A/N: Hey there, everyone. Sorry I haven't been updating this fic lately, mostly because there weren't so many votes. Another reason is that I've been my other fic, Rakenzarn Tales. Even though the votes are pretty much less, the highest vote is actually Incan Empire. Hopefully, I'd get more votes next time. Like my old fic, the worlds will feature about 2 or 3 chapters.

DISCLAIMER: I do not own any characters here; all Kingdom Hearts and crossover characters are owned by their respective owners.

Themes:
- Town: Beware the Groove ~ Emperor's New Groove
- Battle: Boss Battle ~ Emperor's New Groove video game (for the Playstation)

Kingdom Hearts:
Collision

-/-

-Incan Empire-
A prosperous empire in top of a mountain, in turn surrounded by other mountains and a jungle. At the other side of the jungle is a peaceful village on the hills.

Village

Sora and the gang arrive at the world's village through the main entrance.

The village in the green hills appears to be peaceful. Local residents are walking throughout the village enjoying their time while some residents stay at home with their families. From the looks of the people's happy faces, nothing seems bad is going around.

"Huh, I was expecting people going nuts looking for help," Daffy said while looking at the village.

"Hmm... No sign of Heartless or those guys anywhere," Sora said to his friends as he looks around the view of the village. Donald and Sylvester follow Sora's example. They agree with the young Keyblade wielder that the place seems free from the Heartless. However, they can't ignore their mission, they need to find the Keyholes in this world as fast as they can. First thing to do is to find the world's keyhole.

"Guys, let's split up and check this place."

The group separates to investigate the village. They ask the local villagers about the mysterious man with the Keyblade. However, none of the villagers seem to have seen the enemy.

With no answers, they regroup at the main entrance.

"Any news, guys?" Sora asks.

"Nope," they all answer.

All the sudden, their stomachs growl.

"You know what they say, boys," Daffy said as he spots a big restaurant with a large sign of what appears to be a man holding out a plate. On the plate is a golden star. "You can't do anythin' without an empty stomach!" Daffy then runs toward the restaurant.

"Gawrsh, I guess Daffy's right," Goofy said as he pats his stomach alongside Sora.
"Yeah, I'm kinda hungry too," Sora adds.

Sora and the others follow Daffy into the restaurant.

-/-

The five enters the village's local restaurant sitting on an unreserved table.

A waitress that appears to be at her 50s and is quite short approaches their table. "Welcome to Mudka's, may I have your order?" she asks Sora and his friends preparing to write down their orders in her notebook. Sora reads the menu and asks his friends about the 'specials.' They all agree to order the specials.

"Okay, 5 specials coming right up," the waitress then leaves and heads to the kitchen.

"Oh boy, oh boy!" Sylvester rubs his hands in excitement, "I hope it's pigeon stew!"
"Or maybe spring rolls!" Donald exclaims with his mouth watering.
"C'mon guys, be more creative!" Daffy said to to the two, "It's probably some tasty roasted crab!"

Surprisingly, their orders arrive sooner from they expect.

"Five specials," the waitress puts all five plates on the party's table. They appear to be pillbugs. The party notices that each of their plates has a large straw. "Just hit 'em with your straws and enjoy your meals," the waitress then leaves them be.

"...Really? This is our food?" Daffy asks feeling a bit confused seeing the food. Goofy does exactly what the waitress instructed. His meal suddenly opens revealing yellow fluid inside. "Ooh boy, food," Goofy said excitedly as he sips it with the straw. Surprisingly, it tastes very good that the party's shield wielder seems to enjoy it very much. The others, on the other hand, aren't exactly glad to see the liquid inside their food. Instead, they feel sick.

While staring at the seemingly disgusting meal, Sora sees a certain couple in a table nearby. He notices a large, obese man in a white, ragged shirt enjoying his meal, the same pillbugs as theirs. The other is somewhat a woman in green poncho and a hat covering the entire face. Like them, the woman, or whatever it is, feels sick seeing the green liquid inside it.

Daffy wheezes thinking that the food might taste terrible as he quickly stands up. Coincidentally, the woman also stands up. "You know, I'll just make another order," they both suddenly said simultaneously.

"Eh?" Daffy and the 'woman' stare at each other.

Before either of them can react next, they suddenly hear people screaming for help outside.

"Uh-oh, sounds like trouble," Sora quickly stands up followed by Donald and Sylvester, "Let's go!"

"W-What? But we haven't had our lunch yet!" Daffy complains to the party's leader, but Sora quickly drags him outside with the white duck and cat following them from behind.

Goofy remains in his table enjoying his meal.

Donald immediately returns to the table and drags him outside yelling, "You're coming too!"

From that very moment, Sora suddenly returns and places 250 munny on the table then he exits the restaurant.

-/-

Steeping outside Mudka's, the party discovers a swarm of Heartless in the village.

The Heartless include the common Shadows and a new type: Mask Guard, a humanoid creature wearing an Inca mask wielding spears. Each Mask Guard wears golden armor with their symbols on the chest.

"Alright!" Daffy takes out his bow and boxing arrows, "Time to show you what happens if you mess up with my lunch!"

Daffy rapidly fires his boxing arrows at the Heartless. While most of his boxing arrows knock the Shadows out, the Mask Guards are unfazed showing their strong defense. Sora and Goofy immediately charge toward the Mask Guard Heartless and tackle them down. The other Mask Guards notice the two and attempt to attack them. Luckily, Donald joins the fray by casting Thunder spell shocking the Heartless with thunder bolts.

Sylvester then joins up with Sora and Goofy facing against the hordes of Heartless.

The party continues to take down the Heartless one by one, but the creatures are seemingly endless in number.

At the restaurant, the obese man and the 'woman' are watching their fight through the restaurant's window. "Oh my gosh!" the 'woman' gasps taking a step backward, "Not those guys again!"

The 'woman' surprisingly doesn't walk on two legs, but rather four. The face is finally cleared and it's not human, but rather a llama that actually talks.

