Chapter XIX: A Day at the F-Zero Races
After sneaking out of Cappy Town, our heros boarded the Toad Express where Luigi was able to bring them back to their normal size. Toadsworth then walked over to greet our heros.
"Master Sora, Master Luigi, Yoshi, glad to see everything turned alright in Dreamland." Toadsworth said while greeting them.
"Hopefully, Dedede will leave the poor citizens alone now that he can't order anymore more monster from Nightmare Enterprises." Sora smiled. "Maybe, if eats more, it will take his mind off it."
"When next world?" Yoshi asked Toadsworth.
"Only about a half hour away." Toadsworth responded checking his pocket watch.
"Then we'll chill for a little bit and get ready for our next venture." Sora announced.
"We could kid, but we're still in our disguises." Luigi pointed out.
"Oh, I forgot!" Sora exclaimed. "I guess I got so used to this body, I forgot about my normal body. Ok, Luigi, change us back."
"Here we go then!" Luigi said snapping his finger. A cloud went poof around our heros and when the smoked cleared they were all wearing tutus.
"Ha. Ha. Ha. Very funny Luigi." Sora laughed sarcastically. "Seriously, change us back."
"It's no laughing matter." Luigi said getting a little nervously. "I forgot the spell on how to revert us back to normal."
"You what?" Sora panicked.
"Kid, panicking is the last think you should be doing." Luigi snapped trying to calm Sora down. "I'll keep trying! I'll remember it eventually!"
Luigi snapped his finger again and this time our heros became sea creature. Sora became a merman, Luigi became an octopuses, and Yoshi became a sea turtle.
"Why do I have the feeling there was suppose to an original purpose for these forms?" Sora wondered.
"Well, Master Sora, I think you should focus on the fact that sea creatures can't breath air." Toadsworth said.
"Oh, yeah." The group began gasping for air and they fell on the floor. "Luigi, change us again before I strangle you to cause the loss of more air."
"Air please." Yoshi added gasping.
"Okay, okay!" Luigi gasped angrily. He snapped his fingers again and this time they turned back into normal."
"Did it work?" Toadsworth asked with hope.
"I think so." Sora said with Luigi's voice. He then smacked his hand on his mouth. "Oh, no! I'm in Sora's body! I don't want to go back to high school!"
"Whoa!" Yoshi said in Sora's voice. "I'm a green dinosaur and I'm cute."
"Yoshi have sudden urge to eat pasta." Luigi said in Yoshi's voice.
Luigi snapped his fingers again and everyone but him turned into pasta on a bowl.
"Yoshi eatable now." Yoshi giggled.
"Well, I don't think it's funny one bit." Sora groaned.
"Mmm." Luigi said grabbing a fork. "Pasta!"
"Luigi! Wait!"
Luigi picked up the bowl which had Sora in it. Luigi spun a fork around it and was about to eat it. Sora screamed as he fell into Luigi's mouth into the dark. Next thing he knew, he screamed and woke up panting. He looked ahead of him to see Luigi holding his shoulders.
"Sora! Are you alright?" Luigi asked worried. "We heard you screaming!"
Sora looked at himself to see he was wearing his normal clothes and he looked at Luigi and Yoshi to see they were normal too. He fell back into his seat sighing with relief.
"It was only a dream." Sora sighed. "How did I fall asleep?"
"The minute you got on the Toad Express you were so tired that you fell right asleep Master Sora." Toadsworth explained. "Master Luigi turned you back to normal and we all crashed in for the night."
Yoshi jumped onto Sora's lap and licked his face.
"Aw, Sora had nightmare." Yoshi said warmly. "Is Sora okay?"
"I'm fine." Sora sighed. "That's the last time I fight against nightmares."
"I know you need to take a moment to breath kid but we'll be at the next world any second, so start to come alive." Luigi said.
Sora took a few minutes to wake up and they then had breakfast. After breakfast, the group sat back in their seats and got ready for departure.
"We're here!" Toadsworth announced.
"Let's check it out." Sora said approaching the window. Upon the group looking out the window, they gasped in amazement at what they saw. It was a giant futuristic city with flying cars driving all around it. They noticed a giant track that was all over it with loops and hard turns. "Whoa! Are we in the future? This place is unreal!"
"It's called Mute City." Toadsworth explained. "This world has advance technology far beyond any other world that it looks like the future. There are tons of different species that live there including humans and it seems that their most favorite event of the year is the F-Zero races. We think that the keyhole may be there, so you need to disguise yourselves as F-Zero racers."
"No problem." Luigi smiled proudly. "Leave it to me."
"NO!" Sora panicked. Everyone then looked at him funny. "No...no...nobody knows what they wear."
"Kid, what the hecks the matter with you?" Luigi asked concerned. "Does this have to do with your dream by any chance?" Sora just nodded. "Look, I haven't screwed up once and the dress thing was a joke."
"I know but in the dream you turned us into pasta and ate me." Sora said.
"Oh, Sora." Luigi sighed rolling his eyes. "I love pasta but I would never eat you if you were pasta. Don't worry about it. Let's-a-go and have some fun!"
"You're right, Luigi." Sora smiled. "Let's go then!"
The trio made their way towards the door and exited to their next world.
World Name: Mute City
Mute City had skyscrapers farther then they eye could see. In this world, technology and science have been far more developed then any other world. For example; traffic control is done by robots and people now use cars for air and ground. All of the buildings had neon lights around them and they came in many odd and disfigured shapes. One was an egg shaped one on a little pole. In the middle of town was where the biggest even took place, the F-Zero races. Racers from all over the city would come together to battle it out in heart pounding races around giant race tracks that spread out all over the city, with hard turns, hard gaps for the racers to jump over, and loops proving that racing has never been exciting or dangerous. A small crowd of people were in bleachers watching a blue futuristic car drive around the track extremely fast. Inside the building was a lobby where a giant sign on the poster said "F-Zero festival featuring the mini F-Zero racers"
Sora's group arrived at the entrance to the lobby wearing their disguises. Unlike Dreamland, they remanded in their normal states but were wearing different clothes. Sora wore a blue helmet on his head with a red racing uniform. On the left side of chest was the crown symbol that looked like the neckless he wore and of course he had his yellow shoes on. Luigi wore a red helmet with a light green racing type outfit. He had a mushroom symbol on the left side of his chest. Yoshi wore the same thing as Luigi except his was perfectly fitted on his body. His uniform was dark green and he had an egg symbol on the left side of his chest.
"You did a good job Luigi." Sora commented. "But do you think we can pull this off?"
"We got away with it in Dreamland, so I think we can pull this off." Luigi nodded. He then noticed Sora raising his eyebrow at him. "Okay, we almost got away with, but that's because Ebrum got lucky. If we blend in with the other racers, we should be fine."
"Yoshi have bad feeling in gut." Yoshi said nervously. He then could see the F-Zero heartless appear. "Yoshi right! Heartless!"
Sora took his keyblade out and got ready to fight. But as they were ready, they noticed that the heartless weren't fighting or moving for that matter. Sora approached one of them slowly and slowly put his keyblade up towards it.
"Be careful, kid." Luigi warned Sora. "You know your curiosity gets us into trouble!"
