"Oww…" Laura said, picking herself off the ground.

"What happened?" Yaki asked, standing up unsteadily.

"I don't know…" a third voice said.

Laura and Yaki jumped. It was then when they noticed what had hit them.

It was about five feet tall, wearing blue clothing, a green scarf, and goggles. Attached to its back was what looked like a vacuum cleaner with an analog clock in it. It was covered in orange fur. Its head was sort of ovalish. It had long pointed ears and narrow green eyes.

"Ahh!" Laura screamed, "A talking cat-thing!"

"Hey!" the cat exclaimed, very annoyed, "I just landed here, you know!"

"Oh, sorry. Umm…what happened?"

"That's what I would like to know! I was just doing my job as a Time Sweeper, when I rewound this building to get inside. In the building was a gigantic keyhole! Suddenly, this little black creature runs over and jumps inside it. The next thing I know, I'm falling and land here!"

"Oh, then your world must have been destroyed too."

"What?" the cat seemed very confused.

"You see," Laura began, "That keyhole led to the heart of your world. That creature was a Heartless. The Heartless seek the hearts of the worlds so they can destroy them. I don't know what they use the hearts for, but it's what happens. Anyway, when your world was destroyed, your heart must have been strong enough to survive, and, well, you landed here."

"I guess so. Anyway, I'm being rude. My name's Blinx. What's yours?"

"My name's Laura."

"My name's Yaki," Yaki said, who had been quiet up to this point.

"By the way," said Laura, "What's a Time Sweeper?"

Blinx blinked, "I really am on a different world! A Time Sweeper is a job of high esteem on my world. Time Sweepers help preserve the timeline from these strange beings that can travel through time and mess things up. Time Sweeper also refers to this."

Blinx pulled the strange vacuum cleaner thingy off his back and showed it to them.

"This is my Time Sweeper," he said proudly, "If can suck up items five times its weight, and it has some of the best temporal capabilities around."

"I see," Laura said, "Very nice. Hey, I have an idea. Why don't you come with us? Yaki and I are trying to find our friends. My world was destroyed too and I want to see if my friends Morick and Kitsune are okay, and Yaki just lost one of his friends to the Heartless and he wants to find her again. Maybe your friends are out there somewhere."

"Maybe…" Blinx said doubtingly, "Okay, I will!"

"We can be a Trinity! Laura, Yaki, and Blinx! Fighting the darkness one world at a time!"

"There's still one problem," Yaki said, "We don't have a ship."

"That's okay," Blinx said, "I've noticed more and more rifts in the space-time continuum. I can use my Time Sweeper to open them, and they should lead to different worlds."

"That's a great idea Blinx!" Laura said. She was very excited that for once in her life she could make a difference.

"Yes, in fact, my Sweeper's detecting a rift right around here."

"Okay. Wait! Before we go, we should make some sort of sign."

"Why?"

"Because it's cool."

Laura, Yaki, and Blinx all held out their weapons and touched their ends together, a sure sign they would be going on a grand adventure of some cheese-flavored sort.

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"Do they realize it yet?"

"Not a chance."

Several people laughed evilly. They were watching the trio through a crystal ball.

"It's a shame, though," one voice said, "That we'll have to eliminate them. They're quite amusing." He held out his sword. It was made of some sort of crystal. "I'll take care of one of them myself after I find that troublesome girl."

"You and your talk, Llednar," another voice said, "After I finally get the Triforce, I'll destroy them personally."

"You're both wrong," a third voice said, "I'll do it, and I'll do it by burning their world. It's a shame Violet wasn't a neo-princess. Oh, well; one less brat to deal with after this is over."

The group of assembled villains laughed some more until they started to cough and choke.