Well, here's a new chapter… where we introduce some new friends ;)

Reviewer Thanks

Tracker78: Who doesn't love Genie? Idiots, that's who!; And glad you liked the Resident Evil and Walking Dead references.

NarniaCrazyGirl: Thank you, and yep flesh-eating corpses will think twice before messing with us; And as for the question you PM-ed me… yes.

Scoobycool9: Graphic and epic are two styles of writing that I do fairly well with; And we shall find out what Marcus means in time (no pun intended); And just wait!

Disclaimer: zzzzzzzzz….

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Back in Burk…

Once everyone had overcome their shock, they had taken out their weapons, preparing to take down Chase Hunter. "Put your weapons away, I'm not here to fight," he had said.

"Yeah, and I'm the Queen of Spain," Twiggy had scoffed.

"What are you doing here, Chase? And where's Scoobycool9?" Ryan had demanded. "If you've done anything to hurt him, I swear I'll-"

"Hey, I'm back with the nachos!" came a voice, and out stepped a teenager, who Ryan, Cassie, and Twiggy knew quite well… namely because he was their creator.

"Scoobycool9!" Cassandra had gasped. "You're alright!"

"Quick, get Chase before he tries to escape!" Twiggy had ordered.

"Oh, that won't be necessary, guys. Chase is working with us this time," Scoobycool9 had told them.

"WHAT?" They all had shouted.

"Yeah, turns out he wants to take Finneas out, too."

"Why would he want to help us take out Finneas?" Nin had questioned.

"All out of keeping face," Chase had answered. "You see, there's only room for ONE bad-ass villain in the tooniverse, and Finneas has been hogging all the glory. So, I plan on taking him down, that way when I get back to trying to control this world, I won't have any competition."

"Gee, how noble of you," Emily had scoffed.

"Plus, I tweaked his character a bit, so he can't hurt us until after Finneas is defeated," Scoobycool9 had whispered to the others, giving them an assuring wink.

"Well, lets go then." Nightshade had said. "We've only got four days to prevent Finneas' ritual, so we'll have to move quick."

Chase had snapped his fingers, and a portal appeared. "Is this quick enough?" he had asked.

"You can open portals?" Johnny had asked.

"Only with my wizardry. If you think it's anything similar to what that little cartoonbrid can do, you're wrong… though I DO have plans for his powers-"

"Hey! No spoilers for Reality Twisted 2!" Scoobycool9 had snapped.

"Alright, lets go," Alan had said.

"Hold on, we have to wait for our other friend," Chase had said.

"Other friend?" Chance had questioned.

Suddenly, a girl came running up to them. She was six-feet tall, had long brown hair, green eyes, and was wearing a yellow shirt with black jeans and sneakers. "Hi! I didn't miss any action, did I?" she had asked.

"Who are you?" Nin had asked her.

"Oh, I'm a friend of Scoobycool9's. My name is Alexia, the electric-princess."

"Why do they call you the electric princess?" Chance had asked.

"'Cause I can do this!" Alexia had shot a bolt of lightening out of her finger, zapping a rock into itty-bitty pieces.

"…Oh, great. Another Stalker." Johnny had muttered.

They had all stepped through the portal, entering Scotland.

Now they were walking through the mountains, where Chase had taken them. "Finneas' castle is somewhere in these mountains," Nightshade told them. "Once we get there, stay alert… he might be expecting us, unless he's too focused on the others."

"It's a little quiet…" Twiggy said. "Too quiet… I have a bad feeling about all this."

"Maybe you should turn into Nightclaw, just in case," Cassandra suggested.

"No. No, no no no no!" Chance whispered, hastily shaking his hands.

Twiggy smirked. "Okay," he then began to flex, and transformed into a werewolf with black fur and blonde hair and yellow eyes. "Aarrrrroooooooo!" he then did the unthinkable, but possibly predictable.

He tackled Chance. "Oof! Get off me!"

"(grr) Gotcha, Hossy!" The others had to snicker.

Chance sighed. "I doubt my brother ever went through this…"

"You'd be surprised," Nin chuckled.

"Alright, Nightclaw, get off him. We've got creeps to catch, remember?" Cassandra sneered.

"Yeah, and all this commotion probably caught their…" Ryan began to say… just as a gunshot rang out a bullet nearly hit his head! "…attention."

Two cloaked figures swooped down and grabbed Alan. "Hey! Let me go!" he shouted, writhing in their grip. "Guys, help!"

The others ran to help, but a third cloaked figure stood in front of them and raised his wand, shooting out a force-field that knocked them back. "No one uses the force on me and gets away with it!" Alexia snarled, then shot lightening at them, electrocuting them and making them fall to their knees.

Ryan, Nightclaw, and Chase ran after the cloaked figures who had Alan, but one of them shot Nightclaw in the ribs, making him hit the snow, and they appariated out of sight. "Damn it!" Chase snarled.

"Nightclaw!" Ryan gasped, kneeling beside him, seeing blood seeping into the snow. "Are you alright?"

"I'm bleeding to beat the band and those creeps got away, what do YOU think?" Nightclaw sneered, and reverted back into his human form out of weakness.

"What do we do? They have Alan!" Nin asked, concerned.

"We find the castle. We find Alan. We kick ass." Cassandra replied. "But right now, we'd better take care of Twiggy."

Snow began to fall, and Nightshade sighed. "We'll have to put up a tent. A snow-storm is stirring up, and we can't afford getting lost in it," she said.

