Sora, Riku, Roxas, Fuu, EVE, Wall-e, and M-O, raced through the hallways towards the shopping district as the signs plastered with their picture calling for their capture covered the halls.

"I think the exit is just up ahead!" Riku shouted as they rounded a corner.

"Halt!" A multitude of autonomous voices ordered simultaneously.

"Oh boy." Sora said as they saw a perfectly organized wall of rectangular robots with a bar of flashing lights on top blocking their path to the shopping district.

"Uh…tactical retreat?" Roxas suggested as EVE, Wall-e, and M-O raced off in the opposite direction with the others in tow.

As they ran, there was a painter bot making squiggly lines with his paint roller. Wall-e saw him and apparently recognized the bot and the bot recognized him and joined in the chase.

"VAN-GO!" Wall-e shouted happily as the robot started making a rhythmic almost musical whirring noise.

"What's he doing?" Riku asked as they ran. But Wall-e knew what the bot was doing and turned and pressed a button on his recording device as it started playing another song…

"Put on your Sunday clothes,
There's lots of world out there
Get out the brilliantine and dime cigars
We're gonna find adventure in the evening air
Girls in white in a perfumed night
Where the lights are bright as the stars!
Put on your Sunday clothes, we're gonna ride through town
In one of those new horse drawn open cars"

As they ran through the halls, seemingly random robots heard the song and instantly started following the fleeing heroes.

"We'll see the shows at Delmonicos
And we'll close the town in a whirl
And we won't come home until we've kissed a girl!"

"Hey wait a minute! I've heard that song!" Sora shouted.

"Really where?!" Riku asked.

"It's called, 'Put on your Sunday Clothes', it's from Mom's favorite movie, 'Hello Dolly!" Sora replied.

"Apparently its Wall-e's too!" Roxas added.

"Look!" Fuu shouted as they looked over their shoulders to see the mob of robots following them, each of them making a noise resembling the song Wall-e was playing.

"Whoa!!" Riku said as they rounded another corner only to encounter another wall of the rectangular Steward robots.

"Halt!" the bots ordered in unison as EVE narrowed her optics and fired her gun at one of the Steward Bots, blowing a large hole in the front as another fired a red laser beam at her gun putting it in a sort of suspension as a floating pink beautician robot whipped out a small dome mirror and reflected another red beam.

Then a floating defibrillator flew up and fried another Steward's circuitry as an umbrella bot opened and blocked Wall-e, Sora, Riku, Roxas, and Fuu from an additional beam along with a floating massage bot. Wall-e turned to the bot and hit it with a small red beam causing the bots' arms to flail about like mad and fly over the umbrella bot and into the sea of Steward bots, as it started smashing through them.


Up on the bridge Luxa and Namine had just watched Kairi and Cissnei fall through a hole into the Captain's cabin and found themselves trapped within a force field at the mercy of AUTO.

"Identify yourselves!" AUTO ordered as Luxa just sneered and attempted to crush the circuitry around the force field with her powers of gravity, but nothing happened.

"Ok that's weird." Luxa said as Namine looked at her confused.

"What?" she asked.

"My powers over gravity…they're gone…or…" Luxa said as another thought occurred to her, "…or I can't manipulate artificial gravity."

"Identify yourselves!" AUTO ordered again as Luxa tried something else. She drew her gunblade but instantly a series of turrets dropped from the ceiling and aimed at her.

"Illegal firearms detected, automated security systems have been activated!" AUTO said as Luxa reluctantly lowered the gunblade.

"Ok…Namine I think we're screwed." Luxa said with a sigh.

"Not yet you're not." A familiar voice said from out of nowhere. AUTO turned as Mune walked through the wall wearing a black leather trench coat with a black jumpsuit and boots. His hair had turned black and his eyes were distinctly yellow.

"User identification: Sanzun, 666." Mune said as AUTO paused for a moment.

"User identification verified…greetings user Sanzun." AUTO said as Mune/Sanzun turned to one of the computer consoles.

"AUTO, display your list of directives on this screen for me and stand by for editing." Mune/Sanzun ordered as AUTO complied. Instantly a holographic screen illuminated showing a list of directives. He then scrolled through the list, stopping periodically to highlight certain directives, until finally turning back to AUTO.

"AUTO delete selected directives, authorization code Sanzun 666." He ordered as AUTO's red optic turned blue for a moment before turning red again.

"Directives deleted…resuming current directive instructions." AUTO said as the force field deactivated and power returned to the captain's quarters. All across the ship, the warning signs for Sora and the gang deactivated and resumed their normal signs. The remaining Steward Bots returned to their normal stations.


