Chapter 34 To the Secret Lab.

Sora and the gang were currently resting at a Llama ranch as Pacha had insisted.

"Are you sure he's going to come back?" Takumi asked annoyed.

"He'll be here. But more importantly, how's your friend?" Pacha asked pointing to Kaze.

"I-I'm fine. But forgive me when I say I NEVER want to see a Pill Bug again." Kaze muttered.

"You're loss." Pacha shrugged.

"I still think that waiting for him is a waste of time. Don't we have a mission to get to?" Takumi asked.

"Look. I know he's a spoiled brat, but I know that there is good inside of him. I mean, he could have let me fall to my death when the cliff broke underneath me, but he didn't. Deep down, I'm sure that there is a good person that can grow into a great Emperor. Besides, I couldn't just leave him out here by himself. He's a terrible Llama." Pacha said.

"I won't argue with that." Sora laughed.

"And to answer your question Takumi, we really don't know where to even look. At least this gives us some direction." Corrin said.

"What is this mission you keep mentioning?" Pacha asked.

"That masked guy Vanitas is the one that summons those monsters. We're here to stop him, as well as look for some missing friends." Sora said.

Before Pacha could question more, the group spotted Kuzco approach them looking rather guilty and ashamed.

"Hey Pacha, Sora, Sakura? About what I said at the dinner…I…I didn't really…I mean I should have…" Kuzco stuttered out his apology, but then Pacha put his hand up.

"You tired of being a llama?" Pacha asked.

"Yes!" Kuzco cried. Sora and Sakura just smiled.

"So, what is our plan here? If those two that were with Vanitas want to kill Kuzco, then we need to hurry to get him to change back." Corrin asked.

"I know. Going the long away isn't an option anymore. Especially if that Vanitas guy really can summon those monsters like you said earlier…We have to cross that canyon if we want to make it back and fast." Pacha said.

"But how? The bridge is gone?" Kuzco asked.

"Sora, Donald, Goofy, and I have a means to cross that gap, but we can't carry others while doing it." Corrin said.

"We're not too far from my village. We'll stop there, get some supplies, and make a beeline to the palace." Pacha suggested.

Everyone nodded in agreement and immediately took off.


As the group made it back to Pacha's village, they headed straight up the mountain, but two seniors playing checkers spoke up.

"Hey Pacha! You just missed your relatives." One said.

That stopped Pacha and the group dead in their tracks.

"My relatives?" Pacha asked confused.

"Were you expecting someone?" Sakura asked.

"No, I wasn't." Pacha said getting a bad feeling. "What did they look like?"

"Well there was this big guy and this skinny woman who…how would you describe it?" One old man asked the other.

"Eh, scary beyond all belief." The other one said.

"Yeah! That's it!" The first one said.

Everyone paled and immediately ran towards Pacha's house except for Sora who stayed behind for a minute.

"Was there a guy dressed in black and red wearing a mask that covered his face?" Sora asked.

"I don't think so." One of the old men said. The other shook his head in agreement.

That brought some relief to Sora as he thanked the two and ran to catch up with his friends.


Upon reaching the house, the group saw that Yzma was indeed at Pacha's place talking with Chicha at the table in the kitchen.

"So, remind me again how you're related to Pacha?" Chicha asked suspiciously as she poured Yzma a cup of tea.

"Why I'm his third cousins, brother's, wife's, step niece's great aunt…twice removed." Yzma answered taking a quick sip.

"Uh-huh." Chicha said not buying it.

"Uh, isn't that right Kronk?" Yzma asked Kronk who was too busy playing jump rope with the kids to pay attention much to Yzma's annoyance.

"You know, I am so sorry that you had to come all this way, but as you recall that I said before, Pacha isn't here. But I'll be sure to tell him that you dropped by." Chicha said.

"Oh, thank you." Yzma said knocking the cup off the table. "Oops. Silly me."

"No please. Allow me." Chicha said flatly as she struggled to pick up the glass due to her pregnancy.

Yzma took the moment to speak with Kronk before returning to the table as Chicha finally reached the cup.

"So, while we are waiting for Paka." Yzma started.

