Hello people! Below these words is the marvel that is chapter two. You'll see some faces you know, some you don't know, and you read about lots of fighting!!

Carry on.

Chapter 2: Castle in Distress

Ten hours after we left Sora, Riku, and Kairi...

Kairi was dominating. After a playing for two hours, taking a nap, eating lunch, and then playing for another three hours, the group had continued playing multi-player on Nintendo DS and Kairi was winning so big it wasn't even funny. Sora was the video gamer of the group, but Kairi had had a year to hone her skills while Sora and Riku were off saving the worlds (or in Sora's case, sleeping).

"I needed more warmup time," Sora grumbled.

"You had forty minutes before you said 'This time decides the champ', Sora," Kairi smirked as she was declared the winner of round fifteen. Sora said something less that decent under his breath just as The Mabrik slowed up and warp drive shut down.

The three looked out the window at Disney Castle. It looked normal as ever, except for one thing: it was surrounded by huge knife shaped ships. And those knife shaped ships had lots and lots of what looked like one man ships flying around them. And then it got even worse when suddenly the projector in the cockpit turned on. A man in a gray uniform looked at them. The small area around him was filled with computers and lots of flashing lights. If he was surprised that the ship was being piloted by three Gameboy playing kids, he didn't show it.

"Unidentified ship," he started. "You are entering restricted space. Please state your directive."

"Er, we're here to see-," Sora started.

"To drop off some supplies on the surface," Riku cut in. "We received an order for some... er... titanium alloy. We are already a day late, so if you could please let us pass, we would be very greatfu-,"

"Who made this order?" the man demanded. "One of the town's people?"

"Er... yeah," Riku replied.

"Did they state what it was to be used for?"

"Uh, no... but we'll give you their location on the way out, so you can watch them incase they are doing anything contraband," Riku replied quickly.

"Very well. I am glad we have a mutual understanding. Carry on." And with that, the projection ended.

"Where did you learn to think on your feet like that?" Kairi asked.

"Yeah, what's with the secrecy?" Sora asked as Riku pushed the ship past the blockade.

"I learned something during my adventures that you never did, Sora," Riku replied as the ship passed into the atmosphere. "If you're out gunned and out shipped, and you don't know who your friends and your allies are, you come up with the most innocent lie you can."

"... And the titanium alloy?" Sora asked.

"Something those nut-balls, whoever they are, could have ordered. Less likely for the town's people, but if they were building something..."

"We get the picture," Sora said. "Land on the edge of the town, that way it wouldn't look suspicious. We'll work our way the the Castle on foot."

"Yeah," Kairi muttered. "Let's keep our fingers crossed that there aren't any yahoos in gray suits watching us."

Unfortunately for the three, the streets were filled with something worse; a bunch of men in white armor carrying what looked suspiciously like sci-fi laser guns. Frankly, their dark eye sockets and weird face plates were kind of creepy.

"Shouldn't we have some sort of container for our titanium alloy?" Sora asked, half joking with Riku's choice of words. Just at that second a small group of the armored men walked by, a floating platform carrying many large blue and yellow crates. "Those things look like plastic," Sora muttered.

Just then the men stopped. One of them reached for a small disk and held it in front of himself. Instantly a small transparent blue figure appeared on it. The figure was dressed similarly to the man Riku had talked with.

"We have the cargo in position sir," the armored man said.

"Very good," the figure replied with a british accent. "Have two of your men guard it while you retrieve the rest."

"Yes sir," the armored man said as the put the communicator away. He turned around. "Well! You heard the man! Let's get moving!" He pointed to to of his men. "7-45 and 379-Z, you will stay here."

"Yes sir!" the two said in unison as the rest moved out.

"So, what do you suppose the Empire wants this dump for?" one of them asked.

"You know, after twenty two years of service, I've discovered it's better not to ask," the other one replied. "All I know is, the sooner I get moved out of fairy-tail land and back to Felucia, the better."

"Wait-." The two armored men positioned their rifles to shoot, just as a teenager with spiky hair started to walk towards him.

"That looks kinda like em'..." the veteran muttered.

"You! State your name!!" the other one cried.

"Er... my name is... Oliver," Sora replied nervously.

Meanwhile, Riku and Kairi were sneaking around the guards. They looked at each-other as if asking, 'Oliver?'.

"What are you doing out here?" both of the men asked at once.

