Belle was panting, her new acquired Keyblade with a tight grip in her hands. A few meters away from her was Gula, who, luckily for Belle, also was panting. However she did not as heavily as herself. Belle stormed at Gula once again and performed a Blitz. She leaped towards Gula and hit her three times in a row, successfully. Gula immediately countered by slashing with her salty metal blade. Belle quickly jumped back, getting slashed at the last moment in her right leg. "Ugh." she said and backed down several meters.

"You're getting annoying. How about I finish you off?" Gula said as her sword went back into the mouth of her right hand.

"What? You're going to use another one of your tastes?" Belle said serious, and immediately got into her battle pose.

Gula suddenly laughed very hard. "You think I am going to use another power?! I still have some sweet abilities left." she said as two new bubbles appeared out of Gula's mouths. However this time they were mint green instead of pink. Belle saw the difference in color and immediately readied herself for what was to come. "This new flavor is sweet yet very fresh. Kinda like a mint bubblegum. But somehow it also is particular spicy... or should I say explosive." Belle's eyes widened.

Gula fired the mint green bubblegums into Belle's direction. Belle quickly used her dodge roll to get out of the way. The first bubblegum hit the wall of pie behind her and created a huge explosion. A huge hole was left in the gigantic pie and pieces were flying up everywhere in the air. But it didn't remain with just one, Gula fired several of the mint bubblegums after each other while Belle dodge rolled away from them. When both stopped, the pie that once was behind Belle was almost completely destroyed. Belle quickly disappeared behind one of the pies to get her breath.

I just got lucky to hit her with a few close combat strikes. But it is very dangerous to get close to her, especially now with her mint bombs. If I get hit by one of them it'll be over for me. The shurikens I had were way too weak to even pop one of her bubbles. However a move that would have Keyblade enchantment would work. I already noticed that my Blitz got a lot stronger with the Keyblade. But I don't have any projectile magic or projectile moves. Belle thought as she got her breath at the same time.

"Where are you little girl?" she heared Gula shout. "Before I kill you, I think I can tell you what is going on in this world. Or at least tell you something about King Candy. That was what you wanted to find out in the first place, isn't that right?" Belle wisely didn't speak as she knew that Gula would find her. "Okay. You know that back in the day, meddling in other worlds was forbidden? Well similar to that there is a concept in this world that when you 'meddle' into another game you go Turbo. That person was once the lead character of Turbo Time. He was obsessed with glory... but his game got old, so he left his own game. He interrupted into another game, but eventually caused both games to get closed down. He later reprogrammed himself in here and took the place of ruler and made the previous ruler a glitch. And that basically is what happened." she explained. "Now can you tell me where you are hiding!" she said and launched another mint bubblegum into a random direction which caused another giant explosion.

---

Thomas's spells worked effective. His fire spells would burn off the legs of the giant Cy-Bug after a few more hit with it. It were a lot of legs after all. The thunder spell would automatically hit the back of the torso, as it was the highest part of the body. It was less effective as the fire spells, but did the job quite fine. Calhoun meanwhile blasted away with her gun. After Thomas would have burned off the legs and weakened the back torso, the Cy-Bug was unable to move. Calhoun grabbed a giant blaster from her back. "Time to call in the big guns." she said and fired a blast into the face of the Cy-Bug making it explode on impact.

"Seems you killed off your one as well?" Calhoun said with a smile to Joshua before they all gathered again. Her face immediately became serious. "We need to inform the inhabitants of the giant hive. They need to get away as quickly as possible, they will hatch around tomorrow afternoon.

"Sergeant?" Felix said to catch her attention. "I saw a sign that the race was starting tomorrow. If we tell the news there, we can evacuate everyone all together." he said.

"Great idea Felix." Calhoun responded when suddenly there was a huge explosion coming from far away. It wasn't very loud from the point where the group was standing, but could be heard if there were no other loud noises around. Some pieces of something were also flying through the air. "Another Cy-Bug?" Calhoun questioned.

Ascot flew out before Jake came inside the factory, and began searching for Belle right away. Of course, the obvious place to look was the castle, and Ascot went there first, stealthily, of course; dispelling his Glider to use his innate gliding abilities. Was Belle in the dungeons? Well, hopefully not; hopefully, she escaped and was out in the countryside where Ascot can rescue her.