"Pacha." Chicha corrected.

"Yes of course. But while we wait, how about you give me a tour of your lovely home?" Yzma asked.

"You know, how about you just come back when Pacha's home. I'm sure he'd love to…" Chicha stopped when she saw her husband gesturing her to the window. "Uh, could you excuse me for a minute? I think I left something in the oven." Chicha said as she ran off. Yzma went back to Kronk.

Pacha had explained everything that happened to his wife as quickly as he could.

"So we have to get him back to the palace, and change him back." Pacha finished.

"Hi there." Kuzco said sticking his head in the window.

On reflex, Chicha smacked him with a frying pan right in the face.

"Uh, that was him." Pacha said.

"Whoops." Chicha muttered as Takumi and Donald surpassed a laugh.

"Did you see a guy in a mask with those two?" Corrin asked.

"No. But when they came knocking on the door, Chaca was mentioning the lady complaining about a guy like that." Chicha said.

"The villagers didn't see him ether. He must have separated at the diner." Sora said.

"That works well for us. But let's hurry before he joins up." Kaze said.

"You guys go get a head start. I'll stall them as long as I can." Chicha said as Pacha gathered the supplies he needed. A bow and arrow and a rope.

"Thanks honey." Pacha said as the two gave a quick kiss.

"You lovely wife. Both very pretty." Kuzco said dazed from the hit to his face as Pacha grabbed him and the group ran off.

"Hey, is it a good idea leaving your family with them?" Takumi asked as they ran down the hill.

"Don't worry. They can handle themselves." Pacha assured.

As if on cue, the group saw something white fly towards a birthday party. It was Yzma covered in feathers, stuck on a string where a pinata once was. The kids, all blindfolded failed to notice the difference and started beating her with sticks.

"I see what you mean." Takumi said as the group bolted further from the village.


The group ran as fast as they could to get to the palace as Kronk and Yzma were following behind them. They soon got to the canyon that was without a bridge.

"I got this." Takumi said grabbing the bow from Pacha and shooting the arrow. The arrow landed perfectly on a tree on the other side of the canyon. Using some extra rope, Pacha made a zip-line for himself, Kuzco, Sakura, Takumi, and Kaze. Sora, Corrin, Donald, and Goofy however just glided across the canyon.

"I have got to learn how to do that." Takumi muttered with jealousy once everyone was on the other side.

"Heads up." Corrin shouted as he pointed to Kronk and Yzma that was approaching the canyon.

Kuzco bite the rope cutting it, but the two seemed unfazed. They both put on some goggles as Kronk pulled a string that caused a pair of wings to sprout from the carrier. Kronk jumped at the end as they glided across the canyon.

"I don't think so. THUNDARA!" Donald shouted.

A blast of lighting struck the two causing the carrier and wings to burn up and the two were sent plummeting into the water below.

"Nice one Donald!" Corrin cheered as the group continued to run back to the palace.


It was evening by the time as they reached the palace. The group made their way inside as the rain started to come down.

"Made it." Pacha gasped as everyone stopped to catch their breath.

"Great. Now where is this secret lab Kuzco?" Corrin asked.

"I believe she pulls one of those levers over there to open it." Kuzco said pointing to a face on the wall with two tusks.

The group approached the statue on the wall.

"These things?" Corrin asked poking the tusks.

"Of course. It's just like in the movies. A hidden switch that leads to a secret room." Donald explained as he pointed to the tusks. "Pull the lever Goofy!"

Goofy grabbed one of the levers and pulled down.

A trap door opened underneath Donald and Kuzco causing them to fall screaming.

"Donald! Kuzco!" Sora cried out in concern.

"Uh, wrong lever Goofy." Corrin pointed out.

"Oops." Goofy muttered embarrassed.

The door opened up as an angry Donald and Kuzco stormed back in with an alligator biting Kuzco's tail.

"Okay. Why does she even HAVE that lever?" Kuzco asked annoyed as he kicked the Alligator in the nose causing it to let go and scamper away, and Donald was wringing his hat dry as he glared at Goofy.