"H-How do they find us?" the man nervously asks as he turns to the 'woman.'

"Kuzco, we gotta go now!"

"Yeah, but where, Pacha? Back to the jungle again?"

The man, Pacha, drags the talking llama to the kitchen's door, "Anywhere but here! Let's just go through the back door and-"

As soon as Pacha opens the kitchen's door, they don't find the chef or the waitress, but instead, a large group of Mask Guards...

Back outside, the party continues to bash the Heartless despite the enemies keep on coming at them in waves after another. "Oh come on!" Daffy mutters in annoyance when he spots more wave of Heartless, "Can't you guys just go away already!" The party regroups when the Mask Guard Heartless march forth with the Shadow Heartless follow from behind.

By the time Sora and the gang are about to attack the Heartless, they hear loud, comical yells coming from the restaurant.

The party glances back at the restaurant where it's literally shaking and jumping like mad. "...What's going on?" Sora asks in a confused expression. All the sudden, countless barrels roll out from the restaurant with Shadows and Mask Guards running on them. Among the Heartless, there are the talking llama, Kuzco, and large man, Pacha. They too are running on separate barrels.

Sora and the gang are surprised to see hundreds of barrels coming right at them. They attempt to run from the barrels, but they aren't fast enough as the barrels are already close to them prompting the five to jump on the barrels. For the Heartless in the front, the barrels run over them.

"Okay, I heard about tap dancing on barrels, but this is plain ridiculous!" Sora yells nervously while running on the barrel. To his left, there are Donald and Pacha sharing the same barrel. "What the, who're you?" Donald asks, "I was about to ask you the same thing!" Pacha yells anxiously.

Behind Donald and Pacha's barrel is Sylvester. To the cat's left is a Mask Guard Heartless that's also running on the barrel with its own feet. The Heartless tries to attack Sylvester with its long spear, but when it does, Sylvester merely dodges it and takes hold of the spear. With it, the cat bashes the Heartless with its own spear while yelling, "AWWWWW, SCRAM!" The impact sends the Heartless hurling away and crashes to a bunch of rolling barrels.

Sylvester immediately notices another Mask Guard Heartless to his right and it's attempting to attack him. "Oh knock it off or I'll give you one too!" Sylvester yells threatening the Heartless by pointing his fist at it.

Behind the cat is Goofy, who's also surrounded by Mask Guards. He blocks the Heartless' attacks with his shield.

Next to Goofy is Daffy and Kuzco who're also share the same barrel.

"What the? What're you doing on my barrel?" Daffy asks.
"Your barrel? What're YOU doing on my barrel?" Kuzco retaliates.

"None of ya business, just get off!" Daffy pushes Kuzco, but the talking llama doesn't fall that easily. "No, you get off! I was here first!" Kuzco pushes Daffy in retaliation, but the duck doesn't fall either. "No, I was here first!" Daffy slaps Kuzco by the face. "Liar!" Kuzco punches Daffy with his hooves. As payback, Daffy pokes Kuzco by his eyes.

The duck and the llama begin to scuffle each other while running on the barrel. Surprisingly, their scuffle actually helps them to defend against the Heartless that surround them, they shove the Heartless away from their barrels without even realizing it.

"Huh?" Sora quickly notices Kuzco, "Is that... A talking llama?"

The barrels roll down from the village and head into a long pathway leading into the jungle.

Jungle

Continuing to roll through the jungle, everyone runs on the barrels trying not to fall.

However, Donald and Pacha end up getting separate from the rest.

As for the rest, they continue to run on the barrels while evading the Heartless that are still around albeit fewer. It isn't long enough as the barrels cease to roll. Coincidentally, all the Heartless have already been knocked down during the way.

Daffy and Kuzco, who are still scuffling with each other, immediately stop. "Is... Is it safe now?" Kuzco asks as he and the duck step down from the barrel. Sora and Sylvester do so while Goofy accidentally fall from the barrel.

"...YAY, I'M SAFE!" Kuzco joyfully yells before kissing the ground. The llama turns his attention to the remaining party. "Okay, okay, I know what you're gonna say. No need to thank me, it's what I do," Kuzco said to them.

"Save us?" Sora approaches the talking llama while Daffy, Sylvester, and Goofy regroup with the Keyblade wielder by his back, "Hey, we were busy fighting off the Heartless while you did nothing but argue with my friend here."

Kuzco doesn't pay much attention to our hero though. In fact, Sora quickly notices that Kuzco is looking at a direction behind the party with a fearful look on his face. "...We have more company behind usth, righth?" Sylvester asks, to which Kuzco nods as an answer.

The party looks behind and find another horde of Mask Guards approaching.

"Uh-oh, not again!" Goofy yelps as he prepares to fight back the Heartless with his friends. "Alright, time to finish these guys once and for all," Sora said to his friends preparing to attack as well. He suddenly turns his head toward Kuzco and said to him, "Stay behind us and don't separate from us. We'll handle them."

Before the boy has the chance to attack the enemy, he immediately notices that Kuzco runs away out of fear by the Heartless. "H-Hey!" Sora turns his back on the Heartless, "I said don't separate from us!"

Just as Sora fears, as soon as Kuzco separates from the group, a small group of Shadows and Soldiers appear out of nowhere and start chasing the llama. It prompts Sora to go and save Kuzco leaving the Heartless to his friends.

-/-

Kuzco runs for his life with the Heartless hot on pursuit.

Whilst running, he repeatedly said, "Don't look behind" to himself focusing on the trail in front. His surroundings are all bushes and trees. In fact, the trees are so big that they cover the blue sky.

The talking llama runs even faster until he sees a glimmer of light in the front.

Thinking it's the way out of the jungle, he runs even faster until he manages to reach the light. However, to his dismay, what stands in front of him is an edge of a cliff. Below the cliff is a river, but it's obviously way down that it's too dangerous to jump down. Kuzco quickly turns out and finds the Heartless corner him. "Y-You... Killer, monsters... M-Me," Kuzco stutters and mutters some words as he slowly walks backward before he stops once he reaches the very edge of the cliff.

