Yay! New chappie! Oh and just to be safe I don't own Kingdom Hearts or anything like that. However much I'd like to I don't….oh well, on with the story!

"Kairi?"

"So-Sora, why are you here?" Kairi stuttered. "You, you should be at home eating now."

"I was trying to find you," Sora growled. "What's going on?"

Kairi tried to run but Sora had a firm grip on her shoulders. The girl whimpered and tried to shirk the hold but failed miserably.

"Please Sora, just let me go," Kairi whined.

"Not until you tell me why you've been running your own little experiments on Riku," Sora shook the lithe girl. "Answer me!"

"I never meant to get you involved in this," whispered Kairi and smothered Sora's face with a white cloth.

The chloroform quickly knocked the sable-haired youth out in Kairi's arms. Two black-clad men stepped from the brush and scowled down.

"That's the other one?" one asked.

"Yes," Kairi murmured.

One of the men picked Sora off the ground and walked away. The other hooked onto Kairi's arm and hefted her onto her feet before leading her away as well.

When Sora came to his head and shoulders ached. He tried to bring his hand to his throbbing temples but found them tightly secured above his head. The bright lights didn't help Sora's headache either, they only made him squint and hit his head against the wall behind him. The boy hissed and shook his head.

"Sora?"

"Hm?" Sora looked up and saw Riku in a similar state like himself.

"You are conscious?" Riku asked.

"Yeah," Sora kept blinking trying to get his eyes to comfortably adjust to the blinding illuminants. "Where are we?"

"Our location is unbeknownst to me," Riku replied. "That Kairi girl is present though."

Indeed, upon focusing his vision Sora saw Kairi scribbling down on a sheet of paper while sitting and observing the two.

"Kairi! What's going on!?" Sora yelled.

"It makes little difference," Kairi said indifferently and continued to write, pushing her small reading glasses up on her nose.

"Kairi…" Sora sighed in defeat. He was still weary and put up little resistance to Kairi's utter lack of response.

Riku and Sora exchanged glances but found nothing remotely reassuring in each others' gaze.

"So why are you sitting in here with us? Not suddenly feeling guilty I bet," Sora commented.

"I'm taking notes on your physiques and speech patterns," Kairi breathed. "So if you two wouldn't mind speaking more to each other…"

"Oh give it up Kairi! This joke has gone a little too far wouldn't you say? Now let Riku and I go," Sora demanded.

"I do not believe this to be a joke Sora," interjected Riku.

Kairi sighed and set the clip board on her lap, "You want the truth? If I give that to you will you cooperate?"

"Depends," Sora scowled. "You're not going to dissect us or anything are you?"

"In short," Kairi replied.

"Then hell no!" Sora exclaimed. "I'm not gonna agree to get put under the knife under any circumstance."

Kairi stood and walked over to Riku, "Under any circumstance?" She held a scalpel to Riku's throat.

"You wouldn't…"

A thin line of blood seeped from a tiny incision, "Oh I would."

Sora's eyes narrowed, "Fine."

"Very well then. I'll try to keep my story as concise and to the point as I can," Kairi began. "On my home world we have the technology to send one body back in time and there by defying age. Through this capability scientists of phenomenal intelligence were able to continue their research for decades and apply the knowledge only kept in their brains alone. A man by the name of Déjà Vu specialized in astrology and was the one to finally uncover these planetary clusters of yours. This is where I come in. I'm Déjà's seventeenth daughter and was put in charge of collecting the most qualified specimens from this planet. My choice had been Riku, and such a rescue team from Earth found him in Kingdom Hearts and brought him back to our world. He's property of Déjà Incorporated," Kairi pointed at Riku. "As now are you Sora, and all due to a minor triviality."

"Then how was it possible for you to have been one of the Princesses? You're not pure at all!" Sora burst.

"Oh but I am. You see my mind is thirty-seven years old but my heart is only as old as my body. The whole quest for the Door to the Light was a mere side road in my real journey of obtaining Riku," Kairi flipped her hair over her shoulder.

