JAM: Holy cow! It's already been 2 months since my last update? Wow, time goes by fast. Originally this was going to be a longer chapter, but I decided to give my readers an early Valentine's Day treat. So I divided it into 2 chapters.

Ven: Finally! I've been waiting for everyone to come and get me.

JAM: Yeah, yeah. You've waited 12 years, you can wait a little while longer can't you?

Ven: Well, yeah but…

JAM: Well, onwards with the chapter. Someone do the Disclaimer please.

Ven: *sigh* Guess it's my turn. Janus-Juan doesn't own anything but the plot.

JAM: Thanks. Oh wait, I almost forgot. Time to answer some reviews.

Flightfoot: I'll be getting to that later on.

Kh530: You'll just have to wait and see.

SetoshiArenhariKai: I was actually remembering how they crash landed in Deep Jungle when I wrote that.

delphigirl689: Yep, it's TerraxAqua. As for RikuxXion, I'm still thinking about that. I mean, she's technically Sora who looks like Kairi, which would make it kind of awkward. But that doesn't rule them out yet.

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JAM: Now here's chapter 7.

Chapter 7: A Toy Story

They say your life flashes before your eyes before you depart from the world of the living. That was exactly what was happening with Sora at the moment; from his happy time of his childhood to his ascent to hero status because of the Keyblade.

"Well, I guess this is it." He said staring at everyone else. They could barely move their bodies as they reached the atmosphere of the planet.

"Don't give up!" Kairi screamed at him. She tried to use the thrusters on her scooter to move upwards but it was in vain as it wouldn't budge.

"Kairi's right; there has to be something we can do." Riku was worse off than the others as his giant Glider was extremely heavy and weighed him down.

Realization dawned on Aqua's face. "Maybe there is." After earning confusion from her fellow party members, she explained what she meant. "I bet if we make a bubble large enough to hold us, we could land on the surface without causing us much harm."

Everyone grew happy at the thought of a safe landing. "Everyone release your Gliders and summon your Keyblades." She instructed. They did as they were told. In the Gummi Ship Mickey and Donald summoned their own weapons. "Ok, so at the count of three, conjure up a Reflect spell. Imagine it surrounding us." She received nods in return before they got their weapons ready for the spell.

"One…Two…Three!" On cue, 6 Reflect spells were shot at the same time. Ultimately, a huge bubble of hexagonal figures surrounded the 4 armored riders and the Gummi Ship, which was in its own bubble, courtesy of King's Court Magician and the King himself.

Hitting the atmosphere, the bubble grew hot and was engulfed in flame. The heat was seeped through the shield and started to cook everyone inside alive. This put a strain on their concentration.

"Phew, it's getting hot in here." Sora started fanning his face with his left hand, holding Kingdom Key out with the other one.

"Don't stop. Whatever you do, don't let up." Riku told the others. The ground was getting closer and closer until they saw their destination: a two-story's window.

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Building blocks were stacked up, one on top of another. Suddenly a flying object came into view and flew right past the blocks, causing them to turn in circles. As they stopped, the words Action Figure's Suburb was spelled out. Finally the flying object touched down on in front and we see a green space toy with wings. Signaling for someone to come to him, a dozen toys raced past, each grabbing a block out of the screen.

Toys were gathered around a baby monitor on a nightstand, hearing whoever was on the other end of it. A cowboy action figure was sitting on the bed next to it. He was obviously the one in charge.

"Ok, we're on the last present now." The baby monitor spoke to those gathered.

"Last present!" The cowboy exclaimed at the others.

"It's a big one. It's…It's…It's a boardgame! Repeat, Battleship!" Everyone cheered at this bit of news.

"Yeah, alright!" The pink piggy bank said and hit the Mr. Potato Head toy in front of him, causing his right eye and hat to fall off his head.

"Hey! Watch it." The potato told him.

"Sorry there old spud head." The pig apologized.

"So did I tell ya? Huh? Nothing to worry about." The cowboy asked told the others, shrugging.

A dog shaped slinky toy looked at the cowboy. "I knew you were right all along, Woody. Never doubted you for a second." Giving a slight glare to everyone around once he finished.

Suddenly they heard a slight boom coming from the outside. Looking out the window, there was a red dot out in the distance.

"What is that?" A girl in a white dress with pink lining and a hat to match asked. On her hand was a white staff, most likely used for herding if the sheep next to her had anything to say about it.