Which she was; an explosion from the northeast was heard by the boy's keen ears, and, resummoning his glider, the boy sped away to the candy canyons like a rocket, sighting the battle between Belle and the member of the Six Senses. He managed to get close, and dispel his Glider once again, in time to hear Gula's piece of information. The boy sighed; it seemed that his leaping to conclusions was right, after all.

Nevertheless, he swore never to make a decision like that again; going by story logic was dangerous. Still gliding over the ground, Ascot cast Haste on himself, trying to maneuver himself behind Gula's back. Then, shortly before Glide faded and set the boy upon the ground again, he used the Sonic Blade technique, hopefully catching the villainess off guard.

If that failed, he would weave and duck, his speed leaving afterimages just as Joshua predicted a while ago. He would then cast Holy, Spark, Reflect, and Fira, in that order, before summoning Morph to turn himself into a blindfold on Gula's face. If Sonic Blade succeeded, he would do that anyway; hopefully, his speedy attacks would help get Belle back in the battle...

Thomas grinned to himself as he dodged and weaved, his spells surprisingly effective on the Cy-bug given that it didn't have the magical resistance of a Heartless. To be honest, it was a tad scary to see what magic could do to actual things, but it was a power he had long ago gotten used to. Lightning slammed into the back torso given that it was the highest point, while fire burned at it's legs and allowed him to hack away at it with his Keyblade, eventually severing one, then another and another until it was immobile. He did get some of the thing's blood on him in the process, but he ignored it for the most part as he moved in battle, and Calhoun blasted the thing.

He jumped away as Calhoun pulled out an extra large gun (How many guns did she actually have), and killed it at last. He put on a grin, buoyed by the success at least a little, the pain he had from darkness lessening slightly as he rejoined Calhoun, sending away his armor and Keyblade, while turning to face Joshua who seemed to have finished off his Cy-bug as well, to no real surprise on Thomas's part. If there was anyone that could handle one of those things, it was Joshua. Well, and Reno/Oner, but that was hardly a fair contest as it was. He supposed he should amend the statement to say 'Of the normal people', since Reno/Oner wasn't normal, no matter what appearances might be put on, mentally as well as physically.

He stood there with arms folded, listening to the conversation about what to do, and how to handle this threat. "So, I don't suppose you've got an army or something ready to kill all these things, do you? Since getting everyone out only seems to solve half the problem, at least from where I'm standing," he said to add his opinion. Then there was an explosion, which drew his gaze as well as everyone elses, to see debris in the air.

"Do they normally do explosions," he asked, Calhoun the only real expert on Cy-bugs they had here. If she didn't know, then none of them would. Still, things had gotten a bit more difficult now. "Well, guess we split up then. Me or Joshua can take Felix to go warn the townsfolk via Glider, while the other goes with Calhoun to see whatever the hell that was," he said, offering the suggestion and glancing at Calhoun. He was acutely aware that this moment, more than ever, she was a leader, a commander, someone who took people and used their energies to achieve a goal, who deserved and earned respect, while he was mediocre at best. He was barely the spokesperson o the group, and it wasn't like people listened to him beyond when the decision was blindingly obvious anyway. He had no qualifications to be in charge beyond Nagi's random choice. And he was afraid of embarrassing himself in front of Calhoun, and thus having Joshua dislike and not respect him that much more, though deep down he knew his suggestion was reasonable in this circumstance.

Oner sighed a little in relief as he watched Joshua, Thomas, and Calhoun come back from exterminating their batch of Cy-Bugs. It wasn't that he doubted their abilities no. He had great faith in every member of their group, as did Reno. Oner never liked battle though and was a natural worrywart when it came down to it. Still he let his worry subside for now, especially when he saw an explosion off in the distance. He listened to Thomas' plan about how to go about splitting up and thought of something of his own, waiting until Thomas finished speaking to voice his own opinion.