Setting up a tend and going in, they listened as the wind began to howl. Ryan had stitched up Twiggy's wound, and the teen was now asleep. "You really care about him, don't you?" Chase asked, teasingly. "Love him like a son, I bet."

"Shut your mouth, Chase. If you had someone to consider family, you'd know the feeling," Ryan retorted.

"Hey, I have family." with that, Chase rolled on his side, going to sleep.

Scoobycool9 looked at his OC. Perhaps there's another reason Chase wants to keep Finneas from destroying the world, he thought.

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Whether it was because of a magic barrier or nature feared Finneas, the storm didn't affect the castle Alan was taken to. The cloaked figures dropped him off then disappeared, leaving him in a courtyard. This must be Finneas' castle, unless I'm being deceived… he thought, standing up and walking forward, expecting an attack. He froze when he saw a cloaked figure standing in front of him. "Who are you? Why did you guys bring me here? Where's Astrid?" he demanded.

The figure didn't reply, but took out a key-blade instead.

"A duel, huh? Well, you want a duel, you got one!" Alan then summoned his own key-blade, and they began to fight. The figure was quick, as if they knew his every move, but he kept fighting… thinking about the time period they had come from…

They killed my parents, they ruined my future, and they've taken my sister! he thought, angrily, and his fury seemed to give him strength. I'm not going to let that happen! I'm not going to lose my family again!

He used several combos, some that the figure themselves had never known to exist, and he blasted them back, into the air, and slammed them across the ground, until they were no longer moving. Putting his key-blade away, he walked over, panting heavily, bracing himself in case they tried to pull something else. As he got closer, he noticed their hood had fallen down, and finally he saw their face… their long black hair… their deep blue eyes… their familiar face…

"Astrid!" he cried, falling to his knees, scooping her up in his arms. "No… Why, Astrid?"

Astrid stirred, opening her eyes. "Alan…?" she whispered.

"Astrid, I'm sorry… I didn't… Why did you attack me?"

"Malone… he had taken me into a room, and put me in a trance. He must have ordered me to fight you to the death…" she flinched in pain. "I guess you won…"

"No, Astrid! Stay with me! We still need to…" he watched as Astrid slipped off a metal belt… a time-belt, it appeared. "Astrid?"

"If I keep it on, I'll die completely… This way, I can return to our future…" she looked him in the eyes. "Alan… find the others… make sure things go back to the way they were… I want to exist… I want us to be with our parents."

"Please, Astrid… Don't go… I need you… I-I can't do this without you…"

Astrid shut her eyes, and suddenly her body turned to glitter, balls of light floating upward into the air as she faded away.

Alan broke down sobbing. "Sis…" he whispered.

Footsteps came behind him, and out stepped Malone, smirking. "Aw, poor kid. Too bad she died… I was hoping she'd be the one to kill you. I suppose I owe Nether-Girl fifty dollars, now." he said, showing no remorse like a typical, heartless villain.

Alan clenched his fists and stood up, facing him. He then switched his ego-bracelet to a setting and transformed into his ego, Norm (a dark version of Goofy). "For this, you WILL die…" he growled, summoning his key-blade.

Malone scoffed, pointing behind him. "Not if my little minion has anything to say about it."

Norm turned around, watching as a Riptor floated up to him. Before he could react, the creature grabbed him and tore him from Alan, making them two separate people. Alan acted fast and cast a patronus of a hawk, striking the Riptor back.

"Don't waste your magic. Riptors can't be stopped like an average Dementor. Only a perfect patronus can stop them." Malone snapped his fingers and waved the Riptor away and it floated off, and he approached Norm, who was writhing in agony. "Since your little ego is torn from you, he will die, for he can't survive without-"

Norm suddenly burst into an array of light, transforming. "Whoa!" Alan cried, jumping back.

"What the…?"

Once the light had faded, Norm lied on the ground, his cloak still covering him. "Norm! Are you alright? Speak to me!" Alan cried, rolling him on his back… and he gasped. "Oh… snap."

Norm sat up… only he no longer looked like a dark-version of Goofy. He looked human, with brown hair, green eyes, 5 feet tall, muscular and had wolf ears and a tail… and do I really have to say who he looks like?

He grabbed a mirror, looking into it. "Oh, damn!" he cried, his voice sounding like that of a young Kat Williams, and he turned to Malone. "I look like YOU!"

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Me: ANOTHER Puggsy-look-alike? Don't you think we have ENOUGH of them in the story?

Kiff: Oh, no, Mom. Norm is different.

Fangs: Different HOW?

Kiff: Because he's not a Puggsy look-alike… he's a KIFF look-alike! :D …Didn't you notice the wolf-ears and tail?

Me: T_T Kiff… I told you, no making OC until you're older!

Kiff: Loophole! I merely transformed someone else's OC, thereby they still own them. ^-^

Fangs: FF2 is going to kill you, you know that, right?

Kiff: Oh, like he hasn't killed YOU for making him a cross-between Shaggy-and-yourself!

Fangs: Hey, that's different! …I made him good-looking.

Me: *sigh* ANYWAY, too bad about Astrid… and the fact that we used ANOTHER Kingdom Hearts reference. And the two new friends we have are authors Scoobycool9 and Alexia aka NarniaCrazyGirl. Thanks for joining the team, guys!

Scoobycool9 and Alexia: You're welcome!

Me: Now review.