Slowly approaching Kuzco, the Heartless are prepared to attack and devour Kuzco's heart. That's when Sora finally arrives in the nick of time and bashes the Heartless aside. "You okay?" Sora quickly asks the talking llama as he quickly turns around and poses into his offensive stance facing at the remaining Heartless.

"What took you so long!" Kuzco yells.

"Not my fault that you didn't listen to me," Sora said back.

The Heartless slowly approach the two preparing to attack together.

Fortunately, they hear a loud, ululating yell in a fashion similar to Tarzan's yell coming from the left. Sora and Kuzco look to their right and then above and spot Pacha swinging down on a vine. The Keyblade hero notices that Donald is with Pacha holding on his back.

"Here we come! Sora! Your Highness!" Donald hysterically yells.

"Your... Majesty?" Sora utters in confusion upon hearing it.

Glad to see Pacha returns to help them, Kuzco looks at the Heartless and sticks out his tongue at them. Unfortunately, in a comical moment, Pacha and Donald miss them.

The Heartless then move in for the kill, but they're suddenly interrupted when a familiar voice yells out, "YOINKS AND AWAY!" from out nowhere.

Looking to their right and then above again, Sora and Kuzco see Daffy, Goofy, and Sylvester swinging down on a vine.

"DON'T WORRY FEARLESS LEADER, DAFFY DUCK TO THE RES-"

Sadly enough, they also miss Sora and Kuzco as Daffy and Sylvester hysterically scream while Goofy yells out his signature Goofy holler.

"...Okay," Kuzco turns his attention to Sora, "Your 'friends' turn out to be useless after all."

Finally, the Heartless move in for the attack lunging at them. Sora is about to swing his Keyblade at the incoming Heartless, but in a nick of time, the others swing back and, this time, they get it right grabbing both the Keyblade wielder and the llama.

"Don't worry, Your Highness!" Pacha shouts while holding on Kuzco by his arm, "We gotcha! You're safe now!"

In a comical twist, the seven gets caught around a large tree's log. The vines they're swinging on spins them around numerous time until it binds them firmly to the log.

"...Maybe I'm just new to this whole rescuing thing," Kuzco said as he looks around him. He finds Daffy on his right, next to the duck is the other duck, Donald, then Sora, Pacha, Goofy, Sylvester, and finally back to Kuzco. "But this, to me, might be considered kind of a step backwards, wouldn't you say?"

"Tell me about it, buster," Daffy said as he and Donald struggle to break free from the vines, "And it would've been a further step backwards if a female Tarzan come to save us."

"No, no, no, it's okay, everybody," Pacha said in a calmed tone, "This is alright. We can figure this out if we work together."

Suddenly, the log begins to break.

"...I hate you."

The log finally breaks as it plummets down to the river. Everyone screams out in a state of panic as they struggle to break free. The log comically lands on a ground and rolls around toward the river, which hurts the group seeing that they're all tied up on the log together. The log eventually rolls into the river.

The river's stream is fast as it sends the log across the riverbank in such speed that it exposes the seven with water nearly drowning them. Thankfully, they reach the calmer parts of the river. Everyone spits out the water from their mouths.

In the front position of the log are Sora, Pacha, and Goofy while Kuzco, Donald, Daffy, and Sylvester are in the back.

"Ugh! I don't know about you guys, but this is probably the worst day of my life," Kuzco moans.

"And I wasth sttharting to like our little adventure, and now it turnth into thisth!" Sylvester also moans.
"Yeah, this is just ridiculous!" Donald moans as well.

Soon after, everyone except for Goofy and Pacha start to complain as Sora tries to calm them down. Unfortunately, they won't listen to the party's leader. Sora is suddenly silent as he, Pacha, and Goofy utter "Uh-oh" when they see something bad in the end of the river.

"Don't tell me. We're about to go over a huge waterfall," Kuzco said.
"Yep," Goofy answers.
"Sharp rocks at the bottom?" Kuzco once again asks.
"Most likely," this time, Pacha is the one who answers it.

"Bring it on."

Kuzco yells, "Boo-yah!" when they reach the huge waterfall. The log plummets down to the waters below.

-/-

The impact has destroyed the log breaking it in half.

Luckily, Sora and his four friends have managed to survive the fall as they swim toward land. Once they reach it, Donald and Goofy lie down on the ground while Daffy and Slyvester kneel. They all pant since their big ride has wore them off. "Wow... That's actually fun," Sora suddenly said with a bright expression, "Let's do that again."

"Ahyuck, yeah! I'm up!" Goofy agrees with Sora.

"NO!" Donald, Daffy, and Sylvester shout at Sora and Goofy simultaneously.

"Huh? Hey?" Sora quickly notices that both Kuzco and Pacha aren't with them.

Meanwhile, just across Sora and his friends' location, Pacha drags Kuzco out of the nowhere. Unfortunately, Kuzco is unconscious due to the powerful impact from the fall. Pacha inspects Kuzco's body and, to his relief, the llama's heart is still beating. "Your Highness, can you hear me?" the llama doesn't respond. Pacha hurriedly presses on Kuzco's chest hoping it will help Kuzco but with no result.

In a situation such as this, there's only one way to help Kuzco: mouth-to-mouth resuscitation. Although Pacha isn't exactly looking forward to this.

"Why me?" he utters anxiously.

Pacha moves toward Kuzco's body. The large man opens up Kuzco's mouth, but to his disgust, Kuzco's tongue suddenly flops out and he has a very nasty breath. However, Pacha still has to do it if he wants to save Kuzco even though he's clearly disgusted.

Just when Pacha leans over the llama for the rescue breathing, Kuzco suddenly wakes up and sees the man right above him. From that moment, Sora and his friends arrive just in time to see the commotion, which they mistaken that Pacha is going to kiss Kuzco.

