Author's Note-Sorry this chappie came out late! School's a killer. They shouldn't give tenth graders as much work as college students. -.-; Anyways, here I've brought my first Disney movie in. Forgive me if I've get a couple of characters occ-I haven't seen the movie since I was like...five...and they don't have it at Blockbuster at the moment. Hopefully I shall see it soon, though. Also, I don't own Kingdom Hearts. So without further ado, here's the next chapter!

The ship gave another pained shudder. "No good. If we don't land soon then eventually they'll take out one of our engines or the cockpit-whichever comes first." Tam said grimly.

Taro glared at the screen, then lowered his head. "Sorry guys... I'm trying to shoot them all down, but... I can't. There's just too many of them..."

Tam frowned. "...Don't blame yourself, Taro. After all, I'm the one that's piloting. I probably never should have steered us into this sector to begin with, but I wanted to take a shortcut and now we're trapped in this. I'm sorry..." She smiled a bit softly, then set her face to a determined look. "Now, there's a planet just below. With some fancy flying, I can probably take us down there and we can then survey the damage done to this ship. Hold on tight."

With those words spoken, she gripped the steering controls and frowned in concentration yet with determination.

"Fancy flying?! Tam, you said yourself that you just learned how to fly this ship!" Taro demanded.

Sora nodded in agreement, frowning. "He's right, you know... What if we crash?"

"Um...then we all die?" Tam asked in a tone as if she were speaking to idiots. She rolled her eyes, then sighed. "Like we have a lot of options right now?" she asked, raising an eyebrow. The turbulence of the rough flight made the ship suddenly start spasming violently. "Because if anybody's got a better idea, then I'd be happy to hear it right about now."

At the blank, forgiving silence, she glanced over at them and flashed them a grin. "Don't worry. You two boys ain't the only ones who know how to play video games around here. Be prepared to see the fancy video game flying of the Blue Angels Queen!"

"Now, just hang on tight and you'll be fine." Tam muttered under her breath, a small and slight smirk gradually beginning to appear on her face. Sora and Taro, though having the faith that she had earned in her, could not help but to exchange a worried glance.

Another shudder, the leveling out of the floor, and the feeling of pressure being released. The feeling of relief washed over the small ship's crew, seeing tropical jungle treetops appear in the view of the cockpit as they lowered slowly, softly, then finally they carefully make a gentle landing onto the palm branch-strewn jungle floor.

"Everyone all right?" Sora asked everybody, looking around and blinking.

"Eh, I'll be fine." Taro said. He paused. Blinked. "Tam?" He looked over at the red-haired girl, who was making her way out of the ship. She pressed the button to open up the door and hopped out. Taro and Sora exchanged a frown and followed.

They jumped out to see Tam looking around at the forest in awe. "Wow... Look at this place..." she said breathlessly.

Taro blinked, then nodded. "Yeah...another world... So this is what it's like. Traveling from world to world. You would never see stuff like this in Twilight Town..." He looked over at Tam, who was caressing a large pink flower gently in her hands. He raised an eyebrow. "Tam, what are you doing?"

Tam blinked, then turned around on one heel and smiled, clasping her hands behind her back. "Heh. I love the strange vegetation here. My father was a botanist, so naturally, I'm fascinated by all of this."

"Oh... Right..." Taro said a little absently. Taking a look around again, he then turned to Sora, who was also looking around in wonderment. "...Well?"

Sora blinked over at him. "Well what?" he asked.

"Well, do you recognize anything? Does anything about this place strike you as familiar?" Taro asked. When Sora continued to blink cluelessly, wondering why the question was being asked, Taro sighed. "You've lost your memory, right? And I've never seen you around in Twilight Town before, so my guess is that you're from another world. If we can find your home, then maybe you will get your memory back. Or if we can find someone that knows you...well, knew you before...then maybe they can help you. Like Riku..."

Sora blinked, then took a look around again with this new perspective in mind. Finally he frowned and shook his head.

Taro sighed. "Nothing."

"Well...not quite." Sora reaffirmed. "The trees and the flowers and the plants-those remind me of home. I think. But it wasn't usually this hot, or at least this humid. And it wasn't this noisy-we didn't have the chatter of monkeys and stuff. No, we had another sound. A different one. But it was nowhere near to this. It was more quiet, more peaceful." He frowned in thought, struggling to recover a memory that was scarcely there.

"Perhaps it was the ocean waves?" Tam suggested a bit quietly.

Sora's eyes brightened. "Yes! That's it! I think it really was ocean waves! Thanks, Tam!"

Tam nodded. "It's no problem..." she said.

Taro's look grew thoughtful. "So it's most likely a tropical island..." he murmured. Yeah. Now that I think about it, it was in the dream... he thought. He nodded, then frowned and looked over at Tam. "Tam, what's the damage report?"

Tam looked up, having been snapped out of her thoughts. "Hm?"

"What's the damage report for the gummi ship? What's its status?"

Tam raised an eyebrow, then frowned as she turned to look up at the damaged ship and study it. "Who died and made you captain?" she grumbled. But she sighed as she studied the ship's wounds and said finally, "Well, to be honest, it's not easy to say. I'm a gummi ship pilot, not a gummi mechanic. But, from what I can tell..."

She walked over to the ship and rested a hand on its blue side as she looked up at it. "There's parts of the hull that are burned and melted, but it's not something a little repair job can't fix. We're in no danger since none of the hits went through our shield and with enough force to pierce the cockpit. These are just scratches, battle scars. If anything it just makes the ship look bad and prove that its seen better days.

