Crossover Bros Brawl Chapter 1: End of the Beginning, a cartoon x-overs fanfic

Me: Heya everyone! After a bit of waiting I give you all the prologue of my new fanfiction; 'Crossover Bros Brawl'! In this first chapter, we'll see… Well, you'll see for yourself!

Wally: That's not like Gantz… He usually gives a quick summary about what he's going to write…

Otto: That's only because those other fanfiction weren't exactly as original as this one is. Do you want him to reveal his work before people even see it?

Wally: I guess not…

Me: Anyways, what I will say, however, is that this prologue won't premier any of the characters that signed up for the tournament. It will however, reveal a basic overview of the mysterious city, as well as premier the 'Red-eyed Humanoid Robot', that was shown in the trailer.

Crossover Bros Brawl

Tales of the Anti-Key

Prologue

End of the Beginning

A thunder clap is heard… A city comes into view… The city was a gigantic one mainly made up of Skyscrapers that almost literally touched the sky, and looked more advanced then any other building ever seen in any other world. There is another thunder clap and the lightning bolt is seen hitting the horizon, and a dark cloud appears over the city...

The view zooms in on the city, revealing its streets… Or lack thereof. The entire 'Street' (For lack of a better word.) was a concrete walkway that was big enough to fit a city street, and both sides of the sidewalk. There was another thunder clap, and rain started to fall down hard, soaking the city almost instantly. After a second, a car rides by, going at a normal city speed limit… And floating 5 feet off the ground. After the car zoomed by, a new figure is seen walking down the concrete walkway. The view zoomed in on it, but the figure was shaded out by the darkness, but was holding an umbrella. The lightning flashes again, lighting up the figure.

The figure with the umbrella appeared to be a young boy of around 16, with a mahogany cap on his head, worn backwards, allowing hair to poke through. He wore a shirt that almost looked like a jumpsuit that was red on one half, and orange on the other half. There was a Fire Flower insignia on the chest of his shirt, exactly in between the red and orange halves, and there were no sleeves. The pants were a pair of jeans that was blue with black highlights, and on his feet was a pair of boots that were dark brown in color. The boy also wore dark red fingerless gloves that fit him snugly and had soft armor-like padding. He also had a backpack slung over his shoulder that looked mid-sized and light-weight. He continued walking for a little while, passing a glass window of an electronic store.

There were TV's that looked quite futuristic in appearance. The TV's played random commercials, showing stuff like shampoo, deodorant, and even for some new cartoons. It all continued for a second before the screens went up in static, and what looked like a news channel scene came on every last one of them. "People of Neo Arcadia, I'm ace reporter, Emily Eisenhower, and I'm here to tell you that this sudden rainstorm was nothing more then a slight malfunction in the 'Weather Modulator'. Rest assured the malfunction will be fixed, and this rain will stop. There is no need to panic… That is all."

The screen went off, and was soon replaced by the commercials that were playing before. The 16 year old boy, having stopped to listen to the report, groaned and shook his head. It felt like years when he last saw the rain fall on his beloved city. Ever since machines, like the so-called 'Weather Modulator' had been invented, the rain had become even rarer then ever.

The Weather Modulator… Ever since that little machine had been invented, the people of this world suddenly obtained more control then what was ever needed… It gave the populace the power to control the weather; if they wanted it to rain; all they had to was push a button, Snow? Button. Heck, you can even control something as unpredictable as thunder with the push of a button; you could even aim it too.

Everyone saw this as the next greatest opportunity; the next step in evolution and technology… But, slowly, ever so slowly, the buttons became less used, and after a terrible event known as the 'Year of the Storm Bringer', people became to afraid to push the buttons and call upon the elements…

The city the boy was walking through was the result of all those years of fear… People were so afraid of the weather, that whenever a slight malfunction happens, or if someone accidentally turns off the weather controller, people would always run back inside the safety of their homes, afraid of what the weather would become… The boy walking along the concrete walkway was different however.

Sure, he feared the weather like everyone else, but he actually accepted it with open arms whenever a storm whipped up for whatever reason. He was known as the 'Storm Walker', 'Thunder lover', among other names, by his so called 'Friends'. But he didn't care, he was more of a loner anyways.

His name was Aaron Venturi. But at most times he liked calling himself different names…

Gantz Gun van Drake, being his most popular and favorite one.

Aaron continued down the street, growing wet from the intense rain, despite the umbrella. Not that he minded any. He simply loved the weather, was it seriously so odd that someone would like walking out in a rainstorm to get a little wet?