Comically, Sora and his friends lean backward feeling disgusted while Pacha and Kuzco lean away from each other coughing and wheezing.

-/-

Few minutes later, the group camps out by the river.

Kuzco gargles some mouthwash at the river while the others set up a fire to get themselves warm. "For the last time, it was NOT a kiss," Pacha said to Kuzco. "Well, whatever you call it, it was disgusting," Kuzco retorts.

"So anyway," Pacha turns his attention to the party, "Sorry for getting you all involve in this. My name is Pacha."

"I'm Sora. These are my friends. Donald, Daffy, Sylvester, Goofy" the boy motions his hand to his four friends as he says their names. "I just glad that you're both safe from the Heartless."

"Heartless? So that's what they're called?" Pacha asks referring to the creatures that attacked them earlier.

"Yeah, and if they're around, that means trouble," Daffy adds.

"Pacha, do you know if some guy with this is around?" Sora asks as he summons his Keyblade and shows it to Pacha. The man shakes his head sideways.

"Or maybe this big bully named Pete?" Sora asks again, but Pacha's answer is still the same.
Sora sighs feeling disappointed.

"Oh well," Sora turns his attention to his four friends, "We might as well take a look around this place."

"So are there any more of those Heartless around?"
"Lots of them. They appear out of nowhere all over the empire since yesterday."

"Empire?"

"Yeah, that's right," the llama suddenly appears behind Pacha, "If you peasants haven't figured it out, I happen to the emperor of this world. Me! Emperor Kuzco!" Kuzco motions his hands aiming his index fingers, more likely his hooves, on his face.

The party is rather silent.

"Gawrsh, but you don't look like an emperor," Goofy points out.

"Oh, coz the way I look now?" Kuzco asks as he suddenyl stands up on his hooves as he motions his hooves at his body, "Well, that's because I'm not a llama. I'm a handsome emperor."

"Well, if you're a human, then how come you're a llama?" Goofy asks again.

"...I dunno," Kuzco stands on his four hooves, "I can't remember what just happened. I was like this when I woke up. But it ain't matter right now."

"You see, my ex-adviser got that 'secret lab.' Once I get back to the palace, I'll snap my fingers and order her to change me back. And Pacha," the young emperor gets to Pacha placing his hooves around his upper body, "My main village man, is going to take me back to the palace. And once I'm changed back into a human."

"I don't think so, Kuzco," Pacha shoves Kuzco's hooves off him, "Unless you build your Kuzcotopia somewhere else, I'm not taking you back to the palace."

"Kuzco-wha?"
"Kuzcotopia, it's my ultimate summer getaway!"

"You see, His Highness wants to build his summer home on my village, my home," Pacha explains to the party. "Wait, your village? You mean back there?" Sora asks as he motions his right arm upward tighten his fist while pointing his thumb backwards, "That's your village?"

"That's right, Sora," Pacha answers.

"Waith a minute there, if you're building there, wouldn't that mean kicking out the villagersth?" Sylvester quickly asks. Kuzco answers with a nod much to the party's surprise.

"Wow, I like him already," Daffy utters.
"Daffy!" Sora angrily scolds the black duck.
"Hey, I was only jokin', Sora."

Pacha suddenly stands up and confronts the young llama emperor.

"Look, do you realize that you're forcing an entire village out of their homes just for you?" Pacha said to Kuzco trying to reason with the emperor. "And... That's bad?" Kuzco asks with a confused look on his face.

"Well, yeah, that is bad," Pacha said shrugging with a calm demeanor, "I mean, nobody's that heartless."

"Mmm... Now take me back," Kuzco suddenly turns his back on the village chief. Everyone is clearly surprised by Kuzco's answer though Daffy finds it nice.

"W-What? Wait, wait, how can you be this way? Are you saying all you care is yourself?" Pacha asks feeling more offended by the young emperor.

"Uh yeah. Me," Kuzco glances at Pacha, "Everyone else in the kingdom gets it. You're the only one that doesn't seem to be with the program. Eh, Pacha?"

Pacha motions his hand on his head in disappointment.

"Okay, that's it," Sora finally snaps as he confronts the talking llama, "Look, I don't know what's your problem, but aren't you the emperor? Aren't you supposed to care for your people?"

"Whoa, look here, kiddo," Kuzco points his right hoof at Sora's chin, "This ain't about you, this all about ME. Why should you care?" Kuzco turns his back on the boy as he moves away to be alone, but not before requesting Pacha to take him back to the palace.

Sora feels more offended than ever that he wants to slap Kuzco on the face, but Pacha restraints him from doing so. The village chief encourages Sora to go back to his friends, which the boy reluctantly acknowledges. "Kuzco," Pacha turns his attention to the selfish emperor, "Someday, you're going to wind up all alone, and you'll have no one to blame but yourself."

"Thanks for that, I'll log that away," Kuzco sarcastically said as he lies down beneath a large tree, "And if you're ready, just wake me up."

Pacha sighs.

"He's never going to change his mind... Not after I treated him since yesterday," Pacha turns around and goes to the fire joining up with Sora and his friends.

Meanwhile...

Village

In the village's entrance, a slender, muscular man with a black shoulder-length hair confronting a small group of Heartless consist of Shadows and Mask Guards. That man is none other than Kronk.

"Uuuh... So, have you got 'im yet?" Kronk asks the Heartless, but the creatures don't answer since they don't talk. Since Kronk isn't exactly smart, he thinks the Heartless can talk only shy. "Oh, come on, boys, no need to be shy, just tell me if you got 'im or at least know where he's heading," Kronk talks to the Heartless again. The result is still the same, as expected.

As Kronk continues to talk to the Heartless casually, an elderly, lavender-skinned woman in black sleeveless dress approaches them with a pair of Mask Guard Heartless accompanying her.

