A/N: You probably already know why I choose to write this one. I was reading some really good Kingdom Hearts stories, which I wouldn't name for various reasons. Anyways, I was thinking, "Huey and the others would really fuck with Kingdom Hearts if I crossed them", so here it is.

Well enough of that crap, on to why you're even reading this!

Chapter 1: Darkness Clouds All

Huey Freeman was a teenager of very few pleasures, and one of them was sleeping-in during the summer. The afro-headed teen tossed and turned on the couch he was sleeping on. He awoke suddenly, sitting up and looked around while let out a quiet sigh. He remembered that he and the others had a little party, so that explained the trash and empty cans around. But… what explained his dream or was it…?

"Just a dream…" He muttered to himself as he lounged back with his arms crossed behind his head and looking up at the ceiling as if it were lucid and he could see the sky above him.

Suddenly his front door was opened and in came his friends, or was it more like family; Traban, Jazmine, Riley, Cindy and Ming. While he was always happy to see them, after the dream he had; he was a bit worried.

"Just like the dream…" he muttered to himself as Jazmine turned to see him.

"Huey, you're awake!" Jazmine cried out in joy as she rushed over and hugged him, "We had tried to wake you up; you were having a bad dream. Something about keys…"

Huey shrugged in confusion, but on the inside he knew exactly what his dream was about. Traban gave him a raised brow, but smirked as he locked eyes with Huey.

"Been playing too much Kingdom Hearts, aye Huey?" Traban said as Huey rolled his eyes.

"I don't even really like Kingdom Hearts, so there?" Huey said as Traban's smirk grew three sizes that day.

"Then perhaps we need to make you see the wonders of the game my friend. It's still setup from last night, so let's play." Traban said as he gestured to the PlayStation 2 that was setup under the TV.

"No thanks, besides the damn thing gave me nightmares… Crap." Huey muttered, but then realized that Jazmine was right beside him. Huey glanced at Jazmine's wide eyes. He turned to Traban, whose eyes were gleamed in amusement and the others simply rolled their eyes.

"You planned that, didn't you?" Huey said as Traban shrugged.

"More or less, but that doesn't matter. And since I know you won't tell us about this nightmare of yours, perhaps a bit of the game will ease your mind, my friend." Traban said as Huey rolled his eyes and chucked a pillow at him. It hit Traban square in the face and knocked him over as the others simply stepped over him to get into the room.

"I play first, cause I'm a real nigga." Riley said as he grabbed the Player 1 controller.

"Riley, we modified the game so up six people could play at once; remember?" Huey said as Riley flipped him off. Traban rolled his eyes as he tossed out controllers.

"Okay, everyone pick your character." Huey said as the character select screen came up.

Modifiers were the best thing ever…

"Roxas!" Traban said quickly as he selected the man.

"I get… hmm… Aerith!" Jazmine exclaimed as she picked her person.

"I want Auron…" Huey mumbled as he chose his character.

"I gets Leon, cause that nigga got a sword that's a gun in one!" Riley said while selecting as Cindy slapped his arm.

"I wanted him!" Cindy cried as Riley shrugged.

"I request Tifa." Ming said as she selected the girl.

"Fine! I'll just get-" Cindy was saying, but then the sudden roar of thunder echoed through the room. Jazmine jumped on Huey as Ming clutched Traban tightly.

"Jeepers!" Jazmine cried out as they all paused… and gave her a weird look, "I've been watching Scooby Doo again, okay?"

Huey turned on the couch and looked out the window. It seemed that everything was dark and a storm was, without a doubt, happening. He only sighed, hoping it wouldn't be like that other time.

"Screw the storm, cause as soon as we get to the Hades Cup we're gonna rock it like a hurricane!" Traban exclaimed as Cindy and he fist bumped. Jazmine and Ming settled down as they gripped their controllers.

It would be alright… right?

Three Hours Later:

"Die Yuffie, die!" Jazmine and Ming shouted as they mashed buttons and combo-ed Yuffie since the others were knocked out.

"Yuffie, Cloud, Dark Leon, Dark Tifa, and to top it all off they add Dark Data Roxas and Sephiroth's crazy ass! Man, this some old bullshit!" Riley said as he threw his controller to the side.

