"You think they can handle such a mission by themselves?" Cloud asked his friends.
"I think they can." Leon replied. "They are familiar with such a task. Even if it's just the three of them."
"As long as they believe they can, I'm sure they'll do perfectly fine." said Aerith.
"Come now, let's finish up what we're doing and then check on the army." said Merlin.
Everyone nodded as Leon closed the door and they got back to what they were doing.
Cid's Gummiship:
Hayner, Pence, and Olette entered the ship and looked around. The cockpit was similar to the original Gummiship Disney Castle had.
"Wow, talk about déjà vu." commented Olette. "It's just like the old one."
"Which mean we'll be familiar with it like when Mickey and Donald taught us!" said Pence.
"And I'll be driving." said Hayner. "I got the remote and the summon charm."
"I'll be co-pilot!" Pence chimed in.
"Manning the weapons it is." Olette shrugged.
Hayner walked to the front seat and checked the controls. "Ok let's see here…"
The spiky-blonde teen moved the screen around until he found the Dwarf Woodlands.
"Bingo!" Hayner grinned as he tapped it. "Seat up you two!"
Pence and Olette took the other seats as Hayner pressed some buttons and pulled a few levers.
"Alright!" Hayner cheered. "Dwarf Woodlands, here we come!"
And the Gummiship rose into the air and took off towards the Lanes-In-Between.
Castle That Never Was:
Unbeknownst to them, Maleficent, Pete, and Mortimer, had been watching in the Grey Room thanks to her magic.
"So the three miscreants from Twilight Town have decided to play the hero game." Maleficent mused. "Quite pitiful."
"Yeah! Theys don't know what they're getting themselves into!" said Pete. "They usually did their traveling with the more experienced heroes!"
"And they think they can handle being hero by going just by themselves?" Mortimer snorted. "Please. They may be masters from very quick training, but it won't be enough."
"You two are quite right." Maleficent nodded. "But they did help rescue the Lost Keyblade Wielders. And fought against the past version of Thanos. Not as powerful as they may seem, I cannot take any chances."
Pete and Mortimer were taken aback.
"Are you sure Maleficent? I mean they are mediocre wielders." Mortimer said.
"True. But they have a lot of determination and courage in their hearts. Much like Sora back when he started his journey. And he wasn't supposed to be the chosen Keybearer." Maleficent said. She turned to her subordinates. "Tell the members monitoring the worlds of the previous Princesses of Heart that they will be facing company… and they mustn't take any chances lightly."
"Uh yeah sure thing!" Pete nodded.
And the two raced out of the Grey Room, leaving Maleficent alone.
"Another team of heroes goes from world to world to protect them. How quaint…" Maleficent snorted as she looked back at her spying magic. "You teenagers may act all brave… but we'll see just how well you fare against us when you don't have Sora and his allies to help you. You'll be doomed to dark fates when we are all through with you…"
Maleficent laughed wickedly as her magic swirled around her and she disappeared in a green mist.
To be continued…
Xion she should give up her existence (greater good aside, still a fucked up thing to say, like Namine telling Roxas he shouldn't exist in KH2), Riku is the reason Xion lies to Roxas, and if I haven't mentioned it yet, Saix openly hope Xion dies...
And the list goes on. The breakdown of their friendship was such a beautifully tragic thing to witness, and it was something Axel, Roxas, and Xion didn't deserve. That's why we wanted them to be brought back and be given a happy ending instead. We were invested in these characters because they were well written.
Then KH3 comes out and says "Guess I should have brought some ice cream" and "Needed to iron out some plot points". Those lines of dialogue really rubbed me the wrong way, it honestly can't be put into words.
You cannot and will not brush XION'S DEATH under the rug with that shit.
Bottom line is, Roxas and Xion are not friends with Isa because he says "I was jealous". Saix was a psycopathic asshole from his introduction to his death to his resurrection in 3DS, and he gets an OFF SCREEN REDEMPTION ARC? WHAT THE FUCK? I mean, I'm all for a good redemption arc, but this aint it chief. He did not do enough to earn that spot on the clock tower. And before you try and defend this child abuser, he objectively did very little in bringing back Roxas and Xion. Yes, he played a part, but it's the equivalent of being a shrub in a 1st grade school play. It wasn't important enough to warrant a standing ovation and total forgiveness of his character, not from fans and not from the in universe characters.
Roxas is definitely not going to be friends with Riku, who stopped him from fulfilling Xion's last wish of destroying Kingdom Hearts, threw him into the Matrix, and played a huge role in erasing him from the world and returning him to Sora. Especially when he was a major reason Xion betrayed Roxas, like I said earlier. Roxas should be incredibly distrustful and angry with Riku, whether it's justified or not. Roxas lost his friends as a direct result of Riku's meddling, and Riku with his personality would not be so easy to just be friends with Roxas, even if they could be (and probably will be best buds in Re: KH4.3 the lost USB drive)
It also does actually nothing to address the lingering issues between the BBS trio.