"Kronk..." She moans gaining Kronk's attention, "You do remember these guys CAN'T talk, don't you?"

"Oh, Yzma," Kronk calls his boss' name, "Didn't know you're here now. How's it going?"

"Kronk, I'm suppose to ask you that! We've been searching every village surrounding the palace and the jungle, but still no sign of Kuzco! Even with these guys!" Yzma angrily reminds her minion, "And where the heck are the rest of the Heartless around here? I thought I sent them here to find Kuzco."

"Maybe they went elsewhere," Kronk thought.

"Still, no sign of Kuzco, but I did see five characters hanging around this village. They're a kid with the weird hairdo, two ducks, a dog, and a cat," Kronk reports to Yzma. The mention of a 'boy with the weird hairdo' catches her attention. "A boy? Wait! Did he carry around a strange key around?"

"Oh yes."

"...WHAT!"

Yzma grabs the dim-witted Kronk by his collar, "YOU DIDN'T SEND THE HEARTLESS TO GET RID OF 'EM?"

"I thought they're quite harmless, so I didn't find them suspicious."

"Kronk... Do you realize you just let a bigger problem loose!" Yzma violently shake Kronk back and forth before she shoves him aside.

"Ow! W-What did I do?" Kronk nervously asks as he stands up.

"Those 'five' are the pesky Keyblade master and his cohorts Maleficent warned us about! They're gonna cause more trouble if we let 'em loose here!" Yzma shouts at Kronk as she glares at the Heartless. "Heartless! Go after them now!" She orders the Heartless away to hunt down the 'five.'

"Kronk," Yzma grabs Kronk again by his collar, "We'll let the Heartless deal with them. You and I gotta find Kuzco and fast! If he talks, we're through! Now let's move!"

Jungle

Sora and his friends discuss with Pacha about their search for the mysterious enemy wielding the Keyblade.

Apparently, Pacha has heard of rumors about a strange-looking fellow spotted in the palace. They could go there and investigate if it's really the same person the party's looking for, but the problem is Kuzco. Pacha won't let Kuzco return to the palace with the party as long the selfish emperor doesn't change his mind building his summer home somewhere else.

"So what do we do with him?" Donald wonders.

"Yeah, we can'th justh leave him here. Not with them Heartlessth guysth around," Sylvester adds.

"I'll take care of this, fellas," Daffy steps forward, "Be back in a jiffy."

The black duck approaches the talking llama and they soon start a conversation. While they talk, Sora and Donald stand watch for Heartless.

It's actually take longer than they thought.
It feels more than ten minutes.

At first glance, they appear to be talking casually as if they're already close friends going from a casual conversation to laughter.

Since it's taking a bit too long, Sora wonders how long it's going to take while Donald hopes that they finish their talk soon since the enemy is still on the loose.

Eventually, Daffy approaches the group. "Well, that was long," Sora said.

"Stho, any luck?" Sylvester asks.

"Well, it was fun!" Daffy gleefully said, "We talk about riches, food, what we like, all those sort of stuffs! I like that guy even more!"

"But did you get him to change his mind?" Pacha is the next one to ask.

"...Whoops."

His only answer is an anxious look on the duck's face. Pacha can tell that Daffy has forgotten to talk to Kuzco into changing his mind. The duck's completely had fun with their conversation that he'd completely forgotten about it.

"Oh fine. Let me try to talk to him," Sora suddenly said.

The boy approaches the talking emperor.

Kuzco senses the boy's presence and he stares at the young Keyblade wielder. "What do you want?" Kuzco asks in a rude manner. "I just want to talk to you, that's all," Sora answers casually. Even though the emperor acts rude to him, he's trying his best not to lose his temper.

"You're an emperor, right?"
"Well, duh. Didn't I tell you?"
"So what exactly do you do as an emperor?"
"Oh, you know. Wake up at 1's, eat fancy dinner, relax at home, and more importantly, make things going my way, especially me."

"Oh yeah," Kuzco gives out a sigh of relief while staring blankly at a direction, "Being an emperor rocks."

"Is... That all?" Sora asks again, but with a worried expression.

"Yeah," Kuzco turns his attention to Sora, "So?"

"Aren't emperors supposed to do things for their people than just for themselves? You're an emperor, so that gives you...Responsibility with your people," Sora said to Kuzco. The emperor in the form of a llama stare blankly at the boy for a while until he scoffs at him. "You really don't know anything, do you, kid?" Kuzco points his right hoof on Sora's chest.

"Whatever the emperor wants, the emperor always get it. The people, especially peasants, should listen to the emperor's demands. As long as I'm happy, everything will just be fine. Period."

"...You're selfish, you know that," Sora said feeling annoyed by the emperor, "You care nothing about your people but yourself? I really don't know how you become emperor, but you're not going anywhere with that kind of attitude. I mean, there may be already some of them that want to kill you."

"Huh? Kill me?" Kuzco points his right hoof on his own furry chest, "Oh come on, I'm the emperor. If you kill me, who's gonna take over the kingdom? Why does anybody out there want to kill me?"

"You should figure that yourself," Sora said to Kuzco as he turns his back on the talking llama, "Think about it, 'Your Highness.' Remember what Pacha had just told you."

Sora then leaves the emperor alone as he goes back to his friends and Pacha.

Once he's alone, Kuzco lies down on the ground. Surprisingly, he ponders over the things that Sora and Pacha had told him.

-/-

A few minutes later, Sora and his friends wait around the camp with Pacha by their side. They wait for Kuzco to change his mind.

All the sudden, Kuzco returns.

"Oh, hello again, Your Highness!" Daffy shouts while waving his arms at the talking llama.

The emperor suddenly approaches Pacha and starts to talk to him, but surprisingly, Kuzco talks in much friendlier tone. "Hey, Pacha. I had a little talk with that kid over there. We talked some... stuffs. Now that we talked about it..." Kuzco holds his neck with his hoof, "Now it got me thinking. It feels so... Well, wrong forcing a lot of people out of their homes. So I was thinking that when I got back to the city, we'd... uh... I mean there's a lot of hilltops around."