"I agree with Thomas, except I think I might stay here. If the race doesn't start till tomorrow, then there might still be enough time to eliminate the hive without the need for evacuation." In one of his hands was his own Keyblade, Blade of the Mirror, and suddenly he outstretched his other hand. Reno's Keyblade, Spellbinder, appeared above Oner's hand, floating in mid air, Oner not actually touching yet and taking a bit of care not to for some reason as he just let it float there. "If Reno and I..." He paused for a moment, trying to think of a word to explain this. "Transform... to put it in the tongue of the mortal realm... we may have enough power to eliminate the entire hive before all of the eggs hatch if all of us work together. With Neo Bahamhut aiding us we should be able to destroy all of the Cy-Bugs in the hive and the eggs as well..."

He sighed a little though, letting both blades vanish, Reno's blade actually vanishing in a small black flash instead of a small white one. "What dost thou think Seargent Calhoun? The Cy-Bugs seem to have come from your game, or so I assume, so you know the most about them. If we were to mount an all out assault on the hive, destroying as many eggs as we could, dost thou think we could prevent the destruction of this here game at their mandibles? Or would this endeavor just awaken a sleeping giant earlier than it should awaken?"

Calhoun listened to both Thomas and Oner before she spoke herself. "Unfortunately the eggs of a Cy-Bug are protected with some kind of 'anti-virus program' if you can call it that way. Those things can't be destroyed before they hatch." she looked at Oner. "So your plan won't work." Calhoun then looked a Thomas.

"But your idea would be the smartest right now. Split up, so that we can progress faster. This isn't one of those survival horror games, so it should be okay." she said. Calhoun recalled the question of Thomas concerning the Cy-Bugs. "The explosions could be caused by them. Cy-Bugs obtain the power of anything that they devour. So they might have devoured a machine gun, bomb thrower... although that would be unlikely in this game." she paused. "Since we are splitting up it may be useful to keep in touch." She threw an advanced communication radio into Thomas' hands. "Why don't you guys first try to find that Ralph guy Felix was talking about. Then ....Oner and I will go to check out that place." she said.

"Thank you sergeant." Felix said.

"Call me Calhoun." she answered with a wink. "Let's go Oner." she said and headed off.

---

While Gula was trying to taunt Belle to get out of her hiding spot, she didn't lose attention on things that were going on around her. It was very very quiet in these cake canyons, so Gula could hear some noises far in the background. She didn't pay too much attention to it, but kept her ears alert. When she heard someone land on the ground, although it just could be a feather, she quickly turned around, only to see a young boy speeding at her with his Keyblade pointed forwards. Gula quickly held her bubblegum gloves together to block the attack. She quickly jumped back while throwing two of her mint bombs on the ground.

She recognized the boy as Ascot, one of the beans trying to stop the plan of the Six Senses. Ascot immediately cast Holy, a devastating spell. Luckily for Gula the build up to the spell took some second longer than other spells, so she quickly summoned one of her bubblegums away and made shield of salt, hard as metal like her blade, in front of her, covering most of her body. Of course her shield would deflect the following attacks of Ascot too. What she didn't expect was that she suddenly got blindfolded by... a living blindfold. "You little pepper!" she shouted out.

Belle heard the explosions, and the attacks of someone else. She recognized it was light magic, so it had to be Ascot. Belle quickly jumped on top of one of the pies. Her leg stung when she landed. The cut of the metal blade earlier began to hurt. Luckily she had, like everyone else, enchanted durability, and maybe even better than the others, so this cut was nothing. She readied her keyblade, of which she still couldn't believe she had and jumped into battle. Belle landed not too far from Gula's back and used her Thunder Dash and went pass Gula. Metal directed lightning so it would be effective. After that she joined Ascot's side. "Hey friend. Check this out! I also have a keyblade!" Belle said cheerful.

"Shut up you barnacles! I'll crack you two open like nuts!" she said as she had switched to her metal salt shield and blade.

---

Some time had passed after Ralph, Vanellope, Jake and Amaya had entered the diet cola volcano. Vanellope had made much progress in training for the race, she had gotten a lot better. But it was getting hot inside of the volcano. "I'm gonna go out for some time. You can join me if you want Jake." Ralph said to his fellow male. He headed out whether Jake went with him or not. Outside he waited if Jake joined him, when he suddenly heard someone honking who appeared to be King Candy. "Hey Ralph! There you are!"

