Hey all! Long time no see! For this little one shot I thought I'd preview my sequel idea for Reconnected with a character you may remember from Radiant Days Hollow Nights with a secret boss set during the second half of Reconnected's Disney worlds. I own nothing other than the plot and my OCs.

Reconnected: Battle from the Future

For a change, it was a quiet day in Radiant Garden. The heartless attacks had decreased quite a bit, granting the world's citizens a chance for some well-deserved rest. Still, one member of the Restoration Committee found that it was far too quiet.

With his Gunblade swung over his shoulder, Squall Leonhart wandered through the eerily quiet bailey. He'd only had to find a handful of heartless on the way there and he had to admit it was unusual. With Xehanort returning, the heartless attacks should have been increasing, not decreasing.

Before long, the gunblade weirder had arrived at the cavern of remembrance, which had also experienced a massive heartless decrease, making it much easier to access.

As soon as he arrived he immediately noticed the place had completely changed. The thirteen portals containing the Organization's replica data were completely gone, replaced with only one portal. It was much more elegant than the Organization portals, the stone outline was decorated in a gothic motif, colored black and gold. While the swirling portal on the inside was black and dark purple with the red heartless crest floating in the centre.

Cautiously, Squall approached the mysterious new portal with a skeptical expression on his face. "This doesn't look good. I better get Even, Ienzo and Merlin down here and contact Sora's team." Squall stated to himself as he turned around and left the cavern, failing to notice the powerful, dark aura emerging from the portal.

~*KHIII*~

After getting Squall's message about something strange happening, the Highwind was on route to Radiant Garden. It wasn't long before the ship descended upon the world and the team left the ship.

Sora, Riku, Kairi, Mickey, Donald, Goofy, Max, West and Lea wandered through the town without having to fight many heartless. Like Squall, the group of heroes found it strange that the heartless population had decreased tremendously.

But it was thanks to that lack of heartless that the team managed to get to the Cavern of Remembrance so quickly. The first thing they noticed of course was the strange portal. The second thing they noticed was the group of people who had gathered; Even and Ienzo were examining the control panel at the center of the cavern, Merlin was examining the portal and Squall was standing near the entrance, looking out for any enemies.

At the sight of the group, Squall gave them a small smile. "Right on time, you guys." At the sound of the gunblade weilder's voice, Even, Ienzo and Merlin left what they were doing to approach the heroes. "Thanks for getting here so fast."

"Well, it wasn't like we were doing much else." Shrugged Lea.

Max nodded in agreement. "Yeah, we just finished up at another world, so it was actually perfect timing."

"So, was that portal-thing the reason you guys summoned us here?" Questioned West as she pointed to the dark portal. "Looks creepy."

"Creepy indeed." Even agreed. "We've been examining it ever since Squall discovered it, but we still don't know what caused it to appear."

"Nothing was showing up on the computer database." Continued Ienzo. "We still don't know where it leads."

Merlin spoke up next. "I did come up with a theory as we were examining it." The elderly wizard spoke.

What he said immediately captured the attention of the group.

"You did, Merlin?" Questioned Goofy as they all made their way towards the portal. "Gawrsh, what is it?"

"Well, I could sense a strong amount of powerful magic coming from it." Merlin replied, turning to Sora, Donald and Goofy. "Remember the door that led to Timeless River. It's giving off the same aura as that, only the magic is darker and flowing in reverse. Based on that, I theorize that this portal may lead to the future, possibly twenty years."

The group gasped in surprise. "The future?" Riku questioned. "How can you be sure?"

"I'm not sure. Just as I said, it's just a theory." Replied Merlin. "We won't know for certain until we learn more about it."

Donald grumbled in annoyance. "So why are we even here if you guys don't know what this thing does yet?!"

"Well, we wanted you guys to go inside and check it out." Admitted Squall. "But we didn't realize how potentially dark and dangerous it was before we called you."

