Jake: Hey! Here's the famous, special, amazing authoress, FG!
FG: Thank you, Jake. Here are your cookies. (gives Jake cookies)
Dia: You're bribing my little brother to complement you? You're…ugh.
FG: Deal with it, or I'll bring Max and make him kiss you.
Dia: (gasp) You wouldn't! (runs away)
Emma: Um…you're not really…
FG: Nah. He's mine!
Everyone else: (stare)
FG: I'm kidding.
Robin: Yer weird. Aw, well. My turn ta do the disclaimer. FG doesn't own anyone except Emma, Jake, Dia, me, Bernie, an' Coeur.
FG: Yup! Here's Chapter 2!
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"Hey, guys?" Emma looked at the other eight as they were about to split up again. "I think we should each get a number name."
Dia scratched her head. "Huh?
"We're the Juu Senshi. We should decided who's first, who's second, et cetera."
Sora raised his hand. "I'm the game's main character, so I'm first. I'm Senshi no Ichi. Donald, you're Senshi no Ni. Goofy, Senshi no San."
Emma nodded. "I was the first one to go into the game from the real world. I'm Senshi no Yon."
"Emma pushed me through the save point," Dia announced. "I'm Senshi no Go."
"Senshi no Rock, right?"
Kairi giggled. "You're Senshi no ROKU, Jake. Riku, you joined before me."
"So, I'm Senshi no Shichi."
"I'm Senshi no Hachi!" Kairi cheered.
Robin crossed her arms. "Fer now, I'm Senshi no Kyuu. The last girl'd be Senshi no Juu, but since it's so close ta Juu Senshi, she'll be the Last Fighter. Senshi no Saigo."
"Good." Emma smiled. "This way, we can say our Senshi names as cues. If we just say 'Robin, attack,' a major enemy would see you coming. They won't know who's coming if we say 'Senshi no Kyuu, attack'."
"Eh," she grunted. "C'mon, valley girl, I gotta show you 'round the mall."
She and the others split up into their real-world-orientation groups. None of them noticed a cat-like creature in the corner. "Myew…"
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"This is good." Riku bit into a large cheese dog. "I can't believe I've been missing these for fifteen years…"
Emma smiled. "They ARE good, but they're pretty sloppy. There's this place called Waveland Bowl, and its cheese dogs are so sloppy, you need ten napkins, at LEAST."
"Whoa." Riku scooped some cheese off with a fry. "When I go back to Destiny Islands, I'm gonna miss this stuff." He prodded the hot cheese with another fry. "Do all American foods revolve around cheese?"
"Not really, but wait till you try Doritos!
He winced. "Great. More cheese."
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"My favorite part of the mall!" Jake marched into KB Toys. "There are a bunch of toys here, and some of them have your faces on it!"
Goofy looked slightly disturbed. "My…face? Gawrsh, I don't want my face on a toy."
Donald groaned. "Not your REAL face, ya big palooka, a picture."
"Yup!" Jake ran over to a video game. "No offense, but this is probably the stupidest DDR ever."
"DDR?" Donald and Goofy asked.
Jake nodded. "Dance Dance Revolution, a dancing and reflexes game. This is DDR: Disney Mix." He held up a PS2 case with Mickey and Co. in disco outfits.
The royal knight was trying his hardest not to start ha-yucking. However, for Goofy, the hardest isn't hard. "LOOK AT THE KING!"
Obviously, this attracted the attention of what few customers were left. One girl was studying them suspiciously, but said nothing. "Way to go," Donald mumbled.
"Don't worry," Jake assured them. "She looks about twenty. She wouldn't know about Kingdom Hearts. Then again, every knows who you two are anyway. Just walk away."
The three of them edged out of the store. The girl turned back to a wall of anime toys. The cat-like creature climbed on top of her shoulder. She turned her head. "Coeur, I told you not to run off." 'Coeur' made some noises that sounded like a cross between squeaking and meowing. "Really? I thought so. But we shouldn't do anything yet."
"Myew?" Coeur licked her paw.
"Don't look at me like that. I'm not just being shy. It's not the right time."
"Myew?" she repeated.
The girl sighed. "Because I said so."
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"You said these were animes?"
Dia nodded. "Best anime store in the mall, Suncoast. Oh, check this out!"
"Check what-" Sora started. Dia shoved a plush monster with too many eyes to count into his arms. "What's this?"
