Ideas are nagging at my mind, so here's a new chapter!

Disclaimer: …You know how it is…

The two groups met up when the two hallways joined together, each group having a sorrowful expression. "What happened to you guys?" Brielle asked.

"And where's Lucy and the Treasure-Planet characters?" Eric added.

Tracker bit her bottom lip. "Marlow attacked and…" she said, then bowed her head.

"He got Wolfsbane," Puggsy finished. "Lucy and the others stayed behind to take care of her and Silver-"

WG then burst into tears, covering her face with her hands. "What's wrong?" Gin asked.

Edwin sighed. "We, too, lost someone…" he said. "Max and Silver were dueling inside FF2's mind, and suddenly… the werewolf in him just disappeared."

"They tried defusing, but…" Kasandra said, then stepped aside, showing Max and FF2.

"Whoa! …Wasn't expecting that," Biff said.

"I bet you'd also wouldn't expect us to have switched bodies, either." Max's body said, then turned to Edwin. "Can you PLEASE help us switch back?"

Edwin nodded, then waved his wand. "Le-mus switcheroo-tus!" he said.

In a flash of light, Max and FF2 were back in their old bodies. "About time." Max said, brushing himself off.

"I guess we all had a rough chapter," Kim said.

"I have a question…" Shang said, raising her hand.

"Kim and Gin switched outfits so they could fool Dark Crow." Tracker answered.

"Ah."

"C'mon, lets just… keep going." Puggsy sighed.

The group continued walking. "Hey… is Puggsy okay?" Stalker asked Kitefang in a whisper. "He looks pretty depressed… and it seems more than because of Wolfsbane,"

"(grr) I don't know, but I'm really worried." Kitefang replied. "He hasn't said a single vocabulary word for an entire chapter!"

Her eyes widened. "Good Lord, this is serious!" she looked at Puggsy. "I wonder what's got him down…"

Puggsy and Brielle walked beside each other. He looked at her, but her expression remained stoic, and she hardly glanced at him, even though she knew he was right beside her. He picked up his pace and decided to walk beside Fangs instead.

"Man, this is gonna be a tough nut to crack," Stalker said, watching him and rubbing her chin.

They came to a metallic door at the end of the hallway, with a yellow-and-black sign that read: "Entrance to Darkarai's Lair- No Vacancy." Off to the side was a little electric keypad with the word 'password_needed'.

"Ah, great! How are we going to crackify the code?" Hardy asked.

The vocabulary lives on! Stalker thought with relief.

"Allow me," FF2 said, messing with his ego-bracelet. In a flash of light, he transformed into a copy of Kite, but with a cyborg arm, eye, and leg. "As Blackwing, I can hack into the system."

Eric held up a picture of Silver (the cyborg) and looked at Kitefang. "Now, THAT'S what you'd look like if you took after your dad," he said, pointing at Blackwing. His cousin only rolled his eyes in reply.

Blackwing's cyborg-eye scanned the keypad, then he stuck out his index finger that shifted into a computer-chip and he wedged it inside a slot in the side of the keypad. "I'll just launch a virus into the network and- GAH!"

*ZAP!*

He flew back, reverting back to FF2. "Are you alright?" Kim gasped.

"She's got a Nether-Virus Protection software!" he said, coughing. "Strong stuff."

"I need that software," Aiko said to herself.

"Allow me," Stalker said, then zapped the keypad. It malfunctioned and the doors opened. "There."

Everyone looked in. The hallway looked like something from a gothic medieval castle, with black cinderblocks, blood-red carpeting, candles lit on skulls nailed to the wall, and portraits of tortured souls.

Fangs quickly turned to leave, but was pulled back by Puggsy.

"Well, we've come this far." Biff sighed, and they began walking in.

"We'd join you, but… we've never dealt with a sorceress before," Yuma said, a sweat drop appearing on her forehead. "And I'm only a level 3 alchemist…"

"Our show isn't really all that action-based, anyway." Pachira added.

"Yeah, yeah, we get it," Brielle said, rolling her eyes. "Why don't you guys just… go make sure Jim is still alive or something."

