Sora, Donald and Goofy opened two doors and were greeted with a bright and colorful circus.
"Gwarsh this place looks like fun!" Goofy exclaimed looking around "much better than that burning town!"
"Or that computer program" Donald shuddered "never again."
"Hey look!" Sora pointed onto the steps leading into the circus "it's Jiminy"
Indeed it was, Jiminy cricket was sitting on the steps mumbling something to himself.
"Let's go say hi!" Sora began to walk up to Jiminy but Goofy grabbed his hood.
"Remember Sora" Goofy reminded him "Yen Sid said that these people won't recognize us because this is before we met them."
"Typical Sora"
"Oh right…" Sora sighed "well then let's introduce ourselves!"
"Hey there!" Sora approached "I'm Sora, and this is Donald, and Goofy! What's your name?"
"Huh?!" Jiminy whirled around "you shouldn't be here young man! And… older duck and do…. What exactly is happening here?"
"Well we're here to see if there's any trouble and to stop it!" Goofy beamed
"Oh well that's a relief" Jiminy sighed "there's a big issue here, my friend Pinocchio was tricked into going here because it looked so fun!"
"It sure does look fun!" Sora smiled
Donald and Goofy glared at him.
"Anyway" Jiminy gave Sora a death glare "it's really a trap to turn them into jackasses!"
"Like it makes them dumber?" Donald asked
"No like literal jackasses!" Jiminy cried "Donkeys!"
"WAK!" Donald cried "we've gotta save them!"
"You said it!" Sora agreed "let's go!"
The gang ran across the park looking for Pinocchio, occasionally taking a break so Sora could ride the roller coaster or Goofy could ride the merry go round.
Eventually they located Pinocchio in front of a giant 8 ball. His hat was now purple and his shirt was green.
"Gwarsh, I didn't know he had different clothes back then." Goofy commented
As if on cue, Pinocchio then revealed that he wasn't Pinocchio. He was a dream eater! This one looked kind of like a jester and they attacked the trio.
"Let me try something!" Donald raised his wand and yelled "balloon" just like with Neku 5 balloons spawned, Donald slashed them with his staff. The balloons destroyed all of the dream eaters in one hit.
"You did it Donald!" Goofy cried
"I'm beginning to think you're not just normal teenagers!" Jiminy stared
"Something like that" Sora put his keyblade over his shoulders "Now let's go! He might have gone to see the circus show!"
The gang ran down a path that led to the circus show. They entered the building and were greeted with the smell of popcorn, upbeat music, clown statues, and posters for acts.
Sora, Donald, and Goofy looked around in awe.
"Gwarsh when this is all done we'll have to go to the circus!"
They eventually arrived at the stage, where there were three trampolines. On the trampolines was Pinocchio, in his original outfit!
"Pinocchio!" Sora called
Pinocchio turned around, he had grown donkey ears and a donkey tail, and was being attacked by 5 dream eater pandas.
Goofy ran up and threw his shield around the arena, slicing through all of the pandas making them dizzy.
Sora ran up and cast thunder, defeating them. However, 5 more instantly spawned.
"You've gotta be kidding me!" Sora complained
"Balloon!" Donald cried, sending 5 balloons which instantly destroyed the dream eaters.
"You gotta teach me that sometime!" Sora demanded
"Hey!" Goofy noticed "Pinocchio and Jiminy are gone!"
"Off to the ocean I presume" a voice behind them said
Sora, Donald, and Goofy turned around and were shocked to see Xigbar in front of them.
"Aren't you supposed to be dead!" Goofy accused
"Well we're all where we aren't supposed to be" Xigbar explained "you two aren't supposed to be here" Xigbar pointed at Donald and Goofy "someone's changed the timeline!"
"Changed the timeline?" Sora stared
"Yeah it was only supposed to be you and Riku on this test!" Xigbar laughed "no Donald, Goofy, or sweet little Kairi. I know it seems fun to mess with the timeline and create alternate universes where your favorite characters do cool stuff, but doing that can have dire consequences! Why any one of you could just disappear right now!"
Xigbar opened a dark corridor and walked into it.
"Wait!" Sora called but he was already gone. Sora paused for a moment "any of us could disappear?"
Donald and Goofy shared a glance.
"Well we can't stop now!" Donald exclaimed, "we've gotta finish this test!"
"He said they were in the ocean" Goofy scratched his chin "worth a shot!"
And with that they dived right into the ocean.
Deep into the ocean the gang noticed the giant whale Pinocchio swallow Pinocchio up.
"Pinocchio!" They cried in unison
Just then a hologram of Kairi whizzed past them. Sending ten balloons after monstro.
"Looks like Kairi's got everything under control!" Goofy chuckled
"So does that mean we're done here?" Donald looked up at Sora.
A keyhole appeared on one of the holders in the ocean.
"Looks like it" Sora raised his keyblade and shot a beam from it "let's go back to traverse town and ask that blonde boy about what Xigbar said."
Donald and Goofy nodded in agreement.
As the light enveloped them, they all wondered if Xigbar was right, and if so what would happen to them?