Ralph immediately got angry and smacked his fists together. "I mean you no harm. I just want to tell you something." he said. Ralph ignored King Candy and walked towards him to get him. King Candy tried to flee and suddenly put on some glasses. "You wouldn't hit a guy with glasses, right?" he said. Ralph grabbed the glasses and smacked King Candy on his head with it. Candy chuckled because of the irony, but got grabbed by his collar by Ralph afterwards. "What do you want!" Ralph shouted. "Nothing you say interests me!"

"Not even this?" Candy revealed the medallion of Ralph that Vanellope previously used to enter the race. Ralph released King Candy to his surprise. Candy smiled. "You see, I have something that interests you. Here take it. It's yours after all." Ralph admired the medal. "But you need to hear me out. Do you know what the hardest thing about being a king is? Doing the right thing."

"What do you mean by that?"

"It's hard for me. But Vanellope can't race." Ralph thought it was bullshit, but King Candy quickly continued. "She cannot race. She is a glitch, if she wins she'll be added to the race roster. The people who are playing it will see that she is a glitchy character, and if reported to the big guy, they will pull the plug out of the game. And that isn't the worst part. Because everyone can safely evacuate, except for Vanellope because she is a glitch. So please Ralph do not let Vanellope race, do it for her." King Candy pleaded.

"Maybe the players will like her." Ralph said.

"But what if they don't..." King Candy asked, causing Ralph to go silent and sit back. "Vanellope can't race, but she won't listen to me. Can you please talk some sense into her. That way she at least will survive." he said before stepping into his kart and driving away. Ralph sighed and looked at Jake. "What should I do?"

---

Meanwhile inside of the of the mountain Vanellope was alone with Amaya. "So you're a girl... that means you must have some more experience than me. So... do you have a boyfriend? Is it fun adventuring together? Do you worry about him alot?" the girl asked, maybe being a bit cheeky, but she meant it good.

"Good for you, Belle!" Ascot shouted in response to the Thief's proclamation that she had manifested a Keyblade. Of course, there was little time for happiness, since they were in a combat situation. As Gula went into melee, Ascot took a split-second to observe her style, and then went into battle himself, relying on the much taller Belle - Girls hit their growth spurts earlier - to recieve the enemy's blows.

He, himself, would try a sneaky thrust at said enemy's armpit, a thrust aided by Haste. If that failed, the boy would stomp on the woman's foot; yes, that was also dirty, but so was snatching Belle away, presumably to kill her. Note that all this while, Gula was still blinded, having forgotten to rip Morph out from her eyes. However, Ascot, not waiting for her to do so, cast Spark on Morph, causing the creature to surround itself with a ring of lights that would bring the pain directly to Gula's eyes.

Of course, thanks to the powers of the Keyblade, it won't cause any permanent injury, not unless he willed it.

It was a sad state of affairs, but Thomas actually found himself glad that the Cy-bugs had this protection on their eggs. The revelation that Oner/Rneo could use two Keyblades at the same time was bad enough, but he secretly was glad that the Mirror Denizen wouldn't have another chance to show off by single handedly destroying the hive while he warned people for a nonexistent threat. It wasn't exactly the attitude of a hero, but he couldn't stop it regardless. At least he kept from showing his pleasure to the others.

Then, what he had been seeking, what he needed. Confirmation from Calhoun that he had indeed come up with a good plan. Sure, she modified it some, but that wasn't so bad, given that he had the base idea. She probably would have come up with the same herself, but it provided that spark of confidence in his leadership abilities, such as they were, that he needed.

"Got it," he replied with a curt nod, catching the communicator. "Good luck," he added as they left, though they probably wouldn't need it. After all, it wasn't like he'd seen an opponent yet that was an actual challenge for Oner/Reno, and with Calhoun backing him/them up, there wasn't really anything that could pose a threat. Putting away the comm device, he looked over at Felix. "So, I don't suppose you have any idea how we could find Ralph, do you," he asked. "This wor...game, isn't exactly small." He was never really a fan of random wandering about, so if the mechanic had some advice it would be most welcome. He summoned his glider in preparation to move out though, pending on the answer.

