I'm free! Finally! Emma ran into her house, cheerfully humming 'Simple and Clean'. This is the day that my punishment is up!

She was about to descend the basement stairs, but Mrs. Baecker was blocking the door. "Well, the three days are up," she announced.

Of course I know that! I've even marked today on my calendar!

"Just make sure you don't plat for too long, okay? Keep an eye on the clock."

"Yes, ma'am!" Emma hugged her mother and ran downstairs. Time to kick Jafar's butt!

… … …

Emma coughed. It's all smoky here…I guess they beat Jafar. She peered down the hole in the floor of the battle arena. I'm just in time. But…do I really have to JUMP down there? She drew in her breath, hopped through, and gracefully…fell on her back.

Donald was laughing squelchily as Emma fell through the ceiling. "She's here," he told Sora, who was helping Aladdin and Goofy whack Iago.

Sora turned and smiled. "Emma! What's the plan?"

"Just follow me," she instructed. Emma ran over to Iago, Then grabbed his neck and shook him relentlessly. "DROP IT, YOU STUPID BIRD!"

"Not the feathers!" Iago complained in his high, scraping voice.

Emma brought his face close to hers. "Drop the lamp…" she ordered in a low voice, "…or I'll pluck you like a turkey, dangle you above the lava, cut off your wings and tail, and watch you bleed until you suffer a slow and painful death." Most likely a fear-induced, involuntary reaction, not an instance of the parrot being agreeable, the lamp dropped from Iago's talons and hit the stone floor with a clattering noise.

"Great!" Aladdin cheered. "Now Jafar has to go back in the lamp!"

"He'll escape sooner or later," Emma reminded him. "Watch this." She jumped up and down, waving the lamp. "HEY! JAFAR!" The giant, red genie turned. "I GOT YOUR LAMP!"

Jafar roared. "NO! YOU CANNOT DO THIS TO ME!

"Aw yeah, I can!" She thought for a moment. "I wish for a sandwich." Everyone stared. "MAKE WITH THE SANDWICH, GENIE-BOY!" Jafar groaned. A sandwich appeared. "Thank you."

"Uh…Emma?" Donald started.

"Don't worry, I know what I'm doing." She looked around. "I wish for a backpack to put the sandwich in!"

Jafar groaned again. "She is eminently stupid."

"AND FOR MY THIRD WISH!" Emma hollered at him. "I WISH YOU WERE A HARMLESS BUNNY FOR ALL ETERNITY!"

"YOU CANNOT DO THAT!" Jafar screamed.

Emma just growled. "It's that or a pile of poo." Jafar whimpered as he turned into a little white bunny with his human face.

Sora cracked up. "Way to go! So what do we do now?"

"Remember I told you had to blitz?"

The Keyblade Master grinned evilly as he sheathed his weapon. "I get it."

"FORE!" Emma called. She whacked Bunny Jafar with the Silver Hammer. He flew into the air, screaming in a high-pitched voice. "You're up, Sora!"

Sora jumped into the air and did a slow-motion flip. Not as impressive as Tidus's, Emma thought, but still impressive. His oversized clown shoe caught the bunny, and tossed him into the lava. Still grinning, Sora winced. "Ouch. That's gotta hurt."

Aladdin cautiously leaned over the edge of the platforms. "He's sizzling." He announced.

"Cool, lemme see!" Emma pushed her way over to the burnt bunny carcass. "It's safe to say he's dead."

The cavern started to crumble. "LET'S GET OUT OF HERE!" Goofy yelped. The carpet zoomed down, and picked them up. They all filed onto it, with Emma was sitting nervously in front, staring at the lava.

"So, Aladdin, this is the girl I was talking about, Emma!"

Aladdin shook Emma's trembling hand. "Nice to meet you. That was a neat idea."

Emma looked up. "My 'neat ideas' make up for my fighting." She swung pathetically at the air as the carpet hit a rock, causing her to smack herself in the head.

"I…" Aladdin tried not to laugh. "…I can see that."

… … …

Back at Aladdin's house, Aladdin was sitting with his head on his knees. "I have no idea where Jasmine is," he sighed.

