AN: And here's the sixth addition to my series. From here on out, it'll be a little different, if my writing turns out right. Before, they were mostly getting to know each other and helping out here and there. now they're becoming a real team and family while their hidden powers will start developing. well, enjoy

Arrival Of Pure Darkness

Roxas: Darkness is a powerful thing, destructive, chaotic and an immovable part of mankind, only kept in check by the light that coexists within their hearts. Sometimes, it becomes too strong and overwhelms the light, but even in the darkest of times, never give up hope. For sometimes, even the smallest of lights can dispel the greatest of darkness.

For the first time in a while, the majority of the Earth was calm and content. Those bathed in the light of day worked and played with smiles on their faces while those residing in the darkness of the night sleep soundly in their beds, waiting patiently for the start of a new day. Even the average crime and bad weather had decreased. And with no super powered beings in sight, whether hero or villain, the Earth finally seemed to be gaining the peace and harmony that it had been deprived of for so long.

Most were taking full advantage of the happy days, doing things they'd normally refrain from while others decided kicking back and relaxing was the way to go. Then there were the rest. Those who knew only too well that the peace would not last and used it to prepare for what was to come. Though some on the planet might say that they're just asking for trouble, sceptical or glory hounds, the warriors gathered on Valour's Light took all the down time they had been given to prepare for the inevitable.

"Ok boys, are you ready to try this again?" Max Tennyson called through a microphone, his voice broadcasting into the room on the other side of the glass as he stared down at Roxas and Gohan.

"Yeah, we're set." Gohan shouted, powering up as Roxas summoned his Keyblades.

"Ok, I'm activating the training bots now." Max stated, pressing a big button. At that moment four large doors opened in the next room, revealing a total of twenty robots, all of them designed like Jack Spicer's basic Jackbots, fifteen bearing lasers and the others bearing drills. "Remember guys, taking them out isn't the true goal for this session. It's the teamwork you distribute."

"Then let's show them what we got." Gohan grinned, dashing off as fast as he could, leaving Roxas in the dust.

"And off you go again." Roxas shook his head as he raised Oathkeeper. Needless to say it had happened more than once before. "Slow!" His spell in place, Roxas rushed after Gohan, using his light magic to propel him forward so he could catch up.

Grinning as Roxas appeared not five centimetres behind him on his left, Gohan dived into a power slide, leaning back to avoid laser fire before throwing out his open palms. Leaping over a drill slowly moving in to behead him, Roxas landed right on Gohan's hands and was sprung high into the air by the Saiyan, right into a gathering of six laser shooting robots.

"Faith!" Roxas cried, bringing forth what looked like a ribbon of light swirling around his body, protecting him from the laser blasts before bursting from him like a circular wave, destroying every robot in his range.

Meanwhile, Gohan was effortlessly evading every laser shot and drill coming his way, jumping into a split kick when two drill robots came in from either side, his feet smashing their heads right off while his hand blew up three more before him. Not waiting for Roxas to land, Gohan fly up and grabbed him by the waist before tossing him towards a group of four robots , his ears barely registering that Roxas was talking as he did.

"Gohan, we should- WHOA!" Roxas cried, caught off guard by the toss. If it wasn't for the fact that everything in the room was moving in slow motion, he wouldn't have gotten his blades brought up in time to deflect the oncoming blasts he was thrown into before pulling himself into a high speed aerial roll, cutting through two robots with ease. Landing a foot on the ground, he spun around, his blades pointing out at either side of him and slashed through the remaining two robots before back flipping towards Gohan as a drill appeared right before him, aiming for his heart.

"Gohan's doing it again." Ben face palmed with a sigh as he and the other Guardians stood on either side of Max watching Gohan and Roxas' forms dashing around almost too fast for the eye to see, only able to tell exactly what's going on by the multiple screens around them player parts in slow motion. "Roxas is slowing down time so he can keep up with Gohan, and Gohan is mostly just using the guy as a high speed weapon."

"And Roxas can't tell him to stop or that he's not ready for flying lesson because anything he says will come out too fast for any of us to understand the words." Rai shook his head.

