Chapter 5: Captive's Escape
"Tucker, do you know where we are?" Sam asked Tucker. He shook his head.
"We're in the World That Never Was," A girls voice came from the cell next to them. Sam strained to see the speaker, but she couldn't.
"Who are you?" Sam asked cautiously.
"I'm Kiari, and my friend Riku is here too," Kiari said.
"I'm Tucker, Tucker Foley," Tucker said, trying to come on to Kairi. Sam slapped her hand across Tucker's mouth.
"I'm Sam. Nice to meet you," Sam said, Tucler wriggling in her grasp.
"Sam? Tucker? Is that you?" a similar voice called from out of sight.
"Axel?" They asked in unison.
"Axel?" Kiari asked, "As in Organization XIII Axel?"
"What's Organization XIII?" Axel asked, walking into veiw of Sam and Tucker, a smaller guy at his side. He had large, circular ears, a red outfit, a skinny black tail, and a large golden key at his side.
"Who's your friend?" Tucker asked, managing to get loose from Sam.
"Oh, him? He's King Mickey," Axel said.
"The King?" Riku and Kairi said in unison from the next cell over.
"Here, do you need help to get out?" Mickey asked.
"Uh, yeah," Sam said.
"Okay," Mickey said, pointing his giant key at the lock on the door. It clicked open and Sam and Tucker got out. "Riku, how come you haven't tried to escape yet?" He asked Riku. Sam and Tucker heard a face-slap from the next cell over.
"I forgot about the Keyblade," Riku said.
"So that thing's called a Keyblade?" Tucker asked. Mickey nodded, then turned his attention to the lock on the other cell. It clicked open, and a guy and a girl walked out.
The guy, who had to be Riku, had long, silver hair, light blue-green eyes, two vests, one black, one white and yellow, and jeans. The girl,obviously Kairi, had short, red hair, and a pink zip-up dress.
"Nice to meet you, face to face," Sam said. Everyone else exchanged greetings.
"Great, now should we be heading back home now?" Tucker asked.
"Where's the exit then?" Kairi asked.
Axel looked to Mickey, who shrugged.
"Crap. You guys don't know where the exit is?" Sam asked.
"That seems to be the case," the King said.
Sam whipped around suddenly.
"What is it?" Axel asked.
"I feel like... somethings there... in the shadows. It's really weird."
"Probably nothing," Tucker said.
"No it's..." Sam stopped mid sentence, then pointed to Riku and said in alarm, "One's comming up behind you, it feels big."
As Sam finished her sentence, a Neoshadow jumped up behind Riku, but a Keyblade, the Way to the Dawn, appeared while Riku turned around and sliced it in half, causing it to disappear in a flash of dark energy.
"You can sense Heartless?" Kairi asked.
"What are Heartless?" Sam asked.
"The thing that just attacked me was one kind of Heartless," Riku said, then added, "How many of them are in the area?"
"Uh, I dunno, but I think a lot are comming. Some bigmass is coming, that's all I can say. And they seem to be spread out, too," Sam said, half closing her eyes.
"'Kay then, we better get going," Mickey said. The rest agreed, and they quickly left the area.
The Heartless kept attacking, but Riku and Mickey kept attacking with their Keyblades, and Axel with two strange, circular weapons.
"I hope we get out of here soon, these things keep increasing in number," Sam said at one point.
"You can count them now?" Kairi asked, turning to Sam.
"Kinda, but there's too many," Sam replied.
Riku slashed through a Soldier and said, "Well, it's not really helping to know numbers, just keep telling us where they are."
"Okay," Sam said.
"Donald, there's one behind you!" a voice called from down a corridor.
"Danny?" Sam and Tucker asked in unison.
"Haha, these are too easy to stop," another voice said, a little boisterously, and slightly childish.
"Sora? Sora, this way!" Kairi called out.
"Kairi? I'm comming!" Sora called back.
The only thing between the two parties was scores of Heartless, and even though there were three Keyblade wielders, two elves, and three other very experienced fighters, it took a long while to get to each other. When they did, how ever, Kairi and Sam ran over and hugged Sora and Danny. Lia and Nino grinned at the two boys embarasment. Sam pulled away, and Kairi followed suit, and Danny and Sora breathed slight sighs of relief. Lia and Nino grinned even bigger at that.
"Mickey?" Lia asked, looking over to King Mickey, seeing him for the first time.
"Lia, you look different," Mickey replied.
Lia walked over to him, got down on one knee and hugged him, saying happily,"Man, Mickey, I haven't seen you in forever." She came off him and stood up, smiling bright.
"You know King Mickey, Lia?" Sora asked.
Lia nodded, "I met him 'bout three years ago, along with a guy named Ansem. Say, what's happend to old Ansem? He was like, uber cool."
Riku shifted uncomfortably as he told Lia, "Uh, Ansem the Wise is dead."
Lia looked to him cooly. "Life comes, and life goes, no matter what world you're from. It will sooner or later happen to all of us, except for Shimmera, who is already a spirit. Death is nothing to fear, but wanting to hang on to life too much is." She paused for a moment to let her words sink in, then said, "Since we got what we came for, we should leave." The others agreed.
As the party left the area, a black cloaked woman appeared and said, "You won't get out of here alive, Sora. I have claimed my castle, and now I am here to claim my revenge."
Maleficent was back.
End Chapter 5: Captive's Escape.
Author's Note: Sorry it took so long to get this up, but I've been busy playing WoW, since my big bro has so courtiously been letting me play when he goes to work. If, for some strange reason you want to contact me on WoW, I'm Hytera on the Hyjal server. Night Elf Hunter, and I'm the one with the owl.
Author's Quiz: 'Kay, enough KH Quizes for now. Here's one for the Danny Phantom Phans: Danny has a clone, Danelle, made by Vlad. What three Fenton devices did Sam and Tucker use to find Danny?