The sequel next to nobody wanted. This is really a pretty crap story, but because I am not David Gonterman (thank the lord), I won't remove it. Please be warned that the story is incredibly dull and unappealing (and probably a bit offensive, since it got a place on the "marysues" community on LiveJournal, but I enjoy free publicity). Still, if you insist, go right ahead and read it. Just be sure to keep this warning in mind.

Update (9/30/08): I'm honestly curious about where all these visits are coming from. I've done jack to publicize this story and it just seems like there isn't any appeal (positive, negative, or otherwise) for people to share the links with each other. If you would, please send me a message with how you ended up at this particular story. Thank you.

Anyway, the crossover is with the Pretty Sammy alternate universe of Tenchi Muyo. A bit obscure, but yeah. "Enjoy".

ETA: I'm releasing the non-derivative elements of this story into the public domain. Do what you wish.

As we rejoin Sora and Riku, they had just cleared Shinigami-Earth of the Heartless. Back to back, they cut a swathe through the inky abominations, saving Akihabara from the cybernetic Heartless and their plot to destroy the city. As they felled this magnificent beast, all the citizens of Tokyo gathered to celebrate, creating the national holiday of Sora & Riku Day to commemorate these two-

"That isn't what happened at all," Sora interrupts.

I'm sparing you the humiliation, Miss Interrupts-Everybody.

"That's going to take so long to get used to," Sora muses.

Anyway, truth be told, Sora got turned into a girl and Riku got distracted. Their trainee was kidnapped by the one who distracted Riku, leaving them far away from home without their keyblades. They're walking to the Gummi Ship bridge wondering how they're going to lie about their twenty seven breaches of HIRA protocol to King Mickey. Happy?

"Ecstatic," Sora answers, cynically, "So, Riku, how do you think we should handle this?"

"Just let me do the talking," Riku answers, opening the door to the bridge. The main screen shows a firmware upgrade of the computer at 99 percent.

"Great, another unscheduled maintainence," Sora says, feeling a bit restless as she sits down in the vestigial captain's chair.

"I can call him manually," Riku says to relieve Sora's impatience, "Can you connect us back to the network?"

"Oh," Sora responds, having forgotten all about that. She presses a button and all the blinking red lights in the corner of the bridge go back to a flat green.

"Thank you," Riku answers, plopping himself down in the communications seat. Before he even got a chance to press anything, an incoming hail shows up on the console. Riku presses a button to respond to it, causing the screen to show a gold circle with two smaller gold circles overlapping at the upper left and upper right corners.

"Redirecting your call. Please stay on the line," says a flat female voice from the console, segueing into an easy listening version of the Mickey Mouse March. Riku sighs and starts scratching at the rash developing on his right hand between his thumb and index fingers, catching himself and stopping. It doesn't take long before the screen changes to show a large anthropomorphic mouse sitting at a dinner table, the camera apparently stemming from some type of laptop.

"Riku? Is that you?" asks Mickey, taking a look at something else on his screen.

"Mickey!" Riku says, faking desperation in his voice, "I'm glad I got through to you."

"What happened?" Mickey asks, typing furiously into the keyboard.

"The keyblade left Sora for a new master in Port Royal," Riku starts, just as he had been rehearsing in his mind, "But we were ambushed when we found her. This insane witch attacked us when we had our guard down. She took over the ship and took us as far away to a Heartless world as she could to test the keyblades."

"Who is that behind you?" Mickey asks, looking as though he was trying to recognize the figure that was only vaguely visible on his screen.

"This witch, Ami, turned Sora into a girl to prevent the keyblade from getting back to him," Riku improvises, realigning his plan to accommodate the early reveal, "She also stole my keyblade by rubbing this powder into my right hand."

"How did you get the ship back?" Mickey asks, finishing his typing.

"Ami tied us up in one of the closets," Riku answers, "She was going to just let us starve to death in this ship. We managed to get out, though, and recovered control of the ship. She already left with Anna through the Corridors of Darkness, though."

"Do you know where they are going?" Mickey asks.

"They're-" Riku starts, the screen blanking out just as the firmware upgrade on the main screen shows 100 percent completion. The rest of the bridge screens go blank as well, with only the main screen remaining on. It shows a huge amount of command line text scrolling much too fast for any of it to be read. Eventually, the screen settles on a fairly generic status report as a mildly distorted female voice echoes from the speakers.

"Aperture Science thanks you for partaking in the closed beta test of the Genetic Lifeform and Disk Operating System," the voice says, much to the the befuddlement of our heroes, "In honor of this event, we shall hold a celebration. Please report to the airlocks to be escorted to the party, where there shall be cake."

"This can't possibly be good," Sora says...