Author's Note: I'm back again! Though I think this one might be longer than the other worlds so far.
I don't own Kingdom Hearts or Final Fantasy.
CH16: True Nature.
As Al' pulled up at the partment building, he wasted no time in getting out and heading towards the Elevator to begin packing for Japan. In such so that he didn't borther in taking the bag and left it in the car. Thus, it kept Sora and all of his friends trapped inside. Now that Al' wasn't there, everyone was allowed to move.
"He didn't take the bag!" Rex gasped, dismayed.
"That's just great." Riku grumbled in sarcasm.
"No time to lose!" New Buzz said, making sure that the coast was clear before leaping out before realising that the door was locked. Peaking through the side window, he saw just in time that Al' stepped into the elevator. "He's ascending in the vertical transporter."
"The what transporter?" Sora asked as he and everyone else got out of the bag and now stood on the driver's seat of the car, only to have New Buzz grab his arm while pushing a red botton that extended plastic but cool looking wings.
"All right, everyone, hang on! We're gonna blast through the roof!" New Buzz declared while grabbing Kairi's right arm...completely oblivious that he cannot fly.
"Uh, Buzz?" Sora blinked, confused. Kairi was right; Buzz was acting weird...
"To infinity and beyond!" New Buzz says and attempted to fly up...but to his great confusion, nothing happened. What was going on?
An awkward pause.
"What are you, insane? We're wasting time." Mr. Potato Head said, before going over to try and unlock the car himself, with Rex being next to him. "Stand still, Godzilla."
Rex gives his friend a boost up to the car lock and stood still, while Mr. Potato Head strained to try and and pull it up, but since he had weak arms, he wasn't one for physical strength. While Sora and Kairi were both let go, they and everyone else shared awkward glances while New Buzz puts away his plastic wings, confused and still oblivious to the truth.
"I-I don't understand. Somehow my fuel cells have gone dry." New Buzz thought to himself.
"Anyone got any bright ideas how to get out of this car?" Lea asked, shrugging.
Jack in the meantime, looking quite annoyed before something caught his eye. A strange looking...whatever it was on the arm rest of the car, or handle that opened it from the inside, possibly. He couldn't tell, as these things were foreign to him. Wondering what the strange square thing in a metal hole was, the pirate pushed it forward. The moment he did, it successfully popped the lock open but it also sent Mr. Potato Head flying, his arms pulled off and the rest of him bouncing backwards as he cried out in alarm, before landing upside down in a cup holder next to Hamm who chuckled at this.
Everyone, even Jack, were startled as they noticed this. When the pirate realised what had happened, quite stunned and shocked, he turned back to Mr. Potato Head and grinned nervously.
"Sorry. Honest mistake." Jack replied, sheepishly.
"Well, at least you got the door open." Mickey said, seeing how it happened.
"I did?" The pirate asked, confused.
True to Mickey's word, Terra, Lea, Isa and New Buzz pushed the door open a little before the latter hopped out and checked around the area just in case there was any signs of danger.
"Oh! Would you look at that?" Jack muttered, surprised.
After retrieving Mr. Potato Head's arms, he, Sora, Jack, Kairi, Terra, Lea, Isa, Roxas, Xion, Aqua, Ven, Terra, Riku, Mickey, Donald, Goofy, Skuld, Hamm, Rex and Slinkly followed New Buzz to the double glass doors which unfortunately were too heavy and too high for them to reach the handles without getting into trouble. New Buzz watched as the Elevator's number reached to the top floor.
"Blast! He's on level 23." New Buzz grunted, irritated.
"How are we gonna get up there?" Slinky asked, dismayed.
"I don't think the Keyblade Gliders can help with this problem." Aqua thought, worriedly.
"Especially if the windows are locked, and people might see us." Terra nodded in agreement.
"Maybe if we find some balloons, we could float to the top." Rex suggested, looking up at the top floor.
Hearing this made Isa groan and pinch the bridge of his nose with his forefinger and thumb. "Not you too."
"What's wrong?" Rex asked, puzzled.
"That's exactly the same thing Myde suggested a while back in an attempt to climb a mountain." Isa shook his head, dismayed at the lack of brains, remembering back in Arendelle not even a week ago.
"Maybe if we find some balloons, we could float to the top." Myde suggested jokingly.
Isa groaned before tugging the mullet-headed man's ear, causing Myde to cry out girlishly once more, while the blue-haired man told him in sheer annoyance, "What kind of highschool did you go to? Kindergarden level?"
"Are you guys kidding?" Mr. Potato Head rolled his eyes, before suggesting a plan that came up in his head, "I say we stack ourselves up, push the intercom and pretend we're delivering a pizza."
"How 'bout a Hamburger?" Lea suggested with a shrug, in no small amount of sarcasm. "With ice cream, fries and a chocolate milkshake."
"And a hotdog." Hamm added.
"Hey, guys! Found a shortcut." Sora called up, and when most of the others turned to look, they found that Sora, Riku, Kairi, Donald, Goofy and Mickey had found a heat duct on the side of the building.
"A secret passage. Good work, young warrior!" New Buzz praised, hurrying over to the heat duct, and with Sora and Riku's help, pulled the grate off before setting it aside. As everyone else gathered around, New Buzz said to Rex about their earlier conversation back at Al's Toy Barn office, "Just like you said, lizard man. In the shadows to the left."