Sora relaxed back against the wall. All the information he had just been fed was now sinking in. The Kairi he loved betrayed him to the fullest extent. She betrayed Riku as well. Riku looked over and his progressively depressing friend and tried to look sympathetic. Kairi laughed.

"You getting all this Riku darling? Or is your memory chip malfunctioning?"

"Memory chip?" Riku asked.

"Yes. When you were with us previously, before that wretched Cloud found you, we had inserted a memory chip to control what memories you could call forth and which ones would stay suppressed. However our chip is not fail safe and you were able to remember just enough to quickly bond and trust Sora."

"So you're the one who made him forget me," seethed Sora. "You bitch!"

"Now now my little Sora, do be polite else I may have to inflict modern torture on you," Kairi smiled.

"I know I can break out of these chains but I don't know what they would do to Sora. If only I could incapacitate the meatloaf girl we'd be able to escape," Riku thought.

"Planning on escaping?" Kairi asked.

Riku looked up from his deep thought in disbelief.

"Oh don't look so shocked," Kairi waved her hand. "That little chip also serves as a transmitter. Anything you think goes straight to these monitors." She gestured at the computers behind her. "Well, I suppose I should leave you two for your last moments."

Kairi grinned and walked out.

"What does she mean last moments? I still have no clue really what's going on," Sora sighed.

"If I could only cause the chip to cease its purpose I'm sure we could get out of here," Riku said.

"And then what? Riku, we have no idea where we are! We may not even be on Destiny Islands!" Sora pointed out.

"I'm going to keep going hard until I find the shiniest and best thing of all and I'll never lose hope until I die. Isn't that what your friend used to say?" Riku said.

"Yeah, a friend I'll never see again," sulked Sora.

"Perhaps you did not get my point," Riku cleared his throat. "There's no frickin' way we're gonna die in this poor excuse for a lab. Now stop feeling sorry for your own ass and think of a damn way to get the hell outta here."

Sora looked up, "Did mister prim-and-proper just say what I think he said?"

"Need I repeat it for you?" Riku asked.

"No, point made," Sora smiled. "Ok, now how to get out of here…"

The two teens were instantly lost in thought, all the while the chip nestled in Riku's head was eroding. Suddenly Riku perked up.

"Hey, I got it!" Riku maneuvered his hand so that his palm was facing Sora. "Ok now hold very still."

"Wait Riku what are you…"

A fire ball shot front Riku's palm and shattered the bonds on Sora's hands. Riku then divulged himself of his own cuffs and proceeded to exterminate the electronics in the room.

"And you could do that since when?" Sora asked.

"Just now," Riku flashed one of his trade-mark cocky grins.

Sirens erupted and red lights began to flash.

"Come on, I know how to get out of here," Riku grabbed Sora's hand and dragged him from the room.

They ran down a long white corridor and veered to the right. At the end of that hall was a set of guards. A stream of lightning took them out. After a brisk run they arrived at the shuttle bay. A gargantuan craft hovered in the dock waiting to launch.

"Hurry."

Sora and Riku dodged detection until they were onboard. Then they easily scared the workers off the ship with a few harmless spells. By now the craft had been surrounded by armed personnel. Kairi was fuming just outside the shuttle entrance.

"If you try and leave this hangar I'll have them shoot you down! And if that happens we'll have to take someone new from Destiny Islands!"

An unexpected shiver shot down Riku's spine. He quickly shook off the feeling and checked the ships data base.

"Heh, shoot us down? They don't have a gun here that can penetrate this baby's defenses," laughed Riku. "Destiny Islands here we come!"

Sora couldn't help but smile. His old Riku was finally coming back to him. They'd finally be able to pick up where they left off.

The engines roared to life and the shuttle bay was being speedily vacated. Kairi's voice came through the communication system to the cock pit.

"Shut down the engines or we'll fire! We will destroy your craft! I swear that…"

"I love com. systems," Riku sighed and flipped off a switch. "Much better."

Sora laughed, "Oh hey, uh, you do know how to fly this thing right?"

"Not a clue! Hold on tight!"

Sora strapped himself to the seat and braced for take off. Riku stepped on a floor peddle and the shuttle rocketed out of the port, obliterating the hangar door in its way. No ship pursued them from the satellite station.

