Mirrored Heart Chapter 18

A few hours after Serena left, Youta and her friends were preparing to take off to their own destination as Harmonia wondered "Youta... what did you learn from Serena exactly? I don't think she simply told you who she was just because you was in her Dive into the Heart"

"She is right" told Kanade "Come on, spill what you learned about her?"

"Well…." She hesitated a little, but explain about how Serena discovered her powers and how keep it out of control.

"So basically if she use to much of her powers she will die." Flare asks.

"Or at least in coma" countered Kanade "But such a potent seal on her powers? Isn't this dangerous?"

"I don't know..." Youta said. "But Serena-chan said the seal was created by her Will-san and Namine-san. So i think it safe until she can control her powers."

"Still… but where does this strong connection to magic come from?" Wondered Kanade "The darkness and the Crystal powers can be explained but the magic?"

"Maybe it has something to do with what that Echido guy said. He said that her talent lay in her mother's bloodline and that the Yuma's bloodline bring it more out." Flare said.

"And that how she can also use magic?" Harmonia wondered.

"Who knows." Flare said

"Perhaps her cold behavior just is a result of her past?" asks Harmonia "She is… very disciplined unless loosing her cool… and only one managed to do so far in the short time we know her"

"Maybe she had a hard childhood?" Kanade said.

"Serena-chan said that she had a normal life even when they told her about the insistent with Pete." Youta explain, as suddenly the gummi ship stop moving arriving at their destination.

"So this is the world?" Kanade ask.

"Hold on a moment." Harmonia check on the ship computer. "Yes this is Marveled." She typed on the computer and a couple of big holographic screens in front of them, showing the world's activities.

"Are those the super heroes and villains that Serena-chan was talking about?" Youta asks

"Looks like… but some look very odd" Kanade sweatdrop. "There's even a girl with a squirrel tail."

"We know a taguels and a dragons in human form, and you question a girl with squirrel tail? I am more confused about this green guy" Flare point at a screen showing a big green man slamming the ground creating a large crater.

"He's strong for sure" sweatdrop Harmonia.

"That for sure." Youta said. "But how are we going to find someone to help us with our problem?"

"Outside the town and then get in?" Kanade asks "I mean we have to find out if they know about people disappeared in their world?"

"let's not forget we need to be extra careful there." Flare said "Serena said if we made one wrong move. We will lapeled as the bad guys by them."

"Well it's a good thing we got something for this situation." Youta pull out a small gold crest like accessories with a hole that fit a crystal in it out of her pocket.

"Uhm… what is your suggestions?" Flare asks

"Well this is a world with superheroes, right? So i thought we can use the new armor that Terra-san and Elfin-san made for non Keybald users to hide who our identity." She answered.

"Isn't this DRAWING attention to us in one way or another?" Kanade asks

"But we will draw more attention if someone saw us using our gear and keyblade." Youta state. "Until we know who the good guys and bad guys are. We'll use this armor to fight Heartless or any villains."

"And I think i found a group that might help us." Harmonia said.

"Who?" asks Kanade.

"There's a group called themselves the Avengers. From what i can gather so far, they are the strongest and popular heroes there ever lived." She explain to her friends.

"At least on this world… we just have to get them listening to a bunch of children" Flare sigh

"Actually there is someone that will listen to us." The screen chance and shows a short black haired man wearing a blue jumpsuit, a red cap with a golden eye crest. "This is Stephen Strange also know as Doctor Strange. He's known as the Sorcerer Supreme the strongest mage of this world. If i'm right he might know about the keyblade and will help us with our problem." Harmonia explain

"Then it's settled!" Kanade snap her fingers. "What are we waiting for? Let get us some heroes!" And run to the teleporter.

Then they found themselves in the middle of a town and they looked around "Where do you think he lives?" Youta asks.

"Dr Strange has a mansion in a place called Greenwich Village not far from here." She took out her Iphone and start to type on it. "I already got the address so finding it wouldn't be hard."

"And you suggest we can just see his door? Who tells us that he isn't hiding it?" Flare asks.

"I don't know." She answered. "But it's the only lead we got."

"It better than having no lead." Youta said and asks. "Where is the mansion, Harm?"

