Sora Takaku

A/N: Okay, so this is my first crossover between something I'm extremely knowledgeable about and something I'm not entirely familiar with. It was also my first attempt at getting into a character's head and trying to keep them as In-Character as possible unless it was completely necessary to the plot to make them act sort of OOC. It only happened a few times in this so far. Let's hope it'll stay a low number compared to the In-Character moments.

Chapter 1: The Glitch

Well, this has been a rather difficult couple of weeks for me, but I guess that's okay. I was helping people almost the whole time. It'll be kind of hard to explain to anyone, but I'll try my hardest, since Kairi and Riku wanted to hear exactly what it did while I was in Maxville. Well, I guess I should start at the beginning.

It all started when Cid installed the new Warp Gummi, which was supposed to only take us to worlds we'd visited previously. Well, I don't recall having ever gone to Maxville any time before this. I think I'd be able to remember a world like that.

"Bye, guys!"Leon and Cloud called at the same time, neither doing anything more to bid us farewell. It's just not in their nature.

"See you boys soon!"Yuffie exclaimed, grinning from ear to ear while jumping up and down and waving.

"Don't get into too much trouble, you three."Tifa warned, giving us a stern look before smiling and waving at us in farewell.

"Bye, everyone! We'll be back as soon as we can visit again!"Goofy called, smiling.

We moved to enter the ship before the last goodbye we'd hear that day reached our ears.

"Be careful, Sora, Donald, and Goofy."Aerith said, smiling at us.

I turned to her and grinned, "Aren't we always?"I asked innocently.

She shook her head, still smiling. "Be safe, then."She amended.

"We will, Aerith, don't you worry! We'll be back before you know it, and in one piece this time."I said, giving her a reassuring look.

She nodded.

"Later."I said, giving a small wave before getting in. I walked to the front of the ship and took my place in the pilot's seat. "Talk about a long goodbye."I uttered, slightly annoyed.—profanities aplenty coming up here—I may be a pretty cheerful guy most of the time, but sometimes I have my douchebag-gish moments where I get more pissed than I can honestly explain.

"Uh-huh."Goofy agreed absentmindedly.

I'm just happy that I wasn't having one of those dreaded moments when the Glitch occurred, or there would've been—profanity coming up—Hell to pay, and that rage would've been directed at the first person who got on my bad side. Probably some innocent bystander, but I'm getting off track here.

I messed with the coordinates for a second before I settled on the ones that would warp us to Twilight Town, and I pressed the all-too familiar warp button. That thing was probably my best friend when it came to inanimate objects, second only to my keyblade.

I'm not sure exactly what happened, because honestly, I'm not exactly a tech expert. But one second we were flashing across the galaxy in hyper-space, in the direction of Twilight Town, and then we hung a left out of nowhere. I sure as heck didn't do it, but it happened regardless. When we exited hyper-space, we were near a world that none of us had ever seen.

The monitors of the Gummi Ship told us that it was called Maxville. I figured it was worth the risk, and I stated it to see what the other two thought.

"I think it might be interesting, what do you guys think?"I asked, looking over and back at them in turn.

"I don't see why we shouldn't."Was Donald's answer to my question.

I nodded, "Goofy?"I asked, looking at him.

"If both you and Donald think it's a good idea, so do I. I trust both of you."Goofy answered.

"Then it's settled, we're going to Maxville."I grinned and entered a couple of commands into the monitors, turning off the automatic warping and pulling out of auto-pilot.

I won't bore you with the details of how that worked, but I will go into detail about what happened when I steered toward the world.

"WARNING, WORLD'S ATMOSPHERE IS EXTREMELY UNSTABLE. PLEASE FASTEN ALL SEATBELTS AND HOLD ONTO SOMETHING."

I figured I should do what the computer told me to do, as it had almost always been right before. The next thing that happened honestly scared me, because I'm still not sure exactly what happened. I just know that it was what really started my week in Maxville.

The Gummi Ship entered the atmosphere, as is standard procedure, but what happened next sure as—excuse my extremely frequent profanity today—HELL was not standard procedure. Instead of landing and disembarking, the Gummi Ship kept going past the bit of land we'd seen, falling toward a larger portion of land. But that's not the weird part. As we accelerated toward the ground, a light engulfed the ship.

I don't know exactly what happened to Donald and Goofy at this point, but the next thing I knew, I was in a clearing, flat on my back staring at the sky and a large coil of smoke. I sat up cautiously, memories of previous falls and crashes reminding me of what the side effects might be.

I didn't actually have to worry, because I sat up without the least bit of pain. I looked over at the wreck of what was left of the Gummi Ship. It was still useable, but it would take some doing to fix it up.

My brief training with Yen Sid came in handy as I cast an illusion to get rid of the smoke that was coiling up from the crash. I walked over and checked and re-checked the ship, making absolutely certain that I could fix it up given enough time.

I then decided to take a look around the world. My instincts—which I had honed to detect the smallest disturbance in what was considered 'normal'—told me there was something extremely off in this world. And Roxas' brief training in recon helped too. I took in what I saw, alert and on the edge the whole time. Every detail was engrained into my memory, just like every other world that I had memorized the layout of.

It would be easier if I knew what was going on, and not just what there was, but alas, I don't have the power of mind reading. I just stuck with watching what was going on around me. I picked up small pieces of conversations from the people that seemed out of the 'normal' category that I had trained myself to detect the slightest difference from.

After a sufficient recon mission, I snuck back into the clearing. Something was bothering me about the place, but something other than the strangeness of this world bothered me more. I had trouble figuring it out at first, but eventually I did. And it scared me.

I could no longer feel the overwhelming Light that had possessed me since I'd become aware of my abilities with the Keyblade. Well, I could, but it was subdued. I tried to summon it, but it didn't come to my hand. I felt how hard it was trying to react to me, and I'll just say it was trying extremely hard.

Then I attempted to cast one of my many spells... and managed it.

"Okay... So I'm just not allowed to use my Keyblade?"I asked no one.

"Nope."Someone said.

I turned to see who it was, startled. Much to my surprise, Roxas stood leaning against a tree on the other side of the clearing.

Has he been there the whole time? I asked myself.

"What's wrong, Sora?"Roxas asked in a teasing tone, "Cat got your tongue?"

"Roxas...What are you doing here?"I asked, feeling dumb afterwards.

"Well, you're here, so I am too. Though, if you meant 'What are you doing in your own body?', I don't know."

"Well, that's a ton of help."I replied sarcastically.

"Yep."

We stood in silence for a minute while I tried to process the fact that my Nobody was standing no more than three yards away...in his own body. He seemed to be enjoying it, considering the fact that he had to use my body to do anything nowadays.

"So..."I began, trying to strike up a conversation, "Enjoying the body?"

He seemed surprised that I asked, but I can't understand why. "Yeah, actually, I am."He replied, smiling.

"I thought so. I'm happy that you're enjoying something for once."

We stood grinning at each other for a few moments before deciding that we should probably find some more stuff out about this world. Both of us walked out of the trees at the same pace, acting like we were siblings instead of the same person.