Pacha pulled the other lever causing the wall to open and the floor to spring forward, launching everyone onto a roller-coaster.

Pacha and Kuzco were in the front, Sora and Corrin were right behind, then Takumi and Sakura, while Donald, Goofy, and Kaze were stuck in the last one.

"Please remain seated, and keep your arms and legs inside the vehicle at all times." A recorded voice rang out.

"Wh-What is this?" Sakura asked fearfully.

"Uh, grab the bar in front of you and just brace yourself." Corrin said to his little sister.

The Roller-coaster started as Sakura's screams rang across the chamber louder than the others.

At the end, all of them were flung to the ground suddenly dressed in white lab coats and goggles.

"What the heck are we wearing?" Sora asked as everyone discarded the outfits.

"All I know is that I NEVER want to go on that again." Sakura muttered shaken.

The group ran to the lab table as they started looking everywhere.

"So where is this potion that can turn you back?" Corrin asked looking through beakers.

"I don't know." Kuzco said looking.

"Well, what does it look like?" Takumi asked looking.

"I don't know!" Kuzco repeated.

"Over here!" Corrin shouted as he opened a giant cabinet that was shaped like a bird.

Inside were many potions with a label on the shelf in the form of different creatures.

"Let's see here…Lions, Tigers, Bears…" Pacha read off, but when he reached the spot for human, there was no potion.

"Oh my." A voice called out. Everyone turned to see Yzma approach them with a potion in her hand. "Looking for this?"

"What? No! How did you get back here before us?" Corrin demanded.

Yzma was about to speak, but then stopped. "That's a good question. How did we get back here first Kronk?"

"Well you got me." Kronk said pulling down a map. A red line was marked for Kuzco's group, while a purple line was marked for him and Yzma. There was even a lightning bolt for when Donald zapped them. "By all accounts, this doesn't make any sense."

Yzma just shrugged. "Oh well. Back to business."

"Okay. I'll admit that I wasn't nice as I should have been. But do you really want to kill me Yzma?" Kuzco asked nervously.

"Just think of it as you're being let go. That your life is going in a different direction. That your body is part of an out of placement." Yzma said making Kuzco gulp.

"Hey! That's kind of what he said to you when he fired you." Kronk pointed out causing Yzma to groan.

"I know. It's called a cruel irony. Like my depends on you." Yzma said flatly.

"I can't believe this is happening." Kuzco gulped.

"Then I bet you weren't expecting THIS!" Yzma said as she started to lift up her dress leg.

"OH, GODS NO!" Pacha and Kuzco shouted as everyone covered their eyes.

"Yzma then revealed a knife calming them down.

"Oh, okay." Kuzco sighed in relief.

"Finish them off." Yzma said tossing the knife to Kronk.

Everyone summoned their weapons.

"You really think a little knife is going to scare us?" Sora mocked.

Kronk however wasn't listening as he was having his own conflict.

"You're not backing down, are you big guy?" A voice said as a little Kronk dressed in a devil costume appeared on Kronk's shoulder.

"Uh, where's the other guy?" Kronk asked pointing to his bare shoulder.

Just then, a Kronk dressed as an angel sitting in a chair with a hair dryer on while he was reading a book.

"Yo!" Kronk called out.

"Oh!" The angel said quickly dismissing the chair, and removing the book as he put his halo on and brought a harp out instead. "Sorry. What I miss?"

"Well Yzma tossed me this knife and told me to you know…take them out…" Kronk began. To everyone else in the room however, Kronk was just talking to himself. Yzma looked at the other with a disturbed confusion on her face as the others shrugged.

"Kronk!" Yzma shouted getting Kronk's attention. "Why did I think you could do this? This one simple thing? It's like I'm talking to a monkey. A really big stupid monkey named Kronk. And do you know what else? I never liked your spinach puffs. NEVER!" Yzma scolded losing all her patients for her bumbling buffoon of a lackey.

Kronk gasped and started to cry.

"Th-That was mean!" Sakura shouted but Yzma didn't care.

"Yeah! Isn't he your friend?" Sora demanded.

"He's my lackey. Not my friend." Yzma said.

