The gummi shipped slowed to a crawl as it reached its destination. Namine jumps out of her seat and prepares to go down with Roxas and Xion
"Heh, you're lively all of a sudden." Roxas comments.
"Is that a bad thing?" Namine asks in a shy manner
"You just seem a lot more excited than you were earlier," says Roxas.
"Well I mean, any excuse to be out of the gummi ship for more than five minutes is enough to make me excited," Namine says. Roxas and Xion give her a funny look, forcing her to make a quick follow-up "Uh- that was a joke! I'm okay here!" Namine says as she quickly turns to look through their item stockpile. Roxas and Xion give each other concerned looks, before brushing it off for now. Once the three are ready, they get close to one another before disappearing in a flash of light.
The three heroes appear in Merlin's house. They look around, and yet again find no one home.
"Geeze is this place abandoned or something? No one is ever here when we visit. . ." Says Roxas.
"They're probably doing something important at the castle. We can catch up with them some other time." Xion adds on as they approach the book. They open it up and place in the torn page as best as they can. The three grab onto each other as Roxas and Xion point their keyblades at the book. They yet again disappear in a flash of light before reappearing in the Hundred Acre Woods. Namine spots a new path that wasn't there the last time they visited.
"Guess I know where we're going." Says Namine, as she begins to take the path. Roxas and Xion follow closely behind. Upon arriving they spot Piglet and Pooh
"Hi, there!" Says Roxas, waving to the two.
"Well, hello, Roxas! And you too Namine and Xion!" Says Piglet with delight
"Yes, hello there, Some-People-I-Don't-Know, and Namine." Says the Pooh bear. Roxas and Xion look at each other and then at Namine, who only shrugs in response. Suddenly, from the hollowed-out tree, comes a kangaroo, and her little joey, who sits in her pouch.
"Hello there. Piglet told me all about you guys. I'm Kanga."
"And I'm Roo!" says the little joey.
"Eeyore told em Pooh wasn't quite himself. I thought this might be just what the poor dear needed," says Kanga, showing the three a bottle of some sort of medicine.
"I hope it makes Pooh feel better," says Roo. Suddenly, however, a tiger that bounces on its tail appears and bounces towards them. He stops in front of the group and looks at the medicine bottle.
"A present! For me? Why presents are what Tigger likes best! And it's not even my birthday!" Tigger takes the bottle and bonus off without a care in the world
"But Tigger! That's not for you!" Exclaims Kanga. But Tigger does not hear them, as he keeps bouncing away.
"Wait Tigger!" Says little Roo, as he jumps out of his mother's pouch and begins jumping after the tiger.
"Oh dear." Says the piglet
"Well, we'd better go after him." Says Roxas, looking at Xion and Namine. The two girls nod and they follow the tiger and the joey. They catch up with Tigger and Roo and get Tigger to stop bouncing, before explaining the situation.
"You're saying Pooh even forgot about Me!?" Tigger asks in shock.
"I'm a-afraid so, Tigger," says Piglet.
"That bottle you thought was a present, it was actually medicine to make Pooh better," says Namine.
"Aw, who needs medicine!? Why some tiggeriffic bouncing will jog his memory for sure!" exclaims Tigger. Roxas leans a bit closer to Namine.
"Psst! Is that how that works?" Asks Roxas.
"No. Not at all." Namine whispers. Suddenly they snap back to reality as Tigger bounces around them before landing in front of Pooh.
"Well?" asks the tiger.
"That looks like fun, Somebody-I-Don't-Know." says the pooh bear, predictably.
"Nothing, huh? Hmm. . ." Tigger begins to think, possibly for the first time in his life. "Of course! We all gotta bounce together! That'll do the trick!"
"Psst! Namine! Is that-"
"No Roxas, that's not how it works." Says Namine. Tiger escorts them to a strange trampoline-like cloth that hangs over a waterfall.
"Uh. . .Tigger? Are you sure this is a good ideaaAAAAAAAAAH!" Xion shrieks as Tigger jumps and bounces on the trampoline really hard, launching everyone into the air. They're launched high into the air as they keep bouncing on the trampoline.
"Hahaha! C'mon Xion! This is fun!" Namine Exclaims. Meanwhile, Xion is curled up into a ball as she tries to regain her balance while in the air, this instead has the opposite effect, making her spin at incredible speeds. Roxas makes his way over to her and grabs her to slowly stop her spinning,
"Everything is spinning," Xion says, her head moving in a circular motion as if trying to keep up with the spinning world around her. Roxas and Namine giggle. Once all the bouncing ceases, the group goes back to Kanga's house.
"I bet you remember me now, don't you, buddy-bear!" exclaims Tigger.
"Well, I remember that bouncing always makes me hungry." replies the Pooh bear. Tigger is shocked.
"All that bouncin' and he still doesn't remember me?" says the disappointed tiger. "Well, I guess bouncin's not the answer. . . It makes Tigger almost never wanna bounce again. . ." Tigger looks down at the bottle of medicine and tosses it behind him.
"Oh, please be careful with that," says Piglet.
"Awl sorry little Piglet. . . Pooh not remembering' me has me confuzzled. I don't even feel like bouncin'!" says the saddened Tigger.
"Oh, but Tigger. I always thought that bouncing was what Tiggers did best." Says the pooh bear. Suddenly the Tiger's spirits are lifted as he turns in shock and joy to look at his friend.
"Pooh Boy! You remember me! You do remember you ol' buddy Tigger after all!" Tigger bounces around with Joy. The group of animal friends talk away yet again, while that happens, Roxas, Xion, and Namine decide to slip away and let them have some time to themselves. With a flash of light, they once again appear in Merlin's empty house.
"That was nice visiting Pooh Bear again." Says Namine as she stretches her arms.
"Yeah. . . I could have gone without the bouncing though. . ." Says Xion, holding onto Roxas's shoulder for support.
"Y'know, for someone who gets launched in the air repeatedly, you're really bad when it comes to bouncing." Roxas teases.
"When you're in the heat of combat, you're not usually focused on the minor details. . . you're more focused on, y'know, not dying." Xion responds in a joking manner. The three laugh before coming together once more and returning to the gummi ship. Upon appearing, they take their seats, and Namine types away at the terminal.
"Where to next?" Asks Xion.
"I was thinking the Pride Lands." Says Namine, as she enters their destination into the terminal. The gummi ship blasts off as they make their way to the world.
"Dang, Pride Lands? This is gonna take a while. . ." Roxas says. He looks out the window, and then at Xion.
"Hey, beautiful," Roxas says, Xion looks over at him
"Feel like sparring?"
"In a moment boo," Xion responds closing her eyes to try and get rid of the little sick feeling she has left from her time spent bouncing. Meanwhile, Namine looks at the two and giggles.
"You guys even have pet names now?" Namine comments
"Mhm, is that a bad thing?" Asks Xion, curiously.
"No, of course not. It's really cute." Namine says, smiling. Before turning back to her sketchbook. She begins drawing a basic sketch of a familiar-looking blade.