"We still want you to look into it, but we need to run more safety tests." Stated Ienzo as he took his seat at the computer.

"Shouldn't take too much longer." Even stated confidently.

Without much more discussion, the group dispersed around the cavern of rememberance. It seemed much bigger without all the organization portals, giving the group a large space to lounge around while Even and Ienzo worked on the computer while Merlin talked more about his theories on the portal. Lea lay down on the hard floor with his arms behind his head, Donald was lazily sitting on the floor beside him, waving his staff and casting random spells, Goofy and Max were looking over their potion supplies, Kairi and West were talking and giggling about their past experiences, Mickey was helping Leon look out for any signs of heartless and Riku curiously watched the computer while Even and Ienzo worked.

But, Sora couldn't find it in himself to relax. Something about that portal just made his skin crawl and made him him feel curious all at the same time. Letting his curiosity get the best of him, Sora climbed up the white steps and approached the portal. somehow, he felt drawn to it.

Merlin said there was a good chance this thing'll lead to twenty years in the future. Thought Sora. I don't know why, but I think I need to know what's in there. Slowly, Sora reached out his hand towards the dark portal, his fingers getting closer and closer towards the swirling darkness. But, just as his fingertips were about to touch it, the young keyblade master pulled back.

"Maybe it's not a good idea to know too much about the future." Sora mumbled to himself. "Yeah. I'd better leave it alone."

Making up his mind, Sora turned around to walk back towards his friends. But, before he could, he heard the sound of the portal churning behind him. At that same moment, Ienzo noticed a spike of dark energy in the portal.

"Sora! Get out of the way!" Ienzo exclaimed standing straight up from his seat, capturing the attention of the entire group.

Sora spun around to look back at the portal and gasped in shock at what he saw. Emerging from the depths of the darkness were six impossibly long snake-like dark, iron chains.

But, before Sora had a chance to summon his keyblade or do anything one of the chains wrapped tightly around him.

"H-hey! Let me go!" Sora exclaimed as he struggled against the chains, but they just wouldn't budge no matter how much he struggled.

"Sora! Hang on!" Exclaimed Kairi as she summoned her Keyblade and started running towards him. But the next thing she knew, one of the chains sped towards her at lightning speed and bound her up too, causing her keyblade to vanish from her hands.

No one had a single chance to react or comprehend what was happening before the other four chains sped across the cavern and grabbed Riku, Mickey, Donald and Goofy in nearly suffocating holds.

The six captives tried desperately to wriggle free but it was useless. "W-what the heck is this?!" Questioned Riku as he kept struggling.

"Wack! Let go you big palooka!" Protested Donald. "We're not heroes you should be messin' with!"

"Donald, it's no use! These chains are blocking our magic; I can't even summon my keyblade." Mickey concluded. "But, I've never even heard of something like this, how is this kind of dark magic possible?"

Goofy tried to wiggle free too, but just as everyone else discovered, the chains wouldn't budge. "Gawrsh, where did these chains come from?"

"The portal!" Sora gasped fearfully. "It's going to drag us in!"

"Just hang on you guys!" Squall exclaimed as he drew his gunblade and rushed to attack the dark snake-like chains. West, Max and Lea followed his lead with their weapons raised.

Unfortunately, before anyone had a chance to attack, the chains began dragging their prisoners back to the dark portal at lightning speed. The six captives screamed as they were pulled one after another into the portal of swirling darkness.

And once the last of the heroes went through, the portal solidified, preventing anyone else from going through. West and Max discovered this when they ran up to the portal and pounded their fists against the now stone-like entrance.

"No way!" West gasped in surprise when she discovered the portal was closed. But that didn't stop her. "Riku! Kairi! Anyone?! Hey! Can you guys hear me?!" She shouted as she kept pounding her fists against it, leaving behind definite bruises.

"Dad!" Max shouted alongside her. "Where are you guys?! Don't worry we'll get you out of there somehow!"