"I don't know Bo, but it's getting closer!" Woody screamed as the red dot did just that. "Everyone get someplace safe!" Yelling at the other toys, he directed them into their hiding places. Once everyone was safe and sound, he hid himself under the bed.

A giant bubble sphere crashed through the (luckily) opened window and landed right on the middle of the bed. Smoke erupted from the crashed object and rose up to the ceiling before it just popped out of existence. A red and yellow spaceship and 4 armored figures lay where the bubble had once been.

Groaning, Sora stood up on the bed, stretching his sore body. "What an entrance we made." Letting his armor disappear, he rubbed the back of his neck and looked around the room.

"whistle Would you look at this place. What giant lives in a place like this?" He was amazed at how big the room was. "Hey guys look at where we've ended up." Shaking the shoulders of the others, he started bouncing on the bed as if it was a trampoline.

"Five more minutes mom." Kairi said as she rolled around on the bed until she felt a pain in her head. Groaning, she rubbed her head. When she felt a helmet in place of her auburn hair, she shook away her dizziness and looked around. "Whoa." She said in amazement. Seeing Sora bouncing, she dispersed her armor and joined him.

"Would you guys knock it off? We have a problem here." Riku pointed at the Gummi Ship. Smoke was still rising but luckily the bed allowed the passengers to survive the crash. The Disney crew was carefully stepping out of the ship and onto solid bed.

"Oops, sorry." They both said, slightly embarrassed. They were about to help the others out when they saw slight movement from inside the slightly ajar door of the closet.

"Huh?" Sora saw some eyes coming from inside the closet. "Hey guys, I think there's someone in there." The rest stared at the direction he was pointing to.

"Wonder who they are." Riku said a bit skeptical.

"Hey! Whoever you are, you can come out now!" Riku hit his forehead with the palm of his hand at the bluntness of his friend. Sora used the comforter to slide down towards the ground. Once on the wooden surface, he continued. "Don't worry, we won't bite."

Seeing no danger from the off-worlders, the door opened enough so the inhabitants could come out. Woody, Hamm, and Slinky walked out into the open area of the room. Mr. Potato Head jumped out a chest on the left side of the room.

"Who the heck are you guys?" The spud asked the newcomers, not caring if it sounded rude.

"Whoa! Talking toys!" Sora said in amazement at the situation.

"Just answer the question. And where did you guys come from?" His temper was beginning to get the better of him.

"Yeah, you don't look like any toys I've ever seen." Woody was now in front them, going in circles around the gang, trying to get a better look. "In fact, you look just like a human. Well, except for the height."

"Uh…" Sora vaguely remembered that they while traveling the various worlds; they had to protect the world border. He was at a loss for words, rapidly thinking of an explanation.

"We're one of those new state of the art toys." Kairi had followed Sora down the bed and butted in just in time.

"Oh yeah? Then what about that?" Mr. Potato Head pointed at the object on the bed. Again, no one had an answer to their predicament.

"Uh…" They both said in unison.

Just before the interrogation could continue, the baby monitor started spewing out words. The device had turned face down by the toys in their haste to hide.

"What did they say?" Everyone was now gathered around the machine.

"Repeat, resume your positions." Upon hearing the soldier's warnings, Woody panicked.

"Andy's coming, everybody. Back to your places. Hurry!" As the toys ran like crazy, Woody turned to Sora and Kairi. "You and your friends need to hurry up and hide. Our owner, Andy, will be here soon and we can't let him see this." Nodding, Sora screamed to those on the bed to get under the bed.

"But wait, what about the Gummi Ship?" Kairi asked Sora. That would sure draw some attention.

"Don't worry. Chip and Dale added some stuff to the ship. Donald!" The duck looked over the bed to the spiky haired teen. "Use the cloaking device."

"Got it!" Donald Duck hit a button on the door frame of the vessel and suddenly, it jumped into the air. It started shaking and making noise as the thing started shrinking and shrinking until it was the size of Donald's feathered hand. While catching up to the others, he placed it in his jacket pocket. Woody, on the other hand, went up the bed and lay stiff on top of the pillow.

The door opened and 6 kids came crashing through the bedroom door, each one screaming in delight. From their spot under the bed, the crew saw that they were gushing over a space ship-shaped box one kid was moving in the air. They felt a small vibration up above.

"What was that?" Sora asked quietly. As if on cue, they heard a bump coming from behind them. Turning around, they came face-to-face with Woody, who was a bit in shock at what happened. A little while after, the kids left the room. When the coast was clear, the toys left their hiding spots and walked cautiously to the bed.