Sora lightly tapped the heartless with his keyblade and it didn't flinch.
"Hm, that's weird." Sora said confused. "I wonder why it won't attack?"
"Hey, maybe they get tired of Yoshi kicking butt." Yoshi laughed proudly.
"Kid, I wouldn't assume anything yet." Luigi pointed out. "There is a logical explanation for all this. I just don't know what it is."
The trio then heard an explosion coming from a part of the F-Zero building.
"Maybe, it has something to do with that explosion." Sora assumed. "Come on, let's go find out!"
Sora's group proceeded into the building where many people were walking around. Sora noticed other creatures besides humans in their. He saw lizard like creatures, red skinned creatures, robots, and more. They began searching for the cause of the explosion through many different hallways and doors. Many people noticed the trio but payed no attention as they walked outside to where the racing track was. They appeared under a giant tunnel area where they saw black and white checkered colors on the ground. They also saw mechanics with wrenches working on other F-Zero cars and some were with towels and windshield wipers. They also saw another man holding a stopwatch Sora then heard someone over the loud speaker.
"Ladies and gentlemen." The announcer said. "Just finishing his time trial race, I give you a legendary F-Zero racer, a man who needs no introduction, the man of mystery; Captain Falcon!"
As soon as the name was announced the F-Zero heartless drove in and formed two lines parallel to each other which were far apart. The blue car drove through the middle of them and then came to a complete stop. The fans cheered as the person stepped out of the car. He was a tall man who wore a blue racing uniform, had a rad helmet with a falcon symbol on it, had a brown belt that held a gun on his left side, wore long gold and red gloves, and had wore golden boots. He waved at the audience who cheered and he turned to the man with the stopwatch who looked at it.
"A new record!" The man with a stopwatch said.
Captain Falcon put his hand up and walked away. News reporters and a camera crew followed him while leaving a baffled Sora.
"Did you see that?" Sora said.
"Yeah, that guy broke a world record." Luigi responded.
"No, I mean how the heartless knew to make that formation." Sora said suspiciously. "Maybe, this Captain Falcon person has something to do with the heartless. Let's keep an eye on him and see what happens."
"Okay." Yoshi nodded.
The trio followed close behind to see if he tried anything funny but made sure that he didn't suspect them. About a few minutes later, they arrived at a stairway where the Captain saw an old man who wore a yellow jump suit, and had many machines around his body like metal arms.
"Pretty impressive show you put on Captain." The man said. "But I'm sure that my Crazy Bear could have did that twice as better."
"Thanks for the comment, Dr. Clash." Captain Falcon chuckled sarcastically. "But I do agree with one thing. Those mini F-Zero racers still need work on their movements. After all it was my idea to come up with this F-Zero festival when I discovered them."
"Sometimes you can be a show off Falcon." Dr. Clash chuckled. "And you had to have all F-Zero racers help out."
"I usually don't ask for help, but I wanted to perfect it anyway possible." Captain Falcon continued. "And tonight is the big event." He then thought of an idea. "I know! Perhaps, I should consult Dr. Stewart. Yeah! I think I will!" He then began to head up the stairs when he turned back to Dr. Clash. "While I go see the doctor, get started on your part of the festival."
"I used to be the engineer here and yet after the drawing I have to set up corny decorations." Dr. Clash complained. "This is so humiliating!"
"You snooze, you loose Clash." Captain Falcon said walking up the stairs.
Clash grumbled to himself and walked off upset. Sora's group shrugged their shoulders and continued to follow their man. The Captain passed by security guards which saluted him. Sora's group acted as natural as they could and were lucky enough to make it by. About a few minutes later, the gang arrived at a security door where the Captain took out a card and swiped it across a door that said lab entrance. The door opened and the Captain entered it. Sora walked up to the door and groaned.
"Great." He groaned. "He used some sort of card to gain access to that lab. Now what do we do?"
"Maybe, FLUDD could help us." Luigi said pressing the button on the P 3000 exchanging it for FLUDD.
"Hello, Luigi." FLUDD said greeting his friends. "I am at your service."
"FLUDD, can you help us find an alternate way into that lab?" Sora asked FLUDD.
"I'll try." FLUDD began scanning the area until it detected something. "Yes, there is an alternate way."
"Really?" Luigi asked with hope. "Then tell us!" Seconds later, the group entered an air vent and crawled through it. "You call this an alternate way? It's so hot and disgusting in here!"
"Don't complain man." Sora said crawling slowly. "FLUDD did the best he could."
"But kid, air vents can sometimes be full of germs and dirt." Luigi complained. "And it's so stuffy too."
"Luigi neat freak." Yoshi giggled.
"So what?" Luigi responded. "I have good hygiene while you two brats smell."
"You didn't give me time to have a shower this morning." Sora argued. "The moment I got up we were at another world."
"Stop whining!" Luigi snapped.
"Yoshi hear voices." Yoshi interrupted.
Sora looked down through one of the caged vents to see Captain Falcon in a giant laboratory with one of the F-Zero heartless on a examination table. On the other side of the table was a tall skinny man who had brown hair and wore a yellow racing suit. The yellow suited man was observing the heartless.
"Are you sure your guidance system is working Dr. Stewart?" Captain Falcon asked the man. "Perhaps, it was damaged from that explosion that happened awhile ago. That may have caused something to go haywire."
"That's impossible!" Dr. Stewart protested. "My devices are always perfect. After all I had 20 years experience in the fields of medical science and not once have I failed. Even after my father died, I secretly continued to learn new skills"
"Then explain that explosion then." Captain Falcon said crossing his arms.
"I was baking a cake when I set my oven on a little to high." Dr. Stewart said sheepishly. Sora's group giggled to themselves while Captain Falcon even gave a little chuckle. "What? I need other hobbies you know."
"Whatever." Captain Falcon sighed. "Maybe, there is another way to make them work. What are they called again?"
"After much research I have discovered that they are called the heartless." Dr. Stewart responded.
"Hey!" Captain Falcon cried arising with an idea. "I have an idea! They're heartless because they don't have a heart, right? So, if we give them a heart, maybe they would obey."
"Hm, it's crazy enough to work." Dr. Stewart said to himself. He then walked over to the examination table "Hop on the table and I'll cut you open."
"What?" Captain Falcon exclaimed. "I didn't mean me!"
"You know you need to get into the environment more." Dr. Stewart sighed rolling his eyes. "You'd realize I was just kidding."
"Oh, uh...I knew that." Captain Falcon said nervously.
"Sure you did." Dr. Stewart said sarcastically. "We can make a our very own heart. Just imagine, if I could pull this off we could revolutionize medicine. I'd be given a Nobel Piece Prize for making an actually heart. I have the tools needed to do it." He went into a closet and pulled out a jar. "In this jar contains all the material needed to make a heart. I have always wanted to attempt it but I just never had time because of the racing but now I can finally realize my dream."
"Listen man!" Captain Falcon groaned impatiently. "Stop blabbing and let's get started!"
"My someone woke up on the wrong side of the bed this morning." Dr. Stewart said upset. "The only problem is that I don't have the key to this stupid lock and I've checked everywhere for it."