Merlin, Squall, Even, Ienzo and Lea just stood there in disbelief, their mouths open in shock.

"What just happened?" Squall gasped as Lea turned to the two scientists and the wizard.

"Can the computer tell us what's going on?!" Lea questioned. "Where'd they go?! What happened to them?!"

Immediately, Ienzo took his seat at the computer and started madly typing away, noticing that the massive energy spike that appeared before had completely vanished, even the energy before the spike had dissapeared.

"What? This is impossible! How did all that dark energy just up and dissapear like that?!" Gasped Ienzo.

Merlin shivered nervously. "Oh dear, oh dear this is terrible! I can't sense their presence anywhere!"

"You'll find them though, right?" Max asked hopefully.

"You have too!" West said desperately. "Who knows for sure where that portal took them?!"

Lea shook his head as he stood beside his teammates. "They'll be fine. Those guys went through way tougher stuff then this. We just gotta believe in them."

Listening to the former nobody, both Max and West started to calm down. "Yeah. You're right, Lea." Smiled West.

"We just gotta believe in our friends." Max agreed. "Yeah, they'll be fine."

~*KHIII*~

Sora released a groan as he slowly opened his eyes and pushed himself up to his feet, finding himself in a completely unfamiliar place. At first glance, it reminded Sora of the dungeon of Beast's Castle only darker, colder and had small dark gothic torches lining the walls. Doors leading to prison cells were locked with sturdy iron locks brimming with the power of darkness and thick metal bars on a single, tiny window.

"Woah." Sora groaned as he rubbed the back of his head before realizing he was completely alone. "Where am I? And, where'd everyone go?! Kairi! Riku! Your majesty! Donald! Goofy! Where are you guys?!" Sora shouted as he roamed the dungeon halls. In all honesty, every hall, door and torch looked the same, he was starting to wonder if he was going in circles.

He felt as though he'd been aimlessly wandering the dungeon for hours before he heard a familiar voice. "Sora! Sora is that you?!"

"Kairi? Kairi!" Exclaimed Sora as he rushed towards the sound of her voice. Before long, he'd found her standing in the middle of the hall looking just as confused as he was. As soon as she saw him, she rushed to his side.

"Oh Sora!" Kairi smiled as she stood beside him. "I'm so glad we found each other."

"Same here." Sora replied. "Any idea where we are?"

Kairi shook her head. "No, not a clue. What about you?"

"No. This doesn't look like any world I've been to before." Replied Sora as he and Kairi wandered around the dungeon, finding the same walls, floor, torches and dungeon cell doors everywhere they turned. But, just as the two of them turned another corner, Sora immediately noticed something was different; laying on the stone floor was a familiar small, silver teardrop-shaped necklace.

Sora knelt down to pick it up. "W-what? Kairi, did you loose your necklace?" He asked as he stood up and stood before Kairi, gasping in surprise as he saw her necklace was around her neck, just like it always was.

"No, of course I didn't." Replied Kairi, touching her own necklace with her finger as she examined the one Sora held in his hand. "But, this does look just like mine. What's it doing here?"

But before Sora could reply, he and Kairi became surrounded by a large pack of Neoshadow heartless. Shoving the necklace into his pocket, Sora summoned his Keyblade as Kairi summoned hers. It looked like they had to fight before answers could be found.

~*KHIII*~

Meanwhile, Riku and Mickey had ended up in the Castle Gardens with stone castle walls around it, a night sky above, filled to to the brim with bushes of black roses, weeping willow trees, thorny vines and a dark stone pathway. Riku and Mickey wandered the garden, but just like Sora and Kairi, they found themselves going in circles.

"Wow. This place is something else." Riku mumbled. "I wonder where that portal took us."

"Whelp, I'm not exactly sure. But I do have a bad feeling about this place." Replied Mickey.

Riku nodded his head in agreement as they continued walking down the stone path. "Tell me about it; I can sense an overwhelming amount of darkness."