"What the heck is up there?" The slinky-toy asked.

"Woody! Who's up there with you?" Rex yelled. At the call of his name, Woody slid from underneath the bed to be greeted by shocked glances.

The same slinky toy spoke. "Woody? What are you doing under the bed?"

"Uh, nothing. I'm sure Andy was a little excited, that's all." He tried to convince them, while getting himself less dusty. "Too much and ice cream, I suppose. It was just a mistake!"

The old spud wasn't having it and snidely remarked. "That mistake is sitting in your spot Woody." This caused the green Dino to worry himself silly as he gasped.

"Have you been replaced?"

"Hey, what did I tell you earlier? No one is getting replaced. Now let's all be polite and give whatever-it-is-up-there a nice Andy room's welcome."

The toys watched as Woody used the comforter to climb to the top of the bed. No one paid attention to the out-worlders as they walked out from under the bed and to the closet, leaving the door slightly ajar. Once safely away from the wondering eyes of the rest, Donald placed the Gummi Block on the ground and watched as it expanded to its original size.

"So, Donald, what's the status report?" King Mickey asked the Court Magician, who had gone in with a flashlight to check out what went wrong.

"It seems our rocket system has been shot and without it we won't be able to fly. But the worst part is that the turbulence we experienced and the explosions have caused the power core to overheat itself to death." Donald explained once he exited the ship.

"In English please." Kairi said, tilting her head to the right.

"No core, no power. It's as simple as that."

"Don't you have a backup power system?" Aqua asked the duck, who shook his head.

"We didn't count for this sort of thing to happen so to save space for the rest of you guys, we got rid of our backup reserves."

"Great, so we're stranded here?" Riku asked, incredulously.

"Not exactly. Me, Donald, and Goofy are stranded here; you guys can use your Gliders to get out of here." Mickey told his friend, with Donald and Goofy agreeing with what he was said. This automatically earned him heavy protests from the rest.

"You don't expect us to leave you guys here all alone, do you?" Riku spoke first.

"Riku's right; we all have to stick together." Aqua said.

"Yeah, right Sora?" Kairi asked the brunette. When she received no response, she turned to see that he was nowhere to be found. "Um, where's Sora"

Everyone looked around and surely, he wasn't there. Suddenly, they heard a commotion coming from atop Andy's bed. Deciding it wise, they walked over to the foot of the bed to see what was going on.

"Uh, Mr. Lightyear. "I'm a bit curious. What does a Space Ranger actually do?" They heard Rex say.

"He's not a Space Ranger!" Woody shouted in annoyance. "He doesn't fight evil or shoot lasers or fly!"

"Do you think we should check it out?" Riku whispered in Kairi's ear.

"I think we should. Besides, Sora might be up there." Her assumptions rang true as when they reached the peak, they saw Sora's trademark spiky hair. He seemed to be enjoying the debate between Woody and a green and white astronaut toy. The astronaut had some sort of plastic wings on his back.

"These are plastic." Woody told the others as he shook them up and down. This didn't abide well with the space toy.

"Who's the astronaut?" Riku asked his best friend.

"His name's Buzz and he's a Space Ranger."

"He thinks he's a Space Ranger." Woody corrected. "He can't fly."

"They are a terilleum carbonic allow and I can fly." Buzz spoke at the cowboy's comment.

"No, you can't."

"Yes, I can."

"You can't!"

"I can tell you I can fly around this room with my eyes closed!" Buzz boasted.

"Ok, then Mr. LightBeer, prove it." Woody sounded all smug when he challenged Buzz.

"Alright, then, I will. Stand back everyone!" Buzz walked over to the foot of the bed and lifted himself onto a wooden ball on the right side of the foot board.

"Is he crazy? He could hurt himself." Aqua said, worriedly.

"It'd serve him right." Woody said under his breath, but Aqua heard him. Deciding not to say anything, she kept herself quiet.

Balancing himself, he looked over the edge, both arms pointed in a diving position. But that wasn't all, he closed his eyes as he was getting ready to follow through with his crazy stunt.

"To Infinity and Beyond!" He yelled as he pushed himself over the railing and down to the ground. Luckily, there was a bouncy ball right below him, which caused him to somersault into the air. He landed right on top of a small toy car that was over a ramp. Sliding down the ramp, he did a loop-da-loop before he was projected to the ceiling. Somehow, his wings caught on a toy plane that was hung on the ceiling. With his left arm forward and his other at his waist, it made it seem as if he was actually flying. After a couple of circles, his wings managed to dislodge from the plane and he flipped down onto the bed, in front of his spectators.

