"I see. So that means that the darkness is flowing out of that keyhole." Roy said.
"That explains why there are Heartless everywhere," Katara gasped, "The only way to stop it is to-"
"Seal the keyhole, right?" Betty asked.
"Possibly." Roy replied, "But who knows what will happen after it's sealed."
"We can't sit and wait, can we?" Delete stated, "We have to do something. We have to get Marik back."
"That's correct." Sokka spoke, "You have one more friend to save. The captive princesses' hearts must have created Marik's dark keyblade - just like that keyhole that you saw."
"I have to think that the others' hearts have been freed after the keyblade was destroyed." Maximus spoke.
"I know that." Nemesis frowned.
"Listen, Delete...Betty...if anyone can get Marik back, it's you two." Roy assured them.
"Thanks." Delete grinned.
Betty then turned to Sokka as she spoke, "Can't we go back to Toonatopia?"
"No way!" Sokka disagreed, "You guys will be killed. However, you can go around them since you can't go through them."
He then smirked as he continued, "I have a special navigation block so you can travel around the Heartless. I put the block in the Secret Waterway and put it there for a special occasion."
"I understand." Delete spoke.
"But first...maybe Master Yo can look at this gem." Digit spoke, "Unless he's sleeping...again!"
The others groaned about it.
"What?" The bird asked.
A little later, the heroes (minus Jake & Misty) came into the professor's house. There, they saw the professor working while Master Yo was watching TV.
"Huh? What brings you guys here?" Asked the panda, "Did you bring some nachos?"
"No, we didn't." Yugi explained, "but we brought a gem."
"Plus, Yin and Yang are still at Toonatopia." Casey explained to him.
The panda groaned as he looked at the gem.
"Fine, I'll take care of the gem, but this is the last time!" He spoke before using his Woo Foo magic on the gem, bringing out a faint image of a figure, "And next time, bring some nachos!"
The group then saw a boy appear. He was a black haired Asian boy with brown eyes. He wore an orange shirt with black sleeves with a fist on the middle of the shirt, blue jeans, and brown shoes. He was known as Ray Ray Lee.
"Whoa, where the heck am I?" Ray Ray asked.
"You're in the professor's house in Neo Tokyo." Richie told him.
"What can you do?" Asked Cherry with excitement.
"Well, I can probably do some magic stuff...though I don't know what kind." He simply said to them.
"I'm sure you'll figure it out eventually." Delete assured him.
"Yeah, I mean it's not like this magic's useless or anything." Mokuba told him.
"Uh...yeah." Ray Ray said before he disappeared.
"Why do I have a bad feeling about Ray Ray?" Buttercup spoke to herself.
With that, the group headed off to the Secret Waterway.
"Now if you'll excuse me," Master Yo said, "I need my nap."
"Ahem!" Digit frowned as he walked back to the panda, "Aren't you forgetting something?"
"Huh?" Yo asked before realizing, "Oh, this back scratch."
The bird droid only snatched the staff as he spoke, "It's not a back scratch! It's a wizard's staff! You know that using a wizard's staff like that's gonna get you hurt!"
"What!? No it wouldn't!"
"Oh, and I forgot one last thing for being such a grump."
The droid kicked the panda in the shin, making the professor gasp, "My goodness."
"That's for being extremely rude, despite you helping us." The bird shouted as Casey, sighing and coming back, dragged him away.
"Ow, my shin!" he shouted as he frowned, "At least he's not the Night Master. Then I'd be in worse condition."
"Perhaps if you weren't so...well...slothful-" The professor began.
"I'm not a sloth!" shouted Yo before trying to rub his painful shin.
(A/N: Sorry to all you Yo fans, but there are times when I feel like Master Yo can be too rude in his laziness. Sorry about that.)
In the Secret Waterway, the gang saw Jake and Misty looking at the sun mural.
"You know, something's familiar about this place..." Jake muttered to Misty.
"Yeah, but what?" Asked the red haired Pokemon trainer.
The two then walked over to the sun mural, then it started to glow. Then, a block came from it and landed on Betty's hand.
"Come on." Delete spoke, "Let's head back to the others."
The others nodded as everyone, but Jake and Misty, left, though Delete and Betty stopped, looking at the two, then went back to them.
Betty then looked as she spoke, "A light at the end of the tunnel..."
"It's from Miss Beatrixo's story, right?" Delete asked, turning to Betty.