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The group follow Harmonia for a half an hour and arrived at a worn out mansion.

"Normally I said about this place is a dump. But since we're looking someone who can use magic, i'm willing to bet he disease his house with some illusion." Kanade said, placing her hands on her waist.

"Any suggestion how to break this illusion?" asks Harmonia "I don't know about you but I have no clue about this"

"My knowledge of magic is limited to how to make flames" sweatdrops Flare "Because it was kinda obvious… perhaps we should have taken one of the magic users with us?"

Then Youta remembered that Serena gave her something with the words "If you ever need to see the truth… and a copy of the eye of truth might be useful."

So she pulled the odd magnificent glass out she got from her half sister and looked through it, gasping at what really stood in the place.

"I see it! This is the right place!" Youta said, and run to the door. Ones she place her hand to the doorknob, the worn down mansion instantly disappeared and a brand new mansion was in it's place

"Wow…" muttered Flare

"Took the words right out my mouth." Kanade said

Harmonia chuckles weakly "Where did you get that, Youta?" She ask her friend.

"Serena-chan gives it to me before we left." Youta answered. "She said that if i ever want to see the truth, I'll have to use this magnificent glass to see through the lies."

"Great… now she does the same like your father does" groans Flare "Why didn't you show the trait before?"

But then to everyone's surprise the door of the mansion suddenly open itself slowly.

"I take we are invited to go in?" wondered Harmonia, as everyone enters the house of the Sorcerer Supreme.

They looked around and Harmonia asks "Why does I have the feeling that most visitors are better off to not even look at anything?"

"This is a mage's house, Harm. Every items in here can be dangerous." Flare said

"How right you are, young man." A voice echo through the house.

"That… is… eerie..." told Kanade "Reminds me on a haunted house on last year Halloween "

"Excuse me, but is Dr Strange home?" Youta asks to the voice. "We want to ask for his help."

"And what for business to you want with the Sorcerer Supreme?"

"Asking for some help" told Harmonia "From where we come, some citizens of this world up there and cause trouble because they saw a few things unique in our world and a visiting friend"

"Are you all outsiders from another world?"

"Yes!" Youta said "And we have a keyblade bearer here as proof that we're not lying."

Flare nods and summon his keyblade. And in an instant they suddenly arrived at the living room.

And Harmonia felt suddenly slightly ill and looks around for something to throw in… she doesn't take magical teleportation very well.

"You're okay, Harm?" Youta asks, placing her hand on her friend's shoulder. As answer she holds her mouth and stomach, looking more frankly for a spot to throw up.

"My apologies, I wasn't aware that your friend has a weak stomach." They saw the one and only Dr Stranger wearing her daily clothes, sitting on a fancy red chair he snap his finger and a bucket appear in front of Harmonia. "Please use this."

And she emptied her stomach into it while Kanade told "Harmonia had always trouble with magical teleportation."

"It's alright." He said, summon a table with tea. "Now please tell me the whole story."

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It took a half an hour to the Youta and her friends to explain the situation do the magician.

"I see, that would explain where the missing people are." Strange stroke his goaty.

"And that's why we came to you. We would hope you could make contact with Avengers to asks for they help." Youta said.

Dr Strange thought this about a minute before he said. "Very well. I'll try to see if they around. A moment please." And vanish into thin air.

"Finally! Something goes smoothly for a chance!" Kanade cheered. "I was getting fucking tired for a the crap we been through."

"Don't get cocky, Kanade. Things might get south if we relax too much." Her twin brother scolded

"Yeah…" told Harmonia

"What's wrong?" Youta asks

"Because something happening after saying something like that"

"Yea right! Like that ever happ-" But before Kanade is about to finish her sentence, the ground started to shake as the heard a huge explosion.

"You just had to open your big mouth!" Flare yelled, as they exit the house and saw that the city is been under attack by Heartless and Risen.

"Okay why the hell are there Risen throw into the Heartless mix?" Kanade asks, when something that looks like a black Pegasus fly past them. Youta saw a woman with tanned skin with white short hair, wearing a black crown and a black dress that revealed the middle part of her clothing which leaves it a view of her assets with marking on it.

