Star watched as Billy formed some sort of weird force field thing around her Laserpuppies, which kinda ticked her off but they didn't appear to be in any immediate danger so they were fine for the time being.
"I'm gonna go along with you, Emma!" Star exclaimed in response to Emma's inquiry on whether or not she was interested in leaving with them. As if she even needed to ask. Within all of the excitement, the princess held up a hand to Emma and another to Killian, indicating she wanted a high five.
Assuming that at least one of them returned the gesture, Star then turned to Marco, who had been relatively quiet since they arrived here. "What about you, Marco? You gonna come and join Team Laserpuppies?" The princess asked enthusiastically. Obviously not giving up on that awesome team name that she came up with.
"Actually, I think I'll pass on joining 'Team Laserpuppies.' I'll just stay here with Team....." Marco paused for a second, not really being able to come up with a cool team name. After a few moments of awkward silence, Marco just let out a sigh. "I'll just stay here." Marco stated plainly before sipping on his mango smoothie that he had been keeping somewhere since he bought it. In reality, he was just staying there because it looked like the safer option than heading out into yet another world unknown. Though he wasn't about go admit that out loud, with the whole 'Safe Kid' nickname still going strong.
"Oh okay. That's cool....I guess." Star said, sounding a bit disappointed that Marco didn't go with them. Though she didn't mind too much, and she quickly changed to subject as she began to skip ahead of everyone and towards the door. Before she actually made it, Marco had spoken up yet again.
"W-wait!" Marco stuttered, having reached out a bit as if he was about to grab Star and somehow stop her from going. He knew that she could most likely, no, that she would handle herself out there, but there was still that thought that lingered in the back of his mind. A voice in his head that was telling him to not let her go, that it was safer here. Stay here, with me. That's what he wanted to say. But instead the words fell flat. He knew that he couldn't stop her from going, even if he wanted to. It was her decision, and her decision alone. And Marco would trust her no matter what she chose to do.
"Yeah Marco?" Star asked as she cocked her head to the side a bit, wondering what Marco wanted. Was it a hug? A kiss, even? Probably not. Marco wasn't the type of guy who enjoyed doing that type of stuff in public.
"Just.... be safe out there." Marco finally managed to sputter out with a small smile.
"You too." Star said in response with the same smile that Marco had. Before she could let herself get lost in his eyes again, Star turned on a heel and began to walk with her new group, wand in tow.
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Aerith thought Tigger looked awfully familiar, but she wasn't quite sure. Not like you forgot a bouncing tiger. "Be careful going on patrol. Especially with so many Heartless running around."
"Don't worry, we'll be fine," Leon responded before motioning to everyone who were going on patrol to follow him.
As they left Aerith turned to Zé. "Well that all of them can keep the darkness at bay and sense it when it's near."
Meanwhile Leon lead the patrol crew unto the quiet streets of Radiant Garden. "There's rumors about the Heartless gathering around the castle, so were going to check it out. I hope you guys can take care of yourself. I'm not here to baby you." Leon was not impressed by what he thought was a lack of, well, everything.
"Once they fighting starts you'll find that we don't need no hand holding." America knew his heart was in the right place but did he have to be so blunt about everything?
Soon enough they found themselves at the city square. As they walked they heard something scratching not too far from them. Perhaps it was just an animal?
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"No stay back until-!" But Star was already close enough to the bush that Leon's urging was to no effect. As Star stood next to the bush the source of the sound leaped out and!
...It was a single Heartless that Leon quickly dispatched with his gunblade. "This time you were lucky there was only one. Next time maybe-"
Leon was interrupted by the shaking ground. "What's going on?" The ground burst open to reveal their foe.
The twisted monster looked like it was created an untold number of Heartless that they had fought in the past.
"I didn't know they could do that!" America responded surprised.
Leon echoed her statement. "Neither did I!"
The creature loomed over them menacingly before descending unto the group like a tide.
Meanwhile back in the house Aerith tried to respond to Marco as best as he could. "Like I mentioned earlier the Princesses of Heart are needed to open up a place to the heart of all worlds. There's power there, and Thanos probably wants to harness that power to his own ends."
"But Thanos is already a powerful being with pretty much everything at his disposal," Songbird added. "Why go through all that effort to do something like that?"
Aerith shook her head. "I can't say. You're more familiar with him then I am after all."
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"Pretty much everything," Herbert recites to Songbird, "everything in the universe. His universe. Big bads like him are always hungry for more power. Even after tapping into everything, they try to dig for more after a while. A wide variety of worlds and universes with different laws of physics and their own legendary items - maybe even copies of said legendary items. Why settle for the universe when the endless, ever-splitting, ever-expanding whole of reality known as the multiverse can be at your fingertips?"
Herbert then looks at Aerith.
"These mutant ants, these... 'Heartless'... is there anything more we need to know of them?"
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