The Time Break Saga is a series of crossover fanfics between BlazBlue and Kingdom Hearts written by The Unplanner
. It can be found on FanFiction.Net.
The series follows one of the many possibilities that could have happened, where in the original Lambda ends up being ejected from the Boundary and into the Realm of Darkness, where she meets Riku after the events of the first Kingdom Hearts. The story that follows is essentially an adventure/romance between the two.
The stories within the series are as follows:
The series can also be found on Archive of Our Own here and is slowly being updated. It also has a collection of non-canon one-shots called Blue Skies and an Alternate Universe side-story called Kingdom Hearts Online.
The Time Break Saga provides examples of:
- 11th-Hour Superpower: Come the end of Silver Linings, Lambda unlocks her Keyblade for the final battle against Relius Clover and Ignis.
- Adaptational Badass: This story's version of Lambda is a lot stronger than the version from Continuum Shift due to her being the original from a previous timeline, including her Nox Nyctores, and not a weaker replicant like the canon version was. She's also stronger overall thanks to now being fueled by Darkness, which is more readily available and efficient than Seithr due to it coming from her heart rather than the external environment. And that's before she ends up gaining the Idea Engine.
- Adaptational Karma: In Central Fiction, Relius became a Karma Houdini after all the things he'd done and simply escaped into the Boundary, becoming the only villain to get away. Here, Lambda and Nu succeed in killing him.
- Ascended Extra: Lambda is one of the two primary characters for the series, making her this in comparison to the games, where she was one of the side characters.
- Battle Couple: Riku and Lambda after the events of Dark Clouds become a couple, with the two even fighting against and defeating Ansem together.
- Combat Stilettos: In Asleep at Dawn, Lambda enters her fights wearing high-heeled sandals. Despite seeming impractical, she comments that she actually has an easier time moving around and fighting in them than she would barefoot or with normal shoes. This leads to her openly wondering if she just had a lot of practice thanks to her Murakumo armor keeping her on her tip toes at all times.
- Cool Sword: By the end of Silver Linings, Lambda finally gets her own Keyblade: Elysium.
- Discard and Draw: Lambda loses her ability to wield Lux Sanctus: Murakumo, but she gains her own Keyblade in its place, and with it, the same type of magic the likes of Sora and Riku can pull off.
- The Dreaded: Relius is this to Lambda, since she freezes with fear at the prospect of running into him. Considering the experiments that he and the other scientists performed on her, it isn't surprising. By the end of Silver Linings, she manages to overcome her fear and succeeds in killing him alongside Nu.
- Emotionless Girl: Initially with Lambda, due to having her emotions locked away. She's able to avert this right after she meets Riku thanks to her original creators not being around, letting her have enough freedom to unlock her emotions by herself.
- First-Person Perspective: While the series is primarily written in third-person, Tager's POV chapter in Silver Linings is done in first-person.
- Heel–Face Turn: At the end of Silver Linings, Nu is convinced by Lambda to betray Relius, aiding her in killing him once and for all.
- Innocently Insensitive: Lambda tries to cheer Riku up by scanning Darkness and letting him know that it's not evil, just a form of energy. This just makes him feel worse, as it means he wasn't Brainwashed and Crazy when he did all those horrible things and that everything really was his fault.
- In Spite of a Nail:
- Despite Lambda in this story being a completely different version from the canonical one in Continuum Shift, she still gets the Idea Engine during the events of Silver Linings due to receiving feedback from her counterpart.
- Even with the BlazBlue timeline interacting with the Kingdom Hearts timeline over the course of the story, the plotline of the former goes mostly unaltered, and still ends with Ragna erasing his existence from the universe by the end of Central Fiction.
- Lack of Empathy: When Terumi, himself another example of this, shows off how much he commits to being evil For the Evulz to Organization XIII, even he finds it odd how little they react or care about his crimes.
- Logic Bomb: The Wonderland and Atlantica worlds in Castle Oblivion mess with Lambda's sensors. The size discrepancy in Wonderland and the feeling of being underwater while not being underwater throw her for a loop.
- Pixellation: When Riku removes Xion's hood to see her face, Lambda finds it shocking that, from her perspective, Xion's face is completely pixilated.
- Prefers Going Barefoot: Lambda doesn't wear shoes at all and makes it clear that she hates wearing them. She tries to justify it by saying that her auto-repair fixes any wear-and-tear her feet go through. Even when she's convinced by others to wear shoes, they're always open-toed.
- Straw Nihilist: After Ragna sacrifices himself at the end of BlazBlue: Central Fiction, Nu becomes questions what the point of anything is if Ragna doesn't exist anymore. Lambda inspires her to move beyond this and instead keep living to carry on Ragna's memory, ensuring that he will never be truly forgotten.
- Super-Empowering: Lambda can enhance herself and Lux Sanctus: Murakumo using excess amounts of Darkness. At the end of Dark Clouds, she kisses Riku (who was overflowing with Darkness at the time) on the cheek, which gave her a power boost and enough strength to dish out a Curb-Stomp Battle to Ansem. She later gets the Idea Engine in Silver Linings, which actually serves as an enhancement for her Nox Nyctores.
- Tempting Fate: In Chapter 3 of Silver Linings, Lambda sighs in relief when she sees that Nu has no power, commenting that she's glad her younger "sister" can't operate on Darkness. Cue Nu shifting her power source to Darkness not even a second later and proceeding to engage Lambda in a life-or-death fight.
- Too Many Belts: The narration in Clear Skies lampshades how extraneous the 11 belts on Riku's new outfit are.
- Trapped in Another World: At the start of the series, Lambda winds up in the Kingdom Hearts world with no way back to her reality. This is overall treated as a good thing by Lambda, given how horrible Relius' experiments were on her and how she makes it clear that she doesn't want to return to her world even if she could.
- Upgrade vs. Prototype Fight: The fight between Nu and Lambda respectively in Chapter 3 of Silver Linings. However, it ends inconclusively thanks to Nu being pulled back into the Boundary and Azure Timeline by Kokonoe for the events of Continuum Shift.