"Now what do we do?"
Sora turned his head towards his group.
"So, these guys are using the heartless for their festival." Sora said. "I'm going to unlock that jar for them."
"Bad idea, kid." Luigi disagreed. "Number one: we'd be meddling again, number 2: it seems that the heartless are connected to each other some how and if these guys give this one a heart, who knows what might happen."
"Come on Luigi." Sora reassured him. "Nothing bad will go wrong and if they succeed, we won't have to fight. Besides, I want to see the heartless actually entertain us for once. Think about it, we can just put our feet up and enjoy."
"Well, it would, but then again I quiver at the thought of those shadow pains performing." Luigi said.
Sora noticed that Luigi and Yoshi were on his back and their weight on the metal bars was being pressed in. The bars were old and weren't very strong and also the bolts were loose. It then snapped and the trio fell through the room and landed on the ground. The men turned to see them and gasped.
"What is the meaning of this?" Dr. Stewart exclaimed upon seeing Sora's group. "How did you get passed security? Can't you see this area is very restricted?"
"Hey, we're F-Zero racers too." Luigi lied. "We lost our cards, so we had to find another way around the area."
"Nice try." Captain Falcon smirked. "I can tell that you three aren't F-Zero racers just by looking at you."
"But how did you know?" Sora gasped in surprise.
"Because you just told me kid." Captain Falcon responded.
"Doh!" Sora said smacking his forehead. "I hate it when people trick me like that."
"Listen, if you came for an autograph, tough luck!" Captain Falcon said. "I'm pretty busy."
"We understand that sir." Luigi nodded.
"But I can help you with your lock problem." Sora said.
"You help us?" Dr. Stewart scoffed. "Listen, this isn't a toy. This is science!"
"I'll show you." Sora laughed proudly taking out his keyblade. He then walked up to the jar and pointed his keyblade at the lock. He fired a beam at it which caused it to unlock. The men were in shock upon seeing this happen.
"Well, I'll be." Dr. Stewart said amazed. "The kid actually unlocked it."
"See, Yoshi want to see heartless dance too." Yoshi giggled.
"Impressive." Captain Falcon said amazed. "Thanks little guy. You saved us a whole bunch of work there...what's your name?"
"Sora."
"Well, then Sora." Captain Falcon smiled. "How would you and your friends like to be part of the festival? And you'll even eat for free there!"
"Yoshi do! Yoshi do!" Yoshi cheered.
"Whoa, take easy kid!" Luigi exclaimed.
"That sounds like fun. We'd love too." Sora nodded. "But there's one thing I want to ask you. Why is this heartless here?"
Captain Falcon then turned his attention to the heartless. "They came to our town not too long ago. I was interest about how they took on the form of a F-Zero race car. So, I figured that instead of watching us race, we could have these little guys race and perform as part of the main attraction of the first annual F-Zero festival. Sponsored by yours truly."
"It's funny." Dr. Stewart said. "Normally a guy like him would never do something like this. He is sort of an enigma and would never show his face in public except for racing of course."
"Hey, just like your cooking I need a hobby too." Captain Falcon said. "Anyways, the frustrating part is that I can't get them to do the right moves. So, with Dr. Stewart's help, we can make the heartless understand us and even I admit that he is a genius."
"I'm flattered." Dr. Stewart joked. "But let's continue anyways. I'm sure our guests don't mean any harm and they could help us too." He opened the jar and looked in it. "Um, this part might be a little disturbing so would you three mind looking the other way for a few minutes. A hearts not a heart without it's inner parts and it could get messy."
"Yeah!" Luigi agreed. "I just had breakfast too."
"You can read some of my medical books but don't rip out any pages." Dr. Stewart told our heros.
For a few minutes the trio looked at the doctor's books reading some interesting things. Sora read something on the digestive system. As he flipped through the pages he saw a torn page. At first he got worried wondering if he messed up the book, but upon close observation he recognized that it was one of the torn pages missing from Wiseman's book. He grabbed it and pocketed it. Finally, the doctor called the trio back and they turned around to see a heart on the table.
"So, that's what a real heart looks like." Sora said amazed. "That's so cool!"
"It's almost finished." Dr. Stewart said. "Now it needs the attributes of a heart. Those will be transferred into the heart through magnetic electric waves." Sora, Luigi, and Yoshi went to retrieve the certain items needed and then placed it on a lab table. "Let's check now. A frog will represent pulse and emotion. A spider, a Halloween mask, and scratched glass will represent fear and terror. And hope and despair will be represented by two snakes tied together. Together they should create a heart. Cross your fingers everyone."
The doctor walked over to a lever and pushed it up causing electricity to spark out and zap the attributes, the heart, and the heartless. The group awaited the results as the headlights on the heartless lit up but then the headlights went off and the system crashed.
"Shoot!" Captain Falcon said angrily. "It didn't work!"
"Well, there goes the festival." Luigi sighed.
"Not yet." Dr. Stewart said. "I think we're missing some ingredients. Luckily, I saved a memory jar just for this exact moment." He went into his closet and gasped upon what he saw. "Oh, no! The jar's empty!"
"It's what?"
Dr. Stewart walked back out angrily with the jar. "Heads will roll for this! No one takes a doctor's lab equipment and specimens and gets away with it!"
"Calm down, doc." Sora said calmly. "I'm sure there is a perfectly good reason for all this."
"Hm, someone stole it." Dr. Stewart assumed. "I better take this to a DNA machine while nobody else has touched the inside of it."
The doctor left the room leaving Sora's group behind for a minute.
"I hope everything is okay." Luigi worried.
"The doctor will figure it out." Captain Falcon reassured. "He's good at this kind of stuff. So, where did you guys come from anyway?" Sora explained to Captain Falcon about how they came from another world, leaving out their exact location. "I guess you guys don't know too much about our world, huh? Well, you're okay in my book. I kind of like the costumes."
The doctor returned into the room with an angry look. "Of all the nerve! After a DNA test, I've discovered that Jody Summer took the memory jar."
"Who Jody?" Yoshi asked curiously.
"She's a racer like us and the leader of the Elite Mobile Task Force." Captain Falcon explained. "This girl can be very strict and she can be very suspicious about things."
"Why would should she want the memory jar?" Sora asked Captain Falcon.
"Beats the heck out of me, kid." Captain Falcon shrugged. "But we got to get it back for the festival and Stewart will just go nuts if one of his experiments goes missing. Sora, not that I care but you and your friends are welcomed to help out by coming along with me."
"Sure, why not?" Sora smiled.
"Why not?" Luigi muttered. "Because we get into trouble that's why."
Sora's group along with the Captain left to find Jody. On their way down the stairs, they heard Dr. Clash calling for help.
"Captain Falcon! Help!" He cried.
The foursome quickly made their way down the stairs and of course Luigi trips and falls down the stairs as always.
"Medic!" Luigi cried.
"Get glasses!" Sora said to Luigi while running.
The group ran over to Dr. Clash who was panicking all around the area. Captain Falcon grabbed him and slapped him across the face.
"Get a hold of yourself, doc." Captain Falcon said. "What the heck's going on here?"