Apparent answer: 'Heck yes…'

KAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAABOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Aaron jumped right out of his skin at that, and looked to where the sound came from. It had come from somewhere outside the cities eastern walls. From behind the city walls somewhere, a smoke cloud, the shape of a giant mushroom loomed over the city…

The boy stared at it for a second, then shook his head pitifully. "What are those damn idiots up to this time?"

'Said damn idiots' were the scientists of Neo Arcadia, who worked in a factory outside the city. It was there that the Central Weather Modulator, or CWM for short, was located. Ever since people, stopped putting their faith in the weather they immediately got rid of their weather controlling machines that could be found in the confines of every house in the world, and gave the parts to the scientists claiming that the weather was too dangerous to trust anymore. The scientists willed themselves to believe that and took the parts, creating the CWM to continue controlling the weather.

Ever since then, the scientists have kept on inventing, more often then not blowing up their own laboratories in the process. It didn't matter though, the lab was made out of a special material that repaired itself in due time, and the lab would always be back up and running in a matter of hours. Aaron shook his head, knowing that this was a known fact, and started to walk off… The wind picked up suddenly, blowing away Aaron's umbrella since the boy didn't see it coming, and thus wasn't holding the umbrella tight enough.

The boy looked as his umbrella went flying through the night never to be seen again. He shivered, realizing the situation he was in. He looked around a little hoping to find some shelter from the rain. With a start, he ran to a store that was nearby and quickly entered, closing the door behind him.

The store was a modest little place, with a restaurant at the corner, that had booths and tables for people to sit at, and a decent menu for all kinds of eaters. Aaron slowly walked across the store, still a little wet from walking around in the rain. All he really needed to do there was dry off, and buy a new umbrella, then he would be out of here, simple as that.

He walked up to the counter of the store. The person running the register was a young lady maybe around 20 years of age. She had a kind of work uniform, that was slightly dark blue in color and was a jumpsuit. "Hello sir! Welcome to Futuropolis Wares! What can I do for you?"

"I need an umbrella." Aaron replied simply. The look on the counter lady's face was almost priceless.

"Your going out in... THAT?!?" She pointed outside, where it was still raining heavily.

Aaron could only shake his head pitifully. 'Great...' He thought, 'Here we go again...' He lifted his head. "Yeah? So? I gotta get back home sometime tonight. And judging by the explosion from the laboratories outside of town, it'll take a while before they switch on that weather controlling machine, of theirs." He pulled out a small card from his pocket on the chest of his jumpsuit and put it on the counter. "Just get me a normal umbrella. Nothing fancy."

The lady only gave him a weird stare. Most normal people around Futuropolis would try to avoid the weather as much as possible. This kid was showing no signs of even flinching if he walked out into the thick of it. She wanted to talk him out of walking in that soup... But an order was an order. She picked up the card and walked further behind the counter to what looked like a small cylinder pod. There was a control panel next to the pod with three simple buttons, two looked like arrows pointing left and right, and they surrounded a button that was right in between them. The girl pressed the center button on the control panel, holding it down for a few seconds. Almost immediately, the pod switched on in a bright light, and a small smiley face emoticon appeared. "Welcome to Futuropolis Wares!" The emoticon said, in a monotonous tone. The register lady ignored the emoticon and pressed a button that looked similar to an arrow pointing to her right. The emoticon disappeared, and it was replaced by a hologram that looked like a bag of chips.

She pressed it again. A candy of a sort appeared. Again she pressed it; a movie of some kind appeared. She pressed it one more time; an umbrella appeared. She pressed the center button again, this time not holding it down. There was a small flash, and an actual umbrella was in the pod. The lady picked it up, and pressed the center button again, once again not holding it down. The smiley emoticon appeared again, "Is this the right item for purchase?" The lady answered by sliding the card through a slot that was in the side of the panel. It was quiet for a second. The emoticon's smile widened, if that's even possible. "We thank you for shopping at Futuropolis Wares! Have a nice day!" The lady pushed the center button, holding it down this time. After a few seconds of holding down the button, the pod turned off.

The counter lady walked back to the counter and handed Aaron the umbrella. "Do be careful walking home..." And she meant that too, almost making it sound like she feared for his life.

The boy rolled his eyes. He had hoped that this girl wasn't like the other people on this world, having a ridiculous fear of the weather. No such luck. "Yes thank you... I guess..." And with that, he left.

The scene opens up again on what looked like an all metal room. People in white coats were running around wildly, trying to find out what just happened. "What happened?!?" "Where did that explosion originate from?!?" "We have to find the source of the explosion and get the CWM back online!!"

