Chapter Twenty-eight Scary Beyond All Reason

"Yzma!" Sora snarled before a thought crossed his mind, "Hey, how did you get here before we did? I thought Chaka was distracting you,"

"Oh she was and she did an excellent job too," Suddenly Yzma stopped to think, "Then again, Kronk, how did we get back here before them?"

Kronk shrugged, "Beats me, when you look at the story line it really doesn't make any sense,"

"Moving on," Yzma changed the subject from the unexpected plot hole, "It doesn't matter now, Keyblade Master. Kuzco cannot become human again without this potion and you are in my lab. And even without the powers of the Heartless I would still win since I am legally the Empress. And since you were kind enough to bring that girl here, I think you should hand her over,"

"Fat chance!" Sora and Kairi summoned their Keyblades and Goofy and Lulu prepared for battle. Suddenly the floor of the lab turned black and the claws of giant Heartless pooled out of the shadows. Before any of the warriors could react, the claws grabbed them and each one was unable to move.

"You won't get away with this Yzma!" Sora snarled as he struggled against the chains that now bound him to the wall.

"Ha, I've already won," Yzma smirked as she tried to push Matilda into a chair, "As soon as I drain the power from this girl I will be the most powerful being in the universe,"

"Please don't do this!" Matilda begged as she struggled against Kronk's mighty grip, "Please don't let her do this to me Kronk,"

"Kronk, prepare the potion," Yzma motioned to her henchman as she clasped Matilda's wrist onto the arm of the chair.

"Kronk, I know you're not really a bad guy," Matilda's eyes welled up with tears and would not tear away from Kronk's. The minion began having second thoughts.

"You know you can't hurt that girl," a small angel suddenly said on Kronk's shoulder, "She was so sweet to you, and she even wanted to help you cook,"

"Yeah, but if you don't Yzma is going to chew you out. And she gives dental," A small red devil appeared on Kronk's other shoulder.

"That's true, good dental is hard to get in the current economy," Kronk pondered. Yzma gave a confused look to her henchman, and then looked to her captives to see if they had anymore clue to who Kronk was talking to. Sora and the others seemed just as bewildered and just shrugged.

Losing patience, Yzma finally acted on her own, pushing Kronk out of the way, "Oh, just get out of the way you gigantic imbecile, I'll do it myself. It's so hard to get good help, and on top of everything he's not even that great of a cook,"

"Oh no she didn't!" the angel and devil said simultaneously before poofing away. Kronk was a very peaceful man, but no one insults his cooking. Instead of going to the table he ran to the wall and pulling hard on the chain that bound Sora and the others ripped it and freed everyone instantaneously. Sora ran over to Matilda and using his Keyblade broke the chair she was bound to.

"No!" Yzma shrieked seeing her plans fall apart, "I will not lose! Even if you take away that girl, I'll at least hold on to Kuzcotopia!" She reached into the garter on her leg, causing screams from the males in the room of anguish and pulled out the potion that would turn Kuzco human again, "Say farewell to your humanity Kuzco!"

She prepared to through the potion to the ground but Lulu reacted, "I don't think so! Thunder!"

A shot of electricity hit Yzma's hand and she dropped the potion prematurely. Like an outfielder catching a fly ball, Sora rushed and slid under Yzma, catching the potion in his hands. But losing control, he crashed right into Yzma's potion cabinet dropping the contents of the shelves as well as the potion he had caught. Seeing what had happened, Kuzco cried out and ran over to Sora.

"Where is it, where is it?" Kuzco asked frantically as he picked through the similarly labeled bottles.

"I-I don't know!" Sora sputtered. Spotting Yzma running towards him, he scooped up as many potions as he could carry in his arms and began to run away, "Only one way to find out!"

Sora threw a potion bottle towards Kuzco, just missing Yzma lunging for him. The llama caught it in his mouth and using his teeth pulled out the cork. Drinking the potion he transformed…into an ostrich.

"Wrong one Sora!" Kuzco barked angrily. Suddenly Yzma summoned four giant Heartless that looked like stone giants. Seeing them, Kuzco screamed and shoved his head into the ground.

Distracted by the Heartless' sudden appearance Sora was unable to react when Yzma snatched a bottle from the Keyblade Master's arms. Sora pulled away before she could grab anymore, but Yzma grabbed the bottle with such force that it broke in her hand, the contents drenching her skin. With a burst of smoke, Yzma transformed into a small cute pink kitten.

