Disclaimer: I do not own rights to any characters from Kingdom Hearts, Final Fantasy, or any Walt Disney Pictures movies. The only character in this chapter that I own is Thomas. Please don't sue me. You would lose money on the lawyer even if you got everything I own.

Chapter Three

Questions and Answers

I looked around the gummi ship with the curiosity of a small child. There were no windows or openings of any kind, except the airlock door. There were many instruments and monitors at the front seat, which appeared to be the pilot's seat. We were all sitting on couches in the bridge. "Why isn't there any way to see outside?" I asked, hoping to start a conversation.

"Nothing to see," Sora replied.

"We're traveling inter-dimensionally, not across some scenic plain," Riku elaborated sarcastically. Everything he said seemed to make me angry. The boyhood idolization had worn off.

I did not realize that I would soon become all too similar to him.

"Hey, Thomas?" Kairi asked, almost as though she didn't want to say anything to offend me.

"Yes?" I replied. I was a little apprehensive about the question.

"How did you know our names? You called us by our names before we ever met." Riku gave me a cold stare in the eyes, as though he could stare right into my soul and search for evidence that I couldn't be trusted.

"Well, the truth is kinda weird." I didn't see any reason not to tell them the truth. It was far-fetched, and they might not believe me, but if I lied and they found out about it, I was sunk. At least one of them already didn't trust me. "In my world, you guys are pretty well known, but you're fictional. Well, everyone thinks you're fictional. See, you three are some of the stars of a video game series. And it just happens that I play it a lot."

"Video…game?" Kairi asked.

Sora and Riku also appeared curious. "Well, you guys know what computers are," I said, motioning toward the instruments of the gummi ship. "In my world, we often use computers to play games on screens. That's what a video game is. Once technology got more advanced, the games began having story lines."

"So, you're sure that Maleficent didn't tell you about all this?" Riku asked.

"No." I hope I glared at him. He had at least that much coming to him.

"Prove it," Riku retorted. He was suspicious in the worst possible way.

I thought for a second. "I can't." How was I supposed to have proof?

"Riku!" Kairi yelled. "What's wrong with you?" Riku turned away with a sneer on his face.

The familiar look of boyhood excitement appeared in Sora's eyes. "And we're the stars of these things?"

"Of some of them, yeah, but you're kinda different. You're shorter, Sora, and more like a kid, and Riku's…" I didn't know how to finish that sentence. I wished I hadn't started. "But you're about the same, Kairi, as far as I can tell." I panicked. I didn't know what else I could do. I got lucky, though. All Riku did was scoff.

"Hey, I've got a few questions for you, if you don't mind my asking them," I said, trying to move the conversation as far away from my near insult as I could.

"Ok, fire away," Sora replied.

"Ok, are Leon, Cloud, Tifa, Yuffie, and the rest of the guys in Radiant Garden real?"

"Yeah," Kairi said, cheerfully.

"Oh, wow." That meant that the Final Fantasy games were at least partly true. "So, are Simba, Hercules, Mulan, Jack Skellington, and all the others real?"

"Yeah," Sora replied. That meant even the Disney movies were true. But how could that be? The stories for some of these movies and games were written multiple decades apart.

I paused for a few seconds. I was shocked. "Ok, so, Sora, do your clothes really give you special powers, like wielding two keyblades, and things like that?" I noticed that they were all wearing their clothes from Kingdom Hearts II.

"Sure do," Sora responded. He then switched into valor form so that he was holding the Kingdom Key and the Metal Chocobo.

"But wait, why are you using the Kingdom Key as your main weapon. Isn't the Metal Chocobo stronger?"

"I did have other keychains, but I somehow lost them after the battle with Xemnas. All I've got left is the Kingdom Key, Metal Chocobo, Sleeping Lion, and Fenrir. I would guess I lost them in that strange world in between that battle and when we came home. You know what I'm talking about right?"

"The one with the beach? Yeah. But why can't you switch them?"

"To switch the keychain off the keyblade or the drive orb, you have to be holding another loose keychain in your hand, and these are all attached to something."

"Ok, I guess I get it. So, did you two really have nobodies? Roxas and Namine?"

Kairi fielded this one. "Yeah, but they bonded back with us."

"Alright, I think this is the last question. Did Riku really go into the darkness and come back looking like Xehanort."

"Yes," Riku answered bluntly, coldly.

Kairi walked close to me and spoke softly into my ear. "Riku's still a little sensitive about that. Try to avoid that topic if you can."

"Oh," I said softly. I hadn't thought about all that they had all been through, especially Riku. I thought for a few seconds. "Oh, wait, one more question. What do you guys do about laundry and bathing?"

"Well, we've got showers in the ship," Kairi answered, "but as for the clothing… well I think we should show you." She led me into a room with blue paint and a small bed in one corner. She walked over to the closet and opened the door. There were dozens of the same outfit hanging up, the pink and white that Kairi had worn in Kingdom Hearts II. "Sora and Riku's closets are the same way. We have a clothing replicator onboard. We wash our clothes in the washing machine a few doors down when we get on the ship for the first time, replicate them, and wear the replicates as long as we can, washing the replicates until we outgrow them."

"But what do you do for clothes while your clothes are being washed and replicated for the first time?"

"Oh, just hang out in your room for about an hour while we do it for you," Sora answered.

"You mean naked?" I asked. I'm sure my face must have been hilarious to look at as I said this. Sora and Kairi were both hiding grins behind their hands, and Riku looked to the ground with a smirk. "I guess that's a yes, then."

A/N: At this point, I realize that it may look like I am going to make Riku and Thomas be romantically involved with each other. I just want to make it clear that this will not be how it happens. Kairi and Thomas will not be romantically involved, either. Thank you for your time.