Pacha looks hard at Kuzco.

"Maybe I might... You know, I might-"
"Are you saying you've changed your mind?"
"Oh well... I-I..."
"Because you know, that means you're doing something nice for someone else."

"No, I know that," Kuzco suddenly said in a much louder voice though his tone remains friendly, "I know."

"And you're alright with that?" Pacha asks again. As an answer, Kuzco nods.

Pacha looks hard at him again thinking whether Kuzco is serious or lying. Moments later, the village chief holds out his hand. Kuzco is prompted to do the same, but Pacha pulls his hand back "Don't shake... Unless you mean it."

Kuzco stares at Pacha for a while as they're all silent. Kuzco holds out his hand closer prompting Pacha to shake hands. They finally shake their hands.

"Well, glad that went smoothly," Sora said as Donald, Goofy, and Sylvester nod together. The four stares at Daffy asking him how he's able to talk into Kuzco. The party's archer just said that he is good in negotiating things.

"Okay then," Sora said as he approaches Kuzco and Pacha, "I guess that means we're good to go, right?"

"You bet," Pacha said, "Let's you guys to the palace now. It's a long way, but we should be able to get there before sunset."

"Oh, by the way," the village chief turns his attention to the emperor, "thanks."

As Pacha goes to the direction of the palace with the party follows from behind, Kuzco is left alone for a while. Unknowingly to them, the emperor smiles and smugly utters, "No... Thank you."

-/-

They walk their way through the jungle.

Having been trekking for long miles, they get through the surrounding trees and arrive at a wide, opened area. Beyond the green hills is a long, suspension bridge made out of ropes covered with pieces of wood. Beneath the bridge is a deep crevice with a river below.

"We're almost there, everybody," Pacha points in the front, "Pass this hill, we'll reach the bridge. Once we cross this bridge, it's only an hour to the palace."

"What! Another hour!" both Donald and Daffy yelp as they suddenly sit down.

"But you've already said 'an hour' three times already," Daffy moans as he rubs his webbed feet.

"Oh c'mon, guys. It's not that bad," Sora said to the ducks, "Once we reach the palace, then we can rest. How's that sound?"

"Good, because believe it or not, I think I need a bath," Kuzco adds.

Continuing to walk across the green hill, Sora notices that they haven't encounter any Heartless so far ever since their trek from the river, not even a single Shadow on sight. Even so, they can't let their guards down. While walking, Pacha suddenly asks Sora, "So what about this guy you're looking?"

At first, Sora talks in a quiet tone as he's reluctant to talk about the unknown Keyblade wielder and the fact he can't tell them that they're from other worlds. "Well... It's kinda personal... But it's very important for us to find him."

"I see, if it's really personal, then I understand," Pacha tells Sora, "As long as you know what you're doing is right, everything will be alright for you."

Sora nods.

Afterwards, they finally reach the end of the hill to the suspension bridge.

"Alright, we're almost there," Sora cheerfully said. Looking at the bridge closely, it appears to be fragile and dangerous if they cross it together. "Uuuh, you sure this is safe?" Goofy asks. "It should be, I always travel to the palace through this bridge. I assure you, it's perfectly safe," Pacha reassures the party's shield wielder.

Sylvester approaches the bridge and motions his right foot on the first board. When he steps on it, the board holds still much to Sylvester's relief. The cat steps forward and motions his right foot on the next board. Even with a slight touch of his foot, the board breaks and plummets into the crevice below. It startles the cat causing him to jump backwards and lands on Goofy's arms.

"You call that 'safe?'" Kuzco mutters at Pacha as Goofy puts down Sylvester.

"So, who wants to go first?" Sylvester nervously asks.

Donald and Daffy suddenly point at each other though Sora volunteers to be part of the first group alongside Pacha. That only leaves one more to join in.

Goofy is about to raise his hand, but Kuzco stands right in front of him raising his hand while repeatedly saying, "I will!"

"You will?"
"Of course, I am the Emperor and I always go with the first group."

"So outta my way, llama coming through," Kuzco walks forward into the briddge.
"Wait, Your Highness, don't go without us!" Sora pursues Kuzco up ahead with Pacha.

The others watch them as they cross the bridge. So far, so good as the three of them has managed to reach halfway the bridge.

Now that Sora, Kuzco, and Pacha are already halfway crossing the bridge, that leaves Donald, Daffy, Sylvester, and Goofy, a total of four. "So who's next after them?" Daffy asks. While they discuss about their groups, Goofy turns around glancing at the hill. To his surprise, he finds a large group of Mask Guards and Shadows emerging from the jungle.

"Oh no! Fellars!" Goofy yelps as he quickly takes out his shield gaining Donald, Daffy, and Sylvester's attentions. They too yelp when they see the Heartless marching toward the bridge.

"Boys, follow me!" Donald shouts as he quickly charges at the Heartless. Goofy and Sylvester follow the party's mage while Daffy rapidly fires his boxing arrows.

Their yelp attract Sora, Kuzco, and Pacha's attentions. They're clearly surprised to see the Heartless manage to catch up to them. "Your Highness, Pacha!" Sora summons his Keyblade, "You two go on ahead, I'll go help them out!"

Sora takes a step forward attempting to move back to the other side of the bridge to help out his friends. Unfortunately, he accidentally steps on a rotting board and it breaks. Sora falls from the bridge, but thankfully, the bridge's vines catch Sora though it wrap him. "Sora!" Pacha tries to help the Keyblade master up, but unfortunately, he too falls through another rotting board and gets caught in the vines. The two look down glancing at the river below.

Sora and Pacha quickly stare at Kuzco asking him to help them up.

"...Nope," Kuzco suddenly said with a mischievous look on his face.

"W-What?"
"You're going to leave us here?"

