Author's Note: I'm glad that the last chapter made you happy, The Keeper of Worlds. Hope I'm doing at least okay with this story so far.
I don't own Kingdom Hearts or Final Fantasy.
CH14: Complications.
Meanwhile, back in Andy's Room...
Tap. Tap. Tap. Tap. Tap...
That was the repeated noise Rex was making and had been for a good half an hour now since the worldly travellers' arrival in this world and, given Mickey's advice, everyone was now searching through every channel on the small TV...well, small for normal sized people, to find the Al's Toy Barn commercial. Rex had been searching with the remote and everyone had been waiting, most of them becoming anxious and some of them tired of just waiting.
"I can't find it! It doesn't seem to be on any of these stations!" Rex cried out desperately.
"I don't think it'll even appear at all." Jack commented in agreement. TVs, or televisions as most outside of his own world call it, he decided, were just an excuse for people to be lazy and not go out and be active. Plus, the constant change of these 'channels' were making his eyes hurt and his vision to go all funny.
"Keep looking." Buzz told Rex and ignored Jack's comment.
Lea gave out a yawn and groaned, struggling to not fall asleep, "We've been at this for half an hour now."
"Oh, you're goin' too slow. Let me take the wheel." Hamm groaned before shoving Rex over from the remote and took over...and was tapping it so fast that no one could even see what was on now.
"It's too fast." Goofy pointed out.
"Yeah, how can you even tell what's on?" Rex asked.
"I can tell." Hamm replied, rather distantly as he concentrated on finding the right commercial...so far distracted that he missed the quick glimpse of Al' in the Chicken Costume, clucking like a real chicken(due the sound effects). Everyone else, however, saw it and told him to go back.
"There it is!" Sora cried out.
"Hamm, go back!" Riku quickly said.
"Back, back, back!" Rex chanted hurriedly.
"Too late. I'm in the 40's, gotta go around the horn. It's faster." Hamm said, still far too into his concentration.
When it appeared again, everyone quickly prompted Hammed to stop as Buzz stood and got up close to the screen, waiting only for a few seconds when the map location in how to get to Al's Toy Barn appeared, quickly telling Etch to draw a replica of it which he successfully did just in time.
"He looks more ridiculous in real life than on a drawing." Jack said, slightly disturbed at the live capture of Al' in the Chicken Costume.
"I'll say." Isa nodded in agreement.
"You're telling me." Terra added.
"You got that right." Lea nodded, dumbfounded and a little bit spooked.
Everyone then turned as Buzz approached Etch and pointed at the miniture picture of Al's Toy Barn, announcing, "That's where I need to go."
"You can't go, Buzz. You'll never make it there." Rex said, worriedly.
"If Buzz wants to go, even though it is dangerous, he's doing what his heart is telling him." Sora pointed out, knowing the risks but at the same time, knew what Buzz was thinking and feeling, toy or not. "I would've done the same thing if it'd been any of my friends. I have done it, more times than I can count."
"Most of us did, actually." Riku commented, and no one, not even Jack, in the worldly travellers group disagreed.
"Sora's right. Besides, Woody once risked his life to save me." Buzz agreed while redrawing the map on a normal smaller piece of paper, before finishing and continued as he gazed up at everyone, "I couldn't call myself his friend if I weren't willing to do the same."
"Exactly! Spoken like a true friend." Sora praised happily.
"Well spoke. Honest streak, just like Turner." Jack praised as well.
"Thanks, guys." Buzz smiled, before gazing at the group, asking, "So, who's with me?"
Fifteen minutes later...
It was decided that the worldly travellers, Hamm, Slinky, Mr. Potato Head and even Rex would go with Buzz on a rescue mission to Al's Toy Barn to rescue Woody. Despite the large numbers and the worry of the other toys coming with, especially since none of them had any experience in fighting against the Heartless that will most likely appear randomly, especially at night, Sora's group didn't argue.
Plus, the group also decided that there might be a chance that Myde was there as well, and despite the Mullet-haired man being able to fight...he was in a bigger risk than any of them.
"I still don't get why anyone would have kidnapped Woody like this. It doesn't make any sense at all." Kairi thought aloud, concerned.
"Well, Al' wanted to buy Woody off Andy's Mom for fifty bucks earlier today." Slinky responded as he walked past.
"Fifty bucks for a Cowboy doll?" Lea asked, surprised. "That's not bad."
"Lea!" Xion and Roxas scolded.
"Hey, c'mon. I was only kiddin'." Lea shrugged, "Sometimes, toys and other old items that last for more than two decades get more valuable in higher prices."
"If you're able to live that long, let me know." Jack sarcastically commented as he walked past. He then paused at the two Potato Heads, with Mrs. packing things into her husband's compartment on the back. "What are you doing?"
"I'm packing my strong spud an extra pairs of shoes, and his angry eyes, just in case." Mrs. Potato Head replied, finishing her work before closing the compartment.
The pirate was confused at first, before realization kicked in and simply nodded lamely, "Oh."
Sora and Buzz were to lead the two groups and were waiting by the window which was their exit point, first by going ontop of the Garage's Rooftop, and then have Slinky to safely guide them down with his bottom end, springing them to the ground without hurting themselves.
"I take that you've done this before, right? Searching and rescuing friends, I mean." Buzz quired.
"More times than I can count." Sora nodded, "It's a really loooong story. Besides, if anyone I meet who are good hearted need help, then I'm willing to help them whatever trouble they're in."
