The three ships sailed across the skies before arriving at their destination: Disney Castle.
"Wow. Forgot how long it's been since we've been home." Goofy said.
"Yeah. It's great to be back!" Donald said.
"So why come back to the Castle, your Majesty?" Sonia asked.
"Well, there is something that was brought to my attention a few days ago from Jiminy." Mickey said.
They entered the King's library where a familiar cricket was waiting for them with two books behind him.
"Wait, those two books...are those?" Jexi asked.
"My journals. The ones I used to keep track doing our two adventures together. Two grand adventures. One to stop the darkness from spreading and another to return the lost hearts back where they belong. I was proud to be the cricket to write it all down. But as some of you know, the first journal is nothing but a single sentence now." Jiminy said opening to the page with the words "Thank Namine" written in them.
"Thank….Namine?" Raine asked.
"She was someone who helped us back during our fight with the Organization." Twilight said. "She was a Nobody, someone who's not supposed to exist."
"Yes...but a few days ago...I found this sentence." Jiminy said turning to a new sentence.
'Their hurting will be mended, when you return to end it.'
"What does that mean?" Eijiro asked.
"I don't know. I remember writing both of these journals but I never wrote this in there, so I'm not sure how it got there." Jiminy said.
"Do you think this Namine wrote it?" Jude asked.
"If so, she must be a powerful individual to write a caricature of that sentence from so far a distance. Perhaps she has the same cursed abilities as mine." Gundam said.
"Gundam, you and Namine are different. You can tame animals, she can use a journal to rewrite people's' memories. Totally different things." Indigo said.
"Besides, that theory is faulty. Namine rejoined with Kairi, unless you guys forgot." Jexi said.
"Oh...right." Hope said.
"Don't worry about it. I've already called some professionals to help with this." Mickey said before the doors opened as two small chipmunks ran in.
"Your Majesty...we got it!" Chip said.
"Just leave it to us!" Dale said as they got to work tinkering with something before activating it into a large computer. Inside of it was the first journal. As pictures of worlds appeared on the screen, soon also appeared blocks with red lines all over them.
"Something's gone wrong! The journal's worlds are completely nuts!" Chip said.
"Nuts? Where?" Dale said.
"That's not what I mean!" Chip said.
"And what's with those red block things?" Lacy asked.
"Those are bugs in the system, they're a result of corrupted data in the system." Jeremie said.
"Wow, you're a real pro, Jeremie!" Chip said.
"He spent 2 years working with my father's Supercomputer, this should be no different." Aelita said.
"That said, how about I help you two?" Jeremie asked.
"Sound good, because we're at a loss." Dale said.
"If only we could go inside and fix the data in there." Goofy said.
"That's actually not a bad idea. If we use someone already inside the journal, we can have them fix it for us." Jeremie said.
"And I think we all know just the guy to do it, right?" Mickey asked.
"Yup. Who else?" Donald asked.
"Right." Jeremie said.
In the world, there feel a familiar boy that they all recognized. It was Sora, he fell in the darkness until landing on a stained glass depicting Snow White.
"I know that place. It's the Dive to the Heart." Twilight said.
"Hasn't changed a bit." Toma said.
"But this Sora is a lot different from how the real one started. I've already given this one the power to use his Keyblade." Jeremie said. "He's like the Sora from before, just another version. And since he's Sora, he can help us restore the worlds inside." he said before the computer blared as red screens popped up.
"Seems like there's some problems with the computer. I'll check it out with Chip and Dale." Jeremie said leaving with them.
"I'll come too, just to be safe." Tails said as the four left.
It was after awhile that the red screens vanished.
"Guess they fixed it." Jiminy said.
"Hey, there's someone on the monitor!" Natsu said as a figure in a black cloak stood before the Data Sora.
"This is curious. I never wrote anything like that in my journal." Jiminy said.
They watched as the figure walked away up a stain glass staircase.
"Look, you gotta go after him! Fast!" Mickey said into the monitor as Sora went after the figure. When he arrived on a stainglass with three blank princesses, black Shadow's were rising from the ground before him. "Look out! They're the Heartless! Time to use your powers!" Mickey said as Sora summoned his keyblade and slayed the heartless before a door appeared. "Now it's time...open the door. Just hold out the Keyblade." he said as Sora unlocked the door as it opened up with a bright light shining through.
When the light subsided, Sora soon found himself on a familiar island but had blocks all over it. "I'm back on the island?" Sora asked.
"Destiny Islands?" Hope asked.
"Of course. It was where Sora started his journey after all." Mickey said. "Hey, are you okay Sora?"
"Okay...who are you and...how do you know my name? Have we met somewhere before?" Sora asked.
"Well, sort of. I'm Mickey Mouse. And though we've never met, I do know you Sora. You could say we're really good friends." Mickey said.
"So you don't know me, yet we're friends and we've never met? I don't understand any of this." Sora said.
"It's...complicated. We can't really explain it. Now...we're trying to fix those worlds. So...anything strange?" Jude asked.
"Yeah. These blocks. What are they?" Sora asked.
"We're not sure, either. It's completely new to us as well." David said.
"Wait...there's more people in there? So...is it the same? You know me...but I don't know you?" Sora asked.
"That's...one way to put it." David said.
"We'll...I'm gonna try and ask around." Sora said.
Sora then went around asking Selphie, Wakka and Tidus before he learned of the hooded man's last known location...the Secret Place. He then crawled under a high ceiling and entered a room with lots of drawings inside and a door in back.
