"Kairi you didn't need to scream so loudly…" Sora said, with his hands on his ears, just then Cloud, along with Woody and Jesse came running to the scene. "What happened?" Cloud asked Zashi, almost totally ignoring the toys in the box. "A real Heartless attacked, not like the stitched ones before…" Cloud put a hand to his chin in thought, "Well what does that mean?" Jesse spoke up, looking for an answer. Zashi turned to her, "I don't know…" Suddenly there was a slight banging on the plastic, "Maleficent is using the heartless! Come on, even I figured that one out!" Sora shouted from the box, then turned his back on them in anger, Cloud looked at the trio in wonderment, "Zashi…What are they doing here? I thought we had Kairi in Twilight Town?" Zashi slowly walked to the package and pointed to it, "they are the toy versions remember?" Cloud became confused for a moment, but then nodded his head, "Right. I had forgotten that we are in another world…" Woody walked up to the trio inside the package and looked them over, "so where are you from? Taiwan? China?" Riku was surprised, then searched himself, and found writing on the bottom of his boot: Made in Japan. He shrugged his shoulders, "guess we are 100 Japanese." Suddenly Zashi lifted his head, with a thought in his head, and grabbed Cloud by the shoulder, pushing him away from the group.

When they were far enough away, they stopped, "Cloud I have an idea: We release Sora, Kairi and Riku from the box, and let them take care of Maleficent, since its their world, and we still need to find Melanie and stop Rizu." Cloud took a moment to think the proposal over, then looked back at the group, "What if Jesse and Woody don't trust them? That could pose a problem…" Zashi was stunned, "Cloud. They have more in common than we do. They are toys and we are people…who happen to be toys right now." Cloud suddenly walked past Zashi and toward the group, and murmuring started to form, but Zashi could not make out what was being said, but then Cloud reached for his sword and easily crafted an exit for the toys in the package. Zashi walked slowly to the group, "I know its odd to leave you guys now since we are so close to finding Buzz… But there are bigger things that could affect every single world, including this one." Jesse and Woody just nodded their heads, and gave a wave, and started talking with their new companions. "So how are we going to get to Hollow Bastion?" Cloud said as he walked past Zashi, who scratched his head, "I don't really know…but I think I know of a way to get there…" With that, they wandered the store until they came across what they were looking for: a castle play set. "What are we doing with this?" Cloud asked sharply, Zashi returned the remark with a glare, "I was thinking that since the Keyblade unlocks worlds, shouldn't it be able to connect worlds too?" Cloud took a few steps forward and touched the plastic, then moving away from it, "it resembles Hollow Bastion…" He turned to see Zashi clutching his keyblade, repeating the words Hollow Bastion over and over, then he charged towards the door of the play set, and stabbed it with the keyblade.

A brilliant light shone around the frame of the door, and Zashi grabbed the keyblade, and turned it left, hearing a click, the door creaked open, revealing the rising falls of Hollow Bastion, "Zashi…how did you do…" Cloud was cut off by Zashi, who pushed him through the vortex, and Zashi also passed through the vortex, and they landed on the cobblestone platform. Just as they had gotten to their feet, the portal vanished, "Sorry Cloud, I didn't know how much time we had until it shut on us…" Cloud brushed off the dust from his cloak and looked towards the castle, "Rizu is waiting for us." With that, he started jumping from one floating block to another, leaving Zashi behind, who quickly gave chase. Reaching the final platform, they waited for the lift machine to carry them to the top, "Zashi. This will be the most difficult thing you will ever do. Are you ready?" Cloud asked, looking at him, who gave a nod, "Its now or never right?" Cloud looked at the platform racing down to greet them, they boarded, and it shot at blinding speed towards the massive castle. Zashi looked at the massive Heartless symbol, and his eyes seemed to deceive him; the heart seemed to be beating at a regular pace. "What's going on? What is Rizu up to?" When they jumped off the platform, there came a low laughter, "Cloud…You have risen again? Your time with the keyblade masters is making you weak." In an instant, there was a loud clang of metal, and Sephiroth and Cloud had clashed swords. Cloud jumped to the right, and held out his hand, "Hold. I know of a place where we can finish this, without restraint." This interested the silver haired warrior, "Where is this place?" Cloud narrowed his gaze, "the Coliseum." Within an instant, Sephiroth had vanished, then Cloud turned to Zashi, "I don't know if I will come back from this fight, you will have to go this alone." His head started to lower from the statement, "but don't give up hope; it's the only thing you have." Cloud said as he too vanished, leaving Zashi all alone…