"Uh... I'm making a delivery... titanium alloy. But our... er... hover-table-thingy is on the fritz." Sora pointed to the floating platform. "Can we borrow that one?"

"What?" the veteran asked. "You ain't got no right to take the Empire's equipment!"

"Come on Sora..." Riku thought. "They could be back any second..."

"You just go and buy one at some store in the department section," the veteran said. "It's down the street, take a right, then a left, two blocks, and-,"

All of the sudden, the two men herd a voice cry "Stop!", and suddenly they were frozen.

"Hurry, hurry, hurry!"

A silver haired teen and a dark red haired girl jumped out at them. The silver haired boy was holding a sword that looked a bit like a dragon wing. Or something like that.

"Sora! Quick, knock the other one out!"

"Sora?" both of the men thought. "It is Sora!! Oh, merciful God, he's here and no one knows!! Quick, we gotta-!"

But the flat side of the silver haired boy's sword made contact with one of their heads, and Sora's silver and yellow key-looking sword hit the other's. The spell wore off, and the two slumped over, knocked out.

"Alright, now that we know we aren't going to look suspicious walking around with one of these things, let's go," Riku said as Way to Dawn vanished. Sora nodded as Kingdom Key vanished, and Riku walked over the the control panel on the platform. He pressed a few of buttons, accidentally dumped some of the cargo off, and finally programed the platform to follow him.

"We didn't hit them that hard," Riku said, nodding his head towards the men. "And those helmets probably absorbed most of the blow. Let's get to the Castle before they wake up."

With that, the three set off through the town. For a while it looked just like Sora had seen it like from inside the Castle. Kind of rustic, but in another way, cartoonish and welcoming. But as they got further in, it changed drastically.

Buildings were made of metal, and the strange armored men marched to and fro in the streets. A few of them spared the three glances, but there was no way to see what they were thinking under those helmets. Eventually Sora, Riku, and Kairi got to the center of the city. There was a huge open space, with a large royal seal indented into the ground a few inches. In the middle of that, there was a statue. Sora assumed it was supposed to depict the King, but instead, there was a hideous, twisted old man in a dark robe. The gold letters written around it in the ground read The Supreme Emperor Palpatine, Ruler of the Galactic Empire.

"What in the world happened here?" Sora asked, looking around. "What?"

"I don't know Sora," Riku muttered as they continued to the Castle. "But I intend to find out."

Meanwhile, in the Disney Castle Audience Chamber...

King Mickey sat on his big chair, Queen Minnie at his side. Goofy and Donald, decked out in their Knight and Mage uniforms, looked to the King in distress.

"What are we gonna do about the Imperials, you Majesty?" Donald quacked.

"There's nothing we can do right know," Mickey replied. "We just gotta hope that Sora doesn't try to come here anytime soon."

"Uh, but why would he do that?" Goofy asked. "I mean, he's probably relaxing on the Islands right now. It's not like we contacted him or nothing."

The King didn't replay.

"Is something wrong, Mickey?" Minnie asked.

"Yeah, and I'll tell you what's wrong!" Mickey cried, jumping up from his seat. His inverse Kingdom Key appeared in his hands. He pointed it at the ceiling and shot a ball of fire out of it. It collided with a small robot, which fell all the way down and blew up on the marble floor. "They're everywhere!!" Mickey shouted. "They have almost complete control. I doubt that they will let me keep the Crown after they find Sora! I'm only a bargaining chip in their game!"

"Uh, but your Majesty, why do those Imperial fellers what Sora so bad?" Goofy asked.

Mickey didn't reply. Then, reluctantly, he said, "I don't know Goofy. I don't know."

At the Castle Gates...

Sora, Riku, and Kairi trooped up to the Castle's gates. It was surrounded by seven of the soldiers, and one of them hand a backpack and an orang pad on his shoulder. An orange stripe ran down the middle of his armor, and his helmet sported what looked like a binocular-visor hybrid. He saw them approaching and moved the visor the the top of his helmet. "You there! State your names!"

"I'm Oliver," Sora said again, quickly regretting it because he saw that Kairi was trying to hold down giggles. Unsuccessfully.

"I'm...Sarah," Kairi said, trying to think of the most ordinary name she could while attempting to stop herself from falling to the ground laughing.

"David," Riku said. Kairi was having a hard time breathing. Sora sighed in annoyance. Why did girls find everything so funny?

"What are you doing here?" the man asked.