"That's definitely not good." Mickey said. "We better get out of here soon." At that moment, Riku looked down, finding a familiar a yellow bandanna resting on the garden ground.

Curiously, Riku knelt down and picked up the bandanna while Mickey stood beside him and looked at it.

"What's this bandanna doing here? It looks just like the one West always wears." Said Riku. "I know West didn't come through the portal so how'd it get here?"

Before Mickey could even open his mouth to reply, he and Riku quickly became surrounded by Darkball heartless. Quickly, Riku shoved the bandanna in his pocket as he and Mickey summoned their Keyblades.

"Unfortunately, we'll have to save our theories for later." Mickey said as he and Riku charged towards the heartless with their weapons raised.

~*KHIII*~

Donald and Goofy had ended up in the middle of the castle's ballroom. The room was dark with a waxed black floor, red velvet fabric on the ceiling and stairs and beautiful crystal chandeliers. Unfortunately, they didn't have long to admire the scenery since the moment they woke up, they had been attacked by an army of Invisible heartless.

The Knight and the Magician fought as hard as they could, but the heartless were a great deal stronger than they were. Donald and Goofy barely managed to defeat them, escaping with several scratches and bruises.

"Gawrsh, those heartless were tougher than I remember." Said Goofy as he pulled two potions out of his pocket, handing one to Donald.

"You sure said it!" Quacked Donald as he drank the potion. "I just wish I knew what was goin' on here."

Feeling they could finally relax after a long, hard battle, Goofy and Donald took the time to look around the ballroom. Before long, Goofy had found two familiar, yet out-of-place objects on the floor of the ballroom; a familiar red sneaker and a familiar yellow decorative hat with a face on it,

"What's Maxie's shoe doin' here?" Goofy wondered out loud as he picked the objects up off the floor as Donald walked up to his side. "How'd it get here? Max didn't get pulled through."

"Wow. This is weird." Donald said as he picked up the caps. "Vivi's hat's here but he should be back at Twlight Town... What is going on? Where are we?!"

~*KHIII*~

However, the three groups failed to notice that someone was watching them from the dark throne room. The entire room was structured like a gothic church with a high ceiling, torches lining the walls, a blood red thin carpet leading up a small platform to a grand, black and gold throne. And sitting atop that throne was the figure of a tall, muscular, seventeen-year-old young man.

He was dressed rather formally in a black suit with a gold trim and long tailcoat, black knee-high boots, pants and silk gloves. His silk button-up shirt was red and he had a black cravat with a gold gem tied around his neck. His smooth, black hair was tied into a ponytail with a red ribbon and his eyes shone deep gold. Upon his lips was a devious smirk as he watched the thee groups on three small holographic screens held up by darkness. Watching them fight his heartless and find the objects he left them, his hands clasped in front of him like someone who held themselves high in society.

The dark being smirked darkly. "Well, I think that's enough of the tour. It's high time I introduce myself to my guests. After all, it's rude to keep company waiting." He spoke in a smooth, dark velvety voice. With a snap of his fingers, swirling corridors of darkness appeared beneath everyone, swallowing them whole as they struggled in vain to escape while the young man grinned evilly.

~*KHIII*~

All Sora could see after the corridor swallowed him was complete darkness, everything about this was just so confusing. Just what was going on?! What was this place and who in the worlds made the portal and brought them here? Sora just felt like he was getting more questions than answers.

The next thing he knew, he was being thrown out of the corridor and landing on the hard marble castle floor. The spiky haired boy released a groan as he opened his eyes, pushed himself up to his knees and observed his new surroundings; it looked like he was in some kind of dark throne room.

The first thing he noticed was that Kairi, Riku, Mickey, Donald and Goofy were laying on the floor with him and looking just as confused as he was.

"Woah! That sure was freaky!" Goofy moaned, rubbing his head. "But I'm glad to see everyone's okay."

Sora nodded his head in agreement. "Yeah, same here."