"You're a brave and kind young man, Sora. I can see why you have so many friends with you. You remind me of Woody." Buzz admired, which made Sora's cheeks flush a bit red in embarrassment.
Fortunately, he was saved from embarrassing himself when Bo Beep came over to Buzz, and told him with hope and good luck, "This is for Woody, when you find him." before giving the SpaceRanger toy a long kiss on the cheek.
Once the female toy stopped, Buzz cleared his throat awkwardly while his face turned a bit pink as well, "Uh...*Ahem* All right, but I... I don't think it'll mean the same coming from me."
"Mr. Buzz Lightyear, Sora." A weak voice croaked from the floor below the desk Sora's group and the other Toys were standing on, gazing down to see the broken squeeky toy Penguin, Wheezy who was being carefully pushed by the toy robot and toy snake until they stopped. "You just gotta save my pal Woody."
"Don't worry, we will. I promise." Sora told Wheezy, feeling sorry for the toy with the broken squeaker. Deep down, it made him feel guilty despite still having some of his toys back at home on the Islands. He never told anyone, but he still had some memories of it and always knew that his mother would take care of them. Until now, as he got older he believed it to be a little silly to think of toys being alive like he had when he was a lot younger...though he didn't play with them as much unless it was on a rainy and cold day. Being here made him reconsider.
"We'll do our best, son." Buzz added.
After Mr. Potato Head gave his wife a loving goodbye and promise of return, he placed his plastic black mustche on, and said with determination, "Okay, fellas and ladies. Let's roll!"
With that, the brave group of nineteen marched onto the rooftop attached to near the window of Andy's room. Slinky stopped at the edge of the other side and allowed everyone to bungy jump down with his bottom to their advantage. Mr. Potato Head went first.
"Geronimo!" Mr. Potato Head hollared, landing safely onto the dirt ground below. Thankfully, the gap between their house garage and the next door neighbor's garage allowed everyone in this rescue mission to not be seen.
"Look out below!" Mickey called as he bangy jumped to the ground, landing safely next to the living toy.
"Coming down!" Donald called out, only to end up missing the bottom and fell, screaming before crash landing on top of Mr. Potato Head, accidently sending the toy's arms, hat and ears flying off slightly and scattered. "Ouch!"
"Hey, watch it!" Mr. Potato Head yelled, grumbling.
While one by one everyone else were going down more safely, though Jack also had an awkward moment and nearly tripped and missed, but managed to avoid in having the same bad luck as both Donald and Potato Head did, Rex was feeling utterly nervous as he, Kairi, Lea, Buzz and Sora were up next after their friends did.
"You'd think with all my video game experience, I'd be feeling more prepared." Rex thought, as he wasn't feeling that prepared at all.
"There's a major difference between video games and actually going out on an adventure, Rex." Lea pointed out. "Trust me, you'll know eventually."
"Maybe you're right. I'm supposed to be fierch and fearless, because I'm a dinosaur." Rex admitted as he tried to grab onto Slinky's bottom, but due to having short arms, he missed and even stumbling and fell, screaming. "Whoa!"
But as he fell halfway, he did successfully grab Slinky's bottom, but due to being a dim-witted T-Rex Toy, he didn't let go and was sent bungy jumping up and down twice, screaming in terror, "WAAAAH!"
"The idea...tch, is to let go!" Slinky grunted in sheer annoyance and strain due to Rex being heavier than him. Thankfully, after the third bungy jump, Rex got the message and let go when he reached the bottom.
"Guess you can't have a group without someone being a little bit clumsy, right?" Lea chuckled in slight exasperation, as he approached Slinky before bungy jumping down to the ground below.
"Sadly, no." Slinky replied with a shake of his head.
"You need help, Kairi? I can hold you if you want." Sora offered.
"Thanks, Sora. But I can handle it." Kairi smiled, taking hold of Slinky's bottom and successfuly bungy jumped to the ground, landing in a successful crouched position before letting go. Needless to say that most of the male toys were awestruck at how skilled Aqua, Skuld, Xion and now Kairi were at this.
"Holy Momma." Slinky blinked, stunned as he, Sora and Buzz gazed down below. "How do they do that?"
"Well, a bit of training. Even before then, Kairi's been on the brave side of things, and it's got stronger since two years ago." Sora explained, before turning and gave a thumbs up to the toys that were staying behind. He then gently took Slinky's bottom before bungy jumping below and landed perfectly on the ground and let go.
Finally, Buzz was last and as he closed his glass/plastic helmet, he told the toys in Andy's Room, "We'll be back before Andy gets home."
"Don't talk to any toy you don't know!" Mrs. Potato Head called.
"To Al's Toy Barn. And Beyond!" Buzz said boldy, bungy jumping down to the ground before catching Slinky when he jumped now that he was the last one to jump down to the ground. After placing the slinky dog onto the ground, he then declared, "Let's go, troops, and remember to avoid being seen by people."
"Don't get seen. Got it!" Sora repeated as he, Donald, Goofy, and Mickey saluted like soldiers, which earned giggles and chuckles from the rest of their group.
"Sora, you're so cute when you do that." Kairi giggled, much to her friend's slight embarrassment.
Without further delay, Sora and his friends, both old and new, ventured on to the large part of this world while avoiding human contact and fighting off Heartless on their journey to find Woody and Myde at Al's Toy Barn...fully unaware of the duo's true whereabouts, as the two of them were unaware that rescue was coming to them.