"Was that a Pegasus just now?" Flare said. "Does those exist here?"

"Only at Asgard." Dr Strange appeared in front of them. "But I'm more concerns about its rider, I can feel a hazardous magic power coming from her."

"Given that this is somebody who should be dead on a different world, I cannot blame ya!" told a boy who stand next to them out of nowhere. he had blond hair and purple eyes wearing black boots, black shorts a black shirt with a grey vest above it and something pokes out from the shirt on his chest.

"And who the hell are you?" Flare asks.

"Ancelot" he just grins before rushing towards a rise and punches his chest, making it fly through a building "And I am here to have some fun and have an eye on a Youta… Youta Yuma. You happen to know her? Serena forgot to give me a picture as she asked me to look."

"Wait how do you know Serena-chan?" Youta asks. "And what for picture are you talking about?"

"Serena and I know each other since my birth… and with picture I mean I have not a single clue how Youta looks like. She kind of tend to forget telling me such things"

"By birth…?" Harmonia mumble as she realized something. "Are you tell us…. You Serena-chans's brother?!"

"Yes, why do you ask?" asks Ancelot while punching the next few Risen coming too close to him.

"Are you kidding me!" Kanade yelled in surprised as everyone else. "Not only has Youta a half sister she but also have another brother?! What next she got a demi-god sibling or something?!"

"Well… if you ever get into this one universe where dad and Will became rulers of their own kingdoms… yes. A few hundred, not counting all the monster girls the two got" he told with a shrug as he captures a throw axe and sends it back, cutting through several Risen before it stuck in a wall, telling he threw it with quite a force.

"There's a dad that has a harem of his own?!" Youta fell to her knees with a black cloud hovering over her head.

Ancelot looks at her confused "Something wrong?"

"You'll have to forgive you half-sister, she kinda new in this other dimensions crap." Kanade said to Youta's half-brother.

"So you are Youta? Nice to meet ya! I am Ancelot. Dark Crystal Manake" he grins "Nobody knows thought how I got Manake blood"

"I think she's still in a shock." Harmonia said poking on Youta's shoulder, waiting for a response

"We can talk about this later!" Dr Strange's summon a bolt of lighting at an upcoming heartless. "We need to eradicate those monster before something bad is going to happen!"

"What do you think I am doing?" asks Ancelot and keeps punching the enemies.

"Let just get this over with." Kanade sigh as she activate her gear and start hack and slash through the army of monsters.

Harmonia stepped back to be not involved but looks in Awe with what an ease Ancelot was punching through the enemy rows.

"Hey Youta! Wake up! We need you here!" Flare shake her a couple of time before Youta snapped back to reality.

"Oh right!" Youta activate the Aegis and sent the feathers bits away as it start shooting yellow laser beam destroying the half of the heartless.

"Harm! Go back to the Gummi ship and give us technical support from there!" Flare ordered, summon his keyblade, shooting a fireball to a group of Risens.

"R-right!" She stuttered, and uses her phone to teleport to the gummi ship.

"Ancelot-kun, you said that you're a Manake, right?" Youta punched an axe fighter into his stomach hard, sending it crashing into a group of Heartless Commanders. "Are you just like Nowi-san?" One of her feather slash a heartless in two.

"Bing" he told "Just have not often a good reason to transform… I enjoy punching just more" and slams a archer into the ground with such a mighty blow that the was literally punched INTO the ground.

"But how? Both Dad and Faith-san are human. How is that work? Duck!" Ancelot quickly duck as Youta jump over him and drop kick a Neo shadow on his head.

He grabbed one of the larger Risen, using it as makeshift club "Well it is theorized that it comes from an ancestors of Dads side." told Ancelot "But no real proof as Manake genes are usually dominant"

Flare chance his keyblade into a large sword and cut the half of the army in pieces. "So in other words you're a new type of dragon? Can Youta also turn into one?" Flare asks, throwing his keyblade, destroying the incoming arrows.

"Who knows… Serena cannot" he simply told with a shrug and then ripped one the arm off and use the shield he hold to slam the body through it.

"Guys we have a major problem in our hands!" Both the girls and Flare heard Harmonia voice from their headset. "I found that the leader is in Manhattan together with Pete and some of his grunts!"