"No idea what you just said, but...let's go!" Sora instructed.
"Okay, lets move!" New Buzz agreed, taking the lead, with everyone else following barely half a second later and thankfully, the heat duct tunnels were big enough for all of them to move around in a groups of five, though they knew that they had to watch out for Heartless.
While noticing that New Buzz was seemingly talking to himself, Skuld couldn't help but comment, "Something very strange is going on with him."
"I think the Buzz aisle went to his head." Hamm muttered.
The group then stopped when they were stuck in a triple fork in the road, the one to their right was blocked, while the one in front of them and the one to their left continued onward. Just as they were about to decide which way to go, suddenly everything around them shook, almost like an Earthquake.
"What is that?" Jack asked.
"We've been detected!" New Buzz cried out, "The walls! They're closing in!"
Though the others didn't see that the walls were closing in, New Buzz quickly pushed Mr. Potato Head up to the ceiling above them in hopes of 'proping' the walls to stop them from being done for.
"Hey! Hey! Put me down, you moron." Mr. Potato Head yelled.
"Hey guys, look! It's not the walls. It's the elevator!" Rex called out, looking at his right as the wall that originally blocked it off came down, revealing a large square room.
Seeing that the T-Rex Toy was right, he and everyone else hurried over and glanced at what they realised was the roof of the Elevator, and as they looked up, the walls were lit up due to the light on the ceiling. Upward was really high that seemed like a thousand feet up. Large caple ropes were holding the elevator to drag it up and down.
"Come on. We've got no time to lose. Everyone, grab hold." New Buzz ordered while giving Mr. Potato Head a rope that was attacted to him, before pulling out sucken cups, before beginning to climb upwards for himself and everyone else.
"Uh, Buzz? Why not just take the elevator?" Ven asked, confused.
"They'll be expecting that!" New Buzz replied.
"We're all gonna be too heavy for you!" Sora protested, but New Buzz didn't listen.
"We're gonna die. You know that, right?" Lea sighed, exasperated.
10 minutes later...
It felt like an eternity since Sora and the others grabbed onto the rope, and most of them were fearing that they were never going to make it at the rate New Buzz was going due to carrying eighteen of them all up. New Buzz, having learned the hard way, strained to climb, but was stubborn and continued to climb none the less.
All of the sudden, due to leaning back too much, Hamm felt some of the coins he'd been carrying slide out and fall into the darkness below. "Uh-oh. Hey, head's up down there!"
One hit Mickey on the head and he cried out, "Ow! Gosh, that's rainin' money there."
"Whoa!" Sora cried out as a couple nearly hit him. "That was close."
"That's a Bank losing money, mates." Jack commented.
A couple of coins landed onto Donald's eyes which had him to close before he ends up blind. "Hey!" he then shook them off and opened his eyes once more, asking in annoyance, "How much further, Buzz?"
"Half...way...there!" New Buzz strained.
Rex, who was directly behind Buzz and in front of everyone else, strained before realising in horror that he is about to slip. "My arms can't hold on much longer!"
To his and everyone else's horror, Rex lost his grip and slid down onto Hamm, then Slinky, then Mickey, then Sora, and soon everyone were all stuck into a large ball screaming in alarm while holding on for dear life, but due to now all of them hundled up, the extra weight was causing New Buzz to begin sliding and thus it was too much for him to continue on and if he didn't do something, they were all goners.
That's when an idea came into mind...which, if he knew what he really was, it was suicidal. Okay, let's be honest here; it was suicidal no matter what he thought.
New Buzz pushed the botton on his belt which glowed in blue light, before preparing to jump as he informed everyone, confident, "Hang tight, everyone. I'm going to let go of the wall."
"What!?" Everyone else asked, shocked and horrified.
"He wouldn't!" Skuld said, incrediously.
"One." New Buzz began to count.
"He would." Riku sighed, realising that New Buzz was serious.
"Two."
"No, don't, Buzz! You're gonna us killed!/Are you insane!?/Buzz, no!/Let's think about this!" Were at least the more clear words from some of the others as everyone cried out to try and get New Buzz to not do anything that could very well be the end of them. Everything else the others said were jumbled up and sounded more like panicked gibberish.
"Three!" New Buzz finished and let go, doing some pose and unaware that it wouldn't work, which caused him and everyone to fall, most of them screaming in terror and bracing themselves.
Fortunately, two things happened; one, the Keyblade wielders quickly used Gravitia and Barrier to slow the descend and prevent casualties, and two, the elevator was already ascending back up and was halfway when the group fell onto it, so the fall was only about 7 or 8 feet below before they landed onto the roof of it, but were still stuck on a pile, with New Buzz on top of them and was unaware that it was the elevator that was carrying him and the others up and not his belt.
"To Infinity...and Beyond!" New Buzz chanted. As they got closer to the 23rd level heat duct tunnel, he nodded to himself. "Approaching destination. Reengaging gravity." He pushed the botton off.
Once they reached it, New Buzz cautionly checked before he was sastifyed that it was all clear. He turned to the others and announced this, and found that, even despite the Keyblade wielders and the Elevator having saved all of them, everyone moaned and felt dizzy and sore and in Rex's case, parayized in trauma that he could only take baby steps forward.