Back at Al's apartment later that night, with their newfond friends, Myde and Woody had spent the rest of the day watching the entire series of Woody's Roundup on VHS and both had grown to absolutely love it. It had exciting moments, warm-hearted moments, heart-stopping moments, and comical moments(most of the funny moments done by the Prospector in the show).
Right now, they were onto the very last episodes apparently, and both Myde and Woody were on the edge of their seats, the former panicking as something horrible happened to Jessie and the Prospector's puppet counterparts on the screen. So far, still not Heartless appeared, which made Myde wonder if this world was actually peaceful and the Gummiship radar had a glitch or something.
"They don't call this the old abandoned mine for nothin', Prospector. I reckon we oughta get outta here." Jessie in the TV said, worriedly as the Mine she and the Prospecter were currently trapped in an old abandoned mine.
"Where's my gold?" The Prospector in the TV asked, as he and Jessie couldn't see a thing, before an idea came into mind. He then held up a match-stick and lit up what he thought was a candle...only for the fire to be burning rather quickly as the room lit up. "This sure is a fast-burnin' wick."
That's when Jessie realised that it wasn't a candle at all, as familiar red sticks(or was supposed to be red. It was hard to tell since the show was in black and white) were practically extremely dangerous.
"Blast us to smithereens! That there's dynamite!" Jessie exclaimed.
"Holy tarnation!" The Prospector cried out once he saw that Jessie was right.
"I'll call for help." Jessie quickly said, before yodelying. From outside of the sealed mine that was closed up by a boulder, the cardboard animal critters appeared, answering Jessie's call as she then cried out, "Hey, critters, go get Sheriff Woody! Now scoot!"
The animal Critters did so as quickly as they could.
In the meantime, Woody and Bullseye in the TV were finishing up finishing touches of a new school house until the animal critters came and one of the animal spoke in gibberish that only Woody and Jessie could understand.
"What's that? Jessie and Prospector are trapped in the old abandoned mine? And Prospecter just lit a stick of dynamite thinkin' it was a candle and now they're about to be blown to smithereens?" Woody repeated and was shocked when the animals nodded. Knowing what to do, Woody jumped onto Bullseye's back and hollared, "Ride like the wind, Bullseye!"
The Horse did so and the two hurried as fast as they could, comically leaping over rocks and cactus as they went.
In the Mine, Jessie was trying to put out the fire by fanning it with her hat, only to make things worse.
"You're fannin' the flames, Jessie." The Prospector pointed out, "It takes brains to put out that fire."
He then sat on the tiny flame in hopes that it would be put out, only to leap back up and comically ran around, screaming as his butt was smoking while the fire was still burning closer and closer to the dynamite.
"Yeow! My biscuits are burnin'!"
"Ah ha ha ha ha ha!" Myde bursted out laughing once more, nearly falling onto his back while holding his stomach and ended up bursting into tears in laughter, before calming down a little as he pointed out to the Prospector in the show, "Not the brightest idea, man."
He then gasped worriedly when in the show, Woody and Bullseye crazily risked in jumping over the very too deadly and dangerouns gap of Grand Canyon, leaving the two of them flying in the air. Myde and the real Woody were even further in the edge of the seats as the episode came to a cliff-hanger...both literally and figuretively.
"Will Woody and Bullseye land to safety? Can they reach Jessie and Stinky Pete in time? Tune in next week for the exciting conclusion: "Woody's Finest Hour."The narrator of the show announced.
"Yeah! Whoo!" Myde cheered, "Last episode time!"
"All right, All right!" Woody vibrated excitedly, "Next tape!"
To their disappointment, however, the real Jessie stood up and shut the TV off with the remote next to her, causing both Myde and Woody to moan as they stood up and turned to her.
"Aw, come on! Don't do that!" Myde groaned. "What happens next!?"
"Yeah, come on! Let's see the next episode!" Woody whined.
"That's it." The real Prospector said, resighed. "The show was cancelled after that." before hopping to make his box flip around away from the TV.
"Cancelled!?" Myde exclaimed, shocked as he and Woody hurried over to the shelf were the Prospector and the other Woody's Roundup non-living toys were stacked.
"Wait, wait, wait, wait. What about the gold mine and the...and the cute little critters and the dynamite?" Woody protested, very disappointed.
"Yeah, it was a cool show, and they just decided to leave it in an unbearable cliff-hanger?" Myde asked in disbelief.
"He's right. I mean, why cancel it?" Woody added.
"Two words; The Moon." Prospector began, before concluding in admittedly sheer annoyance, "Once people went up there, children only wanted to play with Space Toys."
"Just for that?" Myde slumped, quirking an eyebrow. "That's a lame way to cancel a show." even though he knew that none of the toys or the human inhabits of this world knew that there were more worlds out there and so far, most of them don't even have TV or flying vessels. And the Gummiship travelled to more than just the moon. It was a bit of a wonder why no one even noticed that yet. Maybe it was due to the restricted walls that prevents anyone of this world to see the truth of the Realm of Light.
Woody, as though remembering something, paused before muttering, "I know how that feels." before adding while approaching the other items, "But still, my own show! I mean, look at all of this stuff."
"Didn't you know?" Jessie asked, as she and Bullseye joined the rest of them. "Why, you're valuable property!"
"With all of these, that's no surprise that none of us knew." Myde admitted, "I wish the others could see this."
"My friends too." Woody added, going over to an old wooden Yo-Yo with writting and a miniture picture of himself on it. ""Hey howdy hey!" That's me. I'm on a yo-yo."
