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Kairi and Riku bolted for Sora's house hoping to find some type of communication device to reach King Mickey.
Riku threw open the door and the two ran into Sora's room. They took in the site of the war zone of a room
"Wow, nice room," Riku mumbled. Kairi slapped him across his shoulder.
"Come on," she instructed, "let's try to find a communicator."
"Supposing he has one…" Riku muttered under his breath, but he joined Kairi in the quest for ye olde communicator.
They spent half an hour shoveling through the cluttered floor and crammed drawers when a high pitched, squealing/buzzing noise rang throughout the room, sort of like a bomb.
"Oh Jesus!" Riku yelled and toppled over.
"Calm down cowboy," Kairi laughed and walked towards the noise.
It led her to the nightstand beside the bed, where she opened the bottom drawer to a vibrating object. It resembled a walkie-talkie, but with added features.
Kairi picked up the communicator and pressed a flashing button.
"Sora!" A familiar voice boomed from the receiving end.
Kairi pressed the talk button on the center arrangement of buttons and answered, "Who is this?"
"Kairi! It's Mickey."
"Oh! What did you need Sora for?"
"I need to pass on a message for him."
"Well, he's not here."
"Where is he?"
"He was kind of kidnapped a couple of days ago; down by the beach."
"Why didn't you tell me about this?" There was a hint of anger in the king's voice.
"We didn't know we could!" Riku answered as he took the device from Kairi.
"This isn't good."
Duh Riku thought.
"We need to get him back."
Obviously. The white haired teen rolled his eyes.
Kairi took back the device.
"But how? We aren't really sure who took Sora, or where."
"You guys don't have to go. I can contact some of Sora's friends and they can rescue him."
"And who is that exactly?" Riku inclined as Kairi was about to speak.
"I think their names were Cloud and Vincent, but they're in a different world.
"Ok. I guess we'll just stay here then?" Kairi huffed.
"Exactly."
She slapped her hand to her forehead.
"Listen, not to be mean, but I don't want to wait for Sora to come back. I want to go find him now."
"Listen, I know you're angry but we can't risk you being captured too."
"Why would I-" Kairi started to rant but Riku interrupted.
"So when are Sora's friends going to rescue him exactly?"
"Three days."
"Three days?!" Riku and Kairi yelled in unison.
"Yes. It'll give them time to prepare and-"
"Sora could be dead by then!" Riku bellowed.
"No he won't. Think about it. Why would he be captured and then killed? If they wanted him dead, they would've killed him on the beach."
Riku and Kairi were silent. The king did have a point.
"Maybe they didn't want to leave evidence…" Riku mumbled lamely.
"Or maybe they'll use Sora for whatever they need and then they'll kill him. What if that happens?" Kairi asked hot-headedly.
"I don't know if either way will work, but I'll go contact Cloud and Vincent." Mickey hung up.
"Well that's just great. Why do we always get left out of things?" Kairi asked madly, her arms flailing.
"We're not going to be this time," Riku answered as he took the communicator from Kairi's hand.
"What are you-"
"Calling Leon."
"Do you even know him?"
Riku glared at her. "Just because I haven't actually met him doesn't mean anything."
Kairi rolled her eyes but let Riku go on with his plan. A few minutes passed and he was just standing there.
"So how's that going for you?" Kairi asked with a laugh.
"Ok, I don't actually know how to call him, but I'm sure we can."
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In Midgar, Cloud, Tifa, Yuffie, Vincent, and Barret were talking in Seventh Heaven bar. Cloud was drinking and looking out of the window when a ringing noise went off. He reached for his phone but it was silent. He kept digging around in his pant pocket for the noise when Yuffie called, "What are you doing?"
Cloud looked up and noticed everyone was looking at him strangely.
"Just looking for something."
"Uhhh…"
"Someone called me…"
"Ok, then you answer your phone," Tifa said.
"Never mind." Then Cloud found the little device and pulled it out, waving it to his friends to see. Yuffie gave him an OK thumbs up and he proceeded to answer the object.
"Hello."
"Hey! It worked!"
"Excuse me? Who is this?"
"Riku, give me that thing!"
"Who is this?" Cloud repeated with a more stern voice.
"Oh, Kairi. Who's this?"
"You're that girl…"
"Excuse me?"
"No, you're the girl that Sora mentioned."
"Ok, thanks, but who are you?"
