move his many hands around in circles. A huge clock suddenly appeared in front of him. The hands started moving backwards at a fast pace. They soon stopped and everyone had to shield their eyes when a bright light appeared.

Mario and his brother Luigi were relaxing in Mushroom Valley eating well, mushroom soup. Mushroom Valley was the place where all mushrooms in Mushroom Kingdom are grown. They had been going here every chance they could get, because they never had time to come here due to Princess Peach was always getting herself into some kind of trouble. It has been about two months though since any villain, mostly Bowser, has shown their face in the Kingdom.Suddenly Luigi said, “Have you ever wondered how come we like mushrooms so much? Plus, like everything here have the word mushroom in front of it. What’s the big deal!? They’re just stupid mushrooms.”

Mario chuckled and replied,”Wash your mouth out with soap Luigi! Mushrooms are pretty darn good if you ask me!”

THE END

Chapter 9:Fate of All

Mario stood over Luigi limp body. Tears were in his eyes. The battle still raged on around him but Mario didn’t care. He had failed his brother. King Mickey’s hand grabbed Mario shoulders and squeezed lightly.

“I’m sorry Mario. But now is not the time to mourn. We must stop Antomus before he destroys Kingdom Hearts.”King Mickey said.

“Antomus went into it a little while ago. We must go after him.”Sora said.

“You’re right.”Mario said, getting to his feet,”I will avenge my brother. Antomus will pay for this!”

“Go we’ll handle this fight!”Samus said, and the other commanders nodded. Sora , Mario, and King Mickey nodded back and made their way up the ledge towards Kingdom Hearts, leaving Luigi corpse where it fell.

They soon made it up the ledge and on solid ground again. The huge white door, lending into Kingdom Hearts towered before them. The door to it stood wide open, they could not see into it, for a a blackness covered it.

“This is it. The fate of all rests on our shoulders. If we lose, the worlds, our friends, everything will be encased in chaos. We must beat Antomus!”King Mickey said.

“But no pressure!”Sora replied sarcastically, and they stepped through the door.

The next thing they saw was a city of darkness. Huge buildings stood over them, their dark color making them look evil. The sky overhead was red. A storm rained down from the sky, sending out black lightning in the sky. This is what Antomus had done to Kingdom Hearts. On the other side of the city was Antomus. Even though they were on one side of the city and Antomus was on the other he was pretty easy to spot. He stood on top of a huge snake-like monster, which was higher than the city. The snake was green and had razor sharp claws and a scorpion-like tail. It hissed as the heroes raced through the city towards it. They ran towards Anotmus and stopped and few feet away from the snake beast. The snake roared at them, it shook the very ground.

“The heroes have come to save the day. Don’t bother! As you can see I’ve done a little redecorating!In a matter of moments Kingdom Hearts will completely belong to me!Every person, every heart, shall become evil. Good will cease to exist! Evil will reign supreme!I will be the king of all!”Antomus yelled.

“Antomus!You understand nothing!If you destroy good it will set the universe out of balance! You can’t have evil without good. As long as there evil in the universe there’re suppose to be good. You have no idea what you’re about to do! Stop this before it’s too late!’King Mikey warned.

“Save your lecture your highness! I know exactly what I’m doing!I’m going to get rid of the keyblade masters!Kill them!”Antomus commanded to his serpent. The creature attacked and the battle for the universe begun.

The serpent was difficult to deal with. It would snap at them and attacked them with it’s claws and scorpion tail. The serpent seemed to have some kind of dark magic. It would shoot puple flames at them from it’s claws. The battle raged on for what seemed like hours, but the heroes soon prevailed and the serpent fell. It faltered and fell backwards, crashing into one of the buildings. Antomus was able to jump off before it crashed. He landed on top of one of the roofs of a building.

“You killed my pet heartless! Guess I’ll have to do this myself!”Antomus yelled.

“You will pay Antomus! You killed my brother!”Mario screamed.

“Oh boo-woo! I killed a stupid plumber!Bad me!”Antomus grinned.

Mario screamed in fury and raced towards Antomus. Antomus jumped from the roof to the ground. Before Mario had a chance to attack him, a huge sword appeared in his hands. The sword was almost as big as Mario. Antomus grabbed Mario by the throat and tossed him backwards. Sora and Mickey were able to catch him before he fell.

“Ha ha ha ha! You guys are pathetic! You guys think you can defeat me!”Antomus yelled.

“Don’t flatter yourself, we can defeat you easy!”Sora replied.

“Let’s see about that!” Antomus yelled and round 2 begun.

Sora,King Mickey, and Mario had a tough fight on their hands. Antomus would slash at them, disappear, and slash at them from behind. Then, he would slide towards them and try to slice them up. Miraculously, Sora and the others were able to dodge these attacks and deliver a few of their own. Using the tactic, they were soon able to defeat Antomus once again. Antomus was on his hands and knees, clutching his chest and gasping for air.

“Care to surrender Antomus?”King Mickey grinned.

“What!?I’m just getting started!”Antomus sneered, and rose from his feet.

Antomus became a ball of darkness and floated towards the dead snake’s body. The dark ball disappeared into the creature’s chest. For awhile, nothing happened. Then, the snake monster started to rise up.

“What the-!?”Sora yelled.

“Antomus is controlling the snake!He’s inside of it!”King Mickey answered.

The snake suddenly started to transform. The snake changed into something for terrifying than before. It looked like a demon.The creature laughed madly.

“We are so screwed.”Sora said.