Back down in the hallways the massage bot was making a panting noise over a pile of destroyed steward bots.

"Holy (Naughty Word)." Sora said in awe of the bots' wake of destruction.

"Now that, is what I call overkill." Riku said as Wall-e rolled up to the mob of robots who excitedly crowded around him.

"I think they've known Wall-e for a long time." Roxas said as the others shrugged.

"Say EVE…maybe you should come with us…we could sure use a robot like you on our mission." Sora suggested as EVE thought for a moment.

"Directive?" she asked.

"Look at it this way, if you go with us, you and Wall-e will get to stay together." Riku said as EVE's optics widened.

"Wall-e!" She said as the roving trash compactor turned at the mention of his name, and rolled over to her.

"Eva?" He asked as she took his claws in hers and allowed the screen where her optics were to touch is own optics, causing a small electrical fizzle to be heard as their optics touched.

"Did…they just…kiss?" Sora asked as the other three shrugged.

Suddenly a screen dropped down behind them, and an image of Mune, Kairi, Cissnei, Luxa, Zack, and Genesis appeared with Namine off screen.

"Is this thing on? Hello? Sora! Guys! Can you hear us?" Kairi asked.

"We can hear you Kairi." Sora replied.

"Oh good…well the situation up here has been dealt with. AUTO, the automatic pilot has been reprogrammed and has called off his security bots…also our sensors detect the Shera approaching." Kairi reported.

"Ok then, we'll make our way to the bridge then." Sora replied as Kairi nodded.

"Ok then see you in a few." She said as the screen deactivated and retracted into the ceiling.


Later…

The Shera had docked with the Axiom shortly before the larger gummy ship lurched into hyperspace. Ven, Lulu, Aqua, Aerith, and Vincent arrived on the bridge to be greeted by the now reprogrammed AUTO.

"Greetings I am AUTO…the automated piloting system for the 1071 Axiom…at your service." The robot said as it approached the dumbstruck heroes.

"Thanks AUTO, I'll take it from here." Mune said as he came around the corner. He had ditched his Sanzun disguise.

"Affirmative user Sanzun." AUTO replied as Mune rolled his eyes at being referred to his evil self.

"What. In. The. Heck. Was that?" Aqua asked.

"It was the only way to stop AUTO…I redirected him personally." Mune replied as Ven threw his hands into the air.

"I thought we scrapped that old rust bucket years ago!" he groaned.

"You did…but because everything involving you was never put on record, no one knew not to repair and reinstall AUTO…it was an understandable yet regrettable error." Mune explained as Aqua approached and threw her arms around him.

"Oh ye of many talents." She said with a seductive smile.

"Down girl." Mune replied as he kissed her on the lips.

"Hey, Vincent…" Kairi said as the gunman passed the lip locked duo, "…I know you and mom were close…but how do you feel about them being together again?"

"I'm happy for them…I never wanted to be anything more than friends…and we still are just friends…just in a platonic sense." Vincent replied with a smile.

"Oh, Ok…I was just hoping that there wasn't any jealousy or anything in there." Kairi replied as Vincent gave an amused grunt.

"Hey AUTO are you capable of flying any vessel?" Namine asked the robotic steering wheel.

"Affirmative." AUTO replied as Mune temporarily pulled away from Aqua.

"No Namine you can't keep him." He said as the two continued kissing.

"Well I tried." Namine said with a shrug as Luxa snickered.

"Hey Aerith." Riku said with a faint smile.

"Oh, hi Riku." Aerith said as she turned towards him slightly.

"I assume that you know?" Riku asked as she nodded, "The (Naughty word) just had to make such a bone head decision."

"Watch your mouth Riku! I still care for your father…and you shouldn't refer to him as such." Aerith scolded.

"Well…he's the one who screwed up my life." Riku replied as he headed for the door.

"Don't be too quick to consider him a failure as a father…he still has a major decision to make." Vincent said to the passing Riku.

"Then we'll see if he makes the right one." Riku said as he passed.


Later…

The Fahrenheit and Shera disembarked from the Axiom and headed for the surface of Edge.

"Ah so you are still alive after all agent G." Reeve said with his arms crossed as he saw the One Winged Rhapsody disembark from the Fahrenheit.

"My apologies President Tuesti." Genesis said as he approached.

"Sorry doesn't feed the bull dog Genesis…this is the fifth time in a row that you have missed your contact dates." Reeve scolded as Genesis nodded.