"It's because of the mods we made to the game. I guess combining all the Kingdom Heart games and making a 'super game' has consequences." Traban said as Riley only huffed and crossed his arms.

Huey watched as Ming and Jazmine tried to at least catch Yuffie, since the ninja girl continuously disappeared and reappeared at random. He and Traban had taken out Sephiroth, Cloud, while Riley and Cindy had to defeat Roxas and Dark Leon. They had all defeated their opponents, in sort of a double knock-out so to speak. Traban blamed Sephiroth since he couldn't stop the man in time. Now the only one that was left was Yuffie.

Ming had her Tifa character jump above the ninja girl as Jazmine rushed Aerith at her. Yuffie was about to disappear again, but Ming had Tifa catch her off-guard with a drop-kick to the head from above. Aerith healed Tifa and Ming had the karate girl go in for the kill: Limit Break.

After a serious of attacks Ming had Tifa finish the smaller girl off by incasing her in a black dome of energy and then compressing it until Yuffie was out of HP. Traban's eye twitched as he looked at Ming, who was smirking viciously at the screen that had all their characters with the Hades Cup trophy.

"That was… brutal. You sure you've never heard of Mortal Kombat?" Traban said as Ming looked at him.

"What's that?" Ming asked as Huey and Riley face-palmed themselves.

"Nothing… nothing at all…" Traban said as he was sure that if she ever found out about the game, then real-life would get… fatal.

Suddenly the lightning broke through the window and struck the game. They stared in shock as the bolt had passed right past them, almost as if on purpose, and struck the game. The game and television began to glow a dark aura as they stared at it.

"What's happening?" Jazmine asked as she latched on to Huey's arm. Cindy got from the floor with Riley as Ming and Traban stood beside one another.

"I don't know, but it can't be something good." Huey said with Traban nodding in agreement.

"Whatever's going on be sure to stay together. It could be just like that time we were dragged into my Nintendo DS." Traban said as they all nodded.

Then just as quickly as it began to glow it stopped, and the storm outside had even gone as well. Huey looked around with narrowed eyes, waiting for whatever was to come while the others did the same.

"The storms gone." Riley stated as he looked through the broken window.

"So the storm fries our game system then just leaves? That's not cool man." Traban said as he folded his arms and shook his head in disappointment.

"What do you think happened?" Huey asked as Traban gained a much more serious look.

"I'm not sure. It could be nothing, but since we weren't forcibly sucked into Kingdom Hearts, I'm guessing everything's…" Traban said, but trailed off as he looked out the window and pointed his index finger to where his gaze was.

They all looked at him strangely and then out the window. Their mouths gaped and their eyes widened at the sight of the darkest storm clouds they had ever seen coming from over the horizon. They all quickly ran outside to see what was really going on and saw that they weren't the only ones. People of old and younger were coming out of their homes to inspect the pitch-black cloud. The clouds didn't rumble or roar with thunder. Not a single flash of lightning occurred, and not one drop of rain flew as they covered the sky above them like a shroud of darkness.

"As Uncle from Jackie Chan Adventures would say, Aiiee-yaaaahh!" Traban yelled as he pointed at the ominousness sky.

"Or like Jackie would say, Bad Day." Huey offered as Jazmine held onto him tightly.

Then from the very ground strange, yet familiar black creatures began rising up. The creatures were all a solid midnight black in color with bent and curling feelers on their heads, sharp-clawed hands and toeless feet with bright yellow eyes. The creatures began latching onto people, attacking them until they made symbolic heart rise up out of their victim. Huey and the others could only stare at the things as more and more of them began to show up.

"Those are… H-heartless…" Jazmine noted with wide eyes.

"Shadows…" Huey let slip as he and the others quickly shook their heads to get out of their shock. People were being attacked and they couldn't just sit by and do nothing.

"We need to figure out where these things are coming from." Traban shouted as he watched some people trying to beat off the things with purses and brooms, yet they were failing miserably.

One of the heartless stopped in front of Huey, looking at him emptily before pouncing at him.

"Oh no you don't!" Huey said as he moved Jazmine and kicked the thing. He was surprised that had worked, but saw it was unaffected by suddenly colliding with the tree across the street.