"Nice teeth, pal." Myde suddenly spoke up, and when Woody looked, the young man threw a miniture red ball a toy "knock the teeth out" game that was Woody's head, knocking out a tooth. The mullet-haired man then smirked and joked, "And still a good lookin' guy in the end."
The other laughed at his joke before Woody and Myde venture more around of the items such as a little bank, a bubble maker, a toy boot that sprung out an unconvincing snake, but still made the two laugh and then a record player which Woody, Bullseye and Jessie played on which made Myde smirk.
"Hey, look at us! We're a complete set!" Jessie cheered.
"Now it's off to the museum!" Prospector declared.
That caught both Woody and Myde off guard, which the former accidently tripped and caused Jessie and Bullseye along with himself to be flown off the record player which stopped and while he landed next to Myde, Jessie and Bullseye landed in front of Prospector in his box.
"Museum? What Museum?" Myde asked, stunned and confused.
"The Museum." The Prospector said, smiling. "Young man, all of us are being sold to the Konishi Toy Museum in Tokyo."
"That's in Japan!" Jessie added, excitedly.
"And since you're here, you can be the newer never before seen character of the cancelled show." Prospector concluded.
To their confusion, Myde quickly became horrified, the previous liking of earlier instantly gone. Woody likewise lost his interest of being based on the show as he stood up.
"Whoa, whoa, whoa. You guys got it all wrong." Myde held up his hands, shaking them in denial.
"No. No, no, no, no, no, no. I can't go to Japan." Woody said.
"Yeah, me neither."
A slight awkward pause.
"What do you mean?" Jessie asked.
"Well, for one, I gotta find the guys I was travellin' with. Sora and gang." Myde answered first, "It's...really complicated."
"And I gotta get back home to my owner Andy. Hey, look, look, see?" Woody answered as well, holding up his right leg and revealed Andy's name written on the bottom of it in permemant ink.
Seeing this and, misunderstanding Myde's answer, Jessie gasped in shock and horror, turning to the Prospector as horrified realization dawned onto her, "They both still have owners."
"Oh my goodness." Prospector muttered, shocked as well. Even Bullseye looked saddened.
With the realization that both Woody and Myde had to go, Jessie was going into a hysterical breakdown, "No. Can't go. I can't do storage again. I just can't!"
"Jessie! Jessie!"
"I won't go back into the dark!"
Seeing how she was reacting to this, Myde couldn't help but ask, "What's the matter with her?"
"Well, we've been in storage for a long time waiting for Woody, Myde." Prospector answered.
"Why's that?"
"The museum's only interested in the collection if Woody's in it. Without him, we go back into storage. It's that simple."
Jessie by then became furious and lashed out at both Woody and Myde, "It's not fair! How could you do this to us!?"
"Hey, whoa, don't look at us." Myde protested. "That guy in the Chicken Costume who brought Woody here had stolen him and he doesn't even know that I even exist!"
"He doesn't?" Prospector asked, a bit confused. "If Al' doesn't know you're here, then how did you get here?"
"Like I said...it's totally complicated. I was travelling around with Sora and the others and-"
"Was it because you're a lost toy? Hmm?" Prospector interrupted, rather challengingly. "Did this owner of yours named Sora, leave you behind?"
"Owner?" Myde blinked, before correctly, "Okay, let's get this straight: Sora's not my owner. He's more of an aqquintence. Heck, we only met last year and admittedly...I did bad stuff to him and his pals before I changed sides."
"And you said that Woody was stolen? How did that happen?" The Prospector questioned once more.
"Well, he stole me when I was rescuing another toy from a Yard Sale-" Woody began.
"Yard Sale? Was it because you were damaged? Did this Andy break you?" Prospector interrupted again.
Woody shook his head when he realised that the Prospector noticed his broken limp arm. "It was... It was an accident. I mean..."
"Sounds like both Sora and Andy really love you two." Jessie said, very unamused.
Myde grunted angrily, "I told you! Sora's NOT my owner!" blurting out without thinking, "Do you guys seriously think I'm totally crazy and think that I'm not a toy!?"
"And it's like that with Andy either, okay?" Woody added, aguring, "And I'm not going to any museum!"
"Me neither!" Myde concluded.
"Well, I'm not going back into stroage!" Jessie yelled back.
Before the argument could continue however, everyone heard a loud sound of a door being slammed shut outside of the room, before faint but heavy footsteps could be heard and were getting louder and louder, which meant that, to Myde and the toys' shock, Al' was coming.
"Al's coming!" Prospector whispered warningly.
"Uh oh!" Myde muttered.
Prospector told Jessie to go, but the latter, terrified as memories of being stuck in the box resurfaced, he told her firmly and encouragingly, "Jessie, look at me. I promise you'll come out of the box. Now go! Go!"
Finally, Jessie willed herself to jump into the box and into the safety beans, with the Prospector being pushed in after her and then Bullseye landing in last. Myde, panicking, found the quickest way to avoid in being seen and hid behind the small but hideable cut-out dismay of the old town of wild west, hiding behind the bar and crouched down as log as he can, keeping as silent as he could, hardly even daring to breathe despite the constant fear that he'll make the slip. Woody finally and quickly returned to the glass case Al' placed him in earlier.
Just in time before he could notice something out of the ordinary, Al' came marching in with a camera in hand, greedly smiling as he planned on taking photos of the Roundup gang.
"It's showtime!" Al' declared to himself.