The engine and hopefully the pressurization unit and other equipment holds no damage, or at least from what I can see from here and now. To be honest, there's hardly any way of knowing for sure until we actually try to fly it again. I do know however that our ship has suffered a tragic loss."

Both boys looked over at her a bit worriedly. "Huh?" Sora asked.

Tam sighed. "The cup holder is broken."

Both of the boys nearly fell over. Taro straightened. "What? How did that happen-this is supposed to be a new ship!" he demanded.

Tam shrugged. "It beats me..." she replied.

Taro frowned. "Oh, by the way. I would probably recommend taking your hand off the ship, Tam-it's probably covered in radioactivity since it's been in space."

Tam smiled. "Thanks for your concern, Taro, but gummi repels the radioactivity of space." She grinned. "Yet another thing that I like about gummi-it's lighter than lead and twice as effective."

Taro nodded. "I see..." He blinked over at her. "You sure know a lot about gummi ships."

Tam shrugged. "Like I said, it's the manual. Anyways, now that we've done an outer survey of the ship and hopefully thrown the Heartless ships off our tail, I suggest that we get going..." she said, starting back into the ship.

"No! Wait!" Taro said. Tam stopped and sighed but never turned around to face him. "We need to explore this planet. Look...I've lost my family. But I still might be able to find my friends! They might be on this world. And..." He took a step forward. "I can't just leave...without at least trying to look for them, first."

Tam sighed and slowly turned to face him. "Taro..."

Suddenly, a flash of orange and black! A roar and a surprised yell. Taro and Tam looked over, quite alarmed, at the tiger that had pounced on Sora and was now ready to rip out the poor boy's throat.

Taro's keyblades formed in his hands, but he was unsure what to do. The tiger seemed to notice this and grin, opening his mouth...

And he spoke.

"Put your weak weapons away. Come any closer, I'll rip out his throat. Do nothing, I'll rip out his throat anyway. Either way, you're out of options. I recommend you go while I allow you to." The tiger said.

Taro's grip on his keyblades tightened. "Well I recommend that you let my friend go before I slice you in half." A bluff, of course. There was no chance in hell that he would make it to save Sora in time. But it was still worth a chance trying.

Then again, this merely left the tiger to laugh.

Taro glared. Sora struggled underneath the weight of the tiger, but surprisingly for a sleek, graceful cat, it was a big cat. Big, as in five to six hundred pounds big. There was no way that he was going to be able to push that tiger off.

The tiger's ears suddenly perked up, focusing solely on the chant that Tam began to murmur. The hand of the girl opened slightly, dropping two-pebbles?-off the edge of the walkway and into the soil.

And then, suddenly-

"Sora! Don't move!"

Stalks suddenly shot up around the boy, looping and flowing underneath the tiger's belly and lifting him high up into the air. The tiger screeched and roared, struggling to get free from his unwanted perch about fifteen to eighteen feet up in the air.

When the plants stopped growing, Sora sat up and stared up at the tiger and...the big pink flowers that had sprouted from the stalks?

"Sora! Move it before the tiger falls on you!" Tam ordered.

Sora nodded a bit shakily and scurried out from the cage of stalks.

Taro stared up at the tiger, then over at Tam. "T-Tam... How did you...?"

Tam shook her head. "Never mind that-let's just get going."

"No! We still have to find my friends!" Taro argued.

"Taro... They're not going to be here! If anything, that great big cat probably ate them!"

"Well then, why don't we ask him?"

"He's an overgrown kitty! Kitties don't talk!"

"He just did!" Taro pointed out.

"...Oh, fine, fine. I guess you do have a point." Tam rolled her eyes, crossed her arms, and turned so that her back was facing him. "If you want to make an idiot of yourself, then go on ahead-I'm not stopping you. But I guarantee that everything that comes out of its mouth is either a trick or a lie. Especially since we just interrupted his lunch."

Taro shrugged. "But you have to admit, it's probably better than nothing." He said. He turned to the tiger. "Now. Why did you attack Sora?"

"Because I was hungry. And he is a mancub." The tiger replied. "Why else?"

Taro blinked. "A mancub?" he asked.

"Yes. Unlike you and the female."

"What?! I'm a human and so is Tam!"

"But I beg to differ. Neither of you have a scent."

Taro frowned but Tam stiffened slightly. Sora seemed to notice the redhead's unease and blinked.

"Huh...?" He shook his head, figuring that now was probably not the time to question his rescuer.

Taro shook his head. "...Whatever... Anyways, have you seen three hu-er...mancubs...around here? One is a mancub female with shoulder-length red hair, one is a boy with unruly, shoulder-length brown hair, and the other one, the youngest, is a boy with shoulder-length black hair."

"Hm... I have seen the youngest, yes." The tiger replied.

Taro smiled. "Oh, really"

"...Yes. Go west until you come to the river. You should find him around there."

Author's Note-Any guesses on which world our heroes have stumbled upon? Whoever can guess gets a Heartless plushie that won't steal your heart, I swear! –glanceglace- Anyways, I will try to get the next chapter out by next Friday or at least by the end of the week. I can't really guarantee much of anything at this point because I'm juggling two fanfics, a comic, an original story, and plenty of schoolwork that practically takes up most of my time. But I shall try my best! Until then, please review! Ja ne!