"It was terrible." Dr. Clash said. "I was checking on your little F-Zero creatures when they just started going crazy. They attacked me and ran off and what's worse is when I got outside, they were everywhere causing chaos. I barely made it out of there alive!"
"I knew it!" Luigi said angrily at Sora. "See what happens when your meddling gets us in trouble?"
"Listen Luigi!" Sora snapped "We can't worry about that now! You sound like Donald Duck when you get into one of your tantrums! The heartless are back to their own evil selves and our running a muck. But how are they acting so violent again?"
"Maybe our experiment triggered something." Captain Falcon assumed. "Now we more then ever need that memory back or else they'll hurt everybody." He then turned back to Dr. Clash. "You leave everything to me. You have nothing to worry about."
"Oh, well then good luck Falcon." Dr. Clashed sighed with relief.
"Show off." Luigi muttered.
Sora's group exited the building to get a warm welcome from the heartless who right away attacked. Captain Falcon was a strong fighter and used fire attacks on his opponents such as Falcon Punch and Falcon Kick. He even took out a laser gun and shot a few. Sora struck hard at a group of the heartless with his keyblade and he finished off another group with his strike raid attack. Luigi used updated magic spells to zap and freeze the heartless and Yoshi ate them and spat them out at others.
After defeating the rest of them Sora realized something. "Wait a minute! How are we suppose to find Jody in this big city?"
"Well, whenever there is a crime or a disaster the Elite Mobile Task Force will answer the call." Captain Falcon said. Just then, an explosion happened and everyone heard sirens. "That's probably them now!"
"How lucky could Sora, Luigi, Yoshi, and Falcon guy get?" Yoshi cheered.
"It's Captain Falcon lizard boy." Captain Falcon corrected to Yoshi. "Anyways, let's go and see if she's there."
"Listen bud, we have a problem." Luigi said. "That ruckus sounded too far away. We'd never make it by foot."
"No problem." Captain Falcon said taking out a remote. He pressed a button on the remote and his blue car drove up. "Boys, say hello to my race car the Blue Falcon."
"Cool!" The trio said together.
"Ooh, Yoshi love race car, it go vroom." Yoshi said excitedly.
Sora chuckled at Yoshi and Luigi rolled his eyes.
"It sounds like fun but you realize that we all can't fit in there, right?" Luigi pointed.
"I know. This is the part I'm going to regret later." Captain Falcon sighed. Seconds later, Captain Falcon started up the engine and put all the gears on. "You boys comfortable back there?"
Behind Captain Falcon was the trio who were all squished in cheek to cheek. Yoshi looked around, Sora struggled, and Luigi put his hand on his chin and made an upset look.
"Hey, I know we had a close friendship guys, but not this close." Sora said with his famous goofy smile.
"Ah, shut up." Luigi groaned.
"Hang on!" Captain Falcon said. "We're shifting into turbo!"
The Blue Falcon's began glowing and then it zoomed down the road at super speed. It only took two minutes for the F-Zero car to reach it's destination. As they arrived they saw a group of heartless around a yellow caution strings. Captain Falcon exited the car and Sora's group pushed their way through the door and fell over. As they stood up they saw a couple of the heartless break loose.
"Let's clean this area off of any heartless before we start looking for Jody!" Sora instructed.
Sora and the gang attacked the heartless head on with full force again. One tried to attack Sora but Captain Falcon grabbed it and threw it into another one. Sora then jumped onto Captain Falcon's shoulders and jumped off and kicked one that was in the air. Sora used Gravity to knock down the heartless that were airborne and when they came down, Captain Falcon would strike them hard with a Falcon Kick. Luigi used FLUDD to spray the ground and make the F-Zero heartless go out of control because their wheels kept spinning from the water. Yoshi used Egg Roll to roll around the heartless and squish them. Sora also called in Mr. Game & Watch who used a crab as a weapon or used oil spills to send the F-Zero racers crashing. After defeating them, Sora's group sighed with relief.
"Mama-mia!" Luigi said. "That sure was a chunk full of heartless."
"Hey, get away from there!" Called a voice.
Sora's group turned to see a young man walk up to them. He wore the same racing uniform like Captain Falcon. He had white from part way through his chest to his lower legs. On his shoulders was a blue color and he wore blue boots. He looked very bulky and had short black hair.
"Well, well, if it isn't John Tanaka." Captain Falcon laughed.
"Captain Falcon?" John asked in surprise. "What are you doing here? Can't you see this area is restricted because of..." He then gasped upon seeing the area empty. "What on earth? Where'd the suspects go?"
"We took care of them." Sora said proudly. "They won't bother anybody ever again."
"Well, then I guess I have you and your friends to thank young man." John gratefully said. "But why did you come here? Can't you see this is police business?"
"Yeah, but we're looking for Jody and knowing you, your probably with her." Captain Falcon responded.
"Yeah, you just have to follow me wherever I go, huh, John?" Called a female voice.
Sora turned to see a young woman walk up to them. She wore a white racing suit with a pink bikini type armor. She also had black long hair.
"Well...no...er...I...mean...well." John said nervously.
"Forget it." Jody sighed. She then turned to Captain Falcon. "Well, Falcon what brings you here? You cleaned up that mess for us before we could even act."
"What can I say?" Captain Falcon smirked. "I never back down from a challenge. But the reason I'm here is because we heard you took a memory jar from Dr. Stewart's lab."
"Memory?" She asked taking out a leaf. "You mean this? I just took this from his lab."
"But why would you do something like that?" Sora asked curiously. "We need that for the festival."
"I've been doing some researcher on this memory thing." Jody explained. "I heard this thing has dark powers and it could cause disaster. When I found out that Stewart got his hands on one, I had to take it from him. I would have arrested him but the poor man had no idea what it does. Even if he is a scientist."
"Listen, nothing can go wrong." Captain Falcon smiled. "Once we get the heartless a heart, they'll be able to perform just as I envisioned it."
"Well as leader of the Elite Mobile Task Force, I am not allowed to give any substances to any non personal." Jody said.
"Aw." Yoshi moaned.
"Tell you what." Captain Falcon smirked. "How about we race for it?"
"Ha! Race?" Jody scoffed. "You know I can't beat you. I'm just a rookie!"
"Hey, maybe you could get lucky." Luigi said. "You never know."
"Well..." Jody thought. "Oh, why not?"
A few minutes later, the group returned to the F-Zero track where Jody and Captain Falcon drove around the F-Zero track. Jody was in the lead and driving through twist and turns while Captain Falcon was left far behind. Jody laughed with confidence and wondered if she could real win. She was about a second away from the goal line when the Blue Falcon drove pass her car and won the race. Sora's group cheered as the two competitors got out of the car and Jody angrily handed over the memory.
"Hey, thanks Jody." Captain Falcon smirked. "That was really nice of you."
"Just take it." She said angrily. "But don't come crying to me when terrible things start to happen. If you really want some entertainment for the festival, why not use those kids for the show? They look funny in their racing uniforms. Especially, the one with the big nose." Yoshi got mad again as Jody then turned to John. "Tanaka, back to the base!"
"Yes, ma'am." John saluted.
