Here's chapter 6, finally! I know it's a bit shorter than the rest, at least I think it is, but hey, for only 20 minutes to write it, I thought it turned out okay. R&R as always please!

Disclaimer: I do not own anything discussed in this chapter except for a few ideas of Emptiness and such.

Chapter 6

Nomanisan

Sora was floating, floating through Emptiness. His mind was telling him to wake up, but he just couldn't bring himself to do it. Fatigue had coursed through his entire body, making it almost impossible to do anything but lie limp and float to wherever he was going. After he found he could not even open his eyes because they were so heavy, thoughts began to flow through his head. We were on the Islands. Emptiness came as a wave. Riku…is he with me? And Kairi! Kairi's gotta be safe on the Islands! She was waiting for us…I promised her we'd be back.

It wasn't until a few hours later, or so it felt, that Sora finally could hear something besides silence and his own thoughts. The ocean? The sound was waves crashing on the shores of a beach, he was sure of that. Am I…no, the Emptiness couldn't have taken us back to the Islands, could it?

"Sora, wake up, I think we're back!" Riku's voice seemed distant, like something in Sora's head. Am I awake? Or is this a dream? "Sora! Get up, we're home!"

Slowly, Sora found that he could not only open his eyes, but he could move his limbs. When he was sitting up, he felt Riku's hand grasp his and pull him the rest of the way to his feet. He felt feeble at first and began to stumble, but quickly regained balance and opened his eyes fully. What he saw amazed him.

Before the two boys lay an expansive forest, covered in lush tropical trees, bright green bushes, and fruits of all different shapes, sizes, and colors. "Could this be a part of the Islands we've never even seen?" Sora was astounded by what he was seeing, and Riku seemed the same way.

"I dunno, let's see if anything looks familiar."

Over the next hour, the boys spent the time exploring the forest, tasting many of the fruits as they went, and quickly becoming lost in its endlessness. When they stopped to rest, they found themselves on top of a cliff overlooking a beautiful valley that the sun brightly shined over, making everything appear even more vibrant.

"This is amazing," Riku said. "How come we've never even SEEN this part of the Islands?"

"I know it's awesome. Something seems strange though." Sora was observing everything around them intently, as if trying to find something that ought to have been there but wasn't.

"Yeah? Like what?"

"I don't know, something out of the ordinary about this place." Suddenly Sora locked his gaze on something far below them in the distance. It looks like…a machine? Sora let out a small sigh, and then turned to Riku. "I don't think this is our Island."

Mr. Incredible made a quick retreat to avoid the titanic robot's claw. Ducking out of sight, he planned an attack to leap over the monstrosity, but it was too quick for him and smacked him into a tree. Quickly recalling what Mirage had told him, he thought again about his tactics. Every second you spend fighting it only increases its knowledge of how to beat you. It's a learning robot, meaning it can plan your attacks accordingly and strike back. Again the robot struck out with its mighty claws. However, this time Mr. Incredible was ready, grabbing the entire arm, using his massive strength to swing it in a wide circle, and then throwing it as far as he could manage into a cliff wall, causing a rockslide. "Yes!" he shouted as the robot recovered from the collision.

Sora and Riku were falling fast. "Look!" Riku shouted. "Down there, that guy must have thrown it into the rocks!"

"Quick, grab a rock and slide down!" Sora motioned towards a pile of rocks that were falling slower than the others. Grabbing them, he and Riku had a much easier time reaching the bottom, using the rocks to break their fall as they plummeted to the soft ground below.

What are two kids doing here? Mr. Incredible had seen the two boys as they fell just a few yards away from him, right next to where the machine had landed when he threw it. Mirage said I was the only one here! The machine stirred, one of its claws pulling it back up to stability. I've got to stop it before it sees them! It was too late, and the robot lunged at the boys.

"Sora, get ready!" Riku already had his Keyblade in hand and was rolling beneath the robot as it jumped right over him. Quickly he sprung at the machine and embedded the Keyblade into its metal flesh, causing it to topple over, catapulting Riku into the air as it rolled.

Sora, holding his hand out and summoning the Keyblade once again, ran at the machine for an attack. However, before he could reach it, the man in the red costume appeared out of nowhere, grabbed the beast, and hurled it into the air.

Mr. Incredible was skyrocketing towards the machine, having used a nearby tree as a method to launch him. Those boys, what are those weapons they carry? Giant keys? The machine was limp in midair, beginning to fall back to Earth, when Mr. Incredible latched onto its underside. Tearing the mechanical head off, he crawled inside as it crashed into the ground and regained its balance once again. The machine, using the knowledge it had gained from fighting Mr. Incredible, used its claws to reach inside of itself to where he was. But this is what the Super had hoped for.

The machine's claw was inside of its own controls, tearing at them, destroying its workings as it flailed madly for its prey. Soon it had destroyed everything except Mr. Incredible, and it fell to the ground with a deafening thud.

Sora turned to Riku, who had landed in a bush not too far away, receiving no physical damage. "Riku."

"Yeah, Sora?"

Sora let out a small sigh, and then grinned. He spoke with a hint of sadness in his voice. "We're definitely not on Destiny Islands anymore."