Little did they realize that Something was watching them... There were light yellow eyes watching from a crack in the wall, as the scientists scramble around trying to get everything back into order. It eyed each and every scientist that passed that spot in front of it...

That pair of eyes were suddenly joined by thousands upon thousands upon thousands of others... And they looked hungry...

Meanwhile, Gantz was walking down the walkway of the city again, new umbrella in hand. The rain was coming down harder then ever on the boy. Sure he enjoyed the weather every now and then, but he still didn't want to get sick from it. He hurried down the street, turning a corner. And sighed in relief. He spotted a humble little house that kinda stuck out in all of these futuristic buildings. This one looked modern, as in positively ancient. It looked black from years of being ignored, but it looked firm and strong, and even a bit clean. Aaron smiled, and ran as fast as he could towards it. He made it to the front porch and quickly entered through the door, gently closing it behind him. "Ahhh... Home Sweet Home..."

He was greated by a welcome sight. The inside of the house from the front door was a gigantic foyer that must've been a story high, in and of itself. Aaron closed up his umbrella and planted it inside a big jar that was sitting next to the front door. He started walking through the foyer of this great house. Supposedly, this house had survived the ages, and people had made sure it would continue to do so. And after 3 thousand years of standing, it was almost a miracle this place was still standing. Aaron figured that the scientists from the laboratories had installed nano-robots to fix this place up and make sure it stayed standing. The boy didn't mind, as a matter of fact he was thankful. This was the only home he had, and thos nano-bots were the only thing keeping this house from falling. He walked through another door in the foyer and soon found himself in a big dining room with a table big enough to sit a 10 member family easily.

The young man sat himself down on a chair and took off his backpack "Lonely as always..." He said pulling out a small zip-lock baggy, from his backpack. Inside it was a small capsule, which Aaron carefully pulled out. To follow this, he pulled out a clean plate from his backpack and set it on the dusted table. He placed the capsule on the plate. He thought for a second, before snapping his fingers, an idea coming to mind. He took off his cap and ringed it out. The water the hat absorbed dripped on the plate and hit the capsule.

Almost immediately, a mid-sized, yet succulent steak appeared from the capsule, along with a side of Mashed Potatoes. After pulling out a fork and steak knife from his bag, he started eating his meal. Around him the house was at peace and the rain continued to pour on down... It would be a long boring evening for that boy...

The view shows the laboratory again. It zooms in on the labs and peeks through a window. It now shows a big dark room, with a gigantic machine standing in the center of it. Scientists were standing before it, staring in fear...

Why? Because it was the 'Central Weather Modulator'... Not switched off... Rather... It had been destroyed... The machine was a gigantic square shape, not that anyone could tell anymore. The machine had been ripped to shreds...

A scientist lifted up his wrist to reveal a watch there. He pushed a certain button on the watch, and immediately, a TV screen appeared on the center of the watch, the screen came on, revealing a scientist with an authorative looking face. "Sir we have a problem!! The 'CWM'!! It's been DESTROYED!!! I'm certain that's what blew up earlier!!!"

The scientist on the watch screen almost looked flabbergasted at that. "WHAT?!?!? WELL??? What are you standing around for?!?!? GET TO FIXING IT!!! WE NEED IT BACK ONLINE, ON THE DOUBLE!!!!!"

The scientist holding the watch nodded. "Of course sir..." ... ... He never noticed an unfamiliar shadow forming behind him.

Meanwhile, in the upper levels of the laboratory, the same authorative scientist was watching on screen, as the scientist with the wrist communicator had talked. "Of course sir..." He said. "We'll get right on it, si-" He never had time to finish that sentence...

WHAM!!!!!!!!!!!!!

He was suddenly tackled by something. The lead Scientist tried to catch a glimpse of it, but the room was too dark, so he couldn't. He heard bloodcurdling screams of inconcievable agony, before the wrist communicator suddenly shut down, filling the screen before the lead scientist with static.

The man looked confused and scared. "What the HECK JUST HAPPENED?!?!?"

Suddenly, he got his answer... "SIR!!!" Came a voice just behind him. It was yet another scientist, maybe around his early thirties. "THEY'RE HERE!!!! THEY'RE HE-" He stopped mid-sentence... It was silent for a few seconds... Before the man fell to his knees... And fell flat on his face... The lead scientist, looked at the place that was behind that man... His face paled...