Myde began to panic as he tried not to make a sound when he heard Al' approach the cutout set, but the man was unaware of the worldly traveller being there as he placed Jessie, Bullseye and the Prospector in the box in front of the wild west down cutouts while singing to himself.
"And now the main attraction." Al' said as he approached Woody's glass case, taking him out. But as he walked with Woody in his hand, he was unaware that part of the string of the rip on the doll's arm got caught in the stand that had Woody stand up, ripping the tear even more until finally...it was gone.
Just as Al' placed Woody with the rest of the Roundup gang, his eyes widened in horror and gasped when he suddenly found that the right arm had just...completely disappeared, leaving behind a small tuff of white cotton.
"No! His arm! Where's his arm?" Al' panicked, looking around and found that the arm fell off completely and landed on the floor. When he picked it up and panicked in dismay, unable to fix it himself, at first he didn't know what to do, until an idea came into mind.
With Woody's torn off arm still in hand, Al' quickly pulled out his phone and hurriedly dialed the number, while Myde listened in and was horrified to hear that Woody's right arm had completely torn off. He knew that as soon as Al' was out of sight and earshot, Woody was going to go into a more horrified and similiar hysterical breakdown, and Myde couldn't blame him for that.
"It's me, Al'! I've got an emergancy here!...Yes, we're all busy, but...Look, it has to be tonight...All right, all right! But first thing in the morning." Al' said to the person he was talking to before heading out of the door and closed it behind him.
Once Al' was gone again for now, Myde came out of his hiding place while the others came to live, and just as he predicted, Woody went hysterical.
"Aaaaah! It's gone! I can't believe it! My arm is completely gone!" Woody shouted in horror, as though he just retrieved a devastating wound...okay, so it is a devastating wound.
"Yeah, Al' has it. But still...yikes." Myde shuddered, shocked himself.
"All right, come here. Come on. Let me see that." Prospector gestured to Woody who did and was breathing quickly heavily. When the former saw this, as though nothing bad was happening at all, Prospector told him, "Oh, it's just a popped seam. Easily repaired. You should consider yourself lucky."
"Lucky!? Are you shrink-wrapped?" Woody asked, still panicking.
"He has a point here, man." Myde agreed, "I mean, he has a missing arm here."
"Big deal." Jessie said, still frustrated as she glared at the two, before saying to Prospector with heavy sarcasm, "Let them go. I'm sure Myde's precious Sora is waitin' to sell him to a Yard Sale, and Woody's precious Andy is dyin' to play with a one armed Cowboy doll."
"Sora's not my owner, for cryin' out loud! I'm probably more an annoyance to that kid than anything else." Myde groaned.
"Jessie, you know both Woody and Myde wouldn't last an hour on the streets." Prospector pointed out, secretly smirking behind the two's backs, "It's a dangerous world out there for a toy."
As much as it irked Woody, he knew that the Prospector was right. Besides which, he couldn't return home without his right arm, or he's as good as garbage for sure. The best thing to do was wait.
Myde on the other hand, knew differently. He was a little confident in getting himself out as he could wield his Styer and if the Heartless were outside of this building, he could fight his way through. But deep down, he just couldn't. In short hours since arriving here, Woody became his friend, toy or not, and Myde wasn't leaving until he knew that Woody would get his arm, get fixed and then get safely home to Andy. It also irked him that, as what he'd been saying all day, he was more of a nuisance to the group; especially to Isa and Donald.
Then a paranoid thought came into his mind; what if Sora and the others decided to dump him here and didn't care?
'Okay, you're over reacting, Myde.' He thought to himself, shutting his eyes. Sora wasn't the kind of person to just do that, not to anyone at that rate over something like this.
But there was still some doubt in the back of his mind.
Back with Sora and his group...
As Sora's group and Buzz's group travelled through the sidewalks while avoiding being seen by normal sized people, which with the Heartless keep on appearing and forcing the worldly travellers to fight the annoying horde that appeared in what seemed like every five minutes, they were briefly blocked a very unusual Heartless that took form of a miniture garbage can and attatched to it was a slime-jelly like blob with a goofy face.
Try imaginng a buck-toothed and googily eyed, smooth body version of that big green and ugly jelly-like Ghost from the Ghost Busters movies if you still have no idea what it looks like in your heads.
And it managed to create a barrier that blocked Sora, Donald, Goofy and Buzz from the rest of the group and were trapped with the Blobby-Heartless.
So with Donald's help in giving Buzz brief magic in turning his little light-bulb laser into an actual fighting damaging Laser just for this battle, and possibly others should it happen again, the four of them fought the Heartless while the others outside the barrier protected the other toys while fighting another horde of Heartless that appeared.
Buzz, with his new real Laser, shot at the Blobby-Heartless right at the eyes which caused it to flop back and forth on it's trash can before leaping out of the way when it recovered and spluttered out toxic slime onto the ground that would give damage to those fighting it, before firing his laser again.
Sora and Donald both used their Firaga magic at the Blobby-Heartless as it appeared that Fire and Ice were it's weaknesses. The former then rushed over and delivered series of combos and thrusts at it with his Keyblade which did usual damage due to it being a Heartless. He flipped backwards to avoid it's slimy arm that tried to strike at him, which gave Goofy the chance to smack it with his Shield before using his Goofy-Nado still, hitting it repeatedly as he spun around and around.