Traban grabbed Riley and the two ran back into the house. Traban went into the living room and grabbed two swords that had been resting in the corner. Riley ran upstairs and grabbed three BB-guns, and a suitcase. They both made it in and out in under a minute as Traban tossed a sword to Huey and Riley tossed a BB-gun to Cindy.

"Ming!" Riley shouted as he threw the suitcase to her. Ming caught it and opened it up to find… a glove.

"What the hell am I supposed to do with a glove?" Ming yelled at Riley as he shot at one of the creatures that was approaching him. The pellet did nothing but knock the thing over for it to get back up.

"That's Huey's gay-ass stun-glove! Punch the fuck out of these damn things!" Riley shouted as he and Cindy went back-to-back and covered their group.

Ming slipped the glove on and closed her fist tightly around the material. It sparked to life with electricity coming of it in waves. She ran forward and uppercut one of the heartless, sending volts of electricity through the small thing. Ming smirked as she hopped around punching each one she could until she rejoined the others.

"We have to protect the people!" Traban shouted as he slashed at a heartless that he jumped at him.

"But we can barely protect our-damn-selves!" Riley said as he placed his gun on Traban;s shoulder for aim and shot a heartless.

"Then we need to get somewhere they can't go! If we can find a place like that, then we might be able to send people there!" Traban reasoned as Cindy used his other shoulder.

"What like a church? Because I don't think that crap really works!" Huey said as he slashed a heartless back. Even though he had cut the thing in half it still reformed.

"I was kind of hoping it would! Everyone, back to back!" Traban said as they all turned outward and became fighting from all sides.

"I don't have a weapon!" Jazmine cried as she watched the heartless come at her. Huey looked around and saw a broom near his feet. He kicked it up and broke it off to form a make-shift staff.

"Traban taught you enough to use this, so go at it." Huey said as he tossed it to her. She gave it a twirl to test and smirked as she batted away three heartless.

"Look!" Cindy cried out as she pointed pass the small heartless.

She was pointing at the even bigger Heartless that began popping up. They were larger than the Shadows, but still smaller than a normal man, with long spindly arms with sharp talons at the ends, a pair of large glowing amber eyes on its faceless head with two long tentacle-like antennas on its head both of which like the rest of their bodies were covered in blue veins.

"Pureblood Heartless: Neo-Shadow" Traban stated as he narrowed his eyes. If they were having so much trouble with the smallest and weakest of the heartless, then how could they hope to take on bigger ones?

Huey let out a cry of frustration as he allowed energy to fill his spirit. It was then a light engulfed his hands and covered his sword. When the light had faded in his hands was not his katana. What was in his hand was a long key-like sword. The handle was smooth and sleek black, and was surrounded by a roughly rectangular guard. The guard was predominantly black, though it faded into dark blue toward the base of the blade. The shaft of the blade was black with a faded silver border along its edges. The head of the blade was decorated by several flame-like marks that were a dark blue. What was the weirdest part was that the sword had a keychain token which was a black fist.

Huey and the others stared at it for moment, at least until a Neo-Shadow had jumped at him. He slashed up quicker than any of them had known, and the creature was sliced in half with a symbolic heart being created from its death. Huey smirked as he took a stance with the key-sword in his hands.

"Now we're in business." Huey stated excitedly as he ran out and slashed away at the oncoming heartless. He moved through them with practiced ease from his training with swords and left the creatures in fewer numbers than they started out with.

Too bad that even more started coming as soon as he stopped…

"Damn, where these niggas comin' from?" Riley shouted as Huey had rejoined them.

"I don't know but I do know we have to move. We need to get somewhere we can fight-"

Traban's words were cut short as another, much larger, Heartless suddenly rose up from the distance…This one was possibly the size of an office building, if not bigger, with pure black skin, it's bright yellow eyes had three scratches going down its face. It's wild tendril-like hair was splayed around its head and shoulders while also being curled over its lower face like a scarf, its body was completely composed of a powerful muscular build with long large arms and short legs with its strange jagged point toes, a heart was cut out of its torso however and two small, useless looking wings arched from its shoulders.

Huey and the others watched as the smaller heartless; both Shadows and Neo-Shadows retreated as this new behemoth came onto the scene. Traban's eyes were widest as he gazed up at the thing with shock and fear.

"Pureblood Heartless… D-Dark-Side…" Traban whispered out, his voice clearly showing his fear and awe at the creature.