"This place is so strange." Shivered Kairi. "How was that portal able to get us here?"

"Well, Merlin did say that this portal led to twenty years in the future, and Merlin's never wrong!" Donald stated.

Riku pondered what the others have said. "I guess that does make sense, considering what I found here. West's bandanna did look older."

"You found an older version of West's bandana? That's weird, me and Kairi found an older version of her necklace. Why would those kind of objects be here?" Questioned Sora.

"I don't know." Admitted Mickey. "Where in the worlds do you think we are?"

"You're in my castle of course. I should think that much would be obvious." A strange and unfamiliar dark voice rang through the throne room.

Immediately, the group turned their heads to face the far end of the throne room. Sitting utop the throne was the same black-haired, golden-eyed young man who had been watching them, but to the heroes he was unfamiliar.

"Welcome, friends." The young man spoke smoothly as he rose from his throne. "I trust your trip went smoothly? I imagine time travel can be quite straining. I sincerly hope my heartless did not give you too much trouble in my castle."

"Wait, you were the one controlling the heartless?!" Realized Sora. "Wait, so then you sent that portal to our time?!"

The young man gave a nod. "Correct. A challenge, I must admit; sending a portal to twenty years in the past. But I always love a good challenge." He released a small chuckle. "Forgive me, I'm being rude. Allow me to introduce myself, I am Tenebrae, Prince of Darkness. A pleasure."

"Uh, sure." Mickey replied. "So why exactly did you bring us here?"

"Is it not obvious? I simply had to meet you all; the legendary heroes from twenty years past. Sora, Donald, Goofy, Riku, Kairi, King Mickey, you've all made quite a name for yourselves." Tenebrae replied as he stepped down from the elevated platform his throne was standing on and began to approach the heroes. The next thing they knew, he was standing right in front of Kairi, smirking deviously and lustfully at her. "Oh yes, you are a goegeous little thing aren't you? Now I see where sweetheart gets her looks." He chuckled darkly as he reached a hand out towards her.

Kairi gasped in shock as she slapped his hand away. "Hey! Get Away!" She exclaimed.

"Ah, ah, ah, Kairi dear." Scolded Tenebrae playfully. "That's no way to treat a prince."

Sora snarled angrily at Tenebrae, not liking the way he was looking at Kairi. "Who do you think you are you psyco creep?! And who's 'sweetheart'?!"

"My my, you don't hold back, do you, Sora? Not to worry, all your questions will be answered in time. " Tenebrae chuckled."In the meantime, why don't we have a little fun?"

The dark being slowly raised his hand before the group of heroes as it became surrounded by dark shadows. And from those shadows, a dark Keyblade appeared in his gloved hand. It was coloured black, red and gold, decorated with dark thorns, silver chains, bat wings and black roses.

The group of six heroes stared at Tenebrae with shock written across their faces.

"W-what?!" Sora gasped. "A Keyblade?!"

"No way!" Gasped Riku. "How did you get one?!"

Tenebrae chuckled darkly as he pointed the blade at the group. "That's not important at the moment, my friend. Right now, what's important is you six trying to stay alive against me."

The Prince of darkness moved so fast that Sora barely had a chance to blink before he was at his side, ready to strike him down with the dark weapon. Luckily, before he could, Sora blocked the attack by summoning his own Keyblade.

Sora used all his strength to stop him from attacking, but the dark prince was stronger than he thought. Riku used the opportunity to summon his own Keyblade and rush in to attack Tenebrae from behind, but he was too fast for Riku. It wasn't long until the others drew their weapons and charged simultaneously towards their enemy.

But Tenebrae was way too fast for any of them. Any time they'd get close to attack him, the dark prince would block with his Keyblade or dodge only to violently counterattack with blasts of dark magic and powerful, deadly strikes from his weapon. He would summon blasts of dark magic, dark chains and shadowy tendrils. It was more strength and power than they've seen in a long time.