"Well, I was going to have you two and the others imprisoned for life, but I kinda like this way better," Kuzco said to both Sora and Pacha.

"You what!" Sora angrily shouts.

"I thought you were a changed man!" Pacha also shouts in anger.

"Oh, come on, I had to say somethin' to get you to take me back to the city," Kuzco calmly responds them.

"You... You no-good backstabber!" Sora is finally furious that he struggles to get back up, but he quickly stops when one of the vines wrapping him breaks. Doing a wrong move one more, the rest of the vines will break. "I'll take that as a compliment, Sorie," Kuzco said in a mocking tone, "Well, toodles."

Kuzco then turns around and prepares to cross the bridge.

As soon as the talking llama takes a step forward, he accidentally steps on a rotting board, which quickly breaks upon contact. As a result, Kuzco also falls from the bridge and gets caught by the bridge's vines. He comically yelps as he falls.

Kuzco, in a state of panic, tries to get back up the bridge, but Pacha manages to tell him to calm down before the vines start to break.

"Are you okay? Are you alright?" Pacha asks out of concern.
"Yeah. Yeah, I think I'm okay," Kuzco answers.

"Good," Pacha suddenly punches Kuzco by the face sending him slightly backwards though the vines move Kuzco back in front of Pacha, "That's for going back on your promise!"

"Well, yeah," Kuzco hits Pacha back sending him backwards as well, "That's for kidnapping me and taking me to your village! Ha!"

Luckily, Sora is wrapped behind Pacha, so he's able motion his legs to send the village chief back at Kuzco. The emperor yelps as Pacha unintentionally head-butts the emperor sending him backwards even further thanks to Sora, even though the vines move Kuzco back again.

"How do you like THAT, huh!" Sora taunts Kuzco in anger.

"Kid, calm down," Pacha said to Sora, "This isn't your problem. Let me handle this."

"Why did I risk my life for a selfish brat like you?" Pacha angrily asks Kuzco, "I was always taught that there was some good in everyone, but ooh, you proved me wrong. I could've let you go out there in that jungle and let those Heartless guys eat you alive, and then all my problems would be over!"

"Oh boo-hoo, now I feel really bad. Bad llama," Kuzco sarcastically said to himself taunting the village chief.

"That's it," Pacha clenches his fists, "Let's end this."

"Ladies first," Kuzco taunts the village chief again.

Within seconds, Kuzco and Pacha fly to each other and begin fighting. Their scuffle consist of Pacha punching and head-butting Kuzco on the face as the talking llama fight back by poking the chief's eyes and kicking him on the stomach.

Sora can't really do anything since Pacha has told him not to interfere. All he can do is cheering for Pacha.

As they fighting while hanging under the bridge, the others are busy fighting the Heartless although they haven't noticed the commotion at the bridge.

All the sudden, Sora, Kuzco, and Pacha feel a sudden vibration coming from the bridge, which prompts the emperor and the peasant to stop fighting. The three of them look above only to see five Soldier Heartless on the bridge staring down on them.

It gets even worse when they hear faint, creaking sound.

"Uh-oh..."

The bridge suddenly collapses and everyone falls into the crevice.

Sora quickly thrusts his Keyblade on the rocky wall. Hanging on his Keyblade, Sora looks around seeing the Soldier Heartless plummet into the crevice below until he finally spots Kuzco and Pacha below the crevice. They're positioned back-to-back with their legs pushing against the crevice wall, which allow them both to hang on together.

"Kuzco! Pacha! Don't worry, I'll get you two up!" Sora is about to pull his Keyblade out of the wall until he notices something crawling on the crevice walls. To his dismay, he finds a small group of new type of Heartless: Shining Walkers, theyresemble jumping spiders, only their bodies are made out of gold. Each of them has the Heartless' symbol on their bodies.

The Heartless are climbing down heading for Kuzco and Pacha. Seeing it at danger, Sora quickly pulls out the Keyblade and jumps to the other crevice wall to fight off the the spiders.

"Oh no, we're gonna die, we're gonna die, we're gonna die!" Kuzco repeatedly shouts in a state of panic.

"C-Calm down, Kuzco," Pacha looks around at his surroundings, "...I got an idea!"

Pacha instructs Kuzco to link their arms together.

"When I say go, push against my back and we'll walk up together," Pacha said to Kuzco.

They do so and they start to walk up the crevice wall much to Kuzco's excitement. They continue to walk on the walls together while Sora takes care of the Shining Walkers.

It doesn't take long for Sora destroy all the spider-like Heartless. Hanging on the crevice wall, Sora looks down to see how Kuzco and Pacha are faring up. The emperor and the peasant are doing well as they're going up higher. Unfortunately, the crevice walls begin to widen so they can't go up anymore.

Seeing that they're stuck, Sora slides down until he reaches Kuzco and Pacha. "Here," Sora holds out his hand while his other hand is holding on his Keyblade impaled on the crevice wall. "Take my hand! And hurry!" Sora shouts as he looks to the other side where he sees another small group of Shining Walkers climbing down.

Pacha glances at Sora who's hanging directly above him.

"Kuzco, quick! Stretch your neck and I'll grab Sora's hand!" Pacha shouts.

"What? How do I know you won't let me fall?" Kuzco asks suspecting Pacha.

"Look, Kuzco! We're all in danger and those guys are coming in fast! You have to trust me on this!" Pacha shouts as he looks behind seeing the Heartless are getting closer. With no time to lose, Kuzco gives in as they both leg go of their arms before he stretches his neck on Pacha's back. It actually lifts Pacha higher, high enough for him to reach Sora's hand.

As Sora pulls Pacha higher, the village chief quickly grabs on Kuzco in time as they're lifted even higher. "HOLD ON!" The Keyblade wielder quickly jumps higher into the air holding on both Kuzco and Pacha in hands. The spider-like Heartless see the three of them are going up the crevice. They jump to the other side and climb higher pursuing the Keyblade wielder, the talking llama, and the peasant.

