According to the Falcon's computer, Sora was traveling along an old interspace highway. People stopped using it nine years ago, when the Heartless started terrorizing the worlds, but it was recently reopened and was packed with space travelers. he hadn't seen a single Nobody ship, but a Heartless ship shaped like a massive purple wheel appeared and began launching missiles at him, which he blasted with the Falcon's cannons before they could reach him. By luck or skill, he managed to destroy the Heartless ship by blasting the next set of missiles just as they were about to leave their ports. Thankfully, the resulting explosion did not damage any other ships. Eventually he decided to stop at a space station. It appeared to be some kind of market place. There were toy stores, manga shops, and anime vendors everywhere. As he passed a nearby stand, something caught his eye. It was a plush toy of a cute pink dog with big round eyes and droopy ears called "Maromi".

"Like it?" the vendor asked. "Only thirteen munny."

"Sure!"

Sora gave the man thirteen munny, took the Maromi plush and moved on to a CD store, where he purchased a CD player, earbuds, and a Nerimah Daikon Brothers album. He was about to explore a large manga shop when…

"Hey…you Sora?"

Sora turned around to see a tall lanky man with bushy greenish hair wearing a collared shirt.

"Y-yeah…I'm Sora." he said; ready to summon his Keyblade, just in case he needed to defend himself.

"Good." the man replied in the most smartassy tone Sora had ever heard. He then pulled out a pistol and Sora summoned his Keyblade.

"I wouldn't try that." the strange man sneered. "These rounds are non-lethal, but they hurt like hell."

"Just who are you?" Sora demanded

"Spike Spiegel." the strange man answered. "In case ya haven't figured it out, I'm a bounty hunter."

"A what?"

The man who called himself Spike Spiegel started shooting at Sora, who barely deflected each shot. Finally, Spiegel ran out of bullets and Sora sprayed ice crystals in his face.

"Damn, one clip is usually more than enough." he muttered, wiping his eyes.

"I haven't done anything wrong!" Sora protested.

"Really?" Spiegel retorted with an unpleasant grin.

He pulled out a sheet of paper and began reading it aloud as someone shouted "WELCOME TO THE STO-O-O-ORE!" in the background.

"Trespassing, jaywalking, assault, file sharing, trolling…none of these ring a bell?"

"No, not really." said Sora.

"Aww…well…guess that'll teach me to listen to people in black coats, huh?"

"Yeah, I guess so." Sora chuckled.

"Guess I'll see ya around then." Spiegel said as he tucked his hands in his pockets and shuffled off.

"Aren't you gonna apologize?" Sora demanded.

"Naaah."

Putting this incident out of his mind, Sora went to get some tempura at the food court when he had an even stranger experience.

"That ain't no way to treat a lady!" a loud, manic voice cried.

A rugged man with a brown afro hairdo jumped onto one of the tables. He wore a magenta jacket with a name tag that said Nabeshin. He reached into his afro, pulled out a pair of assault rifles, and people started fleeing the food court screaming hysterically.

"I BLAME MY SCHOOOOOL!" the man called Nabeshin roared as he opened fire on Sora.

This guy was completely deranged; there was no sense in trying to talk to him. Sora snatched up his things and sprinted out of the food court. He jumped into the Falcon and took off but Nabeshin jumped on the windshield and began banging on it with a toilet seat, yelling obscenities like a maniac. Sora took flight, spun the ship and sent Nabeshin tumbling through space, screaming like a howler monkey. He continued flying until he approached a world he did not recognize, it was covered almost completely in jungles and savannahs. It looked like a promising world to explore, provided that there weren't any maniacs on it.

Sora landed under a tree and trekked across a savannah, unsure what to expect. Then four masked Heartless with simian-like bodies appeared and began attacking with ghostly blue flames. Sora sprayed ice crystals, but they had no effect on the flames, so he rolled to the right and cast zero gravity, which also had no effect. The Heartless waved their staffs and cast more fire at him, but he shielded himself with reflect and the flames scorched the Heartless instead. Sora then spun forward and beheaded them all with a wave of his blade. He continued his trek until he got to a shallow gorge where he spotted a pair of large two-legged skull-faced Heartless with club-like tails circling a woman.

"No! Run!" she cried as Sora jumped down into the gorge.