"Hundred-Eyed Monster of Aaaaargh." She smiled, drawing out the word 'Aaaaargh', as if groaning.
Sora briefly attempted to check for a hundred eyes. "Okay…"
"He's from one of my favorite movies, Monty Python and the Holy Grail. There's another toy from that movie here somewhere…aha!" With a triumphant grin, she thrust a little man in black armor in his face. "The Black Knight!"
"Um…" Sora plucked at one of his arms. It came off. "WHOA! It's broken!"
Dia grinned. "No, it's supposed to do that. And fake blood comes out."
Sora, like many cartoons, stupidly decided to stick his eye in the arm hole. Sure enough, red fabric shot out and poked him in the eye. "Hey!"
"Cool, huh?" She seemed impressed with the violent doll. "In the movie, he's only a little stump, with all his limbs cut off, but he just sits there." Sora looked grossed-out. "You wanna watch it?"
"No," he answered firmly.
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"These American clothes are so cute!" Kairi was admiring some clothes in Kohl's. "Robin, look at these fringes!"
"Greeeeeaaaaat." Robin was leaning on a counter, chin in her hand. "Ya 'bout done?"
Kairi held out a light blue shirt with two small figures on it. "Look at this!" They were made out of little squares. The bigger one was green, and the smaller one was purple. "He's saying hi!" The green one looked like he was waving. At the bottom, it read, 'The innocent shall suffer…BIG TIME!'
Robin rolled her eyes. "Number 1, stop talking to me. Number 2, that's Inignot and Err from Aqua Teen Hunger Force. Number 3, Inignot's not waving. He's flipping you off."
"Huh?" Kairi was puzzled.
Robin got an evil smile. "Do I need to demonstrate?"
"No, no!" Now, she was nervous. "I get it."
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The girl and Coeur were sitting on a bench outside Lincolnwood Town Mall. "It's almost time, Coeur. He told me."
"Myew?"
The girl sighed. "What do you mean, 'he who'? You know." Sora and Co. walked by. The girl stood up and held out her hand. "Um…stop for a second."
"We don't want to buy anything," Dia told her.
"I don't want you to buy anything. I want to talk to you."
Robin grunted. "Loony…" She tried to walk past, but Coeur hissed at her. "Yeesh, more munchkins. Fine. What do you want?"
"My name is Bernadette Soleil," the girl announced.
"Frenchie, huh…" Robin mumbled.
"Coeur here…my small-spotted genet…heard you talking. If she's right, I'm what you call the…Senshi no Saigo?"
Everyone gasped. "Do you know Haiiro?" Emma pushed forward to look at Bernadette.
She scratched her head. "Yes. He gave me this fortune-telling power…and told me to find the Keyblade Master, and the rest of you."
"You said she was too old to play Kingdom Hearts!" Donald hissed at Jake.
"I'm…nineteen. Almost twenty…" Bernadette admitted.
"Can I hold Coeur?" Kairi squealed. The genet leapt onto her arm. "Aw! Guys, can she be an honorary Senshi?"
Emma shrugged. "Everything else today has been weird. Might as well make her Senshi no Meiyo."
"That IS weird," Kairi agreed cheerfully. "But she's so cute!"
A flash of light erupted, and Haiiro appeared. "The ten fighters have been collected."
"Juu Senshi," Emma corrected.
Haiiro looked oddly at them. "Yes…Juu Senshi. The Juu Senshi have been collected. You must leave for your next destination now."
"Don't I have to lock Lincolnwood?"
"No. This is like Traverse Town; you will return to lock it." Haiiro looked down at the Juu Senshi. "You are going next to a fake Native American reservation in Indiana. It was the site of a camp to learn about different tribes."
Emma grinned. "The Flapping Monkey Reservation!"
"I went there when I was six!" Dia exclaimed.
"So did I!"
Robin sighed and crossed her arms. "I was dragged there…that's how I first met Quinn, but I forgot."
Dia growled. "You were the one who put whipped cream in my hand and ticked me with a feather duster, Fuudo! How did you forget?"
"I've annoyed lotsa people. It's hard ta remember which ones I've hit."
"SHUT UP, FUUDO!"
"MAKE ME, QUINN!"
"PIG!"
"DOOKIE!"
Robin stared. "Did…didjya just call me…dookie?" Dia nodded. "As in…poop?" Another nod. "Yer a freak, Quinn."
"DOOKIE!" Dia repeated.
"DOOKIE!" Jake cheered.