Amaya stood quietly looking around the home "huh? Uh yeah we would be cconsidered togather and it is fun to adventure"she commented with a smile "you are right i worry alot for my 'boyfriend ..he works hard to make sure i don't get hurt or hurt myself working hard...i do worry about him greatly cause he is fightinghis darkness alone"she said

"I am not fighting it alone dummy. I got you by my side and that's why I'll never lose in the end." A voice said from behind Amaya as a fist hit on the head very, very lightly. Joshua had shown up to check on Amaya. He handed her a small ice cream cone with ice cream in it" Vanilla and regular mint ice cream. Figured I'd pick you up a treat on the way here. Though mind you, it was a bit hard to find some that wasn't covered in chocolate. You're allergic to that stuff if I recall."

He looked over at Vanellope and knelt down to her height while holding out his hand to her.
"Howdy there. The name's Joshua." he said" So why is a cute little girl like you concerned about boyfriends and stuff like that?"

"The explosions could be caused by them. Cy-Bugs obtain the power of anything that they devour. So they might have devoured a machine gun, bomb thrower... although that would be unlikely in this game." she paused. "Since we are splitting up it may be useful to keep in touch." She threw an advanced communication radio into Thomas' hands. "Why don't you guys first try to find that Ralph guy Felix was talking about. Then ....Oner and I will go to check out that place." she said.

"Thank you sergeant." Felix said.

"Call me Calhoun." she answered with a wink. "Let's go Oner." she said and headed off.

Oner realized that the Cy-Bugs were much more dangerous than he first thought. If they were to devour any of the Keybladers... imagine how strong these creatures could become. Would they obtain Keyblades and Gliders as well? Able to go to other worlds? Oner didn't want to speculate on such a thought, so instead when Calhoun mentioned that it would be him and her going to check out an explosion in the distance, he nodded. "Alright Sergeant..." With a wave of his hand he materialized his Glider, the large book, and jumped upon it, deciding to lower it to the ground and let Calhoun do the same instead of just levitate her onto it like Reno would have done.

Once she was on they sped off like a gun shot on his glider, moving quickly through the sky as Oner grew more worried about what could be the cause of the explosion at the castle, Oner's primary concern being were either any innocents or his friends were there. Luckily for Calhoun there was magic on the Glider that kept passengers from accidentally falling off, so with the speeds they were going there was no need to worry for falling off of the large book as it rocketed towards the source of the explosion, getting there in just a minute.

Oner and Calhoun managed to arrive just in time to see Belle and Ascot fighting someone, who Oner assumed to be one of the six senses judging by her attire. Quickly he jumped off his glider, it going low enough so that Calhoun could jump off the moment Oner transformed it back into his Keyblade, suddenly chanting one word. "Hikari." The moment he landed and chanted this word a powerful column of light shot from his palm at Gula as the circle on his forehead shone brightly. Granted the Diaja didn't have the same incredible intensity or area of affect as a spell like Holy, its power was still excellent, especially for one with Oner's magical strength, and it didn't have any charge up time other than the caster's own casting speed, which for Oner was quite instantaneous.

"Ascot, Belle. Art thou alright?" Oner quickly moved over to them, casting Curaja on both of them with a wave of his hand to help heal their wounds.

Jake gave Candy a cold, hard glare as the short King drove away.

"I'm sorry, I don't buy any of this," Jake said. "That girl's been suffering too long from bullying, and she's been itching to finally get a chance to race. If the Children of the Candy Corn hadn't been making her life miserable, maybe she wouldn't have had the desire to prove herself.

"And look, her condition..." Jake said, knowing he was on poor ground here, given that he still wasn't sure what the hell the others meant with a game.

"Her condition may not be normal, but trust me; I've met people who had it worse, people who by all laws of nature shouldn't exist. And yet they got better. Where there's life, there's hope. What King Candy's counting on is fear.

"So whatever King Candy is planning, count me out. I hope you've got more sense than to listen to him, Ralph.

"Besides, didn't you just bust up his castle? Think maybe he's just a tiny bit bitter about it?"

Jake stomped back inside, going to check on Vanellope. Best not to leave her alone under these circumstances.

Vanellope looked at Joshua with her normal indifferent look, but then a smile appeared. "Me? Cute and little, don't make me laugh. And just so you know I'm not in love with someone, I was just trying to make conversation." Vanellope leaned over to Amaya. "So this is your special guy, huh?" she asked, although Joshua was right next to them.