"Those drawings...they look like kids drew them. Must have been Sora, Riku and Kairi from back then." Weiss said.
"Hey, look!" Luffy said pointing to a childish drawing on a big rock of the heroes themselves. "That's us!"
"It is us. Wow. He was dead on back then." Jexi said as Sora aimed his keyblade at the door as a bright light filled the room as well as the library. It soon subsided after that.
"Whoa. I'm seein stars." Goofy said.
"Wait...look! The journal's got a new entry!" Jiminy said.
'A road. One for the taking. It will only open, when you end our world's aching.'
"These are starting to become more like riddles." Kazuichi said.
"But...are they talking about our world...or theirs?" Donald wondered before they saw a keyhole appeared on the door.
"So, i just use the key blade, right?" Sora asked pointing it at the keyhole as a new light shined. When it died down, Sora found himself on a broken scrap of land that was once his island as a sphere of darkness was above it.
'This event...it's like...when I saw my world be destroyed." Fiora said.
"Then….this was when the Destiny Islands were lost to darkness." Aqua said before appearing on the island was a large dark being with a heart shaped hole in its chest.
"Darkside!" Twilight and Toma said.
"Sora, be careful with this thing! It's much tougher than a normal Heartless!" Hope said.
Darkside threw a fight as Sora jumped back before running in and slashing at it with his keyblade before battling the Shadows it was summoning. After which, he ran up its arm and attacked its head before jumping off as the monster sparked with bits of code shown in it. It then floated towards the sphere before the world soon vanished.
"Sora! Where'd he go?" Ulrich asked.
"I'm afraid I don't know." Mickey said as a new entry appeared in the journal.
'There are more hurts than the one you have just undone.'
"Again?" Akane asked.
"So I guess this means we aren't done." Odd said before a video popped up.
In the video, it showed a younger Riku walking the falling apart island before being met by a stranger in brown robes. After a few moments, Riku smirked as a dark portal opened behind him as he slowly fell into it. As soon as it ended, Rainbow was gritting her teeth as a look of rage was present on her face.
"Oh crap, I think I know what this is about. Rainbow, p-please calm down for a moment." Petra said.
"That guy in the video...I know who that was. The same bastard who took him from us 11 years ago. Xehanort!" Rainbow shouted in anger as the others restrained her.
"Easy, easy. What's done has been done." Jexi said as they were holding her back.
"Haaaah. I know, I know. It's just an image, a movie. Sorry." Rainbow said. "But...seeing that monster...it brings back horrible memories."
"Yeah." Hope said.
"That entry shouldn't be in the journal. I never wrote that down once." Jiminy said.
"So...its showing us stuff we never even knew about?" Donald said.
"More like someone else is trying to tell us something." Takeshi said.
"We just found Sora!" Mickey said as Sora was slumped over in an alley with a familiar dog approaching him.
"Is that dog…?" Hope asked.
"Pluto?" Donald said.
The dog nudged Sora a bit before pouncing on him as he woke right up. "What the? What is this…." Sora began before Pluto ran off.
"Hey, what did Pluto just do?" Ichiro asked.
"Woke him up for one. He did the same to me when I was in that town." Toma said.
"You mean Traverse Town?" Ruby asked.
"Yes. He pounced us before he ran off." Cyrille said.
"Hm… could that have been the same thing that happened to Sora in Traverse Town too?" Mukuro wondered.
"Could be. Pluto sort of went off on his own after we were sent to find Leon." Goofy said.
"That explains some things, but is this Traverse town right now?" Hope asked.
"It should be the data version of the town. It was definitely written in there." Jiminy said.
Sora went on exploring the town before coming across Cid who asked him to look for Huey, Dewey and Louie who went to investigate the situation in the town.
"That town sure brings back memories. That was our first adventure!" Donald said.
"It's also where we met Yuffie, Aerith and Leon. I wonder how those fellers are doin." Goofy said.
"Well, we could give them a call." Hope said getting his comm. "Huh. Strange. My comm's not working."
"Neither's mine. Maybe the surge of power knocked out the signal." Jexi said.
"Maybe…" Hope said. "Something strange is going on." he said as Sora returned to the place with four fragments of light as they merged into a keyhole.
"Another Key hole?" Lacy said as Sora was transported to in front of a bell tower where appearing before him was a moving suit of armor with floating gauntlets and boots.
"Guard Armor, too?" Indigo said.
"It appears this program is creating digital heartless, like in Space Paranoids." Hope said.
"This is nothing like that. These boss heartless...they're the source of each world's bug!" Jiminy said.
Sora tore apart Guard Armor before returning to the town where he sealed the keyhole with his keyblade. After that, a video played of Sora uniting with Donald and Goofy and the heroes before seeing Pluto running off into a portal of darkness.
"That's funny. We were there. Was Pluto with us?" Donald asked.
"Ya think the journal's trying to tell us somethin?" Goofy asked.
"Huh? Ha!" Leonora said piercing something. A Shadow Heartless as more of them were with it as it vanished.
"Heartless?!" Donald said.
"Here in the castle? That shouldn't even be possible." Jiminy said as Leonora and Mickey fought them off.
"The cornerstone of light should be keeping them out. How did they get in?" Ladybug said.
"We gotta check the rest of the castle now!" Mickey said as he ran to the door to open it only to see it wouldn't budge. "It won't open!"
"How is this possible?!" Jexi said as the stronger members of the group tried to push it open as it stayed shut.
"This is not our day." Jiminy said.
"So we're trapped essentially. Okay. Something weird is definitely going on today." Hope said.