Genie patted his shoulder. "Hey, Al, you have one more wish!"

"I…I do, don't I…? All right, then." Aladdin stood up. "Genie, I wish for…your freedom!"

"Wh…what?" Genie stared. The shackles on his wrists disappeared, and he got legs. "Al!"

Aladdin smiled. "You deserve it. Could you…go with Sora and the guys? You could still look for Jasmine AND be free."

Genie crossed his arms. "I don't know…now that's I'm free, I don't take orders." He smiled too. "But hey, I'd be willing to do a friend a favor." He disappeared into the Keyblade.

Sora looked down at the Jungle King. "Don't worry, Aladdin. We'll find her." A green light came down from the sky and into the Keyblade.

"Green Trinity!" Emma squealed.

"I found this," Aladdin told them. "It might come in handy."

"And that would be the Three Wishes keychain!"

Aladdin looked at her, curious. "What? How do you know that?"

"Er…I guessed."

… … …

Maleficent and the other villains sat around the table. "I do not believe it. I do NOT believe it! Not only have they survived, they have KILLED Jafar! He would have been able to escape eventually, if another individual found his lamp, but he has been murdered!"

Riku leaned lazily against the table. "Sora's strong, and that girl's smart. It's obvious they'd put up a fight, and win under these circumstances."

"You sound as if you are on their side."

"I'm not. I'm just speaking statistically."

Maleficent stood with a sweeping motion. "Statistics are of little importance at the moment. We must get rid of the girl. Go to Monstro, and stop her. Stop them all!"

"Just give me the materials. The weapons. The powers." Riku picked up the Soul Eater. "If I get her alone, I can easily destroy her."

Maleficent nodded. She turned to Captain Hook. "Get the ship ready. Monstro is not a world, and can't be locked. If the puppet stays with them, they will leave, preferably without the girl."

"I don't want this rat aboard," Hook complained.

Riku narrowed his eyes. "This rat is coming anyway," he spat. In a wave of darkness, he disappeared.

There was silence in the room. Finally, Hook repeated, "I don't want him on my ship!" Maleficent rolled her eyes and walked away. "WELL, I DON'T!"

… … …

Sora and Co. were hitting Monstro's teeth. "I CONTROL YOU! LET US OUT!" Emma cried. She leapt up and smacked where she guessed the whale's nose was.

An item box that had been tottering on a plank of wood suddenly fell on Goofy's head. "Gawrsh, that hurt!" He looked up. "Huh?"

Jiminy was hopping up and down on Sora's shoulder. "It's Pinocchio!"

Sora and Donald also looked up. "Hey, Pinocchio!" Sora greeted.

The four of them conversed with the wooden boy, while Emma stood a bit further back, surveying the scene. Well, this is…slightly boring… In the corner of her eye, she saw a gloved hand shoot out. Hey! It clamped over her mouth, and dragged her into the shadows. "Mmm-mmm-mmph!"

… … …

Emma was sitting alone in Monstro's stomach. This is gross! Of all places, why did I have to come to the whale's stomach? She hurriedly scooted away from the bubbling acid. To take her mind off things, she prodded some moss-green rocks that had settled in Monstro's stomach. Hey, is that the Fireglow? A flash of red came from underneath them. She shoved the plain rocks aside, then inspected the crimson stone. No. Just a rock. After sifting through the other rocks some more, she found a yellow one, a blue one, a white one, a purple one, a black one, and a darker green one.

"Well, well, well. Playing with rocks, huh, girl?"

Emma turned around to see Riku smirking at her. "My name's Emma," she mumbled.

"Whatever. You know, you were a cinch to capture…Emma." She just turned her back on him. She took a piece of twine from her pocket, and wove it through the holes in the stones. "Aw, making a necklace? You won't need that when I'M done with you."

Finally, Emma turned. "Leave me alone. You guys are probably the ones who got me into the game, so why do you want to take me out?"