"Oh, so now you aren't going to introduce yourself?" Kairi asked, felling like she was going to wet herself. Riku and Sora groaned.

The man looked taken aback (well, he didn't look anything, thanks to the helmet. He just backed up a step or two) before responding, "Captain Sienex. Now, what are you doing here?"

"We're delivering some titanium alloy," Riku said, regretting it seconds later. If someone knew and made a connection... "There was, er, some damage in the dungeons and they need this to fix it." He nodded towards the floating platform.

"I wasn't told," Captain Sienex replied. "You'll have to wait while I clear it." And with that he walked over to a computer terminal set up on the wall next to the gate.

"Is it just me, or do a bunch of these guys sound the same?" Kairi asked.

"A bunch of these guys sound the same," Sora replied. "It's probably a voice box or something."

"Then why don't all of them have one?" Kairi pointed out.

Sora was about to answer when Riku jumped in. "Kairi, can you still summon that Keyblade I gave you?" Riku asked.

"Uh... I don't know. I haven't tried it since The World That Never Was," she answered.

"You better try quick, because look..." Riku pointed to the computer.

"That's what they said sir," Captain Sienex said. "They said they was delivering titanium alloy.... What? No, they're only like, what, fifteen?... Uh-hu... No, sir... Yes sir. Yes sir, I'll have my men take them into custody."

That didn't sound like much fun. The Captain walked back over. "Alright kids, we're gonna have to take you in for questioning. Unless you would like to tell us who you really are right now."

"Uh, would the names Sora, Riku, and Kairi mean anything to you?" Sora asked.

The Captain had already yanked the rifle off his back. "TAKE COVER!!! ALERT ALL COMMAND!!!! SORA IS HERE!!!!!!" he yelled at the top of his lungs. Already the other six soldiers had drawn weapons and were pointing them at the three. "OPEN FIRE!!!!"

Sora and Riku just barely cast Reflect and Dark Shield in time to deflect the barrage of lasers. "Kairi! Keyblade! NOW!" Riku yelled as the shield dropped.

"Uh, I don't exactly have much experience in this department," Kairi muttered as she fruitlessly tried to summon her floral Keyblade into her hands.

"Forget it!" Sora yelled. "Just take cover!" Kairi obeyed and ran to one of the buildings and dropped the the ground.

Sora and Riku charged at soldiers just as one of them hit a few buttons on the computer and an alarm sounded: "Alert. Alert. We have a situation critical. Repeat, we have a situation critical. All units report to the Castle gates."

Inside the Castle...

The alarms continued to sound as Mickey, Minnie, Donald and Goofy ran through the endless halls of the Castle until they reached a balcony where they could see the gate. From there, they had a clear view of Sora and Riku fighting with five of the soldiers.

"Yeah!! Sora's here!!" Goofy cried happily. "Now we've got a fighting chance against them Stormtroopers!"

"Yeah, le'me at em'!!" Donald added.

"No... oh-no..." Mickey muttered. Only Minnie heard him.

"What's wrong Mickey?" Minnie asked.

"No... he should have never come... I should have done something to stop him!" Mickey exclaimed as he buried his face in his hands.

"Your majesty?"

Mickey looked up. All three of them were looking at him, concern in their eyes.

"We've gotta take action now," Mickey said. "Donald, you get everyone in the Castle into a gummi ship. Minnie, tell Chip and Dale to make as many ships as they can. They need to be well armored and spacious. Weapons are optional."

"Mickey..." Minnie started.

"Goofy, you and your knights get everyone to the outskirts of town and wait. We'll be there with ships. Kill anyone who gets in your way."

"Your majesty?" Goofy asked. This was extremely out of character for the King.

"I'll be down there with Sora and Riku to back you up soon. Now, we gotta hurry, so let's all shake a leg. We've gotta-,"

"Mickey," Minnie stopped him. "Why does it sound like we're evacuating the world?"

Mickey sighed. "Because we are."

Back at the Castle gates...

Sora thrust his Keyblade through the chest of another soldier. It felt different killing people and not Heartless. It was... harder.

But he couldn't let that get him down now.

Sora pulled his sword out of the soldier as he slumped to the ground. The teen whipped around just in time to avoid a string of lasers that were coming from Captain Sienex's machine gun. Sora dropped and rolled to get away just as Riku leapt over him, firing Dark Fireballs at the Captain, who was nimbly dodging them through flips and rolls. He was agile for all that armor.