"That won't be a problem anymore." Kim said as she pointed to Roxas. The blond in question caught a drill between his crossed Keyblades before it could hit Gohan's back, appearing as nothing more than a white and black blur before slowing right down to his normal speed as he threw his blades out to his sides, cutting straight through the robot. "His spell wore off."

Groaning at the sudden increase in everyone else's movements, Roxas swung Oblivion at a laser blast aimed for his head as he turned to Gohan just in time to watch him blast two robots into dust.

"Gohan, would you actually try working WITH me here?" Roxas cried exasperatedly, blasting a drill robot with a beam of light. "Other than that spring step, you've fighting completely as a lone soldier."

"Huh, what do you mean?" Gohan cried confusedly, grabbing Roxas and taking to the air as three lasers came their way. "I've mixed more moves with you than that."

"Oh please, the only other thing you've done for me was potentially throw me to my doom like I was a car or boulder." Roxas snapped, swinging his arm and throwing Oblivion. The spinning Keyblade cut right through two more robots before returning to Roxas' hand as he and Gohan landed.

"I Wouldn't have done it if I didn't know you could handle it." Gohan said defensively, creating an energy shield around them so they could talk freely.

"Against these guys that's true, but we're training to be better prepared for fighting people like Xemnas." Roxas retorted. "If you did that against him, without me being fully prepared, I'd be dead. Besides, teamwork isn't just you throwing me here or there. It also includes things like protecting my back and lining the enemy up for my attack. For example, this shield is protecting us, but normally you can't get an attack out either. However, LIGHT!" Raising Oathkeeper and Oblivion, Roxas manipulated his magic into creating thirteen pillars of light outside Gohan's energy and sent them charging right at the robots, destroying every single one remaining.

"My power doesn't always have to start right from my skin." Roxas finished as Gohan dropped the shield. "You shielded us from an incoming attack and which left us safe while I took out the source. That's what teamwork's really all about."

"Nicely said Roxas." Max called as he entered the room, the Guardians right behind him. "You did ok kid. Your time spell removed your issue with keeping up so your speed difference wasn't a hindrance to your teamwork. A good idea for experienced partners, but doing so removes your ability to talk to one another, so as you noticed, that causes a new problem for new partner like yourselves. You responded well to Gohan's moves. Using Gohan's strength as a springboard to reach the higher enemies was a good idea and you were in perfect synch. And you quickly responded to him tossing you before moving to cover his back. You did good for your level of experience with Gohan."

"Thanks Max." Roxas muttered, appreciating the compliments, but not satisfied with the test himself.

"But Gohan, Roxas is right." Max stated, turning to Gohan. "You left him vulnerable to attack multiple times and at one point you used him like a weapon, not a partner. It's good that you have enough faith in Roxas' abilities to turn such a move into an advantage, but in his unprepared state, you still put him in real danger."

"I'm sorry Max, Roxas." Gohan mumbled, lowering head shamefully. "I didn't mean to put in harm's way. I just...I thought..."

"That he was like a Z Fighter." Gwen stated, no questioning about it. "You acted like he had a Z Fighter's strength, invulnerability and fighting style. The problem is that Roxas fights completely differently, relying on different strengths."

"Though, his actions were as close to teamwork as Z Fighters usually get." Rai added, feeling the need to defend Gohan a little. "I heard Bulma talking about them and from what she said, at the best of times, the Z Fighters fight beside each other, not with each other like a team. That's why Gohan's having so much more trouble than us. He's never fought like a real teammate with anyone before us."

"Then maybe someone else should be his partner for now." Roxas suggested, placing a comforting arm around the Saiyan's shoulders. "Having spent the bulk of my life as a member of Organisation 13, I'm not much better off. Axel was the only one to do anything like real teamwork with me."

"True, but your skills and powers are the most compatible with Gohan's." Max responded, shaking his head. "If he's going to figure this out with anyone in the near future, it'll be with you."

