Goofy's eyes slowly opened, above him was not Yen Sid's tower, but many dark buildings looming above him. Goofy shot up, he wasn't back home, he was in the world that never was! Goofy frantically looked around, next to him Donald had also just woken up but no sign of Sora until he heard footsteps behind him.

"Donald Goofy!"

"Sora!" Goofy exclaimed "you're safe!"

"Goofy you'll never believe this!" Sora cried

"Oh after this we'll believe anything!" Donald yelled exasperated

"Of course," Sora chuckled. "Well there's a time traveling Xehanort and he knows all about my adventures!"

Donald and Goofy shared a glance.

"Yeah"

"Checks out"

"And…" Sora drifted off "I- I- I saw Naminé and a strange girl with black hair, and Roxas…" Donald and Goofy could hear the pain in Sora's voice "I felt everything they felt, all the pain, anger and sadness…"

"Gwarsh seems like you've been through a lot" Goofy put his hand on Sora's shoulder, trying to act tough, Sora shook it off.

"Xigbar wants us to meet in front of the castle that never was!" Sora explained "we can't waste any time, Riku and Kairi could be in danger!"

"Of course they could be" Donald sighed

"Well we need a breather" Goofy noticed a cafe "Coffee anyone?"

Sora, Donald, and Goofy sipped on their coffee as many questions swirled through their heads. But one stuck out in Sora's head.

"So Goofy," Sora sipped on his coffee. "Why did you freeze when that boulder was flying near you."

"Oh.." Goofy swallowed his coffee and placed it back on the plate "well, I just remembered back when I was hit by a boulder in hollow bastion. When I was trying to protect king Mickey, see, it goes back to my greatest fear, which is not being around to protect my friends, and during that time when I was hit by that rock, it seemed like that fear would become a reality…"

"Goofy…" Sora looked at the floor, then Sora looked up with determination "not to worry! You're the best defender ever! You can't be beat! Those are just voices in your head, they can't take away from what a good friend you are!"

Goofy smiled "gawrsh thanks pals!"

Donald put down his coffee "what you say we meet Xigbar at that castle?!"

Sora and Goofy nodded.

The trio made their way down the street when they came across a building blocking their way.

"What now?" Goofy scratched his head

Sora closed his eyes and put his hand on his chest. Then a hologram of Riku appeared along with a giant keyblade. The longest keyblade the trio had ever seen. Sora's half was yellow and Riku's half was blue. Together they formed a heart shape, and a popu fruit keychain.

Donald and Goofy gasped

They keyblade sliced through the building revealing a path of broken buildings leading to the castle.

As the trio approached they noticed Xigbar. But just before they could get to him they heard a voice from behind.

"Sora, Donald, Goofy" the voice of Xemnas called "I believe it's time you learned the truth.."

Xigbar smiled.

"A heart is never lost for good." Xemnas explained "There may have been variances in our dispositions, but a number of us unquestionably showed signs of a burgeoning replacement. Once born, the heart can also be nurtured. Our experiments creating Heartless were attempts to control the mind, and convince it to renounce its sense of self. But understand, one can banish the heart from the body, but the body will try to replace it the first chance it gets, for as many times as it takes. And so I knew, even after we were divided into Heartless and Nobodies, it was just a temporary separation."

Sora, feeling all of the rage and pain that Roxas had shared with him, snapped "Why, then? Why did you lie to them and tell them they had no hearts?!" Sora summoned his keyblade, in response Donald and Goofy summoned their weapons

"Xemnas and Xehanort formed the Organization for a specific reason" Xigbar explained "round up a bunch of empty husks, hook them up to Kingdom Hearts, then fill them all with the exact same heart and mind. Translation: they were gonna turn all the members into Xehanort."

"Make more Xehanorts?" Donald took a step back

"You tricked your friends to…" Sora had lost what little grasp he had on the situation "But you-aren't you scared of just turning into someone else?"

"Me?" Xigbar smirked, "I'm already half Xehanort."

"That's nuts…" Goofy scratched his head

"However, through weakness of body...weakness of will...or weakness of trust," Xemnas went on "most of the original members we had chosen for the Organization were inadequate. Thus, naturally, they never had a chance to attain their goal. Yet, even this was to be expected. We have learned of the heart's folly, and we have achieved our other goals. This last excursion has proven to be a worthy closing

assignment for the Organization."

Sora lost it "Just stop it! You treat people's hearts like bottles on a shelf, but they're not! Hearts are made of the people we meet, and how we feel about them, they're what ties us together even when we're apart! They're what...make me strong.

Xigbar pointed at him laughing "Duh! You're strong because of the ties you have with other people. As if the Keyblade would choose a wimp like you."

Sora turned to Xigbar

"I know the Keyblade didn't choose me, and I don't care. I'm proud

to be a small part of something bigger, the people it did choose.

My friends. They are my power!"

Donald and Goofy pointed their weapons at Xemnas.

"Those are just words." Xigbar mumbled "You've lost."

Xigbar struggled with his thoughts

"Fine. See where your power gets you here. Xemnas! He's all yours."

Xemnas raised his lasers and sent fifteen flying buildings at Sora, Donald, and Goofy, but they were ready.

Sora and Donald poured their magic power into Goofy's shield causing a huge barrier to form around the three of them, throwing all the buildings back at Xemnas.