"Well that was exciting," Riku relaxed, having finally figured out how to set a destination and turn on auto-pilot.

"Hey Riku? What happened to you back there? One moment you're all snooty and then you're your old self."

"I guess that little chip of there's just wasn't as high caliber as my brain," Riku smiled. "I'm great."

Sora laughed.

"So how's your head?" Riku asked.

"Hm? Oh, it's better now," Sora replied.

They lapsed into an awkward silence.

"So…"

"Yeah…"

"Now what?"

"Hm?" Sora thought. "Do you remember what happened to you while you were on Earth before?"

"A little. I remember the facility we were just on but I can't for the life of me remember what they did," Riku propped his feet up on the console.

"That could be a good thing," Sora commented.

"A blessing in disguise? Not for me, I like to know what was done. It wouldn't affect me. I can handle it."

The pictures Leon had sent when they found Riku flared to the front of his mind, "No Riku, I don't think even you could bare it."

"Oh pishaw," Riku took his feet down and stood. "I wonder where the bathroom is…"

"I suppose Riku will always be Riku," Sora thought. "He's strong I'll give him that. But to remember how badly they broke him would be devastating."

Riku wandered off in search of the facilities he required. Sora decided to pursue a place of his own and went looking for food.

"Oh my goodness! Thank God you're home safe!" Sora's mother squeezed the air out of her son in greeting. "Where have you been? I was so worried! And where's Kairi? Is she with you? Oh… Riku…"

"Nice to see you again too," Riku scratched his head.

Tears sprang to the woman's eyes, "You're alright again!" She swooped in on Riku and strangled the oxygen out of him too. "Oh and uh," she let go, "sorry for hitting you in the head with my spoon."

"You hit me with a spoon?" Riku's eyebrow arched.

"Oh never mind that," Sora's mother laughed. "Come eat some food."

Both boys readily accepted the meal and ate till they thought they'd burst. For now life was good, but in the backs of their subconscious they knew Kairi and the others of Déjà Incorporated were still out there, just waiting.

That night Sora brought everyone together for a makeshift welcome back party for Riku. Selphie got the bright idea to play the age old game of Dungeons and Dragons. She was going to play an Elfin Princess. Tidus flipped through the Monstrous Manual accidentally instead of the Player's Handbook and decided he was going to be and Illithid. Sora and Riku reluctantly humored the tots and were human rangers. Wakka was finally convinced then that he would be a gnome warrior. Their mission was to recover the Ancient Scrolls of the Arch Magi from the thieves' guild. The shack was used for their base, where they all currently sat, and they designated Secret Place as the guild.

"Ok, this is how it goes," started Selphie, "We'll sneak through the leech filled swamp to the side entrance."

"And then we eat their brains!" Tidus shouted.

"No, then we infiltrate their hideout."

"Then we eat their brains!"

"No… Then we find the scrolls."

"And then eat their brains?' Tidus questioned.

"No! We're not eating their brains!" Selphie snapped.

"Oh… Can I eat your brain?"

"…"

"Why would you want to eat her brain? My brain's much better," boasted Riku.

Tidus jumped over and got a mouthful of Riku's hair.

"Ewe! That's so gross!" Selphie giggled.

"Awe come on man, not my hair," whined Riku.

Tidus slowly released the silver locks and retook his seat. Riku picked up the slimed mass on his head and paled.

"That's so not cool."

Riku got up and left the shack. When the others exited Riku was floating on the ocean waters.

"Water fight!" Wakka shouted and they all charged Riku

Owari

A/N: Ok all I know this is kinda just dropping it but there will me a sequel! I'm probably going to title it "War on Earth" so keep an eye out for it! Or just add me to your fave authors and it will automatically update you plus it would make me feel good. Ok now tell me what you think! I could really use suggestion for revision of this story and ideas for the sequel! Arigato!

Oh, and if you were wondering, an Illithid is a monster with a squid like head that feeds off people's (usually mages) brains. One totally kicked my butt the first time I played D&D….I don't wanna talk about it….