"And I'm still failing." Gohan snapped, angry at himself as he pulled away from the group. "I watch Roxas train singularly, I memorise his style and most frequent moves and I still can't figure out how to work with him right! What does it matter who my partner is if I can't figure out the meaning of something as small as basic teamwork?"

"Hey, it's ok." Roxas cried, moving back to Gohan's side and placing a hand on his shoulder. "That was only our third try. We'll get the hang of it."

"Weren't you mad at me a few minutes ago?" Gohan asked, raising an eyebrow.

"Well, I'm not getting shot at right now, am I." Roxas responded with a grin, trying to lighten the mood. "Come on, we'll watch the others and see how they do it and maybe alter our training a little. You know, like more mixing moves, less destruction."

"Alright." Gohan nodded, sighing deeply. He had to get this. Next time, he'd do everything in his power to protect Roxas, hopefully without getting in the blonde's way.

"Ok, Kim, Namine, you're up next." Max called, getting nods from the girls as everyone else headed back into the other room. Getting back to his seat, Max activated the controls again and brought in ten robots for the girls to battle. It was only a third of what the last pair had battled, but that was taking Namine's much lower level of experience and their much lower levels of strength and speed into account. "All set?"

"Yep, let 'em rip." Kim smirked, pulling out her hairdryer. Praying that Gohan's gung ho attitude would be the only resemblance to the last round, Max set the robots to attack.

Not wasting any time, Kim fired her grappling hook, shooting right for a robot as it brought out its laser and hooking it right in the barrel before with a mighty pull on the rope, she brought it right towards them. Namine whipped out her daggers from her wrist holsters and leapt at it as it approached, slashing its head right off, causing sparks to fly and burn through the rest of the robot's body and leaving it as a smoking mess clunking away behind them.

"Nice move." Danny smiled before the girls ran in at a drillbot, Kim aerial roll over it and kicking it in the back on the way down, sending it off balance and completely defenceless cross slashed its chest with, leaving a sparking, cross shaped mess on its torso before it blew up. Seeing a laser robot aiming for Kim's exposed back, Namine brought her daggers together and fired a magical ball at it before ducking as Kim flew her way with a flying kick, kicking a drillbot aiming for Namine's shoulder and redirecting the drill into its brethren behind it. "They're protecting each other's backs and each movement they make lines one of them up or clears the other's path. I guess that's what happens when one partner's a telepath."

"Actually, the only magic Namine's used was that ball. And that." Gwen added as Kim sprung Namine into the air with her hands, the blonde smashing right through a laser robot's chest with a light palm. "Namine told me that she wasn't going to use any telepathy in the pair up training sessions as it defied the purpose of doing it at all. This way, she can learn more, including how to deal with situations that may make her telepathy useless or dangerous to us."

"Smart girl." Max said proudly as Kim whipped out what looked like lipstick and firing a red laser at a robot aiming for Namine on her way back down and blowing it up before flipping and twisting her body away from the last two standing robots as they tried to drill her through. Landing on the balls of her feet, Namine spun around gracefully and threw her daggers at the robots, one piercing a robot just below its arm drill and busting it while the other hit the other's spinning drill and was deflected.

"Namine, head in." Kim cried, jumping and catching the stray dagger before it could hit the ground. Doing as Kim said, Namine dashed right at the last robot, watching both the machine and Kim as the red head tossed her dagger. Leaping off a piece of debris, Namine spun her body sideways over the robot's head and caught her dagger along the way before bring it straight down and through the drillbot's back. With a small explosion, the metallic opponent fell to the ground, ending the test.

"And that's all she wrote." Kim cheered, running up and hugging the puffing blond. "Girl you were amazing."

"Thanks." Namine puffed, grinning happily as she returned the hug. "Looks like we make a good team."

"A great team's more like it." Jake shouted, running up and launching himself into the hug, causing the girls to gasp and all three to laugh as they lost their balance and fell to the ground. "Sorry girls. But you guys were amazing! And Namine, Ben mentioned that you had gotten ok at fighting, but it is downright amazing how much you've improved in just around three months. When we first met, you only were capable of jabbing without telepathy or Roxas."