"That stupid fat cat is here too?!" Kanade ask, after she shooting small blades of fire from her wings, destroying the remaining Risen and Heartless.

"Pete?" asks Ancelot "Too bad your versions doesn't know me… or he would be running at the sight of me"

"And why should he?" asks Flaze and Ancelot smirks "Normally when he sees me, he knows that Serena is close… and you can guess what this means"

"What the?! How is this possible?" They heard Harmonia gasped.

"What's wrong?" Youta asks.

"You're not going to believe this, but another Pete just came out of a corridor!"

"I got it" told Ancelot and jogged off.

"Wait!" Youta tries to stop him but his already out of sight.

"Great just what we needed more trouble." Kanade snarl. "If one isn't enough another one just had to pop up!"

"We better get going." Flare said, and took out a red-black flame like charm with a blue gem. He press the gem and change into his keyblade armor.

Flare's armor shares a small, black ornate crest and the long segmented section each between dark grey and dark red He also wears a black, fingerless glove on his hand and what appears to be a red gauntlet on his forearm, over the segmented armor, which also has one l piece of dark black armor on it. Finally, his armored boots are dark grey and red, and black-visored helmet with a one prong on the top back of the helmet covering his face.

"Right!" Youta nods, take out her prototype DM armor charm as Kanade does the same.

"Let's see what this extra armor look like." Kanade said, both placing the relic into the hole of the charm and put it on their neck and it started to glow. Ones the light fades both of the girls look at their armor.

Kanade got a dark blue helmet with a black visor, it had a detailed design of a bird's head with the yellow beak being a gemstone and has big wing attachments on both side of the helmet. Some for her Symphogear had a more detailed design and got extra armor on the exposed places and on her chest.

The same is with Youta's armor but her helmet has a lioness design and got two red gemstone eyes.

"We better catch up to Ancelot-kun before he got himself in trouble." Youta said, the feathers combined together to form an big shield like air board. She step on it

Flare then turn his keyblade into a motorcycle like glider it has a sharply angled at its front tip and the driver seat is nearly horizontal.

"You three go ahead. I'll stay here." Dr Strange summon a ray of swords to the undead army.

"Thank you for your help, doctor." Youta thanked him, and they went after the dragon boy, thought with many obstacles on their way.

"This is terrible…." Youta look at the chaos, that is made from the Heartless and the Risen.

"I know it frustrating. But we have to deal with the two Pete's." Flare said

"At least one is having his fun…" told Kanade as she points to Ancelot who keeps on punching enemies and doesn't seemt to be bothered at all… just smiling while punching his way through the masses.

"Is he really Serena's brother?" Flare wondered. "He sure aren't acting like her."

Youta clutching her fist as she dismantled the shield back into the feathers bits as she fell and land behind Ancelot.

"Hey Youta! recovered?" he asks while he put a head butt on a Risen and throw one in heavy armor at archers

She didn't said anything until she look at Ancelot, putting her hand on to her waist and then…. "Ancelot Yuma! What on earth were you thinking?! Storming away like that? You can't just run away like that creating havoc along the way."

"Clearing a path for you to make it easier to get going" he shrugs "And if you didn't notice: I cannot wreak havoc where Havoc is already wreaking"

"That doesn't justified your reckless behavior." Youta scold her half younger brother. "You were attacking those heartless like it your plaything. The people of this world might think you're a crazy lunatic! Didn't Serena-chan ever tell you to think before act?"

"Serena? No… she just tells me what to punch and what not when we go around… dad is telling the thinking part. And I thought about how to act."

And then he grins "And I just enjoy hitting enemies" however then she saw a serious face on him "But I never consider them as plaything! I make sure to take them out as fast as possible. Don't think that I am taking this as a game!"

"Then stop acting like you're having fun! Have you ever thought what would happen if you punch a heartless at a innocent bystander without noticing?" She asks

"For that I already got my lectures from mom." counters Ancelot

"And what about your Pete? Not only he's teaming up with his other self. He also have someone army of Risen under his command and might work together with this world villains! You really think you can beat them all without a plan?" Youta asks. "You may be a dragon but you have limits just like everyone."