Both Sora and Riku rushed to attack him simultaneously, but before they could even touch him, the Prince became coated with darkness and sank into the floor just as a shadow heartless would. It hadn't even been a few seconds before Tenebrae reemerged from the floor only to attack Goofy and Donald on the other side of the throne room.

Mickey and Kairi had their hands full trying to keep their party healed. Once the group had been healed, Tenebrae would just drain their strength ever further. There was just no slowing him down.

Before too long, everyone was completely out of magic and nearly out of energy; they were on their last legs and Tenebrae knew that all too well. Smirking triumphantly, the prince of darkness sauntered towards Sora with his weapon raised, ready to deliver the final blow.

But Sora wasn't finished just yet. Quickly, he reached into his pocket, pulled out his last potion and drank it all in one gulp. And just when Tenebrae was about to strike him down, Sora drew his Keyblade and slashed the dark prince clear across his chest in a powerful, devastating strike. That one blow sent Tenebrae to his knees, signifying the end of the battle. After a long struggle, the party of six had emerged victorious.

The group stood strongly before Tenebrae once their magic and energy had been fully restored but the Prince still hadn't moved from his weakened position. It was only when the six surrounded him that Tenebrae started chuckling darkly.

"So I see you were stronger than I anticipated." Chuckled Tenebrae as he rose to his feet, as though Sora's attack did nothing to him to begin with. "I must be sure not to underestimate my opponents again. You truly are formidable foes. Congratulations on your victory."

"Okay, so now that we beat you we better get some awnsers!" Exclaimed Riku with a small growl.

"Yeah!" Agreed Kairi. "Like, who's this 'sweetheart' you mentioned and who in the worlds are you?"

Tenebrae merely chuckled in amusement. "Like I said, all your questions will be awnsered in time. I look forward to seeing you all again in the future. Farewell for now." He smirked as he snapped his fingers.

"Hey! Wait!" Protested Sora. But before any of them could do anything, a corridor of darkness appeared underneath their feet, swallowing them whole in a split second. Tenebrae simply watched as the corridor dissapeared.

"Yes, that truly was a worthwhile experiment. I believe I've learned more about my enemies, victory will be within my grasp very soon." Grinned Tenebrae as he held out his hand, projecting the image of three figures joining hands; a teenage girl with slightly spiked reddish-brown hair holding a Keyblade and Kairi's necklace around her neck, a young creature that resembled a heartless with a funny hat and holding a magic staff and a college-age dog with messy hair and red sneakers wielding a shield. "Yes, soon victory will be mine."

~*KHIII*~

Meanwhile, back in Radiant Garden's Cavern of Remembrance, Squall, Merlin, Even, Ienzo, West, Lea and Max were gathered around the computer with worried looks on their faces.

But just then, the portal started reacting just like it did before. The group looked up at the portal and gasped as the six who were captured tumbled out of the dark corridor all at once. They were all wincing in pain from their injuries.

"Dad!" Max exclaimed as he and the others rushed to their side. "I'm so glad you guys are okay!"

West nodded in agreement as she hugged Riku. "You guys had us really worried."

"What happened to you in there? You all look like you've been through a terrible battle." Merlin asked curiously, but Sora didn't respond as he stared at the portal they came out of. Then, right before their eyes, the portal became surrounded by dark shadows then it disappeared entirely.

The group just stared at the empty space where the portal once stood. "Woah! What just happened to it?" Questioned Lea.

"Well, we beat whoever trapped is there." Explained Kairi. "That must have caused the portal to disappear."

"But, where did it take you?" Asked Squall.

"I... Can't really explain where were were exactly." Said Sora. "But, I think we should be careful of the future. We have a really powerful enemy we need to watch out for. But, I know as long as we stay together and keep working as a team, there's nothing we can't do."

So that was a little preview of the main antagonist to Reconnected's sequel. Hope you liked this little secret boss! Be sure to leave a review on your way out and let me know what you think! Till next time!