Sora got back on his feat and shot a Fire spell of his own at the Captain. It hit home, but it wasn't strong enough to do anything more than singe the armor a bit. What Sora hated was, the burn mark actually looked kinda cool.

Just then Riku jumped on Sienex, and the two started wrestling, trying to through the other to the ground. Sora ran towards the two to help just as he felt a stinging pain hit his back. He collapsed, knocked out.

"Oh great... I think my rife was set for stun," said the trooper at the front of a small squad of soldiers.

"Moron," the leader said. "Watch and learn..." he took aim and-

"FOR DISNEY CASTLE!!!! Ahyuk."

The soldiers all looked to the Castle gate. It swung open and out charged Goofy, in full armor, followed by about forty other knights.

"FOR DISNEY CASTLE!!!!!..." they looked at each-other questioningly before saying, "Ahyuk," and charging after their leader.

Riku finally got Sienex to the ground, and was about to impale him when the Captain seemed to blast right through him and head for the sky. His back pack was a jet pack. Riku scowled and leapt into the air, rearing Way to Dawn back over his shoulder. But, at that second, Sienex strapped his gun to his back again and pressed a button on his wrist. Out of a small tube looking thing strapped to his armor shot a red blade that seemed to glow. Riku's scowl deepened as their blades made contact. Sparks fews as their blades bounced off each-other's.

Wait a second.

Sparks.

Riku flipped freely through the air for a moment, taking advantage of the fact that he had repelled upwards off of his opponent's blade. He watched as Sienex flew towards him and held his blade up. This time Sienex swung down, hurling Riku back towards the earth. But the teen took note of something: the air around Sienex's blade was hot.

Goofy grabbed Sora's limp body and slung it over his shoulder. "Come on, fellers!! Let's teach these Imperial guys you don't mess with our home world!!" he yelled as his knights clashed with the Stormtroopers, swamping them in their shear numbers.

"Dad?"

Goofy turned to see another dog like him holding a sword, only this one looked younger. He was wearing a green t-shirt and sported iron shoulder-pads.

"Yeah, Maxie?" Goofy asked his teenage son.

"Is that Sora?"

"Sure is!" Goofy replied. "Say, you don't mind holding onto him while I lead the troops, do ya?"

"Well dad, I was kinda hoping I could help you guys kick some-," Max started.

"Great!" Goofy cut in, dumping Sora onto Max's shoulders. "Stay safe, now." And with that Goofy ran to join his troops, who were advancing into the town, telling everyone in that area to get their stuff and get going.

Max sighed just as something thudded to the ground next to him. It was Sora's friend Riku. "Oh... uh, hey Riku," Max muttered. "My name is Max. My dad is Goofy, and he told me a lot about-,"

Then Riku hopped to his feet and hurled his Keyblade into the air at Sienex, who hit it hard back at the ground. Riku jumped, kicked off his own blade, summoned it back to him, and repeated the process until he had reached the Captain. His sword appeared in his hand just as Sienex swung at him. The trooper's blade slashed along Riku's and sent sparks flying. Riku flipped nimbly upward and swung his blade down at Sienex. The Captain spun through the air away from Riku, who's lunge missed and sent him hurtling to the ground. He crashed next the the kid who said he was Goofy's son again.

"That looked like that hurt," Max muttered. Riku grunted in annoyance. "Here, take a potion."

Oh. Well then. Maybe this kid wasn't so stupid after all.

"Uh... thanks," Riku muttered before downing the potion.

"Don't mention it," Max replied.

Riku stood up. "How old are you?"

"Seventeen," Max replied.

"Right... now, if you'll excuse me..." Riku said as he threw himself back up towards Captain Sienex.

Meanwhile, in the gummi ship hanger...

Queen Minnie walked into the massive gummi ship hanger and over to the loud speaker. "Queen Minnie to launch crew," she said. "I have an assignment directly from King Mickey."

"Oh boy!" Chip's high-pitched voice came. "What sort?"

"We need as many ships as you can rustle up," Queen Minnie replied sadly. "We are evacuating the world."

"What?" Dale's voice asked. "Why would he want to do that? Is it because of those Imperials? Because I told Chip-,"

"Shut up, dummy!" Chip said. "Don't worry Miss. Minnie ma'am! We don't need any ships!"

"Why not?" Minnie asked.