"W-what do we do?" Jazmine asked as her eyes were stuck on the thing.

"Damn that thing is big!" Riley said off-handedly as Cindy and Ming nodded in agreement. Traban inhaled and exhaled deeply as his eyes narrowed, his fear and awe passing with each second of reality hitting him like an ugly monkey.

"We can't fight that thing, but maybe Huey can. That Keyblade of yours could probably take it down." Traban said as he analyzed the situation.

"No, not even then, sugars." A sassy southern voice said as they all looked around for its owner. It was like it was inside their brains, "I am inside your minds, honey. You can just call me… DJ Light and I think it's about time for y'all to get out of there." The voice, clearly female, said as they began glowing in a bright light.

Huey unshielded his eyes as he looked at himself and his friends and noticed but one thing…

They were falling…

As soon as he noticed that he wanted to scream, but for some reason he was at peace. They were falling into darkness and he found it peaceful.

Maybe he was the strange one…

He looked to the others and saw that they were opening their eyes, with a look of peace on their face that he was sure was on his face as well.

They all saw they were falling into darkness, but then, he saw something else, and a strange glow coming from the ground below as they all slowly turned to it. He felt his feet touch down on solid ground as did the others, but as they did numerous birds flew up off the strange platform in the endless darkness. Following the birds with his eyes Huey watched as they reached out into the endless void of darkness before looking to the new floor as it began to glow.

The floor seemed made of stained glass; on it was an odd sort of… scene. The floor showed him and the others in hooded cloaks at the forefront, numerous silhouettes behind them with three circles. In the circle to the left, there was Traban and Ming smirking at each other as they displayed peace-signs. In the one above, there was Riley and Cindy holding up their guns in a bad-boy pose. And lastly, to the right, there was him and Jazmine, looking as normal as could be while they held each other in their arms.

"Welcome, sugars…" That voice from before, DJ Light, said from seemingly everywhere and nowhere at the same time… "Do not be afraid y'all, I'm merely here to help you on y'all journey…" She said as Huey narrowed his eyes. What damn journey?

"Now first… let's have a look at y'all…" She said as they looked at themselves, like actually looked.

They were rather simple really, still in the same jeans or shorts and t-shirts they had on before. DJ Light seemed to tsk and shake her figurative head as she "looked" at them.

"Hmm… no, I don't think so… that won't do at all… Y'all need some favor, a little flare. I know what will do…" She mused to herself, probably ignoring the scowl on their faces. And with a snapping of nonexistent fingers Huey's attire changed in a flash of bright light…

Huey now wore a long, black, hooded jacket that was half zipped to show his white t-shirt underneath. He had faded silver shoulder guards strapped around each of his shoulders. Over his arms was a pair of dark blue gloves that reached up to cover his forearms, a pair of black short gloves pulled over those and cuffed around his wrists with a metal plate at the back of each fist. He wore black pants, a dark blue belt around his waist with gray straps crossing from both sides to a pair of blue pouches at his thighs. A pair of midnight blue sandal boots reached up midway to his calves. His pants tucked inside of his boots that had a black heel and sole.

"Nice…" Huey mused as he looked himself over. Everyone turned as Jazmine was the next to be engulfed in light.

When the light died away, Jazmine wore a black and blue high-collared halter top, two pink, intersecting belts over her chest, and black pants. On her arms she wore white bell-sleeves and tan fingerless gloves. She had a small, segmented piece of armor on each of her upper arms and what appeared to be black stockings, or socks, on her legs. She also had on two strips of blue cloth that drape over either side of her hips, along with a smaller, white strip of cloth tied around her waist, draped in the same manner. A pair of silver sandal-boots graced her feet.

"Wow…" Jazmine breathed out as she looked at herself from all angles.

"Damn girl" Cindy said as she and Ming moved around her.

Then Riley was blocked from sight by light as they looked to him.

The light faded away and Riley was wearing a distinctive black leather long-sleeved jacket with fur trim on the collar, and a low-cut white shirt underneath. His wore black pants with three brown belts; one holding up his pants and the other two hanging loosely around his hips and waist, along with three interconnecting belts tightened on the right leg of his pants. He also wore black boots and gloves, along with a silver chain necklace with a Griever pendant, and a matching ring on his left ring finger.