Opening his eyes, he caught sight of Woody and gloated at what he did. "Can!" He told the shocked cowboy. The rest of the toys started cheering and applauding. "Thank you. Thank you all."

Trying to explain what had happened; Woody tried to tell the others his explanation. "That wasn't flying. That was…falling with style." No one seemed to have heard him or, if they did, they chose to ignore him.

While the other toys were fawning over Buzz, Slink was standing near Woody, also commenting on Buzz. "Wow, howdy!" He said.

"Oh shut up. Well, in a couple of days everything will be the way it was before. They'll see." Woody told the dog.

"I have a bad feeling about this." Aqua muttered.

A couple of Days later…

The cowboy's jealousy had skyrocketed as he's been ignored for the last few days. All the cowboy memorabilia, like the posters and the bedspread, have been replaced by Buzz Lightyear stuff. Heck, even his friends have been hanging out with Buzz more than with him. He's become slightly bitter against the rest of the toys for it.

The previous night, Andy had to choose between Woody and Buzz as a bed buddy and you can guess which of them was chosen. Right now, Woody was waking up from his slumber in the toy chest, making sure the coast was clear before lifting the top. Gasping for lack of oxygen or sighing in relief, he stood up.

"Finally!" He exclaimed. Putting his hand to his head, he noticed that his signature hat wasn't there. "Hey, who's got my hat?"

A squishy shark stood up right next to Woody with the cowboy's hat on his head. "Look, I'm Woody! Howdy, howdy, howdy." It was a funny site, seeing the shark pretending to be Woody. But Woody was still in a bad mood so he decided to sarcastically laugh.

"Give me that!" Snatching the piece of clothing from the other toy, he jumped out of the trunk. Hearing Buzz's voice, Woody turned to find him talking to Slink and Rex.

"Say there Lizard, Stretchy-Dog, and Spiky-Haired-Kid, let me show you something. It seems I've been accepted into the cult. Your chief, Andy, inscribed his name on me." Raising his right foot, it showed the name Andy on it.

"Wow! With permanent ink, too!" Rex stated.

"That's great Buzz." Sora said.

"Well, I must get back to repairing my ship." Buzz started moving to his cardboard ship that was mounted on Alphabet blocks.

"I should go help the others with our ship." Sora followed Buzz to the ship that was placed right next to the other ship, right in front of the white crib.

Lifting his own boot up, Woody inspected Andy's name, thinking back to the good times he and the kid had before Buzz showed up.

"Don't let it get to you Woody." Bo said, trying to calm her boyfriend down.

"I don't know what you mean." Woody tried to lie his way out of it.

"I know Andy's excited about Buzz. But you know he'll always have a special place for you."

Just then Mr. Potato Head walked by and overheard their conversation. "Yeah, in the attic." He then started laughing at the cowboy's expense.

"Alright, that's it!" He made his way to Buzz, who was laying down on a skateboard, underneath the ship.

"Give me some unidirectional boding strip." He told the little toy robot.

"Can I have a voltaic pile please?" Like Buzz, Donald was trying to fix the parts that were broken inside the ship using whatever resources they had at their disposal.

Turning to his helpers the robot instructed for the necessary parts. "Mr. Lightyear wants more tape and the duck needs another triple-A battery." A body-builder held onto the tape dispenser while a snake broke off a piece. Riku and Kairi came walking in with a battery in their hands and handed it to Donald.

Woody now stood in front of the space toy and pulled him and the skateboard from under his project. While craning his head to meet Woody's gaze, Woody started talking. "Listen here, Light-Snack. Keep away from Andy, he's mine. And no one is taking him away from me."

Right behind him, Goofy covered his mouth and whispered something to Sora. "How hard is it to say Light-Beer."

Dropping his head at his friend's mistake, Sora chuckled a bit before answering. "It's Lightyear, Goofy. Buzz Lightyear."

"Oh…" The dog-man said. "But, why—"

"Quit your yammering and come help me with this!" Donald yelled from inside the ship, glaring at the two until they joined in the helping.

Back to the spaceman, he was confused by what Woody said. "What are you talking about?" He told him before going back to work. "Where's that bonding strip?" He asked then slid back under the rocket. Woody pulled him out yet again before speaking.

"And another thing, stop with this spaceman thing. It's getting on my nerves."

"Are you saying you want to file a complaint against Star Command?" Buzz started to get angry.