"That's it. She's going down." Devil Kronk spat as he pointed his pitchfork at her.

"Now, now. Remember guys. From above, the wicked shall receive their just reward." Angel Kronk said looking up.

Kronk and Devil Kronk looked up to see a chandler above Yzma.

"That'll work." The three said.

Kronk then used the knife to cut the rope holding the chandler, but because of Yzma's thin body, it missed her entirely thanks to the opening in the center.

"Well that didn't go the way I thought." Corrin commented.

"Strange. That usually works." Kronk muttered.

"So, does THIS!" Yzma said pulling a lever causing a trap door to open under Kronk.

"Huh. Should have seen that coming." Kronk muttered before he fell through.

Kaze then snagged the vial out of Yzma's hands.

"Hey!" Yzma shouted as Kaze handed it to Pacha.

Yzma tackled the villager causing him to drop it, then ran over to the cabinet and hit it from behind, causing numerous vials to fall to the floor around the human potion.

"Oops. Clumsy me." Yzma mocked. Everyone was looking through the potions on the floor for the human one, but without the labels, they all looked the same.

Yzma then pulled a lever causing an alarm to sound off. "Better hurry. I'm expecting company."

Doors opened on both sides of the group as muscular solders with their bodies covered in red and blue paint stormed in.

"GET THEM! They murdered the Emperor!" Yzma ordered. The guards grabbed their weapons of mostly axes and maces and began to charge.

"No wait, it's me Kuzco!" Kuzco cried out but the guards weren't listening.

"I'll take care of this." Takumi said rising the Fujin Yumi.

"Wait! We can't kill them!" Sakura pleaded as she grabbed Takumi's arm.

Pacha then kicked the table filled with Yzma's potions on the ongoing guards causing the potions on the table to explode on contact.

When the smoke cleared, the guards were changed into animals.

There was a warthog, a lizard, a cow, an ostrich, an octopus, and a gorilla.

"Get them!" Yzma ordered pointing at the group/

"Uh excuse me? I've been turned into a cow. Can I go home?" The cow asked.

"You're excused." Yzma said.

"Thanks." The cow said running off.

"Anyone else?" Yzma asked.

"No. We're good." The rest said.

"GET THEM!" Yzma shouted.

"Just grab them all and run!" Corrin shouted.

Pacha gathered all the vials into his poncho as everyone ran for the exit.

Sora however, felt someone grab his hood and toss him to the ground hard before he could run away.

Groaning and looking up, Sora was shocked to see Vanitas standing before him.

"I do believe it's time to continue where we left off. Brother." Vanitas said as he summoned Void Gear in his hand.

Sora jumped back to his feet and summoned Oathkeeper as he readied to fight Vanitas.

"Vanitas, where have you been? You vanished at the dinner!" Yzma shouted.

Vanitas ignored her as his attention was set on Sora.

"Are you listening to me? Forget the brat and go after Kuzco!" Yzma ordered.

"Be quite! This brat is what I'm after. Your llama problem is no longer my concern." Vanitas said.

"WHAT?! So help me that when this is finished, I will have your head for this!" Yzma warned but Vanitas is unamused.

"Still, I don't want your friends butting in like last time." Vanitas muttered as he snapped his finger.

Several Unversed appeared in the room. Multiple Floods and some jellyfish-like Unversed in different colors appeared.

"Get them." Vanitas ordered pointing to the exit Corrin and the others ran out of as the Unversed gave chase to the heroes. "Now that they are distracted, I have you all to myself. So, will you give Ventus's heart willingly, or do we have to do this the hard way?"

Sora readied himself for a fight.

"Hard way it is." Vanitas said as got into his battle stance. Yzma decided to leave the room and chase after Kuzco.

Sora and Vanitas charged forward as the sound of Keyblade's clashing filled the room.


And that's a wrap!

Well, we are reaching the ending of my first attempt at an original world for Kingdom Hearts. I am glad that you guys did enjoy the last chapter. Vanitas was fun to write in it.

Next one will be a long one so it might take a while, but we will wrap up The Emperor's New Groove.

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