"Gawrsh...Ay-yhuck..." Goofy moaned weakly.
"It's okay, troops. The antigravity sickness will wear off momentarily." New Buzz ensured, believing that his so called Antigravity belt was the cause of this and not what really happened, before turning to face the tunnel again and commandered, "Now, lets move!" and took off in good amount of speed.
"I'm never climbing like that again as long as I live." Lea moaned, his back killing him.
"Remind me to glue his helmet shut when we get back." Mr. Potato Head requested, before he and everyone else slowly moved to follow.
However, little did everyone know, between the gaps of the elevator, the real Buzz managed to hide after having found where his friends had gone into to find the way up, and was now waiting for the right moment to show everyone the truth behind him being left behind and the New Buzz's actions.
In Al's apartment room...
Al' was busy hurrying to pack everything in boxes and suitcases, wheeling most out as the clock was ticking. At the same time, he was talking to someone again on the phone. Woody, Jessie, Bullseye and the Prospector were all in foam shapes to be carefully put into the suitcase, while Myde was again hiding under the couch, just waiting for the time to say goodbye to his new friends before he could leave to find Sora and the others.
"To overnight six packages to Japan is how much?" Al' asked, and when the price was given to him, he asked again, "That's in yen, right?...DOLLARS!? Ugh! You are deliberately taking advantage of people in a hurry. You know that?...I'll do it! All right, fine! I'll have the stuff waiting in the lobby, and you'd better be here in 15 minutes. Because I have a plane to catch!"
Al', while talking, hurried out the door once more and closing it behind him to continue his work. When he was gone for a short time, it gave Myde and the toys a chance to breathe and the former approached the toys who got out of the foams...except for the Prospector who needed help in doing so.
"Well, this is it, huh?" Myde said, a little sadly.
"Yeah, sure is." Woody replied and while he was sad to have to say goodbye to a new friend, he felt the strange excitement flow inside him.
"Woo-hoo! We're finally going! Can you believe it?" Jessie cheered.
"That's custom-fitted foam insulation you'll be ridin' in, Bullseye." Prospector said to the excited toy Horse. "First class all the way."
"You know what?" Woody finally spoke, excitement really showing. "I'm actually excited about this. I mean it. I really am!"
"And why shouldn't you be?" Prospector replied.
Soon all of the Roundup gang got out of the foam and began dancing happily, as Myde watched on, before sighing in sadness and actually felt...very uncomfortable. Now that the moment was coming, something felt very off about all of this. He wasn't sure what it was, but...it seemed as though something bad was about to happen.
He shook it off and decided that it was paranoia, before chuckling when Bullseye lifted Woody onto his back in which the Cowboy doll realised he wanted to do a rodeo.
"Ride like the wind, Bullseye!" Woody cheered, before yelping when the saddle somehow slid off the horse and caused him to fall onto his back. Bullseye blushed in embarrassment.
"You okay there, Wood'?" Myde laughed as he and Jessie made to help him stand.
"W-Watch it. Wait, wait." Woody laughed as their fingers briefly touched his chest and sides. "I'm ticklish, okay?"
'Didn't know toys can be ticklish.' Myde thought to himself, smirking.
"Oh, you are?" Jessie asked, as a cheeky idea came into mind.
"No. No, no, no." Woody half-heartedly pleaded, only to be rendered into hopeless of uncontrollable laughter when Jessie attacked full on in her tickle attack all over, much to Myde and the Prospecter's amusements.
"Are we there yet?" Roxas moaned, as he and everyone else continued to follow New Buzz through seemingly endless turns and twists of the heat duct tunnels.
They turned to their right, and just when they were about to continue forward to pass the tunnel to their left, everyone paused when they heard a voice cry out from that direction.
"Please! No!"
"What was that?" Sora asked, quickly becoming concerned as the first thought in his mind was that someone was in trouble.
"That's Woody!" Slinky said happily, howling in relief.
"This way!" Sora instructed, taking the lead before he and the others skid to a stop behind the grates of the heat duct, finding themselves to see what they suspect was Al's partment, the true location of Woody's whereabouts, and as they were hearing, all they heard was his pleads for someone to stop doing...something.
"Ugh...I can't see a thing." Sora grunted in a whisper, before glancing at Mr. Potato Head...or more accurantly, his eyes.
After getting the Toy's permission, Sora used one of Potato Head's eye for navigation and the toy himself to see at the same time. At his instruction, Sora held the eye to the left, then higher and higher, until Potato Head saw, though still couldn't see what was really going on...Woody was being attacked by a group.
"What's happening?" Terra asked.
"Oh, it's-it's horrible! They're-They're torturing him!" Mr. Potato Head cried out, horrified, much to everyone else's shock and horror.
"Oh no!" Donald cried out.
"What're we gonna do!?" Goofy cried out, worriedly.
Jack glanced at the grate, before gazing at the toys until his eyes locked onto Rex and suggested to the others, "We could always use his head."
When everyone else followed Jack's gaze at Rex, despite this being a silly idea, they realised what Jack had in mind; use Rex's head to barrel open the grate and break in to save Woody. So with that, the group held the Dinosaur forward and upside down, taking several steps back, before counting down to prepare to run and back it down.
"Okay! One...two...three!" Sora shouted, and ran along with the others.