"OKAY!" The princesses exclaimed, all-too eager to see the hansom Disney guy again.

"You guys go ahead," Shang said. "I'm gonna stick around," she then leaned toward Eric and whispered, "I'm into action more than what they're into, anyway."

Liru and the other princesses began to run down the hall in search of Jim, but she paused, looking back at the authoress. Slowly, she walked beside WG, tapping her shoulder. "Um… WG… I know I'm the last person you'd want to see right now, but… well, after you and Silver ran out, one of you dropped this," she said, then handed her the classring Silver gave her. "I want to make sure you have it back, in case we never meet again." With that, she ran off with the other princesses.

WG held the ring in her palm, tears welling up in her eyes. She bit her bottom lip to keep the tears from falling, but they still fell. Stalker stood beside her, wrapping an arm around her, wincing.

And FF2 couldn't stand the sight. "Hold on, guys," he said, then had his wand take the appearance of a piece of chalk, drawing on the floor.

"What are you doing?" Max asked, arching an eyebrow.

"I lost a mother, but I'm not going to lose Silver… especially at the cost of hurting a friend."

FF2 drew a large triangle on the floor, tracing a circle around it, then wrote down the periodic symbols for cobalt, copper, and zinc, along with ink. He then stood in the middle of the circle and took out his wand. "FF2, what are you doing?" Edwin gasped.

"I'm going to get Silver back by using Ink Alchemy… and the ultimate-diffusion spell."

"Are you nuts? That spell is forbidden!"

"I don't care!" he looked at WG. "I have to do it…" holding his wand out, he concentrated…

There was a flash of light, causing the gang to fly ba-

~Story Interruption!~

Hello. We interrupt this story to bring you a piece of information.

The co-author wishes to point out that the part about the Ink-Alchemy is purely science, not some sort of witch-craft ritual. It's basically channeling your thoughts and feelings into writing, and…

Readers: *Zzzzzzzzz…*

Puggsy: You're losing 'em, WG.

WG: Oh, FINE! Back with the story!

~We Now Return To Our Story (still in progress)~

"…was THAT all about?" Brielle said, sitting up.

"The kid drew on the ground and blinded us, obviously," Puggsy replied, sneering.

"I have a different question." Fangs said. "Who the heck are THEY?"

He pointed at four different figures lying a few feet from FF2: Sora, Blackwing, FF2's genie, and Norm- the dark version of Goofy. "About TIME we got out of there," Norm muttered. "I was getting claustrophobic."

"Wait… I thought you guys were ALLEN'S egos," Kasandra said.

"We were, but after defeating John, Allen gave the bracelet back to FF2," Eric explained, then looked over at FF2's motionless body. "…Who appears to be unconscious at the moment."

"Edwin… what kind of spell WAS that?" Tracker asked.

"The ultimate-diffusion spell," Edwin explained. "It renders a person to split permanently from any ego of theirs. It was used in the medieval ages for people with split-personalities, but caused them to lose half of their heart." he looked down sadly. "Max used it to diffuse from Lex when his Nobody fused with him to form the X-wand- a weapon powerful enough to fuse the toon-world with reality… and destroy both worlds."

"Wait… I remember that." Max said, gasping. "And… oh, CRAP!"

"What?" Biff asked.

"During our battle… Lex and I never finished defusing. T-The spell was interrupted when Finneas cut in, zapping us both and… Oh no…"

"Don't say 'Oh no', that means something worse is going to happen," Fangs whimpered.

"Max… what's wrong? What happened to Lex?" Edwin asked.

Max gulped. "When FF2 and I became the same person… he joined in." he said, turning toward FF2. "Which means…"

Everyone looked over at FF2, who now stood up, his eyes glowing red. His black hair was now white, his eyes were red, and he wore an outfit similar to Max's only all black, with a blood-red cloak.

Lex/FF2 grinned, showing his fangs. "About time," he said, speaking in two voices.

"We're screwed," Edwin said with a gulp.

A/N: …And now we're really in deep trouble. …HELP!

…Review. No flames, we've got enough to deal with now!