The four of them then had to run around avoiding it when the Blobby-Heartless then hopped around chasing them, with it's Garbage Can attatched and all, which created tremors that can cause severe damage if Sora, Buzz, Donald and Goofy got caught by the small quakes. When it stopped, it somehow took a deep breath before blasting out a huge amount of toxic slime at the four of them who leaped out of the way just in time before any of them were engulfed by the overly large slime that was the size of a pool for Sora and his friends given their current sizes.
Sora then had an idea and preformed his Flowmotion, glowing in blue light before leaping towards the Blobby-Heartless, entrapping it as he spun all around it before somewhat capturing it with his Keyblade before thrusting it towards the wall barrier where it crashed into before slumping, dazed. He didn't stop there as first he thrusted his Keyblade at it 20 times before Buzz fired multiple lasers at it to decrease it's health, Goofy smacked it with his shield once more and Donald used a combination of Firaga and Blizzaraga to weaken it even more.
Though they were suddenly knocked back when the Bobbly-Heartless caught them by surprise as it recovered and swiped them with it's right arm, causing the four of them to now hit the Barrier's walls themselves before they slumped to the ground. Despite this and the Bobbly Heartless attempting to finish them off with another toxic slime, Sora casted a barrier to protect his three friends and himself from it which reflected the slime right back at it which somehow caused it more damage rather than healing it and had now poisoned itself.
Seeing this and healing themselves with Curaga, Sora, Buzz, Donald and Goofy used this to their advantage and repeated their earlier attacks against it with combo attack, Laser, magic and Shield before Sora and Buzz both finally finished it off with the combination of using Buzz's Laser and Sora's Light into a Light-Laser that zipped right through the Bobbly-Heartless's head, causing it to vaporate and vanish completely, utterly defeated by three of the worldly travellers and a toy with a burrowed use of magic.
Due to the Heartless' defeat, the barrier that had the four of them trapped also disappeared, much to the relief of their friends while Buzz's Laser returned to it's true toy little light-bulb form. While it was a relief to be back to normal, having an actual Laser like he first believed his light-bulb was had been an exciting moment for him.
"Are you okay?" Aqua asked, worriedly.
"You're not hurt, are you guys?" Rex added.
"We're okay. Nothing to it." Sora said, with Buzz, Donald and Goofy also responding that they were alright.
"What was with that slimy blob anyway? If it came from the Trash, then that makes me feel terrified of garbage even more!" Mr. Potato Head muttered, shuddering a little.
"The Heartless take on any kind of forms no matter where they are. Most of 'em can even look even more scary than what Sora, Donald, Goofy and Buzz just fought." Mickey explained.
Kairi in the meantime went up to Sora and checked him with worry, concerned if he was hurt or not despite him ensuring her that he was fine, and when she was convinced that he was alright, she smiled in relief. That smile made Sora's heart beat a bit faster than normal and his face flush slightly. However, much to their embarrassment an annoyance, they caught Donald snickering before he could stop himself.
"Going into something more romantic, huh?" Mr. Potato Head asked, smirking as he too also noticed.
"Perfectly obvious, but they're too stubborn to admit it. Quite a pity, really." Jack said with a knowing look.
"Oh, give us a break! It's all in your heads." Sora protested, both he and Kairi blushing heavily once again, before suggesting, "Anyway, we should get moving before we get into more trouble."
Despite that something was going on with both Sora and Kairi, everyone else decided to agree with the former and continued on.
Another half an hour later found them sneaking from a bush to a letter box. Buzz went first and when he made sure that the coast was clear, he gestured the others to quickly hurry to the hiding place. Sora and his group two by two did as that while keeping an eye out. Rex, having covered himself with leaves in hopes to cameflouge himself, hurried as fast as he could but was still a bit slow and as he ran his so called 'clever' disguise quickly rendered to a single leaf, much to the others annoyance and embarrassment.
When he saw this, Rex shrugged sheepishly.
"That's a lot more stupid than my attempt to sneak off using a large leave in Tortuga." Jack sighed, exasperated while shaking his head at the memory of having tried and failed to hide from Dulor weeks back.
"At least he tried." Ven pointed out, taking pity for the toy T-Rex who quickly joined them.
Slinky crouched low while hurrying as well, with both Potato Head and Hamm following, when Hamm suddenly tripped and rolled once and fell, with the cork underneath him having popped out and all of the money in change he'd been carrying scattered onto the sidework, causing everyone to see what happened.
"Uh, alright, nobody look 'till I get my cork back in." Hamm told them in embarrassment.
Once Hamm had done that and all of the toys rejoined the others, Buzz took a glance at the map and announced, "Good work, everyone. Two blocks down and only nineteen more to go."
"What?" Rex exclaimed, dismayed.
"Nineteen?" Donald, Lea, Goofy, Slinky and Hamm all cried out, also dismayed.
"Only nineteen? You might as well call it a bloody hundred, mate." Jack muttered sourly.
"Are we gonna do this all night? My parts are killing me." Mr. Potato Head whined, collasping onto his butt and rubbed his blue shoe parts.
"Well, if we want to reach Woody and Myde by tomorrow morning, we have no choice in that matter." Isa pointed out, despite feeling a bit grouchy due to the fact that they've only cleared two blocks since leaving Andy's home.
Lea placed his hands behind his lower back and stretched until a sastifying crack was heard, before he moaned, "Easy for you to say, man. I haven't even got a decent night sleep in days and I'm exhausted."
"Oh, I know everybody's tired, but who knows what could happen even tomorrow." Mickey pointed out.