After a few seconds, Rex exclaimed as he knew that this was going to be extremely painful, "But I don't wanna use my head!"
As everyone yelled in charging, Rex screamed as he tried to brace himself for the impact. But as no one really knew what was going on in the room, since Woody and Myde had already removed the nut-bolt earlier, Sora and the others easily sped through while flipping the heat duct open and continued to charge right past Myde and the other toys until the rescue group realised too late, crashing right into a box and landed in a heap of pile on top of each other.
The impact caused Jessie to stop her tickle attack as she, Woody, Myde, Prospector and Bullseye all looked up in surprise, wondering what in the world was that. The five toys Woody was able to recongise as his best friends, while Myde, to his surprise and instant relief, was the familiar group of fifteen he'd been travelling with, and like him, all in toy forms.
"Oh, nuts." Donald groaned, glaring in irritation at Jack due to his stupid idea that landed them and the others into this mess in the first place.
When the group all looked up, the worldly travellers' eyes all widened in confusion and relief when they saw Myde who was equally confused and relieved.
"Buzz, guys!" Woody said happily to New Buzz, Slinky, Hamm and Mr. Potato Head, never having thought he'd see them again, even for the last time. "Hey, how did you find me, and who're these new toys?"
"Myde?" Sora asked, shocked. The former Nobody had been here all this time with Woody? What was going on?
"Sora? Guys? You're here?" Myde asked back, pointing at the group. "I thought for sure that...you wouldn't be able to find me."
"This is Sora?" Woody asked, quirking an eye-brow as he pointed at the spiky-haired crown-chained necklace teenager in toy form.
"Wait a minute...you mean that action-figure toy is the Sora you were talkin' about?" Jessie asked, greatly surprised that Sora was indeed not Myde's owner after all. The kid himself wasn't even a little boy as she'd been expecting...close to more being sixteen years in appearence even though she thought now that Sora too was just a toy.
"Told ya' he wasn't my owner." Myde grinned at the Roundup gang toys.
"Huh? What's going on?" Sora asked as he and everyone else stood up, briefly in confusion and while the five toys with them glared at the three other toys that seemingly kidnapped both Woody and what they suspect now was Myde, the worldly travellers, seeing both of them alright and unharmed, were even more confused.
"That's what I want to know." Prospector responded, quickly shocked and annoyed by these intruders.
"Myde, you're okay!" Xion cried out happily, running up to towards the Melo-Water wielder, wrapping her arms around the surprised Myde's waist and nearly knocked him over in her enthusiastic reaction. "We were so worried about you!"
"You were...worried about me?" Myde asked, feeling the warmth form inside his chest at this, and wondered if this was a dream.
"Of course we were. What kind of question is that?" Roxas answered, smiling, "The same way as these guys were worried about Woody." gesturing at the five toys who glanced at each other, wondering how to respond to this.
But before anyone else could say anything, New Buzz suddenly heard some kind of noise and immediately glomped Woody to the floor, aiming his Laser to the middle of the room while saying warningly, "Watch yourself!"
When Sora and his group and Myde immediately sensed the familiar darkness, they and the toys turned just in time to see Heartless appear, threatening to attack all of them. Those who haven't seen Heartless before all screamed in terror.
"Wh-what are they!?" Jessie exclaimed, shocked at the sudden intruders that just appeared like real ghosts.
"They're the Heartless!" Goofy exclaimed.
"Oh, why did they have to appear now!? It was nice and quiet around here." Myde groaned in dismay, now knowing that most of his secrets were out, and while he and his worldly travel companions all summoned their weapons, much to the surprise of the Roundup gang when they saw him summon his Styer for the first time.
"Buzz, you and the guys protect Woody! We'll handle the Heartless!" Sora informed New Buzz while holding a tight grip on his Keyblade.
"Yes, sir!" New Buzz saluted, before turning his attention to the other Roundup gang.
"Don't worry, Sora! We'll handle the three other bad guys and spring Woody outta here!" Slinky said, as he, Hamm, and Mr. Potato Head charged, while Rex just stood by, being slow in thinking.
"Uh, Myde?" Woody asked.
"I'll explain later...and just for the record, sorry for not telling you sooner." Myde hurriedly said apologetically, before quickly whacking one Heartless away that tried to catch him off guard. He then spun around his Styer around at more Heartless that tried to attack as some of them, taking forms of Cowboys, shot out fiery pistol shots at him which he extingished with his water abilities. The former Nobody then created a water piller to get rid of the other three Heartless that while nearly hit him, were defeated into oblivion.
Sora and Riku both sped forward while making stabbing motions against the Robot-Heartless that tried to fire lasers at them but was caught off guard when the two Keyblade Masters stabbed it in half before the two of them cleaved it with series of combos with their Keyblades. While Riku then slashed downward to large spiky Yo-Yo Heartless that rolled and managed to hit everyone that was fighting the Heartless, knocking them back before he finally destroyed it while giving it a sky-upper cut, Sora in the meantime tossed his Keyblade at larger Robot Heartless, hitting it twice before casting Blizzard to breeze in a block of ice. The sixteen year old then slashed and sliced it before using his Flowmotion and spun around it until he thrusted it with his light and Keyblade at the wall, defeating it instantly.