"Yeah, and like with one of my sisters telling me." Misty told them.
"Or like when Gramps was telling me about it." Jake agreed.
"Or like...something out of what should have been my past...but I can't remember." Delete sighed.
"You know what's ironic, Jake?" Betty said to the Asian, "The fact that we've been looking for you and Misty this whole time and you were with us all along."
"But now, we're together again." Delete agreed, "And now it's time to get Marik back."
"You think Marik will ever be the same again?" Misty began, "Ever since he lost his-"
"Listen, when Betty, Richie, Sparky, Casey, and I were Heartless, you two with Yugi, Courage, and Shirly all saved us, remember?"
"Uh...explain to me again?" Jake asked in confusion.
He nodded as he explained, "We were lost in the darkness, and we couldn't find our way out. The worst thing was that we were losing our memories of who we were, our friends, family, and everything as we stumbled in the dark. The darkness almost swallowed us whole."
He then looked seriously as he continued, "But then, I heard a voice...a familiar voice. You brought me back."
Misty blushed, believing that it was her that the droid was talking about, though in reality, Delete looked at Betty, the one next to her.
"Well...we weren't ready to forget." Misty spoke.
"Yeah, you're our friends, dog." Jake nodded.
"Then I guess it's more than just a fairy tale, huh?" Betty spoke.
They nodded as Misty sighed, saying, "I don't have any of my Pokemon. So I'm afraid I can't go with you."
The other three looked surprised as Betty said, "But Misty..."
Jake then looked at the Pokemon trainer, then said, "Don't worry, she's gonna be okay with the American Dragon by her side."
"Well, even if we do part, we're not alone, right?" Delete said.
"We lost you guys once, and we're not gonna lose you again." Betty spoke.
Jake and Misty then gave two keychains to them as the boy spoke, "These are our lucky charms called Oathkeeper and Oblivion."
"Don't lose them, all right?" Misty spoke.
"We promise, we'll bring them back." Betty smiled.
"Cross our hearts." Delete smiled a bit.
"Wherever you go, we're always with you." The two spoke to the keyblade wielders.
The four hugged each other as Delete shouted, "Group hug!"
They hugged together for a long moment, then parted as Betty and Delete left the two.
Later, back at the First District, the two saw the others with Sokka waiting.
"The thing's already installed, you two." The boy grinned, "Though I still wish you didn't have to face all that danger."
"Come on." Blossom spoke, "Let's go."
"We're coming for you, Marik!" Yugi spoke.
"You too, Seto, wherever you are." Mokuba agreed.
They then ran to their ship, then they lifted off into the sky, heading back to Toonatopia, hoping they wouldn't be too late.
Meanwhile, somewhere in a dark abyss, Marik was walking down a long white path that looked like it went on forever.
"Delete! Misty! Betty! Jake! Everyone!" The boy shouted out.
He then looked down, saying sadly, "Forgive me..."
He continued onward as he spoke, "Is this...the world of death?"
He then stumbled and stopped as a blue light surrounded him, making him groan in pain.
"No! Not yet! I can't disappear!" He shouted, then muttered, "At least...not until I've seen my friends...one last time..."
'Can you hear us?' one voice, the one being male, called out.
'Hello? Marik?' another voice, the one being female, called to him.
"Who's there?" He shouted abruptly, looking around.
'We've been talking to you for a long time. But our words were indered y the darkness covering your heart.' the voice of the boy explained.
"What's happening to me?" Marik asked.
'Your heart has overcome the darkness, but you could not take back your body.' the voice of the girl said.
'It was only because your heart was left behind...in the darkness, where stolen hearts are gathered.' the first voice explained.
"What should I do then?" Marik asked.
'The door of darkness is going to appear...the door which neither of us can pass...in order to close it, four keys and four hearts are needed.' the second voice explained, "Perhaps you came here for that purpose as we did...maybe it was fate..."
"Fate..." Marik muttered, then looked back at the darkness, "Tell me, are Yugi, Delete, and everyone else safe?"
He became concerned as the first voice spoke, 'how you perceive your friends...is dependent on your own heart.'
The second voice then spoke, as an image of Delete and Yugi were shown, 'After all, everyone, even Yugi and Delete, are worried about you too. So don't give up hope just yet.'
The boy then smiled slightly, saying, "Thank you, both...whoever you are..."