"Well, Roxas is an amazing teacher." Namine replied, blushing at the praise. "He helped me develop my skills and knowledge while letting me develops my strength and tolerance levels at my own pace. He always seemed to know when to push me and when to stop, even if I didn't. I'm still nowhere near as good you guys, but..."

"You'll be there in no time." Ben stated with a wink.

"She really is amazing." Gohan said softly, a little away from the others. "She developed so fast! Not only in fighting skills, but even to the point where team work comes naturally even without reading her partner's mind. Yet with all of my experience in battle, I still have so much trouble with it."

"That's because I've been training alongside her. She learned to mix with others from the beginning." Roxas said reassuringly. "You're too used to fighting on your own, so your experience is actually the problem. But don't worry, we'll get it. Just keep watching how the others do it and we'll go from there."

"Alright." Gohan nodded, turning his sad but appreciating eyes to Roxas. "And thanks."

"Alright, who's next?" Max asked, gathering everyone's attention. "Ben and Danny or Gwen, Rai and Jake?"

...

Down on the planet, hidden in the mountains bordering Rio De Janeiro, a cold, creepy and a very dark feeling suddenly filled the air, causing the foraging animals to tense and freeze. That changed quickly as terrified squeaks and squeals filled the air as they ran as fast as they could, desperate to put as much distance between themselves and that place as what looked like darkness and green fire exploded up from the ground, creating a large, round shaped. It faded and dispersed a moment later revealing two very distinct people. The first was what looked like an overweight, humanoid dog clad in a red shirt with blue pants, gloves, shoulder armour and suspender straps forming an X over his torso, in varying shades. The beastly being looked very imposing, especially with the dark sneer crossing his face.

However, it was the second one that left you shivering in true terror. Though her body was that of an ordinary human, her skin was green. She was clad in black robes with a purple trim and maroon flare edges along with a black, horned headdress. In her hand was a wooden staff topped with a glowing, green orb. She was the perfect picture of a powerful and evil witch, but it was her shining yellow eyes, full of malice and the air of pure darkness that forever surrounded her that made her a being worthy of your darkest nightmares.

"Well, isn't this a pretty little place." The dog man commented, looking around. "Too bad by the end of the day it'll be a dark, dust covered wasteland."

"There's nothing small about this world Pete. And I don't want it completely obliterated." The woman retorted, looking down at the city below. "This is the greatest of all worlds. It was once the centre of all the existed, the heart of all that became all of the many worlds. The one they are all eternally connected to. That's why the Organisation wanted it so bad, though they only thought of it as an easy way to travel to all other worlds."

"The original world. Wow. So why do you want it?" Pete asked, scratching his head. "That is a great reason to want to cease this world, especially if it is a huge world with so many potential allies in it, but it sounds like you have other plans for it."

"You actually picked up my hint. I'm impressed." The woman smirked. "Like you said, this world has many people in it, far more than any other, which will mean from it I can create an army of Heartless big enough to invade and conquer all worlds. However, that is a bonus. What I really want is the heart of this world. For it is from it that the hearts of all other worlds. The ultimate power. the true Kingdom Hearts."

"This world's heart is Kingdom Hearts?" Pete cried, almost falling down at the announcement. "Amazing. But the Organisation's heart moon..."

"Was only a way to tap into a small portion of the real thing's power." The woman interrupted with a wave of her hand. "The hearts of man and beast draw power from Kingdom Hearts too, so a large concentration of them can give you a fraction of its strength, but even that enormous concentration of magic is comparable to the difference between a flea and the world's largest mountain when compared to the true power of Kingdom Hearts. Now enough talk, get to work and create the portals. We will need the Heartless to wipe this place clean of interfering life forms and to scout for Kingdom Hearts."

"Right away Maleficent." The dark witches' dark smile grew and a dark laugh left her dark red lips as a black portal before Pete, taking the moronic servant to another part of the planet. Soon, the ultimate power would be hers and all worlds would fall within days.