Kairi, Mickey, Xion, Roxas, Lea, Isa, Terra, Aqua, Ven, Skuld, Jack, Donald and Goofy each used their Keyblades in their own skills as always including combats of swordsmanship, magic and other slashing and hacking skills against the Heartless as well as either potions or healing magic whenever they, Sora, Riku and Myde also got hurt during the battle.
Soon enough, once the worldly travellers finished off the Heartless as quickly as possible, they turned to gaze at the toys who most were still busy confronting Jessie, Prospector and Bullseye despite Woody's and even Myde's protests.
"Grab Woody and lets go!" Slinky called out as he kept Jessie and Bullsye trapped in his springs.
"Wait-ah! Hey!" Myde cried out when Kairi and Xion both grabbed his arms and pulled him with them and the others as they made their escape.
"Sorry, gotta go!" Sora waved at the three other toys.
"Fellas, hold it!" Woody cried out before New Buzz carried him over his shoulder, "Buzz, put me down!"
As the two groups made to escape, much to the shock of Jessie and Bullseye and the dismay of Prospector, to their and everyone else's shock and utter confusion...
"Hold it right there!" The real Buzz ordered, holding a hand out bodly as he stood between his friends, his counterpart and the vent.
"Buzz?" Sora, Riku, Kairi, Mickey, Donald, Goofy, Roxas, Xion, Lea, Isa, Terra, Ven, Aqua, Skuld, Jack, Hamm, Slinky, Mr. Potato Head, Rex and Woody all asked in great confusion that another Buzz, also out of the box, stood in front of them and without a belt as they, Myde and New Buzz all skid to a stop.
"You again!" New Buzz grunted in anger as he realized that the 'imposter' had escaped and now had followed him and the others all the way here, meeting the real Buzz in the middle as the two walked up to each other.
"Woody! Thank goodness you're alright." Buzz sighed in relief in seeing his friend safe and well.
"Buzz, what is going on?" Woody asked, confused at there are two of Buzz and now he couldn't tell which one was which, especially since both of them knew him and the others, only to be thrown to the ground unceremonily by New Buzz.
"Hold on!" New Buzz protested, glaring at his rival. "I am Buzz Lightyear, and I'm in charge of this detachment."
"No, I'm Buzz Light-" Buzz tried to say calmly.
"I am Buzz Lightyear!" New Buzz interrupted and argued.
"I'm Buzz Lightyear!" Buzz argued, glaring right into his counterpart's eyes.
"So, who's the real Buzz?" Sora demanded at both of them while Woody stood up. If one of them was responsible for the mix-up, then it was no wonder things had been acting quite strange ever since the Buzz Lightyear aisle at Al's Toy Barn.
"I am!" Both Buzzes chorused while pointing at themselves.
New Buzz, still oblivious to the truth, told Sora's group and the five other toys, "Don't let this impostor fool you! He's been trained by Zurg himself to mimic my every move."
While he was busy talking, the moment New Buzz finished, the real Buzz had a smug knowing look as he pushed a purple botton on the side of the helmet which caused it to flip open. Realising that his helmet opened up and still not knowing that he's just a toy, New Buzz panicked and wheezed, gasped and seemingly struggled to hold his breath as though the air was toxic all around him.
The worldly travellers and the other toys just stared awkwardly with skeptical or dumbfounded looks on their faces the way how New Buzz was reacting, before looking up at the other Buzz who to further prove the point, held up his boot which the bottom of it revealled the name Andy on it in permament ink.
"Buzz!" All of the worldly travellers except Myde, and all of the five Toys said in sheer relief and happiness to be reunited with the real Buzz, gathering around him and saying their relief and apologises.
"I knew you were the real one, Buzz. I felt it when we met the one with the belt." Kairi was saying.
"We're sorry that we got the two of you mixed up." Aqua said.
"How'd you end up being replaced anyway?" Sora was asking, wanting to know the incident better.
"I had a feelin' it was you, Buzz. My front end just had to catch up with my back end." Slinky said.
Myde smiled at the reunion of Woody and his five other Toy friends and realised that Sora and the others had been searching for both Myde himself and Woody and if he'd been given a guess, while he ended up here two days ago, his companions ended up in Andy's room and had set out a rescue mission when they found out of Woody having been stolen by Al'.
As everyone calmed down while Buzz forgave his friends and was happy to be back, New Buzz, still struggling to not breath the 'toxic air', managed to close his helmet once more and managed to sigh in relief despite only being a toy like the other toys and not like the worldly travellers.
When he saw the reunion happening, he spoke up, asking, "Will somebody please explain what's going on?" which got everyone else's attentions.
"It's alright, Space Ranger." Buzz smiled, approaching his confused counterpart and decided that it was a waste of time to convince him about the true life and instead played long, whispering, "It's a code 546."
"You mean it's a..." New Buzz gasped, shocked and amazed, falling for it.
"Yes." Buzz nodded.
"And he, Mickey and Sora are..." New Buzz asked, gazing at Mickey, Sora and Woody.
"Oh yeah." Buzz nodded again.
Gasping again, New Buzz approached the two and knelt before them, gasping both Sora's left hand and Woody's right hand, bowing his respect to them and Mickey, "Your majesties!"
"Uh..." Mickey laughed nervously.
"Um..." Sora blinked, a little creeped out.