---

Gula ripped Morph off her face and stuffed him in a pocket of her XXL sized black coat. She saw Oner and Calhoun approach in the distance. She quickly backed down from Belle and Ascot and completely used her saltiness powers. Buckets full of metal hard salt came out of the mouths in her hands. Gula created a half circle around her, which like her blade and shield, were hard as metal. The magical light of Oner's Holy spell passed the metal defense of Gula. She quickly took back her metal again and transformed it into twin blades.

"Peanuts, more? Where do you little fish keep coming from? I could fry you, but if I first chop you guys to pieces then the distribution rate will be bigger and it won't take long for you guys to be well-done. And then I can eat you." Gula said, drooling a little bit at the thought of it.

"You're really sick." Belle said with a disgusted look. She looked to Ascot and Oner. "Okay, we need a plan. With four of us now, we can defeat her easily, although she only used 2 of her 4 tastes." she said. "So anyone has any ideas?"

Calhoun stepped forth. "I don't know the capabilities of this woman or those of you two. But I think that it is best to use projectile-based attack on her. Which is good in my case." Calhoun said and readied her blaster.

"Okay from what I know: she can shoot very hard bubblegum bubbles, and slam with them. If they are mint-green then they are explosive. She also can create weapons out of salt that is as hard as metal." Belle said.

"Okay from what I get, we should keep our distance and attack from different angles at the same time. She won't be able to do much if that is the case." Calhoun suggested. "Everyone agrees?"

Amaya gasped as she lightly giggled at his comment while accepting the ice cream
She listened to Joshua speak to the girl before Modding to the girl "yep this is my special gut he been with me for as long as o could remember...he even defied the group and searched for me when i was in a coma...he may speak like a punk and be stubborn nit that is fine with me"she said

"Good plan, Miss," spoke Ascot to Calhoun. "However, if this villain is taste-based, you'd better look out for Acid - Sour, and Poison - Bitter." He then looked at Gula, knowing that she can hear every word the group said. The boy then put on a metaphorical mask of confidence and a casual demeanor, before saying, in a carefree tone that was incredibly sincere:

"Yes, we're actually letting you hear our plans, that is how confident we are that we can beat you. You may be a formidable opponent, but, well, let's just say that I've seen better," which was the truth; Ascot had seen the Riders. "In fact, we are so confident that we can beat you that I'm actually giving out that I'm trying to rile you up; make you lose your judgement," the boy spoke in a deadpan manner.

"Because in the end, you're just a cheap farce who hits so many cliches, they can fill a libary." In truth, however, Ascot was ommitting some facts; he didn't just want to rile up Gula, he also wanted to give Oner and the others time to move into position. Then, the young Keyblader smiled and leapt up, then, glided striaght for Gula's hair, a fiery aura surrounding him as it did so.

However, this was a feint, and the boy rolled to Gula's left, his dexterity such that he as able to evade Oner or Belle or whoever was moving from the direction. Then, he cast Haste on himself again, and extended it to the rest of the group. Oh, and, lest Gula take Morph as a hostage, he desummoned the little creature, before using another Sparkra on the woman.

"OH, I'm a punk am I?" Joshua said, a smile on his face." For calling me that, you're sentenced to a forehead flick little lady. Calling me a punk after I went out of my way to get you some ice cream the nerve."

With that he did give her a flick to the forehead before turning back to Vanellope.
"By the way, you do know I heard that right? Anyway you are cute, don't go selling yourself short there. And to me you are on the small side but that really doesn't matter." He said to her while looking around at their surroundings" Also if you were just trying to make conversation with Amaya, you could've asked any number of things. You, my little lady..." At this point he knelt down and gently poked Vanellope"... have feelings for a certain someone. And if I had to guess it's that Ralph character we first saw you with. So tell me, am I right or am I right?"

Gula became angered as she listened to Ascot, but continued to laugh. "What are you, a melon?" in the meantime Calhoun had sneaked behind Gula and was there in position to shoot when she had the chance. Belle had gone to the left side of Gula, keyblade in hand, ready to attack. Ascot then made his move and headed straight towards Gula. She only smiled and created a rather large shield, that look more like a ramp, out of metal. However Ascot rolled out of that path, to her surprise. Belle, and Oner if he also would attack from the side, rushed towards her. However she had a solution for that.