It was a Shadowy looking humanoid that stood on two legs, it had muscular arms, thick antennaes, and claws instead of fingers... And in the creatures hand... Was the heart of the very man it snuck up on.

The lead scientist could say only one thing... "H-H-H-Heartless..."

(Authors note: For those of you who think this is a tad extreme, listen to this! A similar method of Heartless taking hearts directly out of a persons body by hand has been done in the Kingdom Hearts Manga, issue #1. Okay back to the story.)

The view shows outside the laboratory again...

BLAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Aaron almost jumped clean out of his skin at how sudden that was. He had barely started his dinner when the alarms started to go off. He immediately jumped out of his seat and ran outside, forgetting his umbrella as he ran through the front door. When he ran outside, he looked to the laboratories where the alarm was coming from. "What the heck's going on over there?!?"

He got his answer... By people screaming nearby. A hover car roared over head, going way over the city speed limit, the family inside screaming all the way. Aaron watched it fly for a second... Before bullets of energy rained down, and slammed the car making it crash to the ground on it's bottom. The family immediately abandoned ship and fled. A younger male however, seemed to be stuck and couldn't get out. Aaron was about to go and help him... Before a peculiar shadow appeared next to the hover car.

His eyes widened, as did the boy's who was trapped in the hover car... The shadow seemed to sit up, and from it was a humanoid shadow, with yellow eyes, muscular arms, and thick anntenaes. The boy practically started to cry as he struggled more viciously to free himself from his position. "MOMMA!!!! HELP ME!!!!!" The boy cried. By then his mother was gone... Long gone...

Aaron stared at the shadowy creature wide-eyed... He knew only one creature it could've been. "H-H-Heartless..." He whispered in fear. The Heartless (A Neo Shadow by the look of him.) looked at the boy hungrily, causing the boy's tears to turn into hysterical sobs. It reached a hand out for the boy's chest...

It never had a chance...

'CLAAAAAP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!'

A Thunder bolt suddenly zapped the heartless, before it could get it's hands on the kid in the car, and it reduced to dust after the blow. Aaron, upon realizing what had happened, began praising to the lord above for that little change of luck. He ran up to the car and looked around. "Are you okay, kid??"

The young boy, now that Aaron was up close, looked like a young one of around 8 years of age, that wore a small jumpsuit that was all light orange. The boy opened his eyes, after a seconds hesitance. He looked around. "Where's the Heartless?"

The young teenager answered with. "You better start thanking somebody, because a thunderbolt struck that thing before it got to ya'!" Aaron looked around inside. "Okay, how are you stuck? I'll get you out!!"

The boy was fearful, but pointed to his left leg, which was stuck between the airbag and his seat. The airbag never deflated. "Help me, mister! Please!!!"

Aaron looked around. It was all well and good that he was gonna try to help, but how was he going to? His eyes fell on a small pen sitting right next to the boy on his seat. An idea emerged. "Kid! Give me that pen! I'll try to pop that airbag with it!" The boy immediately gave the pen to the teenager. Aaron took the pen, pushed the button at the end bringing out the point on the other end and slowly applied pressure between the point of the pen and the airbag. He managed to puncture a small hole in the airbag that let all the air out. Once the little boy was finally free, he slowly crawled out of his seat, and over to Aaron.

"Thank you mister!" The boy said innocently.

"Your welcome kiddo! But please..." Aaron thought for a second. He certainly didn't want to come off with his name, most everyone in the city knew who he was, and people made it a habit to stay as far away from him as possible. So he said the next best thing. "Call me Gantz."

The boy nodded, accepting this. "Okay then, Gantz! I'm Senrick, nice to meet you!" He slowly moved one of his legs out of the car, and put it on the ground. No problem... It was the other one that would get him. As soon as the other leg touched the ground, he fell in pain. "OW, OW, OW!!!"

Aaron A.K.A Gantz leaned down to him. "WHOA!! What's wrong??"

The boy, Senrick by name, looked up at Aaron. "My leg! It hurts from the airbag!!"

"DANGIT!!!" Aaron said, coming extremely close to swearing. He had to think of something and fast. He couldn't carry this kid to far a distance. His eyes fell on a hover board sitting idly around, some distance off. He snapped his fingers, "Senrick!" The kid looked up at the Teenager. The boy had held his hand out for him. "I have an idea, come on!" Senrick took the hand, and immediately, Aaron had the boy on his shoulders and running.

Aaron managed to switch on the board as soon as they got there, and he was off down the street. The boy held onto Aaron's neck tightly, choking the poor boy. "(Gags.) Uh, Senrick!?? I can't save ya, if you're choking me!"