"Damn…" Riley said as looked over himself in his new clothes. He especially liked the chain and the ring.

Cindy wrapped her arms around his neck and kissed his cheek as she looked over him, "Look at my man looking all dipped in butter and glistening." She said as Riley smirked and Traban coughed lightly to cover up a laugh.

Cindy was the next to be engulfed in light as she backed away from Riley.

When the light faded away, Cindy wore a navy blue tank-top with a white Hawaiian flowered design. Over it she wore a sleeveless dark-gray jacket. She wore blue jeans with two dark-grey belts; one that held up her pants and the other that rested loosely around her hips. On her right arm was a white sleeve that started from her wrist and ended just short of her shoulder. She wore laced blue boots with black socks.

"Mmm-hmm, Momma likes this…" Cindy said as she examined her new threads.

It was then Traban was engulfed by light as he rolled his eyes.

After the light had faded, they saw that Traban was dressed in a long black floor-length hooded jacket. He wore a black shirt. On the shirt was a dark blue chest-plate which bore a red Griever in the center of it. His hands were covered by a pair of fingerless black gloves. He wore black jeans that were held up by a single loose belt; which had a slot of some kind for a weapon on the right side. His belt-buckle was that of a Griever. He wore black sandal-boots and black socks.

"I don't even play Final Fantasy…" Traban said as he looked from his belt buckle to his chest plate. The others chuckled at him as he looked over himself, doing a little spin to make his jacket rise up.

"Though I must admit; I love the long jacket. It's like a haori, only cooler and made of combat leather."

Ming rolled her eyes, but gasped as she was suddenly engulfed in light.

When the light had gone, Ming was wearing a white shirt under a black sleeveless half zipped jacket with black pants. She wore black gloves which stopped a little past her wrist. On the back of her pants was a short duster that ended just short of her heels. She wore a pair of silver buckled black boots with white socks.

"I think I like this, but why the cape on the back of my pants?" Ming said as she twirled in place to see the thing.

"It's not a cape, it's a duster. It's like a cape, but can actually be used for something other than fashion." Traban said as they all looked at him weird.

"What, can't a guy know one thing about fashion? The only reason I know that is because one of my sensei's wore one." Traban defended as they rolled their eyes and snickered.

"Ah, that's much better, sugars. Now y'all look presentable…" DJ Light said, praising her work while they rolled their eyes, but still looked at each other's new clothes with awe. Huey was obviously about to say or ask something, but DJ Light bet him to the punch.

"Now, now… there will be time for questions later, for now we have much work to do…" She said as they gave the darkness confused looks.

"Now, if y'all are ready…Huey, you're up…" She said as a flash of light occurred.

The flash died away and a weapon appeared to be hovering over the ground in front of Huey. It had a three-foot long blade with curved heart shape cut out of it, the area attached to the blade was gold while turning blue when it attached to the handle, the pommel of the weapon was gold as well, while the cross-guard was crimson, and almost looked like flames as it curled down from above the handle down into the pommel…

Traban gave the Keyblade a look a pointed to it, "That's the Dark Heart Keyblade." He said as they all looked at it.

"Go on, sugar… take it…" DJ Light said as Huey hesitated for a moment before taking hold of the weapon's hilt. Looking at the weapon once more, Huey saw what looked like shadows moving below him swallow him up, dragging him back into darkness once more…

Though Huey soon found himself struggling against nothing, he got up as the others gave him concerned and weird looks.

"Umm… Now then, Hand to Hand came before armed combat. Without it, there would be no swords, shields, or any other weapon that we use today… So, sugar…" DJ Light said as Huey saw the area around him light up; revealing a different stained glass area beneath him and the others. This one had several scenes of himself and Jazmine going through the forms of kung-fu he taught her last summer.

"However, movement is essential to all forms of combat, so let's start out with movement, shall we sugar…" She said as Huey looked at his arms while he nodded in agreement.

"Good, then you can jump, run, flip and move in any way you can for a little while…" DJ Light said as Huey, still holding the keyblade in his hand, jumped up and flipped into the center of the first circle. He then ran around the platform a few times before flipping three times into the center once more.

Jazmine and the others gave him an amused round of applauds as he looked over to them. He had kind of forgotten they were there.