Woody just chuckled nervously while he and Sora both pulled their hands away. The new Buzz gave the Cowboy doll memories of when he and the other toys first met Buzz a year ago on Andy's sixth birthday.
"Okay, the guy with the belt is really freaking me out." Myde commented with a quirked eye-brow. Who would've thought that there wer toys in this world that actually thought they were real people from other worlds?
"You try having him around and nearly killing you by leaping off a wall and doing all the ridiculous acts like he's a real person." Isa sighed, exasperated. "Thankfully the elevator, Sora, Aqua, the king and Riku saved us from being smashed into pieces."
"Now I'm really glad you guys are here and okay." Myde shuddered at the thought of what would've happened if his companions really did end up dead in the elevator.
The blue-haired man rolled his eyes with a smirk, before shifting awkwardly now that Myde was reunited with everyone including him. Isa then sighed and decided to let it all out but still calm, "Never thought I would say this, Myde, but...I missed ya'."
"Never thought I was say this either, but...I'm really glad you're okay too." Lea added as he approached the two.
When Myde looked at all of his companions, they all nodded their sentiments that they all missed him when they came here. He didn't know what to say, or how to react. He felt really awkward, before restoring himself to rub the back of his head.
"Even though I'm a right pain in the butt?" Myde asked, sheepishly.
"Aw, it doesn't matter about your personality, Myde. We know that you have a good heart. Besides, it never bothered any of use that Goofy has always been clumsy." Mickey said with a smile.
Goof nodded in agreement, "Yeah, Myde. I may be goofy, but I always care for my friends. And I can tell that you made friends with Woody too, right?"
"Yeeeeah, about that..." Myde began, now nervously before turning to Woody who just stared at him. Sighing, the mullet-haired man muttered, "I'm...sorry for not being completely honest for the last nearly two days, Wood'."
"Nah, it's okay. I get why you didn't say anything. I'd probably wouldn't believe you and tell you constantly that you're a toy, like I had to when I first met Buzz last year." Woody shrugged, accepting the apology, before asking, "But uh...that just leaves the question how you guys manage to bring those things in your hands up and those masked intruders you call the Heartless."
"Looong story. Short version of it is that the Heartless attack everybody randomly." Myde nodded, "Besides, I knew you'd think I was crazy...like how that guy is totally nuts and thinks he's a person and not a toy." he added while gazing at New Buzz who was even more confused.
Jack then stepped up to both of them and said, rather hurriedly, "Apologises for interrupting, mates. But may I suggest that we get a move on before Al' comes back which could be at any exact moment?"
"He's right. We better go. You're both in danger here." Terra nodded in agreement.
"Al's selling you to a toy museum in Japan!" Rex added to Woody.
"I know." Woody laughed and stepped away from his friends. "It's okay, Buzz. I actually wanna go."
"What?" Sora's group and Rex asked, shocked.
"Yeah, he uh, made up his mind a few hours ago. Me, I'm just stickin' around 'till he leaves." Myde added, his arms folded to his chest.
"Whaddya' mean?" Mickey asked, shocked and confused even more.
"Look, the thing is, I'm a rare Sheriff Woody doll," Woody explained before gesturing at Jessie, Prospector and Bullseye, "And these guys are my Roundup gang."
"Your Roundup gang?" Riku asked.
"Rare Sheriff Woody doll?" Ven added.
"Woody's a rare toy?" Goofy asked to Donald, very confused. The white duck just shrugged, just as clueless.
"What is he talking about?" Kairi asked to Myde.
"He's based on an old black and white TV show "Woody's Roundup". I wish I could show you guys. It's a great show!" Myde explained.
"And I was a star." Woody added, quickly turning on the remote that was on the floor and turned on the TV, where the scene of Woody and Bullseye riding through the outwest in the last episode before the show was cancelled and left in a cliffhanger, "See, now, look! Look! Look at me! See? That's me!"
"This is weirdin' me out." Roxas muttered to Lea and Xion as the latter nodded in agreement with the spiky-blonde haired former Nobody while all three of them and Isa were reminded of Genie taking form of the black and white Mickey in Agrabah when he emerged from the giant Turtle of the Vanishing Isle. Even Hamm and Potato Head were weirded out. The show itself reminded Sora, Mickey, Donald and Goofy of the Timeless River back at Disney Castle.
Woody in the meantime continued to the now unamused Buzz, "Buzz, it was a national phenomenon. And there was all this merchandise that just got packed up. Oh, you should've seen it. There was a record player and a yo-yo...Buzz, I was a yo-yo!"
"Was?" Lea repeated, skeptically as he shared a skeptical look with Roxas and Xion.
Buzz shook his head and told his friend, "Woody, stop this nonsense, and let's go."
"Buzz..." Woody sighed, in slight sadness, "I can't go. I can't abandon these guys." gesturing at the Roundup gang once more. "They need me to get into this museum. Without me, they'll go back into storage, maybe forever!"
"Woody, you're not a collector's item. You're a child's plaything." Buzz reminded, starting to get angry and trying to get his friend to understand, saying the exact same words the toy in front of him told him when he was delusional a year ago himself, "You, are, a toy!"
"For how much longer?" Woody argued. "One more rip, and Andy's done with me. And what do I do then, Buzz? Huh? You tell me."