Seeing the Heartless are coming for them, Sora uses every ounce of his strength to toss both Kuzco and Pacha high into the air. Sora then drops down attacking the Shining Walkers.

Kuzco and Pacha soon land right on the top of the crevice.

"Oh no, the kid!" Kuzco suddenly stands up and looks down to see if Sora is alright. To his surprise, he finds the boy slamming the entire Shining Walkers down to the crevice below. Pacha also discovers that the others have just beaten all the Heartless without Sora's help though they're exhausted lying down on the ground.

The young Keyblade master runs upward on the crevice wall and reaches the top. "Is everyone alright?" Sora quickly asks. His question is already answered when he sees everyone is okay.

"Ya think?" Daffy mutters in an exhausted tone.

Sora can only gives out a sigh of relief as he looks around him. Pacha is next to him while Kuzco is in front him. He then walks toward his friends.

Suddenly, the ground Pacha is standing start to crumble.

"Whoa! Look out!" Kuzco immediately pulls Pacha back from the crumbling ground before it plummets to the crevice below.

"Whoo-hoo! Yeah! Oh look at me go!" Kuzco jumps in a joyful manner and he turns toward Pacha pointing his hoof at the village chief, "I snatched you right out of the air like lightning!"

Sora stare with a surprised look on his face after seeing what Kuzco has just done as his friends stand up staring at the talking llama. then looks down the edge of the gorge, "'Ooh, I'm a crumbly canyon wall and I'm taking you with me.' Well, not today, pal!"

The emperor does his victory dance, or a llama dance if you can say that.

Pacha has the same look as Sora.

"You... Just saved my life," Pacha utters in amazement pointing at Kuzco. It prompts the talking llama to stop his victory dance. The emperor tries to look deadpan.

"Gawrsh, Pacha was right all along," Goofy suddenly said, "You do have somethin' good in ya, after all."

"Oh, no, I-I'm not!" Kuzco claims that Goofy is wrong.

"Come on, admit it, I always knew that deep inside you, you are a good person," Pacha starts to smile.

"Wrong," Kuzco disclaims again feeling more annoyed.

"Well, you could've let me," Pacha adds once again.

"Oh, c'mon! What's the big deal with that? Nobody's that heartless!" Kuzco pauses in shock when he realizes that he repeated Pacha's words from before. He looks at Pacha, Sora, and the rest of the party who are looking at him with admiration.

"Look, guys," Kuzco slowly approaches them, "Don't put too much into it. It was one-time thing."

"Yeah, sure," Pacha motions his hand at the collapsed bridge, "With the bridge out, it's a four-day walk to the palace."

Kuzco is clearly surprised when he hears that Pacha still intends to bring him back to the palace despite their fight at the bridge. That moment starts to make Kuzco feel guilty for a while, but he shoves it aside. "Okay, I hope you realize that doesn't change a thing. I'm still building Kuzcotopia when I get back," Kuzco said to Pacha though there's a hint of uneasiness from the sound of his tone.

"Well, four days is a long time," Pacha said unfazed by Kuzco's words.

"Yeah, maybe you'll change your mind," Sora adds.

"Ahem, guys," Daffy gains his friends' attention, "I hate to break up this touching moment, but four days? That's way too long! By the time we get there, the guy would probably be gone!"

Daffy grabs Pacha by his poncho, "Tell me there's another way get there and fast!"

"Well, sorry, but this is the only fastest way to the palace," Pacha said to the duck.

"Oh this is great," Daffy groans as he let go of Pacha, "Now that leaves us another problem! We're halfway through this arc and we're running out of space for this chapter!"

"Only way to end this," Kuzco suddenly said appearing next to Daffy Duck. The talking llama writes down a message just below...

To be continued...

-XXX-

-Journal Entry-

Characters

Kuzco (llama)
Emperor's New Groove (2000)

The selfish emperor of the Incan Empire.

He thinks highly of himself and everyone should be put below him because he is the emperor. For his 18th birthday, he wants to build his summer home on Pacha's home on the hill, which means Pacha and his family will have to move out of their home.

When he mysteriously transformed into a llama and ends up in Pacha's village, he is forced to rely on the peasant to get back to the palace and change back into a human.

Pacha
Emperor's New Groove (2000)

A portly, caring peasant who is the village's leader.

He takes his job as leader very seriously and does whatever is right for his people. He loves his family very much that he spends more time with them.

One day, Pacha is summoned to the palace by Kuzco and is told that his house on the hill will be destroyed to make room for Kuzcotopia, the emperor's summer home. Distraught, he travels back home not knowing how to tell the news to his family, but when he discovers Kuzco in the back of his cart and he has transformed into a llama, he needs to take him back to the palace and hopes to help Kuzco to learn the error of his ways.

Yzma
Emperor's New Groove (2000)

Kuzco's former advisor.

After Kuzco fires her, she vows revenge on Kuzco and plans to take over the empire. Along with her minion, Kronk, she plans to poison Kuzco but they use the wrong person that transforms him into a llama instead. She orders Kronk to take the emperor out of the palace and finish the job, but Kronk accidentally loses Kuzco to Pacha.

Now she and Kronk are out to kill Kuzco before he can get back to the palace.

She claimed to have met Maleficent before and given the power to command the Heartless.

Kronk
Emperor's New Groove (2000)

Yzma's dim-witted sidekick.

He's your typical muscular henchman but with a good heart. He doesn't do a good job with his missions from Yzma as he constantly screws up. He accidentally gives Kuzco the wrong potion and losing him to Pacha.

He also appears to be a talented chef, draw well, and talks to squirrels.

-X-

Heartless

- Mask Guard
A humanoid Heartless in golden armor wielding both spears and shields. Their shield allows them to protect themselves from any attacks and they can attack in long range. However, their only weakness is their armor as they cannot take any damage.

- Shining Walkers
Spider-like made out of gold. Even though they're weak, they can be quite dangerous if they attack in large groups.