She then turned back to Captain Falcon. "Mark my words, you haven't seen the last of Jody Summer."
Jody and John then left in their F-Zero cars as Captain Falcon chuckled.
"She can be such a sore loser sometimes." Captain Falcon chuckled. "Come on! Let's head back and get this heart started!"
"Okay." Sora nodded.
"Why does everyone make fun of Yoshi's nose?" An upset Yoshi asked Luigi.
"Kid, they're just saying that." Luigi responded. "If they were to make fun of you they would have laughed at you saying oh look at the guy with the big nose. He's so funny."
"Oh, then Yoshi no worry."
Everyone made their way back to Dr. Stewart's lab. They weren't aware that they were being watched by someone. A man walked out of the shadows and it was a surprise about who he was. It was a clone or exact copy of Captain Falcon except he was evil and had red clothes and a blue helmet on.
"A heart, huh?" The evil copy chuckled sinisterly. So those fools are making a heart, huh? My master will be pleased."
He then left in the shadows and laughed manically. Sora's group returned to the lab with Dr. Stewart waiting for them.
"Ah, good job gentlemen." Dr. Stewart said happily. "Thank you for bringing me the memory back."
"Now, let's try this again." Captain Falcon said.
"Not yet." Dr. Stewart said. "I've been thinking to perfect it we need one more thing."
"What's that?" Luigi asked the doctor.
"The last item we need is with Dr. Clash." Dr. Stewart explained. "He's at the F-Zero garage. Head over there but knowing him he's going to probably have you do something weird."
"Like how weird?" Sora asked raising his eyebrow.
"Don't know." Dr. Stewart shrugged. "Just be careful."
"Frustrating, fettuccini." Luigi complained. "This is getting annoying."
"Now you know how I feel." Sora chuckled. "Riku and Kairi would always have me run around the island doing errands."
The group left and headed down stairs. As they headed to the left Sora found some more Pikmin and pocketed them. Also they battled through more heartless on the way. One tried to attack Captain Falcon but Sora slashed it aside. Another one came after him and he used a fire kick to knock it in to Sora who cooled it off with an updated Blizzard spell. Yoshi shot an egg at one and stomped on another one. Luigi used the P3000 to suck up the heartless and shoot them at others. Finally, the gang made it to the F-Zero garage where Dr. Clash was waiting for them.
"Well, it's about time you got here." Dr. Clash said. "I've been waiting for you."
"We're here gramps." Captain Falcon said. "Now give us the item."
"Not so fast!" Dr. Clash said with glee. "I'd love to give you the item but it sometimes gets lonely here and I like to have a little fun. So, we're going to play a memory game and if you win the item is yours."
"Okay." Yoshi nodded. "What does Yoshi have to lose?"
"The following car engines will start up in a certain order and then you need to repeat that certain order." Dr. Clash explained. "Ready? Go!"
The engines started up on certain cars at certain times. Sora's group watched the cars and listened for the sound. After listening to the sounds Sora entered the cars in the certain order and started up the engines. As Sora exited they heard an explosion sound.
"What was that?"
"Go check the last F-Zero car on the far right and open the trunk." Dr. Clash instructed. "There is where you the prize you are looking for awaits."
Sora walked over to the last car and opened the trunk and saw a Jack-in-the-Box.
"I wonder what this represents?" Sora wondered taking out the toy.
"Isn't obvious kid?" Luigi said annoyed. "What do you think a Jack-in-the-Box does?"
"Oh, yeah." Sora chuckled.
"Come on!" Captain Falcon cried. "Let's hurry up and get this heart started up!"
The group left and headed back to the lab once again. Meanwhile, at a place called the Dark Million the Captain Falcon clone entered a room where Black Shadow was waiting for him.
"Ah, Blood Falcon." He said. "Do you have anything to report?"
"Yes, sir." Blood Falcon said. "Captain Falcon and that boy with the key are trying to make a heart."
"A heart?" Black Shadow said. "So, that fool is really making a heart? If I had that heart then I could become more powerful. I'll take over Mute City and can do as I please. Not even Captain Falcon or the Elite Mobile Task Force could stop me. Blood Falcon, get me that heart! Now!"
"As you command my evilness." Blood Falcon said while bowing. He then left in a hurry and got into his F-Zero car and drove back to the F-Zero racing area.
Sora's group arrived back at the lab where Dr. Stewart awaited them.
"At last." Dr. Stewart said. "Now this heart should finally work."
"About time." Luigi sighed.
He took the toy and added it to the line up of the other subjects such as the frog, leaf, the snakes, etc. He then grabbed the heart and took it over to the examination table. Before he got the chance to put it down, something hit his hand causing it to go flying out of it.
"Ow!"
The heart went flying into the air and landed in Blood Falcon's hand.
"Aw, for me?" He joked "That's very sweat of you. And it's not even my birthday. Later, losers!"
He ran out the door and Sora's group ran over to Dr. Stewart.
"Are you okay?" Sora asked concerned.
"I'm fine." Dr. Stewart said rubbing his wrist. "A little scar but nothing serious. How dare he steals my heart! I'm about a peek away from revolutionizing the world of medicine and then that fiend steals it."
"Whoever stole it, the guy looked like you Captain Falcon." Luigi said.
"That's because it's a clone of me." Captain Falcon responded. "His name is Blood Falcon and was created by Black Shadow. His purpose was to kill me at the F-Zero races but I defeated him. Black Shadow is the leader of the Dark Million, an organization that plans on global conquest. We need to go after that faker right now!"
"I'll remain here and make sure no one else tries to steals my experiments." Dr. Stewart said.
Sora's group left the lab and headed down stairs again where they saw Blood Falcon escape in his car the Blood Hawk.
"He's getting away!" Sora cried.
"He's not getting away that easily!" Captain Falcon said taking out his remote. He pressed a button and the Blue Falcon showed up. "Come on!"
"No way!" Luigi refused. "I'm not going to get squashed in there again!"
"Okay, I'm sure you can go a hundred miles per second Luigi." Sora said sarcastically. "We'll see you there real soon."
Luigi just groaned. "Alright, alright, I'll do it, but I won't like it."
The group boarded the Blue Falcon and he shifted it into high gear and a high speed car chase began. Blood Falcon turned to see Captain Falcon on his tail.
"Oh, no!" Blood Falcon exclaimed. "Those meddlers are right behind me! Let's see them dodge this attack!"
He pressed a button on his car revealing an oil spill which poured onto the road. Captain Falcon saw this and drove faster.
"What are you doing?" Sora cried. "We're going to crash if you drive through that oil spill!"
"An oil spill never slowed me down before." Captain Falcon said with confidence. "Hang on dudes!"
The Blue Falcon charged right through the oil spill and spun out of control. Captain Falcon spun the wheel back and forth as fast as he could until it got into the right position. Sora and Yoshi cheered while Luigi put his hand on his stomach.
"Ugh, I think I'm going to be sick!" Luigi moaned.
"Well, don't do it in here!" Captain Falcon said worryingly. "I just cleaned this car!"
"Drat!" Blood Falcon growled. "Let's see those fools get past the spikes!"
He pressed another button which caused spikes to fall out all around the road.