She desummoned the salt a gooey pink stuff came out of her hand mouths. "I was hoping not to use my last sweet ability." she mumbled to herself. She then shot taffy to both of her sides which would hit Belle and Oner if they didn't respond immediately. Ascot was out of the danger, but his Sparkra spell also didn't work because of the shield she had set up earlier. Calhoun quickly reacted and shot Gula in the back making her fall forwards. She rolled forwards and recovered quickly. She was now, once again. She quickly shifted to her mint bubblegum and proceeded to fire them at her opponents.

Belle luckily had dodged the taffy, but it ruined her attack. Gula quickly summoned her mint green gloves. "Everyone look out! These are explosive!" she shouted out. Belle would evade all of the bombs she threw at the party, as one of them might cause a fatal injury. Gula eventually stopped. "Okay then." she looked to her opponents. "This isn't really a fair fight. You said you could beat me like a small fry, and yet here you are with four pumpkins. Can't one of you just beat me on your own? Unlike Mika I don't worry about the consequences. Come at me!!" Gula shouted with a smile.

"Fine!" Belle said and charged towards Gula. "Shuriken Raid!" she said and slashed with her keyblade and summoned three shurikens of light that headed towards Gula. The obese woman laughed in response and summoned another shield of salt deflecting the first two shurikens, with the last one getting stuck in it. Gula tried to ignore it and took down the shield, dropping the shuriken on the ground, which disappeared quickly after.

---

Vanellope suddenly burst out in laughter. "You're trying to say that I have feeling for Ralph. Don't make me laugh." she laughed for a bit before turning to Joshua and Amaya again. "You two just keep playing love birds, then I will win the race."

"What's so funny?" Ralph asked as he entered the volcano again, not long after Jake had returned. Vanellope only shook her head and Ralph shrugged, still with a sad look on his face. "Vanellope... I want to talk to you..." Ralph said.

"Okay. But before you do, I made you this!" Vanellope walked up to Ralph and gave him a new medallion made by Vanellope which read 'You're My Hero'. Ralph smiled down at Vanellope, who herself tried to ignore the stuff Joshua said earlier. Ralph however quickly got his sad face up again. "But... I think it's better for you to not compete in the race." he said, as Vanellope looked shocked.

"Really?" Jake said, seemingly appearing out of nowhere. "Care to explain why?"

This time, his axes were not strapped to his back, but in his hands, their metal gleaming menacingly in the light. He slowly positioned himself between Ralph and Vanellope. Jake's blue eyes had lost their mirthful twinkle, and had assumed a cold, dangerous glint, like an unsheathed sword.

"Please... enlighten us."

Oner dodged the attacks of Gula when he needed to, either stepping out of the way of the bombs or throwing them back with Reflectaga. Unfortunately getting close current'y didn't seem to be much of an option, until she stopped, and actually taunted them. Oner cursed inwardly in the language of the Denizens as Belle fell for it, unfortunately. Oner wasn't afraid to fight, although like Reno he did dislike it. Fighting should only be done if absolutely necessary and all fights ended quickly before anyone gets seriously hurt. They were not for fun or amusement and he did not believe that honor or glory could come or be lost from winning or losing battles.

Naturally gaining up on Gula with the power of the bonds between them and the strength of team work was something Oner had no qualms with. If it ended a battle more quickly before anyone got hurt, then it was fine with him. "If thou wants to be trounced like the common Shadows then fine! Let us end this fight..." As he said this a second Keyblade appeared above his left hand. His own blade, Blade of the Mirror, was clutched in his right. Floating above his left hand was Spellbinder, Reno's Keyblade. "Reno!" Right when Gula took down her shields and Oner said Reno's name he clutched Reno's Keyblade in his hand.