"I just assumed that when Pete sees me, he assumes, like usual for some reasons, that Serena might be here as well, and Pete always get panicked in some way and does something so stupid that only hurts him at the end of the day… and perhaps one or two walls" he shrugs "And I had my share with Risen before so I know their modus operand… only their leader is a different story but for that I expected you to follow."

"How is running away without telling us what you're doing helping? That's someone with a dead wish would do! " She scold "If you want us to follow you, you need to first explain to us before you run off into a war zone."

"Wow… forgot that you don't know me well…" he sweatdrops "That's… kind of my modus operand"

"Operand or not, your behavior is unacceptable!" Youta keep scolding Ancelot, as both Hartless and Risen simply look at them dumbfounded.

"Man. It's been awhile since we saw Youta scolding someone." Kanade said

"Yea." Flare nods. "The last time she scolded someone, is one of the kids was about to drink a cleaning product."

"But that show how she cared for someone safety. Even it is a complete stranger." Harmonia giggled.

"Come on! It isn't that bad." he told "The worst that ever happened were a rock dropped on my head because Nowi threw me at a wall in a game."

"Even so! If you keep acting like this someone dear might get hurt because of you behavior. Do you really want that?"

"Nope! That's why I always make sure things flies at other enemies or no one" he simply replied, not getting what she is trying to tell.

The heartless and the risen waited long enough and leap toward the Yuma. But they got destroyed by a rain of swords and a huge fire ball.

"Not to interrupt. But we kinda in a tight schedule remember." Kanade reminded the two, and grab Ancelot. "And you coming with me, nuthead!" and flow towards Manhattan at high speed.

"If you give me a second I can fly myself, thanks" told Ancelot and a pair of wings appears on his back.

"The hell! You can do that without using a dragonstone?" Kanade asks, surprised.

He taps on his chest "There."

"That's a dragonstone? Why is it looking like it's stuck on your chest?"

"Born that way" he shrugs.

"Damn…." She mumble. "Even so I'm not letting you go."

"What?! Why?!" He asks.

"Cause your a type of person who likes to jump into danger head on." Kanade stated. "It's not a bad thing. But if you go all nuts, you might get into trouble."

"That's why you are here?" he jokes "To keep the trouble at bay until I can handle it"

"You got it!" She smirk. When a human made of fire flow past them. "Was that man on fire?"

As Youta saw Kanade flow away with her younger half brother, she suddenly heard the sound of fighting behind her. She turn her head and saw the heroes of this world attacking the heartless and risen with all with their might.

"Looks like this world can take care of itself." Flare came to his childhood friend side.

"That's good." Youta sigh, relieved.

"Come on. We better get going." Youta nods, and step on her board and the both of them fly after Kanade and Ancelot. But they path got block by a large cobweb.

"Armored people who leave the fighting ground? Isn't that suspicious?" asks a voice and as they turned they saw a guy in red and blue costume with a black spider on the chest, standing on the wall. Literally standing on the wall.

"What the..? Who are you?" Flare asks

"What? Never heard about the ultimate friendly neighborhood Spider-man?" The man known as Spider-man asks.

"Not that we know of, no." Flare said

"Look i know this looks suspicious, but we have to go to Manhattan!" Youta plead. "We need to stop the ones who control the Heartless and the Risen."

"You mean those old fashioned creepy zombie and those colorful goofy looking monsters?" He asks

"Yes." told Flare and Spider Man told "Not until you answered a few questions!"

Spider man thought about it, when he suddenly shout. "Move!" The two were surprised, but was able to dodge a thunder spell from a Barrier Master Heartless. "How about we skip the Q&A games for later." They land on the ground back to back after they are surrounded by Heartless and Risen. "After we kick their buts?"

"Sounds like a plan" told Flare, and pulls his Keyblade out before the ground shakes and everybody turned to see something big… so they looked up… and up… and up…. and up… and up until they could see it reaches to the clouds.

"This… doesn't look like the friendly giant from the neighborhood…" muttered Flare as they stared at a giant version of a Guard Armor…

"Nope…." Spider-man gulped "it isn't…."