"DOOKIE!" Emma yelled.
"It's only a model," Bernadette told them. They stared. "It's a…Monty Python and the…Holy Grail line…"
Dia clamped onto her arm. "A Monty Python fan?" Bernadette looked at the ground. "Awesome! Let's sing that song from Holy Grail all the way to the car!"
"Aw, great…" Robin hit herself in the head.
"We're Knights of the Round Table! We dance whene'er we're able! We do routines, and chorus scenes, and footwork impeccable! We dine well here in Camelot, we eat ham, and jam, and spam a lot!"
Haiiro nearly sweatdropped. "Emma, here are your stones. The power has lessened, but you can use them whenever you want, and quicker." Emma took her necklace. "This is the Hikari Sword," He continued, extending a shimmering, golden sword.
"Thanks!" Emma took the sword. "This is awesome!"
"Jake, I have given you another shield; the Ikiteiru Shield." Haiiro handed him a shield with a spiked designs and a circle in the center. "According to the prophecy, you are the animist. You could control creatures, like when you made Shiva and Guardian talk, and now you can control objects in addition. Tell the shield to animate something, and it will leap up and attack. Because of that, this is a defensive shield, not an offensive one. But it is a terrific protector."
"Wow!" Jake picked it up and pointed it at a lamppost. "Animate!" The lamppost jumped up and took a whack at the bench Bernadette and Coeur were sitting on before. "Wow! Sis, look!" He ran over to Dia and Bernadette, who were still singing.
Haiiro handed Emma a staff. "This is for Dia: the Shihaii Wand."
"The Control Wand…she can still control people?"
"She IS the possessor," Haiiro confirmed. "This gives her control over Heartless too, not just control over how…feminine the more powerful dark captains are, like Taylor, Guardian-"
"Taylor?" Emma asked. "Why Taylor?"
Haiiro put his hand on his head. "Since Ansem has disappeared, Guardian has taken your friends' father."
"No…" Emma plopped onto the ground, holding the Shihaii Wand. "…Jake…Dia…they couldn't hit their own dad…I can't tell them."
"One of us has to. Do not worry, Emma; they are strong. They will not take it too hard."
Emma smiled. "You're right, Haiiro. We gotta go." She, the game characters, and Robin went to the car.
Dia was grinning as she and Bernadette continued the song.
"In war, we're tough and able! Quite indefatigable! Between our quests, we sequin vests, and impersonate Clark Gable! It's a busy life in Camelot…"
Bernadette finished the singing part solo in a low, manly voice. "…I have to push the pram a looooooooooot!"
She and Dia ended with, "Doo doo doo doo doo doo doo, doo doo doo doo doo doo, DOOOOOOOOOO!"
Riku laughed. "What was that?"
"A song that Bernie and I like," Dia explained.
"Bernie?"
Bernie nodded. "Dia wants to call me Bernie. I think it's good for me to have a nickname." Coeur meowed in approval of her owner's new name.
Dia stuck the car keys in the slot. "Well, to the Flapping Monkey Reservation we go!" Sora, Riku, Kairi, Emma, Dia, Jake, Robin, Bernie, and Coeur drove off.
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FG: That was Chapter 2! Don't ask why I called the place the Flapping Monkey Reservation…it's a long story. And I just felt like it.
Robin: Stupid auth'ress.
FG: (glare) Don't you have something else to do? Call Bernie a loony? Make fun of Dia? Or yell at Kairi?
Robin: Only on Mondays.
FG: …it's Monday.
Robin: Huh?
Bernie: This is why I hate Mondays.
Kairi: Same here.
Dia: Just run. Or get a legion of Heartless to attack! (takes out the Shihaii Wand) Heartless, attack!
Heartless: We're knights of the round table! We dance whene'er we're able! We do routines, and chorus scenes, and footwork impeccable! We- (blow up)
Robin: (holding Shinku Cannon) This's getting' weird. Say it!
FG: Say what?
Robin: Ya know!
FG: Oh, yeah. But before I say that, I have a present for you all.
Emma: Not the waffles…
Milk-chan: The guy who did my show copyrighted that!
FG: Not that specific line. So, who wants some BELGIAN WAFFLES? (Belgian waffles rain down)
Guy who did Super Milk-chan: I copyrighted that! Tetsuko, attack!
Tetsuko: NO WAFFLES! (chases FG)
FG: AGH! STUPID ROBOT! FG out, yo. AAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHH!