Huey then began swinging the keyblade upward and quickly moved his hand back, allowing him to hold it in a reserve grip. Smirking, Huey spun on heel and leaped off his feet into a spinning jump, slashing the weapon outward along the way while landing on one foot.

They gave him another round of applauds as he looked over to them. However, he forgot he was still on one foot. He then fell down and groaned as he lifted a hand to his head; feeling both dizzy and foolish for having been a show-off. He got up just as DJ Light "came back" giggling at him.

"Excellent, you understand how to move quite well…now… time for y'all next lesson…" She said as Huey walked over to the others, but not before he threw the keyblade across the floor, making it disappear in a flash of light.

The floor flashed once again to show a change in the scene. It was now several scenes of Riley showing Cindy how to shoot a gun. Traban snickered at the floor as Riley punched him in the arm.

"Now then… let's see if you can fight with your new weapons… Don't worry each of you get a weapon, but for now Riley will be getting his…" She said with mirth as Ming and Cindy pouted and crossed their arms.

Riley stepped forward and his hand was encased in a bright light. When the light faded he held a silver sword-like gun with the Griever engraved in the side of the blade and a Griever keychain attached to it.

"A Gunblade and a Revolver-class one too. Nice…" Riley said as Traban blinked, having been about to say the same thing.

"How did he know that?" Traban asked as Huey turned to him.

"It's Riley, he knows anything there is to about guns and gun-like weapons." Huey said as Traban chuckled at the hidden jab to the younger Freeman.

Riley swung it a few times to get a feel for it as creatures suddenly appeared before him. He smirked as he saw that they were only Shadows.

Gripping the Gunblade in his hands, Riley lunged forward with surprising fury, swinging the weapon into the first of the creatures, slicing it in half while he twisted on heel and connected with the next one, chopping its head off.

However, in his showing-off, he didn't notice the one behind him until it had managed to claw him along his back, but he did spin on his heel once more expect this time in a wide arc, slicing through all of the weak creatures. Loosening his grip on the hilt of his weapon, Riley stood up straight and relaxed.

"We are not done yet, sugar… For no matter how strong you become… many dark beings will seek your downfall… so you must be prepared…" DJ Light said as Huey and Traban narrowed their eyes at the cryptic message. Riley frowned as he walked back to the others, his weapon disappearing from his hand.

"You all must make a choice now. You must choose your roles, your weapon; your power." DJ Light said, in a serious voice as they gave her voice their undivided attention.

"Power sleeps within all of you…"

Suddenly, a beam of light appeared to their right. They turned to look at it, and saw that a stone tablet bearing a red shield had risen up from the part of the floor that the light had touched.

"But you must give it form. And if you give it form…"

Huey and the others spun in time to see another beam of light fall to their left, and saw that another stone tablet had appeared, this time bearing a green wand with a blue symbol on its top. Then another showed up, though this one had a yellow sword atop it. Huey and the others walked around to inspect the three items. It was obvious they had to choose one of the three.

Huey and Ming stood in front of the last object that had appeared. It was a simple broadsword, the blade was curved inward near it's hilt, the guard of the weapon being a yellow U shape with a red field with a black tri-circle symbol, the handle was black with blue lines forming several X's down it, with a gold pommel made into a spike at the end.

"This sword is the power of the Warrior, invincible courage, and a sword of terrible destruction."

Huey and Ming stared at it, but turned and looked to the others to see what they were doing.

Jazmine and Riley were interestingly enough in front of the shield.

The shield was red, with a three-circle symbol on the front with a black background behind it and four red studs.

"This shield holds the power of the Guardian, kindness to aid friends, and a shield to repel all…"

Jazmine bit her lip at it while Riley looked toward Traban and Cindy, who were both in front of the staff.

The staff was more of a rod of some kind, green in color with a yellow tip, a small brown oval formed over the top with an orbed tri-circle symbol formed at the very top.

"This stall grants one the power of the Mystic, inner strength, and a staff of wonder and ruin…"

Traban stared at it in thought as Cindy fidgeted nervously. Which one would be right to choose?

"What happens when we choose?" Traban asked as the others looked at him.