Xemnas carefully avoided the buildings and growled at them. He teleported to their level ready to slice them.

The barrier disappeared, sending shockwaves across the arena, damaging Xemnas.

The trio then raised their weapons in unison and cast balloon. Fifteen balloons soared at Xemnas doing incredible damage. Then to finish him if they stood in a circle, raised their weapons and shouted "TRINITY!" an energy orb made up of green, blue, and red orbs enveloped the city, knocking Xemnas into the sky where he disappeared.

Donald and Goofy high fived and cheered.

Sora struggled to catch his breath and collapse.

"SORA!" Donald and Goofy ran over to him.

Darkness swirled around him, he despawned his keyblade.

They didn't notice it but a dark corridor opened behind them and Xigbar walked out. He put his hands over the mouths of Donald and Goofy and dragged them away.

Donald and Goofy tried to escape but it was futile.

"D-Donald Goofy" Sora couldn't move, a dark corridor opened which young Xehanort stepped out of.

That was the last they saw of Sora.

Donald and Goofy were in the round room where the organization had their meetings, only they couldn't see the chairs. Donald and Goofy were stuck under the platform. Little to most people's knowledge, the platform in the center of the room was hollow on the inside, making it the perfect place to store Donald and Goofy.

"What'll we do?!" Donald cried

"I don't know…" Goofy scratched his chin

Just above they heard a loud crash then Riku yelling "MICKEY!"

"THE KING!" Donald and Goofy shouted in unison

"We can't let them have the king!" Goofy put his hand to his heart "think of all the times that our friends have helped us!"

Donald followed his lead.

Memories overwhelmed them of their adventures through other worlds, defeating variations of Xehanort, and of course the promise.

Together Donald and Goofy held out their hand and said "all for one and one for all!"

A flash of light enveloped the room and when it faded in Donald and Goofy's hands were keyblades!

Goofy held classic tone, while Donald held spellbinder.

Wasting no time they raised their keyblade and shot a beam towards the top of the platform.

The platform opened up and Donald and Goofy hopped out.

"Donald Goofy you're safe!" Mickey ran over and hugged them, then he noticed their keyblades "gosh! You have keyblades now too!"

"Yeah!" Goofy beamed "we got them in the platform when we thought of our memories!"

"I knew you had it in you" Mickey nodded

"You did?" Donald cocked his head to the side.

"Of course!" Mickey chuckled "why do you think Yen Sid let you do the mark of mastery with Sora?"

Donald and Goofy's mouths were wide open, just then Riku reappeared, Mickey ran over to him.

"Riku are you okay?" Mickey ran over to him

Riku nodded

Then they caught a glimpse of master Xehanort, he gave his spiel about the fated union in the keyblade graveyard. At the end of it Xehanort shot an orb out of his keyblade at Sora, attempting to Nort him.

However, Goofy despawned his keyblade, jumped up, and respawned his shield blocking the orb. He then grabbed Sora, despawned his shield, respawned his keyblade, and used to open a portal back to the Mysterious town, the game jumped up and through the portal, much to the anger of the organization members.

The gang was back in their regular clothes at the Mysterious tower. Kairi had gotten back right after sealing Symphony of sorcery's keyhole.

Yen Sid leaned over and whispered to Mickey "the tea party set was supposed to be confidential!"

Mickey chuckled.

Donald munched away at some tasty cookies, chocolate, blueberry red velvet.

"Come on Donald, you're hogging it all!" Sora complained

"Oh pipe down Sora and drink your tea" Donald brushed him off.

Goofy took a big sip, swallowing his tea "Gwarsh sure is yummy!"

"Hey!" Riku had just been diving into Sora's heart to revive him but now he was back.

Sora was overjoyed "Riku!" He tackled Riku in a hug "you're safe! Riku!"

"Wait haven't we got this backwards and why are you having a tea party?"

Sora ignored him "so did we pass the test?"

Yen Sid scratched his beard.

Kairi walked up next to them to hear the answer.

"More than anything, I am grateful to have you both back from Xehanort's deception unharmed. And I am grateful to Lea, whose spontaneous

actions turned the tides. I am also deeply sorry, for failing to perceive the danger and throwing you headlong into a perilous test. This experience has revealed many hidden truths, and we must gird ourselves for the great clash with darkness that lies before us. I believe we need a new Keyblade Master, one with a new kind of power. Sora and Riku, you both deserve

the honor. However, one of you braved the realm of sleep again to unlock the final Keyhole and save a friend. Riku, I name you our new true

Keyblade Master."

A smile formed around Sora's face "Way to go, Riku!" He placed a hand on Riku's shoulder and laughed "I knew you were gonna pass with flying colors. This is just so awesome!"

But Riku didn't look so well, he held his stomach in pain and all of a sudden, began puking black goo with clock patterns engraved in it.

The entire room gasped

Just then, a dark corridor opened and Xigbar walked out.

"Don't you see?" Xigbar laughed "it's the timeline, since Donald and Goofy were there and had KEYBLADES! Well that was too much, you broke the timeline and now it's time for one of your friends to disappear."

Riku looked at him helplessly.

"Isn't there anything I can do?!" Sora cried

Xigbar scratched his chin "no, not really." And with that Xigbar stepped into the dark corridor which disappeared.

As if on cue, the goo stopped. Riku collapsed and slowly faded away as Sora screamed in agony.