"Holy, ravioli!" Luigi cried. "We're doomed!"
"Oh, yeah?" Captain Falcon smirked watch this. The Blue Falcon drove onto a building and drove along it going passed the spikes. "Nothing to it!"
"Grr...I can't stand it!" Blood Falcon said extremly angry.
The Falcon caught up with the Hawk beeping it's horn. The Hawk banged its bumper into the Falcon which sent it crashing into a building. It managed to get out of the building and catch up with the Hawk which tried to avoid the Falcon. The Falcon rammed the Hawk back and it slid across the road but it managed to gain control. The Hawk sped up and the Falcon followed. The cars were in dead heat and they kept driving for five minutes when the Hawk arrived at Dark Million. He exited the car and made his way inside. The Blue Falcon drove up seconds later and Sora's group exited it. They looked up to see Black Shadow's evil lair.
"It's true!" Captain Falcon said. "I knew Black Shadow was behind this!"
"Let's go stop him then." Sora said getting his keyblade ready.
"I just hope this isn't a trap." Luigi said nervously.
The group ventured into Dark Million and began their search. They arrived at the main hallway where they got a warm welcome from the heartless. Sora's group charged at the heartless and began to fight them. One attacked Sora and he ducked under it and did a round house kick, knocking it into another one. A few chased him around the room but he ran on the wall and back flipped over them and used strike raid to destroy them. Luigi used melee moves on his opponents such as his Luigi Tornado which caused him to spin his body and knock heartless away. He then took out a fire flower and transformed into Fire Luigi. His clothes turned colors as he now wore green overalls and a white hat and shirt. He shot green fireballs at the heartless obliterating them. Yoshi once again shot eggs at them knocking them off. One swiped at him but he rolled under it and jumped up and kicked against the ceiling and charged back and rammed a few with his head. Captain Falcon used his Falcon Punch to knock a whole bunch of heartless aside and into a fall. He then clenched his fist and slammed the ground sending a whole bunch into the air. After finishing them off, the group made their way upstairs to the next level where more attacked. Deciding not to waste time, the group had to hit and run their way through the second floor.
"Where do you think that imposter is?" Sora asked Captain Falcon.
"Probably at the top of Dark Million." Captain Falcon responded. "We need to hurry!"
Sora's group continued to make their way to the top battling heartless, collecting items, and taking a break. Finally, they reached the top of Dark Million and arrived at a big door. Inside was Blood Falcon who had the heart in his hand. He took it over to a tube and dropped it.
"Well, that takes care of that." Blood Falcon sighed. He then heard the big door close and he turned around to see Sora's group. "Oh, no! You again? When will you fools learn that you've already lost? I've already sent the heart to Black Shadow. You can't stop us now."
"When will you learn Blood that you can never beat me?" Captain Falcon smirked. "We'll get that heart back!"
"Think again!"
Blood Falcon threw a fire punch at our heros who dodged the attack. Sora tried to attack but Blood Falcon kicked him aside and he crashed into Black Shadow's desk. Captain Falcon grabbed Blood Falcon's hands and they both went into a hand-lock and they both pushed back forth with each other until Blood Falcon grabbed him and did an over the shoulder throw. Luigi used Gravity on Blood Falcon but he dodged the attack and used a kick to knock it back into Luigi. Sora used Cure to heal Luigi and he charged at Blood Falcon. Blood Falcon took out a laser gun and shot lasers at Sora but Sora used Aero magic to block the attacks. He then slashed at Blood Falcon sending him crashing into a wall. Blood Falcon got up and jumped into the air and dove for Sora but Yoshi kicked him aside. Blood Falcon jumped back and grabbed Yoshi and threw him into Luigi. Captain Falcon came in and hit him with a hard Falcon Punch while Sora kicked against a wall and slashed him again.
"Grr...stop that you big footed brat!" Blood Falcon growled.
"Big footed?" Sora said offended. "Now you shall feel pain!"
Sora charged again at Blood Falcon who did a sweep kick at him. Sora dodged rolled the attack and Captain Falcon came in with a Falcon Punch and knocked him aside. Blood Falcon ran at them again but Luigi sprayed water on the ground with FLUDD causing Blood Falcon to slip on it and slide right into Yoshi who kicked him up into the air. While in the air Captain Falcon jumped up and kicked him down into the ground where Sora was waiting with a Sonic Blade attack. He rapidly slashed through the evil twin and then kicked him into a corner of the room. The four ran over and surrounded him making sure he didn't try to escape.
"I give up! I give up!" Blood Falcon whimpered. "I can't take it anymore! It's bad enough getting my behind kicked by Captain Falcon, but now by a plumber, a dinosaur, and a kid with a key? It's humiliating! If you spare me, I'll tell you where Black Shadow went with that heart."
"Darn right you're going tell us!" Luigi said proudly.
Blood Falcon walked over to a monitor which was at the back of the room and pressed a button which was labeled "Do not press unless it's an emergency" A door then opened behind him.
"This door leads to the giant machine room where my boss is at the moment." Blood Falcon said. "Be warned though, he is waiting for you and I'm pretty sure he has a trap planned."
"Why are you helping us?" Captain Falcon asked suspiciously. "You'd never help me because the only thing you'd want to see is me being destroyed in front of thousands of people."
"Because I wish not to be humiliated by you fools." Blood Falcon responded. "You had me whimpering there and I never whimper in defeat."
"That's because Yoshi scare people right out of their socks." Yoshi said with a tough look.
"Kid, the only thing you scare is yourself." Luigi said.
"No way!" Yoshi said shaking his head. He then saw a mirror in the room and growled in it. He got scared and coward behind Sora. "Okay, Yoshi very scary."
"Stop fooling around!" Captain Falcon said to the group. "We have to go after that heart!"
"But just because I helped you doesn't mean I'm going to be rooting for you down there." Blood Falcon told the group. "We will meet again Captain Falcon and next time you won't be so lucky!"
"Let's go!" Sora announced
"One more thing." Blood Falcon said stopping the group. "To beat him you'll have to press a switch while he is standing in a certain area."
Blood Falcon left the room in a hurry while Sora and his friends headed down the stairs. On the way the heartless attacked again and our heros plowed through. Sora even jumped on the stair rail and slid down the area. Deciding it would help them get their faster Yoshi, Luigi, and Captain Falcon joined in.
"Yay!" Yoshi cheered.
"Whoa!" Luigi cried.
"Hang ten!" Captain Falcon said.
The group finally made it down stairs when they arrived at the machine room. As they entered it Sora saw it was a giant circular room with metal generator in the middle. Below him were metal switches the served some purpose but Sora was not too sure. Captain Falcon looked across the room to see Black Shadow holding the heart.
"Well, greeting gentlemen." Black Shadow chortled. "I'm glad to see that you made it this far...just to fall before me."
"We won't let that happen!" Captain Falcon shouted, pointing at Black Shadow. "Give me that heart back or else I will give you a Falcon Punch you'll never forget!"
"I'm so scared." Black Shadow said sarcastically. "What are you going to do? Have that kid with the key kill me? I'm not afraid of you clowns. So, you want the heart? Then come and get it!" Then, the unexpected happened, he opened his mouth so wide that it was like six inches. He then ate the heart which caused the group to gasp.