Right near the Gummi Ship, Aqua was trying to use the battery's power to create a decent sized power core for the ship. Sighing, she turned to Mickey. "Here they go again. What is this, the 10th time this week?"

"12th, but who's counting?" Mickey laughed and Aqua joined him before going back to the task at hand. Using fire, she covered her hands in it and started melding the metal of the battery into the shape of a ball the size of her fist. Smiling at her work, she summoned a small barrier around the object and then chanted a Lightning spell to surround the barrier.

"There we go! Donald, I'm done at my end!" She yelled at the wizard.

"Ok, pass it over."

"Alright then." Throwing it into the air, she summoned a Zero Graviga spell to move the electrically charged object down into the ship. Following it, she made her way to the power core, or what was left of it anyway. In the middle of the room, a circular pillar stood, showing her where the new power core would be placed.

"Place it on the cylinder carefully." Donald instructed.

Nodding, she walked slowly to her destination. Once the ball was right above the pillar, she lowered it as gently as she could. Dispersing the spell, the core fell right onto the space with a plop. As if instantly, the electrical pulses rippled down the pillar and towards the fuel cells at each side. A whirring sound echoed against the walls, showing that the ship's power has been restored.

"Yes! It worked!" Aqua shouted to the others outside.

"Great, now all we need are rockets and we'll be ready to go." Mickey said, cheerfully.

"But where are we going to find rockets in a place like this?" Donald asked, dragging down everyone's spirits.

"Uh, guys? I think I've solved our problems." The occupants heard Sora yell down for them. "Come on out so I can show you."

Following his instruction, those inside the ship returned back to the room. Turning their heads, they spotted Sora and the others were up on the windowsill, staring outside with the toys. Using the chair next to the desk, they went to stand right next to the rest.

"Sora? What did you find?" Aqua asked the brunette.

"Look." Handing over a pair of binoculars, Sora pointed towards the neighbor's yard. Looking through the lens, she saw an soldier toy standing in the yard, a rocket on its back.

"Why is that toy strapped with a rocket on its back?" She asked Sora.

"That's why. Sid." Moving the binoculars a bit to the right, Sora further explained. Problem was, Sora pointed at the barking dog.

"Sure is a hairy fellow." She said.

"What?" Staring through one of the lenses, Sora understood the problem. "No, no. That's Scud. I'm such an idiot. That's Sid." Moving up a bit more, Aqua got a glimpse of a 10-year-old child laughing maniacally.

"You mean that happy child?"

"He ain't no happy child. He tortures toys for fun." Riku muttered, loud enough for Aqua to hear.

"Whoa, déjà vu." Slink said to Rex, who nodded his head. Moments ago, Woody and Buzz had a similar talk about the next door neighbor.

"Well, we've gotta do something." Buzz said, standing on the edge of the window. Luckily, Bo used her pasture stick to hold him back.

"What are you doing? Get down from there" She said.

"I'm going to teach that boy a lesson." He tried to explain his actions.

"Yeah, sure, go ahead. Melt him with your scary laser." Woody said, sarcastically while raising Buzz's right arm and pressing a red button on his wrist. A small beeping sound blared and a small red light shined once he pressed it, causing Buzz to pull it away.

"Be careful with that. It's extremely dangerous." He reprimanded.

Just then, the small binoculars jumped from Aqua's grasp and landed on the windowsill. "He's lighting it. He's lighting it! Hit the deck!" It warned the others. Everyone ducked down to avoid whatever came next. The rocket blew and the poor toy soldier exploded into a dozen pieces, its limbs dismembered from its body.

Raising her head, Kairi felt nauseous at the sight of what was rest of the body. "What kind of kid does that sort of thing?" She asked no one in particular.

"I could've stopped it." Buzz said.

"Buzz, I would love to see you try it. Course, I'd love to see you as a crater." Woody told him.

Ignoring the bickering duo, Aqua started thinking about the situation. Sora and Kairi took notice and asked her what she was thinking about.

"I think," She said, "I have a plan." Smirking she and the rest of the crew huddled up and they were both excited, but also nervous, when they heard it.

JAM: Bwahaha! There's my chapter and I'm ending it with a cliffhanger. Sorry if it seems a bit rushed.

Sora: Just what are you planning to do?

JAM: You'll have to wait and see. But the most of it is probably obvious. *shrugs*

Riku: That's true. We'll have to…

JAM: Don't ruin the suspense. Well that's it for this chapter, and I hope my readers will be ready for the next one. So please review and I'll try to get the conclusion to this world done sooner.