Calming down, but still angered and sorrowed at his friend's decision, Buzz said one more time, "Somewhere in that pad of stuffing is a toy who taught me that life's only worth living if you're bein' loved by a kid. And even with or without a sixteen year old young man who is much like that same toy in personality, I had travelled all this way to rescue that toy, because I believed him."
"Well, you and Sora both wasted your time." Woody said with finality and turned around stubbornly.
Seeing how Woody wasn't going to change his mind on this, knowing that this was the final time they would bee seeing him, Buzz announced to both groups and to Myde, "Lets go, everyone."
"What about Woody?" Slinky asked, shocked and saddened.
"...He's not coming with us." Buzz somberly replied, turning to leave.
"But...!" Sora began, before sighing when the others in the group shook their heads.
"He's heart decided. There's nothing we can do about it." Terra said lowly.
Even Myde reconsided Woody's decision but sighed none the less. "I'll...catch up with you guys in a little while. I promised to see them off. It's the least I can do."
"Do what you want, Myde. We'll be waiting for you." Lea nodded.
As the fifteen worldly travellers and the other toys began to follow Buzz, Rex pointed out, sorrowed and not wanting to believe this was very well the last time they'll see Woody ever, "But-But Andy's coming home tonight."
"Then we'd better make sure we're there waiting for him." Buzz answered, as he opened the heat duct, having everyone enter in sorrow one by one. Slinky, having been one of Woody's closest friends, looked back at his old friend in sorrow, before hopping inside, head down. Sora and Buzz were both the last ones.
Woody, finally turning and while saddened to see his old friends go, said to Buzz for the final time, "I don't have a choice, Buzz. This is my only chance."
"To do what, Woody?" Buzz asked, eyes narrowing, "Watch kids from behind glass and never be loved again? Some life."
"Not to mention breaking the hearts of your other friends that were really worried about you and were hoping to see you again, and when Andy finds out that you're gone, he's really gonna be upset." Sora said, almost angrily, but also sorrowed and disappointed. "You're doing this without even ensuring them in person that you're okay and without so much of a goodbye. Even I would never do that to any of my friends."
With that, Sora and Buzz both entered the heat duct and closed the grate behind them and rejoined the rest of the group to return New Buzz to Al's Toy Barn and then Sora's group would wait for Myde before they could return the five other Toys back to Andy's house in a mission failure.
Myde sighed while placing both hands on his face before rubbing his neck a second later. Sora was right. Woody was doing this without really thinking of the consenquences. Buzz was also right about one thing; Woody would be stuck behind glass and watching kids just gaze at him, and not be played or loved anymore. So much so that even Woody was beginning to have second thoughts as Buzz and Sora's words repeated in his head, while they were duly noticed of the show still being on.
To the concern and confusion of Jessie, Bullseye and the Prospector, Woody sorrowfully turned and saw the puppet of himself playing a guitar while singing as a goodbye to the young audience of the ending of the episode. He then sat down on a duct tape lying on it's side and gazed sadly, seeing how a young human boy appeared on screen, and then hugged the doll-sized puppet lovingly while the TV-Woody continued to sing.
The more Woody thought about this, and even scrapped away the paint that covered Andy's name, the more he began to realise how stupid he was in making the decision to go to Japan when Andy still loved him and despite that it wouldn't last forever, Woody realised that he wanted to watch him grow up into a caring young man...just like Sora who, for a mysterious reason, took form of a toy. But then again, was it really normal in this world to have Toys that came to life?
Not in the worldly traveller's opinion, since while the Space Ranger thing was just imagination, there were other worlds but not like in movies or false science. Those worlds had many of different kinds...even humans who could use magic and fought Heartless to protect many others...especially children, like Andy. Without Sora or any of his companions, this world would be gone...and both Woody, his friends and Andy along with it.
"What am I doing?" Woody asked himself, before leaping up and called out to Buzz as he ran to the Heat Duct, instantly re-changing his mind.
"Woody, where are you going?" Prospector asked as he and the others realised what was going on.
"You're right, Prospector. I can't stop Andy from growing up. But I wouldn't miss it for the world." Woody told him, silently staying that he was going home where he belonged.
Myde, seeing this, smiled and approached his friend, saying, "Well then, better get you home, pal'." and with Woody's nod, the two friends hurried to the heat duct.
Much to the Prospector's shock and dismay. "No!"
The two lifted up the grate fully and made it to stay up, before Woody called out to both Sora and Buzz who had paused for a moment before having continued to walk away, "Buzz! Sora!"
"Woody?" Sora asked, eyes wide as he and Buzz turned, with hope.
"Yes?" Buzz asked.
"Yes?" New Buzz, thinking that Woody was taking him and peaked from the corner of the tunnel, also smiling with hope.
"I'm coming with you!" Woody declared, happily.
Myde was about to follow when he suddenly remembered the Roundup gang and suddenly had a better idea, before saying, "Woody! Aren't you forgetting something?"
Realising that Myde was right, Woody knew what his new friend meant and thought of the same idea, especially since he didn't to abandon their new other friends either. "Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. We'll be back in just a second."
"Don't go anywhere." Myde added, joining Woody to convince the other three toys.
"All right!" Sora cheered as everyone else, who also heard this, came up and cheered in relief and happiness, knowing that Woody had decided to come with them after all.