Unlike the first time he transformed, in the Mortal Realm at least, it was much more instant this time. Light and darkness swirled over his form for a moment in a very powerful swirl before shattering loudly, looking like the breaking of crystal rather than glass. Standing there now was... someone. The person looked like Reno, but also Oner, and yet neither of them as well. His hair extended to his upper mid back, jet black and pale white streaks evenly running through it. Light and darkness both pumped through the lines on his body like blood through veins, the two elements swirling harmoniously upon the circle on his forehead, his eyes, both of them being both red and green, giving Gula a confident gaze as a smirk appeared on his face.

"Just give up now, you stand no chance!" Two voices spoke at the same time when this new figure spoke, the voices being a mixture of Reno's and Oner's. Suddenly fire and ice both formed on both Keyblades, swirling and mixing with the blades almost harmoniously, the powers of both fire and ice combining with one another in both Keyblades, lightning also being formed around and within both blades as well. After muttering 'Aura' beneath his breath a blue aura formed around this figure for a moment as he used Oner's unique buff spell upon himself, the figure suddenly dashing forward, moving on the ground as flowing water moves through a river, very fast, but also with grace and fluidity.

With one slash the elements flowing over, around, and within both blades flared up in just the right moment as the figure slashed both of his blades towards Gula, the slashes being very swift thanks to both the fire and lightning magic upon and within his blades, but also the affects of Hasteaja that were upon him as well, the figure using the moments in Gula's shield being down in order to get close to her to strike, each of his two blades aimed for both of her sides.

"Belle!" shouted Ascot in response to the Thief's attack on Gula, realizing that the former had fallen for the latter's ploy. But, now was not the time to just stand there and do nothing; now was the time to act, to work as a team. So, in conjunction with Oner's attack, Ascot too launched himself at Gula's left, which was his right, his speed making him as fast as Oner was - he may not have Hasteaja...

...But he was more physically fit than Oner, and raised in the mountains on top of that. Plus, experience had been a harsh teacher. True, he had only been on this quest for a week or more, but he had much improved during his travels. So, he was able to match his magical better in speed, and that stood him in good stead as he added to the pressure said magical better brought against Gula.

A smile was on his face as he fought; Oner didn't find battles fun, but Ascot did; it was one thing that he was less 'pure' than the other boy in. Realiing that kicks and punches would actually be effective on Gula, the boy began a flurry of blows with his legs and his free hand. To challenge himself, the boy used no magic except Haste, and, even that he allowed to wear off.

Even once it had worn off, though, the boy was still fast, blindingly so; again, he had improved a lot in his short time.

Oner charged at Gula with keyblades engulfed with the three elements Fire, Blizzard and Lightning the ingredients for a perfect and powerful attack. Gula however saw through the attack and quickly summoned the shields on her side. What she didn't take into account however was the lightning engulfing the blades of Oner, or whoever he was at this moment. Although the shield was made out of salt there were little metallic parts in it that made it as strong as metal, but also had the same properties of it. The lightning was directed through the metal and hurt the hands of Gula. "Ouch!" she said.

Belle quickly followed Ascot. No she wasn't as fast as him, she was faster than Oner, but not Ascot. But she managed to catch up a bit to him, being only two meters behind him. "Ascot get her now that she is down for a few seconds!" Belle said. When she was in Gula's range she suddenly shouted "Stop!" stopping the time for a few seconds giving Ascot enough time to land a nice strike on Gula. Of course this would only effect Gula because of the power of the keyblade. Belle herself would give another go on her new ability Shuriken Strike and slashed once again to send out three shurikens of light. This time having more speed and knockback on them became she was in motion. Ascot's attack landed shortly followed by the shurikens of light. Of course this would not be visible duo to Gula being under the effects of Stop. After the spell wore off she received the damage of the attacks of Ascot and Belle.

Gula was knocked back, the look on her face immediately became one of anger. Gula jumped back onto on one of the cakes, leaving Ascot, Oner/Reno and Belle below. Gula rubbed her side, the place where the attack of Ascot landed, and let out a grunt. She engulfed her hands again with the mint green bubblegum gloves. She shot many bombs down to the ground causing the cake on the ground to launch up and create a smoke of the detonation of the bombs. Calhoun quickly rushed to the other three and shot blindly into the smoke, but once the smoke disappeared Gula had disappeared too.

"She got away." Belle said.

"I'll contact Thomas, so we can meet up again and tell what happened." Calhoun said.