"Cloud."
"What cloud?" Kairi murmured, looking out at the sky.
"No! My name is Cloud." Cloud got up from the booth and walked outside. He stood leaning his back against the wall and continued talking.
"So, what were you saying about Sora?" Kairi recalled.
"Nothing, he just mentioned you."
"Oh…"
"Why, what's wrong?"
"Well, he was kind of kidnapped."
"Then go rescue him."
"We can't, Mickey said he would call you and some guy Vincent-"
"Does he want us to rescue Sora?"
"Apparently-hey RIKU!"
"Ok, listen. We can't save Sora because we don't have a way off this world, but you do, right?"
"Now who's talking?"
"Riku."
"Right. Well, I'll have to look for some kind of portal or something but-"
"Great, because the king was going to call you and wait three days, but Sora probably doesn't have that kind of time."
"Hey, kid, I don't know if we have a portal either."
Riku glared at the communicator. "Well get busy and find one." Then he hung up.
"Little twit…" Cloud muttered, but he opened the bar door and called, "Vincent."
Vincent looked up from looking down and walked over to Cloud.
"What?"
"Sora's friends called and they said we're supposed to go rescue Sora."
"Vincent looked at him strangely. "I'm not sure if it's a great idea to rescue people I don't know."
"I know him."
"Sure, fine, but how do we get there? I don't think he's here."
"We have to find a portal or something."
"And go where?"
Cloud mentally slapped himself and muttered, "I don't know. He didn't say-"
The ringing noise went off again and Cloud answered, "What?"
"Cloud?"
"Mickey?"
"Yes, I need you to do something for me-"
"Rescue Sora?"
"Yes. How did you know?"
"Someone called."
"Riku…"
"Someone like that."
"Well, you have three days-"
"I can be ready now."
"Fine. I'll send Leon to meet you."
"Leon?"
The line went dead.
"And how is Leon going to get here?" Cloud yelled.
"What?" Vincent said, very confused.
Cloud returned the device to his pocket and answered, "Mickey, the king, said Leon was going to pick us up. I have no idea how that's going to happen, though. He's in Hollow Bastion still."
"Well, maybe he will fly."
Cloud looked at Vincent with a surprised look. He's not normally sarcastic.
"What?" the black haired man muttered.
"N-nothing. Come on, we need to get a few things."
"Like what? We won't have time for a tea party."
"Haha, very funny, but let's just be sure we have enough stuff."
Vincent pulled out Cerberus and sighed. "I need more bullets."
"Where are you going to put them? In your purse?"
Vincent glared at Cloud and he immediately shut up.
"Let's go buy them and when this Leon guy comes, we'll store the bullets on whatever he drove here," Vincent said, already walking towards the store. Cloud quietly followed.
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After buying the bullets, the two guys walked back to the bar. Cloud, being his normal emo self, walked in and muttered to Tifa, "Night."
He stumbled up the stairs and plopped onto the bed, completely "sleep" ridden.
Tifa turned to Vincent, who followed Cloud in but sat in the booth by the window, and asked, "Why is he so tired?"
Vincent didn't look up but answered, "He's not; it's an act. We have to leave tomorrow for a trip."
Tifa gave him a questioning look. "What kind of trip?"
"Some friend of his needs to be rescued."
He said that with no emotion what-so-ever. Tifa cleared her throat and spoke up, "Well, don't take too long." She returned back to washing dishes and talking to Yuffie.
Vincent looked up at the moonless sky and squinted his eyes. Something was coming…no…flying towards them.
"Cloud!" he said loudly and the blonde came crashing down the stairs.
"What? Is he here?"
Vincent responded by pointing towards the sky. Cloud walked over and his eyes widened.
"Well, it looks like you were right, he did fly," Cloud said approvingly and patted the ex-Turk on the back.
The two walked over to the door and headed out. The ship was landing and Cloud and Vincent ran for the center of town.
When they got there, Cloud muttered, "No way."
It was a Gummi ship, and Leon was the driver. He opened the door and walked out.
"Hey Cloud," he waved. "Long time no see." Then he turned to the other guy.
"Vincent Valentine," he introduced himself.
Leon nodded and then said, "We should probably get going now," and the three climbed aboard the ship.
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AN: I hope this chapter made sense! Sorry for the late update! I was sick and then it was Christmas! Woo! More interesting chapters to come!