#ml + kh:ddd + xmen 97 au

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ML + Kingdom Hearts: Dream Drop Distance + X-Men 97'

Wu Fei is both an X-Man and a Keyblade wielder, with the mutant power to transform into different animals.  Until two years ago, she trained with her adoptive father before he was killed by Cash, who was corrupted by and worked with the Heartless.  She traveled the worlds with fellow Keybearers Marinette Dupain-Cheng and Adrien Agreste (who were apprenticed to Master Fu) to help in the fight against the Heartless.  On one of the worlds they visited, they met the X-Men and teamed up with them to fight the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants and the Heartless.  During that meeting, Xavier informs Fei that she has her shapeshifting powers because she is a mutant.  After the Heartless threat was quelled and the worlds restored, Fei joined and trained with the X-Men.  Storm proposed the codename “Changeling” for her, but she instead chose “Ladydragon”, favoring the creature she turned into to save Marinette and battle the World of Chaos commanded by Hawk Moth.

Luka Couffaine is a mutant who could generate and manipulate sounds.  He was kidnapped and experimented on by Mr. Sinister using Heartless, enslaving him as the villain Silencer.  Ladydragon and the X-Men rescued and healed him, and Jean severed Sinister’s control over him. He joined the X-Men in the New Mutants class as Acoustic and started dating Fei.  They worked with the X-Men to save the worlds from a wide range of threats.

The present story really kicks off at Magneto’s trial, where Ladydragon takes X-Cutioner’s shot meant for Magnus and loses her shapeshifting powers.  She falls into a depression, questioning her self-worth without her mutant power.  After being captured by Mojo and trapped with a portal-generating mutant named Max who was forced to program the tyrant’s latest set of death trap shows, she has her second wind when she remembers that she is more than just an X-Man—she’s a Keyblade wielder.  She defeats Mojo’s enforcers and escapes with Max.  Afterward, she says good-bye to the X-Men and leaves to return to her training with Master Fu, Marinette, and Adrien to become a Keyblade Master.

Master Fu encourages Fei to join Sora and Riku on their Mark of Mastery exam into the Realm of Sleep to journey through the dreams of worlds, theorizing that unlocking the deepest power of the Heart and the Keyblade will restore her mutant power.  She dives in, landing separately from her colleagues, and travels through the dream worlds, helping people out and fighting Nightmare Dream Eaters. (The worlds in the Realm of Sleep are not worlds trapped in slumber but rather the dreams of worlds in the Realm of Light and Realm Between.)  As she links with Spirits, she finds that she is able to transform into them.  Meanwhile, Luka joins in on more rescues and fights with the X-Men.

Marinette and Adrien fight alongside Magneto, Rogue and Gambit in the Wild Sentinel attack on Genosha.  At the same time, Fei lives through an earlier memory of Genosha, helping the dream versions of the X-Men liberate the slave island, only for the dream to shift and reflect the massacre happening in the waking world.  The X-Men, Marinette and Adrien, and other heroes investigate the attack and search for those responsible.  Luka interrogates Tomoe Tsurugi, who had previously helped manufacture the Sentinels, by cutting off her hearing, before her daughter Kagami is activated as a forcibly-converted Prime Sentinel and attacks.  At Radiant Garden, Ienzo discovers the “Bastion Protocols” that were designed years ago by a researcher who worked with the science team, Sebastian Gilberti, and had been forgotten, and he realizes their true purpose.

Bastion attacks the Keyblade wielders, having sabotaged the Mark of Mastery exam to split them up, capturing Sora with the intention of forcibly turning him into a Prime Sentinel.  He reveals to Fei his goal of turning all humans into Prime Sentinels to “save humanity” from mutants, Heartless, and aliens by subjugating or eliminating any who cross their paths, and overriding their wills with the exact same heart and mind: his own.  He then summons a Prime Sentinel-ified Cash to kill Fei while he leaves.  After a grueling battle, Fei manages to defeat the Prime Sentinel of her oldest enemy by transforming into a Dream Eater version of her dragon form.  She joins up with Riku to storm Bastion’s base and rescue Sora, aided by reinforcements from the X-Men, Marinette, and Adrien.  Luka disrupts frequencies to cut Bastion off from his Prime Sentinels and regular Sentinels and then helps to defeat Mr. Sinister, while Ladydragon grabs Sora before he can be infected with the techno-organic virus, and all of the heroes team up to defeat and kill Bastion.

Take ML, the last video game you watched someone play and the last show you watched and smash them together to make a crossover AU featuring Ladydragon and Luka