With a look of horror, Yzma examined her body and in a tiny squeaky voice cried out in anguish, "My beautiful body!" She screamed at the Heartless as they were attacking Kairi, Lulu and Goofy who had been protecting Pacha, Kuzco and Matilda, "Don't bother with them, get the Keyblade Master!"

Sora squawked and threw another bottle to Kuzco. The kitten Yzma jumped on Sora's back, digging her tiny claws into his flesh. Sora let out a yell of pain and dropped the bottles he was carrying in order to pull the hairy menace off of him. Seeing an opportunity, Yzma jumped off of him and picked up one bottle in her mouth: Sora could clearly see the picture of a person on its label. The kitten ran out the lab and Sora yelled after her. Kuzco drank the potion, and transformed into an elephant. Pulling Pacha on his back, the giant Kuzco ran over to Sora and pulled him on as well.

"Let's get her!" Kuzco trumpeted. The three chased after the cat, but when she escaped out a small air channel, Kuzco could see he would not fit.

"Here, try thing one!" Sora tossed another potion to the emperor. This time he became a llama again. They chased Yzma through the channel, which lead to the front façade of the palace. The palace's front was designed like a cliff, with many ledges and cave-live carvings, but very, very steep. In his llama form again Kuzco had no trouble following the cat.

But at the pinnacle of the facade was too narrow for Kuzco to follow any further. Holding the potion vial triumphantly above her, Yzma cackled with her catlike voice, "It's over Kuzco! As soon as I get my body back I'll have the Heartless tear you to shreds like I intended to begin with. I'll get the girl back and will be the beautiful empress of the universe. I win,"

Suddenly a little black pegasus zoomed at the kitten like a shot, grabbing the potion from Yzma's paw and knocking her over, only to be caught in Kuzco's llama-like teeth. Piff flew down the Sora who was about twenty feet below, "No. We win,"

"All's clear inside, Sora!" Goofy called up to the group as Pacha, Sora, Kuzco and Yzma climbed down from the façade back into the castle, "We got rid of the Heartless lickity-split,"

"No, no, no!" Yzma pouted, trying to swing around to slash Kuzco with her claws as he held her by the nape of the neck, "I still have control over the Heartless!"

"Oh, I don't think the Heartless are going to obey a cute little kitty," Kairi snickered.

Suddenly Kronk spoke up, "I know I'm still the villain to you guys and all, but could I keep her?"

Sora pulled the feisty little cat from Kuzco and looked it over, "You really want her?"

"Well, I know she's evil and not very nice, but she still is my friend," Kronk said shyly. Matilda confidently took Yzma from Sora and presented the still screaming and swearing cat to Kronk.

And gave the man a hug, "Thanks for all your help Kronk, I knew you were a good guy. Maybe one day you can show me more of your recipes,"

Sora presented the vile with the potion to Kuzco, "Well emperor, I think it's time to get your kingdom back,"

"Thanks for all your help everybody. A jerk like me, even as cool as I am, doesn't deserve friends like you," Kuzco gratefully took the potion from Sora, "Bottoms up!"

The llama swigged the potion and with a blast of light and smoke transformed back into the human. Where previously stood a red and black llama, was a young man with hawkish nose, large turquoise earrings wearing a red robe.

"Are you sure you can't stay longer?" Pacha asked as he watched Sora and Goofy try to fix the Excalibur.

"We'd like to," Sora huffed as he tried to pull a part off the ship, "But we have friends we need to find,"

"Though we aren't going anywhere unless we get this ship to work," Lulu remarked as she observed the attempts to repair the ship.

"Why don't you just take Yzma's old ship? She's not going to be using it anymore," Kuzco offered. Since becoming human Kuzco decided to spend the summer with Pacha's family like he had asked. Though at first Chaka was reluctant to allow the emperor to stay, after seeing how much he had changed, began embracing Kuzco like family.

"Really? That'd be okay with you?" Sora asked with a note of surprise.

"Hey, after all you've done for me, it'd be the least I can offer," Kuzco said reassuringly.

"Thanks!" Sora began walking away from the decrepit Excalibur when suddenly the ship's radio began to sputter. Though the screen was cracked and the static was terrible, Sora could spot a figure on the screen. His heart skipped a beat as the broken fragments of a voice tried to reach through, "Kairi, Matilda! Get over here!"