"I will endeavor to do better in the future." Genesis replied.

"I doubt it but anyway…did you accomplish your mission?" Reeve asked as Zack approached.

"You mean to recover the head of Jenova?" Zack asked with frustration written on his face.

"So you know…yes that is exactly what his mission was…so did you get it?" Reeve asked.

"Yes and no…we found it but sent it to one place where no one living can get their hands on it." Zack replied.

"What?" Reeve asked astonished.

"We sent it to the haunted shores of World's End." Zack explained.

"Or as known to us old sea dogs as-""Davy Jones's Locker, I know." Reeve said as he interrupted Mune who shrugged.

"How do you know that?" Mune asked.

"We have spies who work in all corners of the universe…one agent brought us all up to speed regarding your adventures in Port Royal." Reeve said as a man emerged from the shadows.

"Hello there lads…and lasses."

"JACK SPARROW?!" they all said in unison.

"Yes, Captain Sparrow has been working for us for four months…he's how we learned about Cutler Becket's operations in exterminating the Piracy." Reeve explained.

"He pays quite handsomely I might add." Jack said with a smile.

"I don't doubt it." Sora said with a groan.

"So I take it your now going to bring us all up on charges of piracy?" Zack asked as Reeve chuckled and shook his head.

"No…in fact I'm going to thank you for helping to stop Beckett…if he had succeeded, chances are that Deepground would have a substantial supply of resources on their hands." Reeve replied.

"That and we'd all be dead." Jack added.

"Jack Sparrow you seem to be a man of many allegiances…you struck a deal with Beckett to deliver the pirates to him, and considering how it all played out, it just seems to work in our favor…either you were truly on Beckett's side, or you are a very intelligent mastermind." Mune said as Jack smiled.

"I didn't understand half of what you just said but I'll take your word for it." Jack replied as a WRO officer ran out onto the platform.

"President Tuesti someone's trying to hack the mainframe again!" the soldier replied as Reeve and the others ran into the headquarters.

"This is the second time someone has tried to hack the mainframe lately…we can't seem to pinpoint where the hacker is coming from." Reeve said as Vincent and Zack looked at each other knowingly.

"Quick tell me where the nearest and most secure terminal is located!" Zack asked as Reeve pointed down a hallway, where Zack and Vincent turned.

They kept going until they reached a console with a blurry transparent visage typing away at the console.

"Freeze buddy!" Zack ordered as he held his sword to the visage, who became visible again. It was the same person they had encountered in Radiant Garden.

"VINCE!!" Zack shouted as Vincent landed behind the girl and ripped her robes off of her revealing her face and orange hair. Zack froze in horror at the sight of the girl's face.

"It can't be…it can't be you can it?" Zack asked in shock as the girl reached for her rods only to find them missing.

"Looking for these?" Mune asked as he walked out of the wall behind her holding the rods and she turned to face him.

"Sanzun why have you turned on us?" she asked in an emotionless voice.

"Because Sanzun is no more…I am Mune…now that I see you I know now who truly is behind these attacks…one of the comrades of my former master…isn't that right Shelke?" Mune replied.

"Shelke Rui?! Is it really you?!" Zack asked stunned.

"Affirmative Zackary Fair." Shelke replied in her emotionless voice as she turned back to him.

"But…how…how are you still like this?" Zack asked as he dropped to his knees but Shelke refused to answer, instead charging forward and grabbing the sword from its sheath on Zack's back.

But before she could do anything with it, Vincent shot her in the back with a tranquilizer dart, and she collapsed unconsciously to the ground.

Zack walked over and picked up her unconscious form with a look of mourning on his face.

"Ten years…and she doesn't look any different than she did when we first met." Zack said mournfully.

"How close were you two?" Vincent asked.

"We were close, just in a Roxas/Cissnei type friendship. We looked after each other…we were like brother and sister. I cried for an hour after learning she was MIA." Zack said as he turned and walked away down the hall.


End Chapter 28.

No Jack Sparrow's presence wasn't a lost bet…I added him because I wanted to. (Shock!)

A lot of people have commented about the addition of or referencing aspects of POTC being borderline obsession…in my defense, when I was writing the POTC chapters I attended a friend's birthday/POTC party and we watched all three of the movies back to back. So yeah it's my obsession for the moment…it'll wear off eventually…I hope.

And what Sora said about "Put on your Sunday Clothes" is correct; it's from "Hello Dolly" which is Wall-e's favorite movie (In the Wall-e universe). No I didn't lose a bet on this one either.