"Besides which, where can we actually sleep anyway without worrying about the Heartless?" Riku added.
"They're right. Besides, fellas," Buzz said to the four other toys, with the worldly travellers listening as during their journey, they heard about how Buzz came to be Andy's new toy that made Woody jealous until a misadventure led them to the former nextdoor neighbor of a boy named Sid who, before Woody, Buzz and the mutant toys Sid created terrified him, was a toy torturer, which in the worldly travellers' opinion, was utterly disgusting, even for a child no older than ten years old. "Did Woody give up when Sid had me strapped to a rocket?"
"No." Rex, Hamm, Slinky and Mr. Potato Head said in resigned unison, and also not wanting to remember their toy-killer of a neighbor before moving.
"No!" Buzz agreed.
Sora then continued challengingly for Buzz after getting the story earlier, "And did he give up when you guys threw him out of the back of that moving van last year?" which made the four toys cringe in guilt at that memory.
"Oh, you had to being that up, kid." Mr. Potato Head mumbled, still smacking himself mentally for his own behavior towards Woody that long ago.
"No, he didn't!" Buzz reminded with determination, in his leader-ship personality, "We have a friend in need, and we will not rest until he's safe in Andy's room. Not only that, Sora's group have a friend also in need, and they will not rest until he's safe with them as well! Now let's move out!"
He then took the lead, with Sora, Kairi, Aqua, Terra, Mickey, Ven, Skuld, Xion and even Isa following him.
Lea, Donald, Goofy, Jack, Roxas, Hamm, Mr. Potato Head, Slinky and Rex stood behind after a pause, until Jack noticed that nobody else was moving.
"Well, come on, then! Let's get a move on. Savvy?" Jack gestured impatiently, before hurrying to catch up to Sora and the others.
Despite the rest of the group giving out loud groans, they all moved on to catch up to the others, resigned to their fate to spend the rest of the night and a full day tomorrow of no sleep.
"Remind me to put duct tape on Jack's mouth." Roxas sighed.
"Duly noted, Rox'." Lea nodded, "Duly noted."
None the less, the two groups pushed on.
Back at Al's apartment, Myde once again took hiding behind the cut-out set, while Woody was again placed in the glass case. This time Jessie and Bullseye were also in glass cases next to him to his right, and the Prospector in his box to his left. Al' had been watching the late night recons and had fallen asleep while eating a bowl of cheesy dibbles, and was snoring quite loudly.
In his sleep, he lost his grip on the bowl which fell and scattered the chessy dibbles all over the floor.
That didn't faze Woody however as all night he'd been waiting. Seein that his right arm was in the man's front shirt pocket, he decided to silently approach him, claim his arm and then sneak out of here as quietly as possible without waking him.
As slowly and silently as he could, Woody stepped out of his glass gaze and carefully hopped down, before walking towards the couch on tippy tip toe...
Crunch!
The crunch sound made Woody freeze and looked down to see that he stepped onto one of the hundreds of cheesy dibbles that scattered onto the floor and to his horror, there so many of them that he couldn't walk forward without causing a sound. So, carefully stepping aside of them in a zig-zag, Woody continued onward, careful as he went...
Crunch.
"Oops." A familiar voice whispered.
Woody gasped, wondering what it was, before turning to see that it was Myde who had accidently stepped on another one, and the mullet-haired young man cringed before gazing up at Woody, before waving sheepishly.
"Myde! What are you-?" Woody whispered. "Go, go, go, go."
"I'm not goin' anywhere." Myde whispered back, stubbornly.
The real Cowboy doll groaned before hurrying back towards him without crushing any of the junk food on the floor, whispering in slight irritation, "Myde, you don't wanna help me! I'm the bad guy."
"What am I? A ten year old?" Myde whispered, annoyed, looking at his friend as though the latter was stupid.
"Look, the others are gonna go back to storage because of me, remember? And you could get into trouble too!" Woody sighed.
"Hey, I wanna get outta here as much as you do. But thing is, I wouldn't be able to live with myself if I simply let you go out and struggle your way home by yourself. Now me, I used to be a bad guy, and a real slacker, so this sort of thing isn't what I normally do." Myde explained, still whispering. "I wanna help you get back home, Wood' and back to that Andy kid of yours."
Realising that Myde wasn't going to take no for an answer, Woody sighed in defeat, "All right, all right. But you have got to keep quiet."
"Sure thing, Sheriff." Myde nodded.
With that, the two side-stepped carefully around the junk food until they reached the clearing and to the armrest where Al's head was resting on, standing beside it. Myde nodded before crouching low and allowed Woody to climb onto his shoulders, before slowly standing up and lifted the cowboy doll up to the level of the armrest, while the worldly traveller waited anxiously.
Woody then slowly climbed up and carefully walked onto the sleeping Al's shoulder and chest, reaching out his left arm to grab his right arm, but paused when he heard an monsterous-like gurgle coming from the man's stomach that went all the way up to Al's throat...and when he let out a wheezing breath, Woody gagged as quickly as possible, nearly tearing up at the awful smell, using his hat to try and wave it back as much as possible before putting it back on his head, softly groaning in disgust.
"Ooh...that's really nasty." Myde whispered in disgust when he saw Woody do that, already having an idea on what just happened. Bad breath was always one of the worst things ever. For poor Woody to be right at Al's head, neither wanted to know what that fat guy even ate, other than the cheesy dibbles.
"Try it at my end." Woody whispered as he heard what his friend had said.