One of the skull-faced Heartless began spinning toward Sora, but he lifted the True Light's Flight and (as if he already knew he could) conjured three orbs of light around him. The orbs exploded in a flash of white light the moment the Heartless touched one. The Heartless was obliterated, but Sora didn't have so much as a burn on him, even his eyes were free of pain. The woman grabbed the other Heartless by the tail, swung it around and hurled it high into the air; she then turned to face Sora. Now that he could get a better look at her, he saw that she was tall and unusually well-endowed with tan skin and pale green hair. She wore only a grass skirt, an orange top, and a skull-necklace.

"My name is Mii." she said pleasantly. "I'm a flower spirit."

"I'm Sora and I'm a Keyblade master." Sora declared. She gasped as he showed her his Keyblade.

"I've heard of that weapon." she said. "One legend says it brought peace and another legend said it brought destruction."

"Well, just so you know, I'm not here to bring destruction."

"Well that's good to hear." said Mii. "We already have a destruction spirit, you know. Of course he's not such a bad boy when you get to know him."

That statement didn't make much sense, but Sora elected not to question it.

"So, um…those Heartless…are there more of them?"

"There were, but I've been fighting them off." Mii explained. "Is that why you came here because of them?"

"Well, actually I've been looking for a friend of mine. He has white hair and blue-green eyes."

"I'm sorry, but you're the first person from the outside world I've ever seen around here."

"I see…" said Sora, a tad disappointed.

"While you're here, could you help me take care of a giant Heartless that's been causing trouble?"

"Sure."

"Okay, I'll take you to the valley where it roams, but I think we may need help from Ongo, the spirit of wood and destruction."

She took him to a hut where a small boy in a loincloth with untidy brown hair was sound asleep. Mii was about to pick him up when…

"Nooo! Don't disturb Master Ongo!"

A tiny, cute blue-haired girl flew into the room and latched onto Mii's arm.

"Let go, Rongo!"

"Master Ongo needs his rest for our honeymoon!" she hissed.

Honeymoon? How old were these tiny beings?

"What are you doing here anyway, Mii?"

Mii explained how she and Sora were planning on taking care of the giant Heartless.

"I'm going too!" she declared. "I won't have anyone doing Master Ongo's job!"

"Exactly what can you do?" Sora asked Rongo as Mii led them to the valley where the giant Heartless was roaming.

"I'm a water spirit." Rongo replied.

"Just how is water supposed to help us defeat a giant Heartless?" Sora whispered to Mii.

"It's not." Mii growled. "I'm just letting her tag along."

"I heard that!" Rongo squeaked.

Suddenly, there was a mighty quake and the biggest heartless Sora had ever seen (next to Ansem's battleship) rose from the valley. It had four legs, grass and trees growing on its back, and a tusked, skull-like head. It also had a two-headed stone idol resembling a lion on its back. Rongo squealed in terror and hid behind Sora's back.

"I'm not sure I can do much damage to something that size!" Sora exclaimed.

"Just leave the big one to me!" Mii declared.

Mii began doing what could only have been described as an erotic dance and chanted in a strange tongue. Sora's jaw dropped as Mii began to grow and grow until she was taller than the giant four-legged Heartless (her breasts bouncing wildly the whole time). Blood squirted out of the Heartless' nose as she bent over to grab it. She then lifted it over her head and hurled it in the direction of the sun. Mii then began to shrink until she was back to her normal size. She then collapsed to her knees.

"Sora, take care of the smaller one." she panted.

The two-headed idol that rode on the giant Heartless floated toward Sora and discharged a powerful bolt of lightning at him. Sora dove to the left and cast reflect as the idol cast another bolt.

Okay, Sora…think…water conducts electricity, right? he asked himself. "Rongo, soak it with water!"

Rongo flew over to a nearby lake and sent a thick stream flying toward the idol, soaking it. Just as it sent another white-hot lightning bolt at Sora, he cast reflect again and the bolt bounced right back and hit the idol in the center, shattering it. After the battle, Mii and Rongo thanked Sora for his help defeating the Heartless and wished him luck on his journey.

"You better get going before Ahem finds out you're here." Mii advised. "He may not feel the same way about your Keyblade and you don't want him on your case."

"Okay. Goodbye, then."

Sora hopped into the Falcon and took off into space. He did not know who Ahem was and didn't really care. It was time to head back to Hollow Bastion for a while.