"You'll gain the power of your choice and then be made to give up one of the two you didn't choose." DJ Light said as Traban nodded. Just like Kingdom Hearts…

Traban sighed as he grabbed ahold of the staff. He looked to his side and saw that Jazmine was there instead of Cindy. Jazmine grabbed it with conviction clear in her eyes as Traban smiled at her.

"Why not choose the shield? You could have had what you always wanted." Traban said in a whisper as she gave him a small smile.

"Sometimes what you want isn't always best." Jazmine replied as he smiled proudly at her.

Cindy and Riley held on to the shield as they gazed into each other's eyes.

"Why didn't you pick the staff? I thought you always wanted magic?" Riley asked as she sighed.

"I wanted to protect you when you're protecting everyone else. I know you always wanted to protect them, but then who would protect you?" Cindy said as Riley smiled.

"Then we got each other's back." Riley said as Cindy smiled back at him and dapped him off.

"Why didn't you go for the shield? I thought you wanted to keep everyone safe?" Ming said to Huey as Huey glanced at her.

"I do, and I'll do it by killing anything that threatens them. Why didn't you go for the shield or the staff?" Huey said as Ming shrugged.

"Not my style, I'm not a kind one and I certainly don't know a thing about inner-strength, so I'll stick with what I'm good at; courage and killing." Ming said with a smirk that Huey mirrored.

"So you've all chosen? Good, but now you must give up something in return for the power you've obtained. Now what will you give up in exchange?" DJ Light said as they went to the object they planned to give up.

Huey and Riley were in front the staff while Traban and Ming stood in front the shield, and Cindy and Jazmine were in front the sword.

"Giving up the sword, Cindy? But doesn't that mean you can't fight?" Jazmine asked as Cindy shook her head.

"It doesn't really mean anything. It's all symbolic, kind of like a rose or an eagle clutching a snake in its feet." Cindy said as Jazmine nodded.

"Is that your choices? Alright, then your paths are set."

It was then the floor flashed a bright light once again and the scene on it changed. This time it was all of them looking just as peaceful as could be, sleeping against one another.

"I really wish I could sleep like that… Damn nightmares/memories…" Huey and Traban muttered as they stood next to each other, both blinking and looking at one another as they realized they had said basically the same thing.

"Memories, huh?" Huey asked with a slight smirk as Traban shrugged.

"Nightmares, Mr. Burn Down the Government?" Traban countered as Huey scowled.

"We'll never speak of this again." Huey said as Traban nodded.

"Agreed" Traban replied as Jazmine and Ming looked at them.

They all turned to the floor, but were then forced to shield their eyes from the brightest light they had seen all day as the floor erupted in light. Riley tried to peek between his fingers, but his eyes were blinded by the light as Cindy smacked him upside the head. He briefly wondered if she knew where he was, or if she couldn't just sense him.

Next came the feeling of being weightless, he could actually feel his body turn and spin in midair like he was in space or something.

Then there was nothing, just plain and simply unconsciousness as he and the others lay in an alley of some town they had never been to. Yet, if one were to look up, they would notice the sign that read, "Traverse Town".

Elsewhere:

Leon cursed to himself as he walked through Traverse Town, he cursed himself for not seeing something like this coming, he cursed Maleficent for attacking and taking over Radiant Garden with her Heartless, forcing the civilians to come here just to stay alive, he wondered if there was any way to get the place back. However, he was travelling from world to world saving people in peril and in need and relocating them to Traverse Town, so that they could be safe.

"Ah, you must be Leon." Leon blinked before he looked around, not seeing anyone, "Down here." Leon looked down before he realized that he was indeed looking at a talking mouse, sure he had probably seen weirder things in his time as a warrior, but it was still somewhat surprising.

"Alright, who are you and how do you now my name?" Leon asked, wondering why he felt comfortable enough not to think of drawing his Gunblade on the… talking mouse-man…

His life just sucked…

"My name is Mickey, and how I know you, well I've been watching your actions with great interest." Mickey told the swordsman, who blinked before nodding for Mickey to continue, "Well, I need some help with what I will be about to do, in order to stop other worlds becoming victims like your world has." Mickey explained, causing Leon to give him a slightly surprised look.

"Alright, what do you want me to do?" Leon asked as he shifted into a more comfortable stance. Mickey smiled as he stuck out his hand, to which Leon shook.

"Glad to see that we're on the same page."