"Because this entire Castle has engines strapped to the bottom. The Castle is a ship in its self!" Chip replied happily.

"And why did we not hear about this?" Minnie asked nervously.

"We did tell you!" Dale pipped up. "I was in our last report!"

"Shut up, dummy!" Chip said again. "But it was in our last report."

"Well, if your reports didn't usually consist of detailed summaries of the last time you played Snoopy and the Red Baron on your PS2, maybe their Majesties would pay more attention!"

Minnie turned to see Daisy walking up. She was the one who had spoken.

"It's alright Daisy," Queen Minnie replied. "Just try and keep your temper under control."

"No! She is so hot when she's angry!" Dale cried.

"Shut up, dummy!!" Chip exclaimed in fear as Daisy blew a fuse.

"I am WHAT when I am angry?!?"

At the Castle gates...

Riku was tossed back to the ground again by the Captain. This was getting annoying.

"Try and swipe at his leg, then blast his head with some fire," Max suggested. "That'll distract him for a few seconds, and you may get a few blows in."

"Thanks," Riku replied, wiping his bloody lip as he jumped at the Sienex. Sienex swooped down on Riku and tried to slice through him. Riku twisted sideways and the trooper accidentally flew right past him. Riku grabbed Sienex's foot and was dragged along through the air.

"Hey! Get off!" the Captain yelled. He increased his jet pack's juice so that flames were reaching rapidly for Riku.

Riku swung under the trooper and kicked him hard in the chest, pointed his Keyblade at Sienex and yelled, "Force!" The huge ball of energy appeared around the two of them, increasing their weight. Slowly they started to fall to the ground as the jet pack strained to keep them in the air. The two started punching each-other, but it was clear who was wining in that department: Sienex was armored all over, so his punches hurt more and Riku's did nil. Riku's vision was tunneling as Sienex reared his hand back and started to extend his blade.

"Aw crap," Riku muttered. "That thing's going through my head."

Riku, swallowing his pride, summoned his Keyblade and swiped at the Captain's leg.

"Gghhaa!" Sienex grunted. He looked back to Riku to stab him, only to find a fistful of Dark Fireballs. "Bugger."

Sienex flew threw through the air, and Riku plummeted like a rock. He managed to land awkwardly next to Max.

"Not so annoying now, am I?" Max asked smugly. Riku frowned at him.

"Come on," Riku said. "Let's go help the knights clear these creeps out."

"Actually," Max started. "We're evacuating."

"We are what now?"

"King Mickey ordered a full evacuation."

"But... we have the knights... we have the King!"

"I don't know how much you have seen, but the Imperials have landed more than five-hundred troops, and you've probably noticed by now that they're harder to beat than Heartless."

Riku sighed. "Hand me Sora," he ordered.

Max nodded and heaved Sora off his shoulder and onto Riku's. "You got him?"

"Yeah, I've carried him before," Riku replied.

"Right, then let's go!" Max said, drawing his sword and running into the village.

Riku ran after him, then remember something. Or, someone. "Wait up Max!" Riku called as he slowed up. "Kairi's missing!"

"Kairi's missing?" Max asked as he walked back over.

"Yeah, we left her behind that building over there. Come on, let's look for her." Riku and Max quickly ran over to the building. All they found was a small spot of blood on the wall.

"Dun dun dun..." Max said dramatically. Riku scowled at him.

In case you haven't noticed... STAR WARS!!! DA... dun dundun dundun da da da da da da da da DAAAAA..... dun dun dun! Dun! Dun dun dun dun DUN!!!! Dun dun dun dun dun!!! Dun dun dun dun!!!! Dun dun!!!!!!!!!!!

Yeah, I'm a Star Wars fan. Not an obsessive fanboy or anything... what's another word... Trekie!!... no that's Star Trek... Ah well. Close enough.

Anyway, I don't own Star Wars or any of the Disney characters you saw in this chapter. Most prominently: Mickey, Minnie, Donald and Goofy. Also Max Goof, Chip and Dale, and Daisy Duck.

I also don't own Emperor Palpatine.

I do own Captain Sienex. He's MINE.

Riku saying 'Stop' and 'Force' were spells from several Final Fantasies and from Kingdom Hearts 1. Stop halt's a target's movement, and Gravity (magic word: force) increases a target's weight.

Snoopy and the Red Baron is an airplane dog (ha) fighting video game. It was cartoon themed, so I thought it fit here. I don't own it.