"That one thing Yoshi never eat." Yoshi said in disgust.
"Why would you eat that heart?" Sora asked in surprise.
"Simple, with the heart's power, I'll control a wide variety of heartless." Black Shadow explained. "Prepare yourselves for the end! Heartless come forth!" Sora's group got ready to fight, fearing the large amount of heartless they were about to face when they noticed only two appear next to him. Sora's group started to chuckle noticing this when Black Shadow looked at his heartless. "This is it?" He then heard Sora's group laugh and then he sarcastically talked. "Ha! Ha! Ha! Shut up! No one disrespects me like this and lives!" He then pressed a button starting up the turntable in the middle of the room. An explosion then happened which sent the four heros flying onto it.
Sora saw that the turntable was spinning them around the room. Spikes appeared around the turn table which the group avoided by jumping and ducking. The two heartless he summoned attacked them as well but they easily disposed of them. Black Shadow pressed another button and bombs with eyes came flying out of tanks.
"A Bob-omb?" Luigi said confused. "Here?"
"What's a Bob-omb?"
"They come from my world." Luigi explained to Sora. "They can be helpful and dangerous at the same time. They are the first type of bombs to actually walk."
Sora grabbed one of the bombs and threw it at Black Shadow who grabbed it and threw it back at him. Sora rolled out of the way as the bomb exploded. Yoshi ate another bomb and spat it at Black Shadow which caught him off guard.
"What the..." He exclaimed.
The bomb exploded in his face and he fell off the platform he was on and landed on the turntable. Sora's group attacked Black Shadow as fast as they could but he then slid under the group and got back onto the balcony. He pressed another button and metal bars appeared on top, protecting him from them.
"You coward!" Luigi shouted.
Black Shadow pressed another button which caused cannons to appear all around the turntable.
"This battle is the going to be the bomb." Black Shadow laughed.
"Man, and I thought Luigi's jokes were bad." Sora said. "This guy actually makes Luigi's look good.
"You think so?" Luigi asked Sora excitedly.
"Silence!" Black Shadow snapped. More bombs came firing out of the cannons and attacked the group Captain Falcon used a Falcon Punch to blast them away. Luigi used the P3000 to suck up the bombs which caused them to explode inside. Sora saw color switches on the ground and remembered what Blood Falcon told them.
"Guys, if we're going to reach him, we have to press one of those switches." Sora instructed.
Luigi tried pressing on one of the switches but Black Shadow noticed this and moved out of the way. This caused a part of the metal bars to go away and the platform lowered. They then knew that they had to hit the switch while he was on the certain platform. Black Shadow fired another bomb which everyone dodged barely. Finally, the group went into a group huddle to device a plan.
"Maybe if we run around confusing him, we can land on the switch at the right moment." Captain Falcon suggested.
"It worth shot." Yoshi nodded.
"Let's do it!" The foursome said together breaking from their huddle.
Black Shadow was slightly confused. "What are those fools up to now?" Sora ran up to a switch and was ready to press it. Black Shadow saw this and moved right but Sora faked pressing the switch and Captain Falcon quickly pressed the other one at Black Shadow got on the other platform. "Oh, pooh!" The platform came down with Black Shadow on it and our heros all attacked him. Yoshi wrapped his tongue around Black Shadow to make sure that he didn't escape while Sora slashed, Luigi fired magic, and Captain Falcon finished it off with a Falcon Kick which sent Black Shadow into a wall.
Black Shadow weakly got up only to see he was surrounded by our four heros. He was ready to attack them again but he was so weak that he fell down and landed on his back. Everyone cheered knowing that they won the battle.
"We did it!" Sora cheered.
"We won!" Luigi also cheered.
"Yoshi!"
"Well, I guess this proves that the heart was a dud after." Captain Falcon said in disappointment.
"Well at least you tried." Sora said trying to make Captain Falcon feel better. "I'm sure there's always next year."
"You're right kid." Captain Falcon smiled. "I'm sure there is. I don't normally say this but thanks for the help."
"No big deal." Sora chuckled rubbing his head. "We always beat the bad guys!"
"Hey, let's-a-head back to the racing area." Luigi said. "I'm getting tired of just standing here."
The group made their leave from Dark Million. On the way they were cautious to watch out for surprise attacks from the heartless. However, there was no heartless in sight so the group was able to relax. They finally made it out of the building and headed towards the Blue Falcon when all of a sudden the entire area began shaking causing Sora, Luigi, and Yoshi to lose their balance and fall down. Captain Falcon turned around to see Dark Million and he saw that it was broken up. Around it he noticed body parts of Black Shadow sticking out all over the place. An arm in the window holding a giant lantern was seen and Black Shadows head appeared above the building. Sora stood up and his mouth dropped wide open.
"H-how did he get so big?" Sora exclaimed. "And where did he get the lantern from?"
"I guess that heart had a little juice after all." Luigi gulped. "Now how do we beat it?"
"Look!" Yoshi pointed. "What that?"
Sora noticed dark oval shape type things sticking all around the building which transferred it's energy to Black Shadow. Guarding all of them were heartless.
"It seems that Black Shadow is absorbing power through those energy orbs." Captain Falcon said observing the energy orbs. "If we can take those things out, I'm sure we can beat him."
"This shouldn't be hard then." Sora said with confidence.
"When ever you say that kid, we always get in trouble." Luigi sighed.
"Are you saying I'm a jinx?" Sora asked Luigi offended.
"Exactly!"
"Well, you don't exactly have the best hand/eye coordination." Sora argued.
"I do not!" Luigi yelled.
"Hey, I'm not the one who falls down the stairs or runs into a wall." Sora pointed out.
Upon hearing that Luigi shut right up. The group charged at the building as the heartless attacked. Flying heartless attacked from above but our heros ducked under their attacks and countered with their own attacks. Two attacked Yoshi but he did a split and kicked off both of them and spun into the air. He used his tongue like a grappling hook to grab onto a part of the building pulling him in. Yoshi jumped on the building and saw one of the energy orbs. He ate a few heartless and turned them into eggs. He then fired them at the energy orb which eventually got destroyed. Sora saw one by the lantern and tried to attack but fireballs came at him. Sora dodged the fireballs and even had to deflect some with his keyblade. He then attacked the energy orb as much as he could until it was destroyed. Luigi used ice on an energy orb to freeze it up. He then kicked it causing it to break into a million pieces. The pieces then stood up and attacked him. Luigi used as much fire magic as he could to put out the ice. One slashed at his face giving him a small cut.
"Ow!" He cried. "That hurt!"
Captain Falcon dodged some dark blasts that came from the top of the building. He kicked one back at the giant face causing it to scream in pain. Captain Falcon then used Falcon Kick on one of the orbs and destroyed. There were two more left so Sora went with Captain Falcon while Luigi went with Yoshi. More F-Zero heartless attacked and tried to trip Yoshi but Luigi sucked them all in. Two more came after them and Luigi tried to step on them but the F-Zero cars began moving around taking Luigi along for the ride.
"I coming!" Yoshi said trying to help Luigi.