Riku shook his head. "Wrong. We only let you talk to them. You came yourself. The idea was to pinpoint an obsessed, insecure player and let them talk to Sora. When they got to do that, Kingdom Hearts would stop being a game. The best part of the plan is that if Sora faints, he dies. Forever."

Emma shivered. "Can he die even now?"

"Yes." Riku smirked again. "That benefits me, too, not just Maleficent; Sora and me, we're rivals. Not friends anymore. When Sora dies…well, I'll get Kairi."

"You're stupid," Emma growled. "I control the game. I won't let Sora, or Donald and Goofy, die. Well, maybe Donald. No, I'll make sure they all live."

Riku shook his head again. "You can't control us. You only what has no effect on us. You caused the Earthshine to give you that blue creature instead of the lion. We don't care if you do that. We care about whether or not Sora lives."

Emma looked like she was going to have a mental breakdown. "My…my arrival really made it possible for Sora die? Will he die in all other copies of the game?"

"No. This is the real Sora. The others are just copies made for the amusement of children who own video games."

The girl started shaking. "I can't believe it. You, Riku, Sora's best friend, want him to die." A blue mist slowly filled the area. "Friends want the best for their friends."

Riku groaned. "I'm not in the mood to hear a speech about the heart."

"But it's true! You haven't lost yourself to the darkness yet. You have a heart." The mist got thicker. "You haven't been possessed, only mislead."

"I could care less."

"But…"

Riku lunged at Emma. "I'VE HAD ENOUGH! I'M GOING TO DESTROY YOU!"

An icicle came out of nowhere and caught the Soul Eater. Emma clenched the blue stone, her voice as cold as the air had become. "I don't think so. You may be Sora's friend, but you're sure not acting like it. I guess I'll have to kill you, then."

"Shut up!" He grabbed the Silver Hammer and snapped it over his knee. "Now what're you going to do?"

"I'm going to do this." Emma's brown eyes turned blue. Her shirt also turned blue. She raised the stone, yelling the first words that came into her head. "YUKI NAIFU!" she called. Icicles pierced materialized around her. The blue mist seemed to glow. She climbed up to sit on the point of an icicle. "Never seen something like this, huh, Dark-Boy?"

Riku jumped back. "WHAT ARE YOU DOING!"

She leapt down, brandishing a smaller icicle. "Killing you," she announced casually.

"With…" Riku actually started cracking up. "…with that?"

Emma smashed the ice against Monstro's insides. There was a real, sharp knife in its place. "You underestimate me." It was her turn to sound possessed. There was just one voice, but it was like she was in a trance.

"YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO BE THE BRAINY WEAKLING!" he yelled.

"Hmm. Too bad, so sad, don't care." She ran at him holding the knife. Riku was knocked to the ground.

"EMMA, STOP IT!" Sora called from behind them. Pinocchio was standing shyly behind the others. At this point, Emma's knife was hovering dangerously above Riku's throat. He ran at her and jerked her back through the fading mist. "WHAT ARE YOU DOING?"

Emma coldly responded, "His intent was to kill me. I simply turned the tables."

"Emma, I'm really sorry about this." Sora lifted the Three Wishes and brought it down on her head. She crumpled on the ground of Monstro's stomach.

Riku was panting heavily. "Get that…thing away from me!" He ran off. "Maleficent'll go berserk, but I'm going before that thing tries to kill me again!"

Donald sighed and gave Emma a potion. "She went out in one hit. That's just pathetic."

"Hey, look at these pretty stones!" Goofy picked up the stones Emma was messing with.

Emma coughed. "Please…give me those."

Sora looked cautiously at her. "I don't know…that blue one almost made you kill Riku."

"It's just that one. I promise. Let me have the rest. I just wanted to make a necklace…but it seems like these are weapons."

Goofy chucked the blue stone into the stomach acid. "Well then, that takes care of that! I think we can trust Emma with the others, Sora."

She got up shakily. "Thanks." She slipped them onto the wires. "I promise I'll try to control them better."

"Let's hope you know how," Sora replied stiffly. The other two nodded, while Pinocchio ran off to join Gepetto.

Emma also nodded, following them out. Great…now Sora probably hates me.