"Hey, you guys. Come with me." Woody said to Jessie and Bullseye.
"What?" Jessie asked, shocked at the proposal. Just when she thought that all hope was lost, what Woody had proposed gave her hesitating pause but at the same time, she knew why; Woody wasn't going to abandon them because he was their friend.
"Andy will play with all of us. I know it!" Woody continued.
"Woody...I-I...I don't know...I..." Jessie stuttered, hesitating. What if Andy didn't like her because she was a girl doll?
"Wouldn't you give anything just to have one more day with Emily?" Myde said, uncharacterisically warmly. "Besides, you'll be amazed that even boys can play with some girl toys and stuff and girls play with boy toys and stuff. You're a toughy, and you've seen what Xion, Kairi, Skuld and Aqua can do. It's never on the outside of anything. It's in the inside, especially in the heart."
"Come on, Jessie. This is what it's all about: To make a child happy. You know it." Woody added. When Jessie still hesitated, he turned to the Toy Horse and asked, "Bullseye, are you with me?"
Bullseye, already making up his mind, happily licked Woody in the face as a yes, he wanted to go. He admittedly had been curious what Andy was like and on top of that, he can still be with his favorite rider. Seeing this made Myde laugh at the cute scene.
"Okay, good boy." Woody laughed before walking over to the Prospector's box which, unaware to everyone, had turned around and which everyone thought that he was silently sobbing. "Prospector, how 'bout you?"
To his, Myde's, Jessie's and Bullseye's shock, when Woody turned the box around...it was slightly open and empty! To confirm on what was happening, everyone heard a loud bang and turned to see the source of it. Their eyes widened to find the Prospector right there, having slammed the grate shut and was screwing the nut-bolt back into place, tightening it with his pickaxe.
"Prospector!?" Jessie asked, shocked and unable to believe it.
"No way!" Myde gapped, mouth open in shock.
"You're out of your box!" Woody exclaimed, twice as shocked, and even more so when the Prospector had sealed shut the heat duct, and thus trapping him and Myde in the room with no way out except to the Museum.
The Prospector, having successfully sealed the heat duct shut, turned back and walked towards the TV remote while saying to both Woody and Myde, "I tried reasoning with you, boys, even though now I know who your friend really is, Myde. But you both keep forcing me to take extreme measures."
He turned to face all four of the others with an angry and now very selfish and evil look on his face, turning the TV off with his pickaxe. That's when both Woody and Myde realised the entire truth behind all of this.
"Wait a minute, you turned on the TV last night, not Jessie!" Woody said angrily, now realising that it was the Prospector that prevented Woody and Myde from escaping last night, and in doing so to prevent himself from being declared guilty, the shorter toy cruely framed Jessie which meant that he didn't care for any of them at all. He only cared for them all because he wanted to be admired in the Museum forever and didn't care what others thought of their own thoughts or feelings.
Ignoring Woody's accusion even though now he is guilty for his actions, the Prospector was not even the slightest sorry for his evil actions, "Look, we have an eternity to spend together in the museum, and now Myde can spend that eternity as a toy and join us, because since he is in a form of a cowboy, he's not allowed to leave this world, ever. He is one of us now. Let's not start off by pointing fingers, shall we?"
"That's just seriously low, man! No wonder they call you Stinky Pete!" Myde growled, angrily. "Forcing others to do what you want to do is selfish and bad, and that's why the Heartless are around, because it ain't just because of Chicken Man, it's because of you! The darkness in your heart is there, you told the Heartless to stay put to avoid it, didn't you?"
"Well, ever since you mentioned in having appeared out of nowhere, I knew that you were not like anyone else, especially since Al' wasn't aware of you being here. Your friends earlier just confirmed it." The Prospector said, with darkness seeping briefly around him before it vanished.
"Prospector, this isn't fair!" Jessie yelled, feeling betrayed by the toy who she though of as her mentor, but now realised that it was never the case. Last night and now were the proof of that.
""Fair"? I'll tell you what's not fair; Spending a lifetime on a dime-store shelf watching every other toy be sold!" Prospector growled furiously. "Well, finally, my waiting has paid off, and no foolish human from another world or a hand-me-down cowboy doll are gonna mess it up for me now!" before angrily tossing his boxs back into the display case.
That's when both Myde and Woody remembered that they were trapped and the others were waiting for them. The two, panicked, hurried back to the heat duct but were unable to pull it up.
"Sora! Roxas! Everybody!" Myde cried out.
"Help, Buzz! Guys!" Woody cried out.
"It's too late, boys." Prospector said, not sorry at all as he climbed up onto the box, "That silly boy Tora with the beyblade and that silly Buzz Lightweight can't help you."
"It's Sora with the Keyblade!" Myde yelled angrily at Prospector.
"And my best friend name is Buzz Lightyear!" Woody added angrily.
"Whatever." Prospector waved off, jumping back into his box and growled as he closed it, waiting for Al' to take him and his now prisoners to Japan for all eternity, "Foolish child wasting his time going on adventures, and I always hated those upstart space toys."
What will become of both Woody and Myde now? Will Sora, Buzz and their friends be able to save them, Jessie and Bullseye?
A/N: Okay, so the Toy Story world will be five chapters long, because the next chapter is definately the last chapter of Toy Mania.
See you in the next chapter!