The poor boy lightened his hold "Sorry!" Almost immediately, a roar was heard behind the two. Aaron looked behind him... He immediately wished he hadn't. Behind them was one heck of a Heartless that must've been the size of a football field. It looked like a great dragon with horns going up and down it's body and what looked like cymbals under it's person, on it's belly. "A STORM RIDER HEARTLESS?!?!?!?!? BUT THEY DON'T APPEAR HERE!!!!!!!!!!!"

("Ah, the Storm Rider Heartless, one of my favorite bosses in Kingdom Hearts 2, Appears in Mulan's world as a boss on the second go through.")

Wrong... The Heartless Dragon snapped forward trying to snap it's teeth into the two on the board. Aaron barely veered to the right to avoid it. It continued on that way, the heartless tried to take snaps at the two trying to make a meal out of them, while Aaron barely avoided each one... Until finally... Disaster Struck.

The Heartless' teeth sunk into the back of the board, barely missing Senrick and Aaron... But it was enough to make the board crash back on the ground. Aaron and Senrick were sent flying a little ways, and landed on the street some distance away.

Aaron slowly lifted himself up, and looked up. The Storm Dragon Heartless was looming over them, ready for a meal of hearts. The poor boy looked down on Senrick. The little boy was knocked out from the landing. The Storm Dragon reeled back, ready to sink his teeth into two new hearts. Aaron held on to Senrick tightly, he was not about to let them take the boy. He had been abandoned by his own parents just like Aaron's had a long time ago. He closed his eyes, as the roar of the Storm Dragon echoed in his ears.

A great light suddenly appeared... The Storm Dragon Heartless lunged downward... And tasted only the street... Aaron and Senrick were gone...

(The Temple music from Final Fantasy 10 plays in the background.)

Aaron continued to lay there, eyes screwed shut, waiting for the final blow to come... ... None came. He slowly and hesitantly opened his eyes, to see what had happened. The first thing he saw was that Senrick was gone... "Senrick?" He quickly got up and looked around. "SENRICK?!?!?"

He saw just where he was... It was an endless abyss of darkness. He looked down on his feet to see what he was standing on... And nearly gawked.

The floor he was standing on looked like it was made out of plate glass, and it had animations of some strange looking characters. "What the??"

One of the characters, that was right in the middle, looked like a young man with chestnut brown hair, with deep blue eyes. He also wore black clothes that seemed to be a diferent style then what he was wearing, and finally he was holding a key-like sword that had a gold hilt that circled his gripped hand, and had a light silver blade, with a hendge that looked like a crown.

(That's the Kingdom Key, you can pretty much guess who's holding it.)

The next character had only his head showing like a photograph. He was a young man of around 14 years of age, with messy black hair, and a black thin-strip mask over his eyes. He had a cocky smile on his face.

The next one was a young man of around 17 years with intimidating yellow eyes, dark black hair fixed into dreadlocks, and a dark looking frown to match his features.

The next one was a young man around 17, with brown hair, green eyes, and the collar of a black trenchcoat could be seen starting at his neck.

And finally, the last one was a young man of around 13, with green eyes, long yet short, black hair. Right next to his face being held by his hand was a small strange looking pen.

"Who... Who are these guys?" Aaron asked.

"So much to do..." The poor teenager, who was already scared out of his wits, jumped at the sound of that voice. "So little time..."

"Who's there???" He called. The voice continued on, as if ignoring him.

"Your world is falling... But in it's wake, you have been chosen... To wield both a curse and a great responsibility." Aaron looked confused. What was this voice talking about? He felt sad that his world was falling, but the here and now is what got him.

"Welcome to the 'Dive into the Heart'..."

Me: And that's the prologue chapter of the my first Cartoon Crossovers fic! For those of you who sent in reviews to sign in for the tournament, you will recognize the characters on the plate glass floor.

Wally: We'll also have the next chapter up as soon as we finish writing it!

Otto: And for future reference, for any new readers who read this chapter, and want to sign up for the tournament themselves, please place your 'Entry Reviews' on the 'TRAILER' fic, rather then this one.

Me: I agree with Otto. I'm sorry but I'm just trying to keep things organized. In any cases, I hope you all enjoyed this first chapter! Also it's time for you the reviewers to help me with something! Should we run through the 'Dive into the Heart' that started this chapter? Or should we just continue with the story? (Gives a Peace Sign.) R&R everyone!

Wally: (Adds in cheerfully.) Until next update!