"Jane, stop this crazy thing!" Luigi yelped.
"Yoshi see no Jane." Yoshi said looking around confused. "Yoshi go find Jane so she can help Luigi."
"I was saying a catch phrase that relates to the problem kid!" Luigi shouted. "Help me!"
"Oh." Yoshi said smacking his forehead. He then made a confused look. "Yoshi no get it."
Yoshi stuck his tongue out and ate both F-Zero racers causing Luigi to fall over.
"Ugh! About time!" Luigi groaned.
Luigi got on Yoshi's back and Yoshi jumped onto a part of the building where the next orb was. Yoshi had to use his long tongue to reach the next part which was far away. Once they reached it, Luigi used ice to freeze it up and then they both kicked it.
"There one more left!" Yoshi said.
The last one was being guarded by Black Shadow's hand. Sora tried to strike the orb but the hand grabbed Sora and threw him into a wall.
"This ends now!" Captain Falcon shouted. He charged at Black Shadow with a powerful punch but the giant hand blocked the attack. It then grabbed Captain Falcon and began to squeeze the life out of him. Captain Falcon screamed in pain but then started laughing. "Boy...you...sure..are stupid! Weren't you suppose to be guarding something?"
Black Shadows head looked down to see Sora charging at the energy orb.
"Nooooooooooo!" Black Shadow cried.
Sora rapidly struck the energy orb until it disappeared which caused Black Shadow to scream. He dropped Captain Falcon and a dark energy wave surrounded him. It covered the entire building including the hand which tried to reach a weaken Captain Falcon and Sora but the hand disappeared into oblivion along with the rest of the building. Seconds later, Dark Million and Black Shadow vanished completely. Luigi and Yoshi joined Sora and Captain Falcon.
"Thanks kid." Captain Falcon chuckled weakly. "You saved my life."
"No problem." Sora nodded. "It's what I do best."
"Here, I'll cure you." Luigi offered to Captain Falcon.
"No thanks." Captain Falcon rejected. "I'll be fine."
"Falcon man sure?" Yoshi asked concerned.
"I'm sure dinosaur dude." Captain Falcon reassured. As Captain Falcon stood up, he looked at the once Dark Million. "Hopefully, this might give myself and the Elite Mobile Task Force some time off now that Black Shadow is gone."
"Hopefully." Yoshi agreed. He then turned to see a crystal and an Ansem Report on the ground. "Yoshi found goodies."
Sora looked down to notice them and then picked them up. As while still looking down he could see a keyhole appear on the ground before him.
"What is that?" Captain Falcon asked in surprise.
"A keyhole!" Sora exclaimed. "I better seal it!" He jumped into the air and fired a beam out of his keyblade which hit the keyhole causing the familiar locking noise and it then disappeared from sight.
As Sora put his keyblade away as he heard car engines. He then turned to see Jody's car and John's car pulled up and got out with lasers guns in their hands.
"Freeze!" They both cried.
"Yoshi been framed!" Yoshi panicked putting his hands up.
"Oh, it's only you four." Jody said disappointed.
"What's that suppose to mean?" Sora said offended.
"What happened to Dark Million?" John asked gasping when he saw the building.
Captain Falcon explained about Blood Falcon taking the heart and Black Shadow using it. He then explained how they were able to stop their plans.
"So, you four single handily defeated Dark Million?" Jody asked Sora's group. They all then nodded. "Well, then good job. I commend you on a good job on finally riding us of Dark Million."
"Aw, it nothing." Yoshi blushed.
"Jody, ma'am." John said running up to Jody. "Dr. Stewart demands our presence back at his lab."
"Very well." Jody nodded. "Then let's go!"
The group boarded the Blue Falcon and followed Jody and John back to the lab. They arrived a few minutes later to see that everything was calm now that the heart situation settled down. They entered the building where they went up to the lab and entered it. Dr. Stewart greeted them.
"Jody, Tanaka, Falcon." The Doctor nodded. "Glad to see you all got back in one piece. What happened to the heart?" Captain Falcon explained what happened with the heart which left Dr. Stewart astonished yet upset. "So, the heart was a failure in the end."
"Come on." Jody smirked teasingly at Captain Falcon.
"Come on what?" Captain Falcon said annoyed and embarrassed.
"You know what I mean." She smirked. "Say it or else I'll sing that song!"
"Okay, okay!" Captain Falcon sighed. "I'm sorry...I guess."
"Boy, this guy has some compassion, huh?" Luigi chuckled.
"And..." Jody said.
"And I was wrong and you were right." Captain Falcon continued with a sigh. "I can't believe I'd hear the day I'd apologizing to anyone."
"Hey, don't take so hard." Jody said trying to cheer him up. "I'm sure the next festival will be much better and I'll actually help too."
"Well, alright." Captain Falcon smiled. "And with that said, I'm afraid I have no choice but to cancel the festival."
"Aw, man." Sora said disappointed. "I was looking forward to it."
"There goes Yoshi's free food." Yoshi said sadly.
"I'm sure it will be better next time around." Captain Falcon reassured. "I respect you kid. Even I consider you a friend and you're always welcome to come back. Here this used to belong to me but I'm giving it to you." He then handed Sora a keychain and Sora put it on by taking Warpstar off. "That's called 'Might Falcon'. Take real good care of it and stop by anytime to visit." He then walked to the door. "Well, time for me to hit the F-Zero trail. See you next time!"
Captain Falcon opened the door and walked out.
"I wonder who he really is." Sora wondered.
"Well, kid." Luigi began. "Those are some mysteries that's best to be left untold."
Dr. Stewart was looking through his medical book and was talking to himself. "Memory, emotion...what else makes a heart? In fact what is a heart? I can't figure it out!"
Sora's group left the building unaware of what Jody said next
"Listen, figure that out later." Jody said to the doctor. "Me and Tanaka are going to get something to eat and then we'll meet you at the freeze chamber so we can begin the unfreezing process on our newest member of the Elite Mobile Task Force."
"You mean Rick Wheeler?" John panicked. "Are you nuts? If our superiors find out then..."
"Tanaka, you worry too much!" Jody said cutting John off.
"I do not!" John protested.
Meanwhile, Sora's group boarded the ship and returned to their original states. As Sora sat back in his seats he felt something.
"Hey, guy!" Sora said to everyone. "I'm hungry."
"So am I." Luigi agreed. He then got an idea. "Hey, after our adventure in Mute City, how about we race to the kitchen?"
"Okay." Sora said jumping up. "Sounds like fun! Loser who makes it there last has to make the sandwiches. Deal?"
"Deal!" Luigi nodded.
"Yoshi, start us up." Sora told Yoshi.
"Okay." Yoshi said as he put his hand up. "On mark, get set..."
Sora and Luigi were waiting for Yoshi's signal but then Yoshi ran off ahead of them causing both of them to gasp.
"Hey!" They both said in shock. "That cheater!"
Sora and Luigi ran off after Yoshi as Toadsworth chortled. As they ate their sandwiches Sora began to wonder about Kairi and where she was. He was thinking to himself that would he be able to see her again? And what about Riku? What's become of him? Sora didn't realize that the next world they were approaching would answer all of his questions...