None the less, he held his breath and slowly reached out for his right arm, this time succeeding, and sighed in relief when Al' didn't wake up. He was just about to rejoin Myde to get outta here, when all of the sudden...
"~Woody's Roundup. Come on, it's time to play~"
Both Myde and Woody froze when the TV was suddenly turned on and Woody's Roundup was suddenly turned on.
Uh oh.
"Ah!" Al' cried out when the sudden noise woke him up, and when he jolted upright, he unknowingly catapaulted Woody and his arm off him and onto the floor where Woody had no choice but to freeze up lifeless.
"Uh-oh!" Myde whispered before hurriedly hiding under the couch to avoid being seen as silently as he could.
Al' in the meantime, stood up and apparently a bit disorientated from a dream he'd been having before calming down after realising where he was. To his great confusion as he had no idea what just happened, Woody and his arm were on the floor. Still tired and realising he'd fallen asleep on the couch, he then returned Woody into the glass case while picking up his right arm before searching for the remote.
While stunned, Woody briefly came to life and saw that the remote had been in front of Jessie. Ugh. Was she that frustrated at him to the point in having turned the TV on just to force him to stay? What was wrong with that woman? Woody quickly froze up when Al' spotted the remote as well before turning the TV off and then walked out of the room...with Woody's right arm in his hand.
Once Al' was gone to his bedroom to sleep out the rest of the night, Woody jumped out of his glass and yelled angrily at Jessie who also came to life when he did so, "What is your problem? Look, I'm sorry Myde and I can't help you guys out. Really, I am. But you didn't have to go and pull a stunt like that."
"What? You think I did that?" Jessie asked, disbelievingly. What in the world was Woody talking about? She noticed that the tv mysteriously turned on as well, but even she had no idea how that happened, and now Woody was accusing her for doing it?
"Oh, right, right. Yeah, the TV just happened to turn on, and the remote magically ended up in front of you." Woody replied in heavy sarcasm, while Myde made his way to them once the coast was clear again, though in retrospect, he was suddenly feeling that he should back off.
"You callin' me a liar?"
"Well, if the boot fits..."
"Say that again..." Jessie dared, becoming more and more furious by the second.
"If the boot-tah fits." Woody repeated, omniously.
That did it. That went over the line big time.
"Okay, cowboy...!" Jessie growled, titling her hat forward in preparation of a massive fight.
The moment Myde managed to leap his way up to the shelf, he cringed as he arrived at the wrong time, shivering in terror at how scary Jessie looked right now. Even Bullseye was terrified as the horse leaped out of his case and soon both the horse and Myde clinged onto each other, shivering and fearing for their lives.
"YAAH!" Jessie growled as she leaped from her case and soon both she and Woody were in a huge fight, with Jessie having the full advantage due to both having two arms and having Woody underneath her, while both Myde and Bullseye cringed and winched at the scene before them. "How do ya like that? Take it back! Take it back!"
"This is what happens when you push a girl's wrong button." Myde said to Bullseye, as memories of when Larxene would attack him for no reason back in Organization XIII...and many times before he became a Nobody years earlier.
"I heard that!" Jessie yelled at Myde while still focusing on giving Woody more than just a severe loss of one arm. The young man flinched, whimpering in fear.
"Hey, don't take out on Myde just 'cause he made a comment! Besides, don't think just 'cause you're a girl I'm gonna take it easy on ya. YAH!" Woody cried out.
"Jessie! Woody! You stop this at once!" Prospector yelled, but accidently tilted his box forward caused caused the box with him inside to fall forward and land on it's front. Fortunately, both Woody and Jessie moved out of the way before he ended up squashing them.
Worried, Jessie and Bullseye both hurriedly repositioned the box the correct way, even though the Prospector was perfectly fine as all five of them gathered.
"I don't know how that television turned on, but fighting about it isn't helping anything." He pointed out.
"Well, it wouldn't have happened if Woody had both his arms, ya'know." Myde pointed out in return.
"Well, the fact is he doesn't, Myde. Besides, it's late." Prospector said, more calmly this time, suggesting, "So, Woody, I suggest both of you wait until morning. The cleaner will come, fix your arm..."
"And then I'm outta here." Woody finished, stubbornly, irritated.
"Me too!" Myde nodded.
Both of them then suddenly noticed Bullseye's lips quivering in sadness before the toy horse lowered it's head, silently sobbing.
"Hey, whoa. Take it easy, Horsey." Myde quickly said, cooling down completely as did Woody. "We're not angry at you, alright?"
"He's right, don't take it that day." Woody added.
"I really gotta get back to Sora and others." Myde said.
"And with Andy-"
"Andy, Sora, Andy, Sora." Jessie repeated in annoyance after cutting Woody off, walking away while doing her best to comfort Bullseye as she took him with her. "That's all they ever talk about."
Even though they really wanted to find Andy and Sora, both Myde and Woody couldn't help but feel guilt that only grew slightly worse when it came to hurting the feelings of both Bullseye and Jessie. Even though both knew there was nothing they could do, both of them wished there something they could do in fixing up this mess.
Until then, they were still stuck here until tomorrow.
A/N: The Heartless boss-fight Sora and the others fought against is based on the garbage monster boss battle in the PS1/Nintendo 64 game version of Toy Story 2. I once played the Nintendo 64 game many years ago. Sorry for the lack of fights, so I'll try and make it up for it in other chapters.
See you in the next chapter, fellow readers!