Toy Box, Galaxy Toys 1st Floor
With the help of Team Keybladers, Woody and Buzz Lightyear were able to find all of their friends all throughout Galaxy Toys, and return them back at the front entrance again. With everyone back together, they returned back down to join up with everyone.
"Sarge, roll call!" Woody told the little army man.
"Sir! Yes, sir!" he responded, saluting him, before wandering to all the found toys, "Toll call! All toys, fall in!" The toys responded, gathering up in a straight line as Buzz started wandering down the line.
"Sarge... Army Men times four..." he listed off, "Hamm... Aliens 1, 2, 3..." He stopped as he reached the end of the line, looking at the empty space before asking, "Wait. Where's Rex?"
"Aw, he took off." Hamm answered, "Said he wanted to prove to you you could trust Sora, Kirito and Asuna. He's up there by the video games. He pointed upwards to the third floor.
Buzz sighed as he said, "Well, here we go again."
"This is about us?" Sora asked.
"He didn't have to do that for us." Kirito stated.
"Plus, it's still not safe, what with the Heartless around." Asuna noted.
"You're right." Woody agreed, "Sora, Asuna, Kirito, everyone... Any chance you could help us one last time?"
"Sure (kuru)!" Sora, Donald, Goofy, and Candy responded simultaneously.
"He's gone for our sake. We have to go and help out." Kirito pointed out, with Asuna and Yui nodding agreement.
"Thanks guys." Woody thanked them, tipping his hat.
"The video games are on the third floor." Yui recalled, "Let's grind our way back up there!" With that, they went to the space capsule, going back up to find Rex again.
(Insert 'Adamas Amalee ver.', TV version)
Music intro
(Rushing through black darkness, glittering shards of light pass by. As music starts, the three main Keyblades suddenly shoot forward like shooting stars, circling around from a distance, then crossing one another, shining brightly, forming the logo of the series.)
I'm trying to understand it but it's making me numb
(Left half of Sora's serious face, the other half hidden by the teeth of his Kingdom Key.)
This swirl of karma leaving such a bitter taste on my tongue
(Right half of Asuna's determined face, the other half hidden by the Lambent Light's teeth.)
'Cause I know the pain and sorrow, it has only begun
(The upper half of Kirito's face, with glaring eyes, the lower half hidden by the Elucidator's teeth.)
Who-o-oa, Who-o-oa, Who-o-oa
(Flashing through the faces of each hero; Donald, Goofy, Yui, Mickey, Riku, Leafa, Kairi, Axel, and Kayaba.)
Now I'm surrounded by my enemies, but luck's on my side
(In the dusty fields of the Keyblade Graveyard, the camera pans around the circle of the six main heroes as they ready their weapons.)
So I shatter through the walls and change the course of the tide
(In the same field, the camera pans the opposite way around the six other heroes as they ready their weapons.)
Can't stop this surging fate like a volcano set to break, Take a breath until you're set to
(Allies of the multiple worlds they will or have visited pan across the screen, finally ending with the silhouettes of the four Lost Princesses of heart, with the one in the center opening her hands to reveal a bright light.)
face that voice of fear. That god of death that's always looking down on you
(Philia stands on a lone green hill, staring at a card with the picture of Castle Oblivion on it. She feels a hand behind her, and looks to see Flair and Hinata standing behind her, giving assuring smiles, with Tinkerbell coming out of her pocket, and Samson giving a thumbs up.)
"Do you believe yourself?" I won't stop til I've won
(Maleficent and Dr. Temna stand together, with Pete and Tears next to them, and a swarm of Heartless and shadowed foes ready to strike.)
A glimpse of that bright future that's just begun!
(Xehanort's maliciously smirking face appears, as he and fifteen others float together in a circle. Screen splits in half as half of Heartless Oberon and Gouxus take the screen, their eyes shining from yellow to violet.)
Shining like a diamond, The emotions in your heart reflect like crystal
(The six heroes team up together, taking down Heartless, Nobodies and Unversed that come across their path with their weapons, skills and magic.)
As we vow an oath that will ignite your light and mine - And we will rise!
(A Demon Tower nearly falls on top of the six, but they get away, with Kirito, Asuna and Sora in the air, performing Soul Bursts and Keyblade transformation, creating Cloud's Buster Sword, Asuna's SAO Lambent Light, and Sora's twin guns, unleashing a sword beam, ice spears, and magic shots as one.)
So many times I've gotten back on my feet to make it to this moment
(A group of dark energy orbs shoots down the trio from a cliff above, hitting them into the ground. The attack comes from Xehanort, Heartless Oberon, and Gouxus.)
It's time our prayer that's waiting in the dark. Is set free so light the spark and let it shine!
(Sora, Asuna and Kirito get back up on their feet, shaking off their injuries, and raising their Keyblades as they charge forward, beams of sunlight shining upon each of them as they all take a leap at the Organization XVI, with their friends, the other heroes, including Roxas, Xion, Recon, Terra, Aqua and Ven, joining them from behind.)
Going into the capsule, getting to the top, they rode the spiraling rail up to the third floor, confronting some Heartless while they were at it. They took care of them, before racing to the Game Store.
Like any game store, the area was flooded with tons of different games in boxes, along with an assortment of consoles and little figures and toys that were based on the video games in the store. On the table in front of them, there was a neatly-lined collection of boxes with the name 'Verum Rex' on it.
Rex was on the said table, looking at the games. The moment he saw the group coming into the store, he took one of the games, and hopped down onto the shelf, racing to the Keyblade trio, showing it to them as he exclaimed, "Look! Look! I found it! See, you guys?"
The team examined the front cover of the game. There were three characters on it. The one lazily sitting in front on the stairs had clothing very similar to Sora, though it more reminded the team of a darker version of Riku's new clothing. His face was also far different, as it was short, silver hair, and heterochromia eyes, his left being dark red, and his right being light blue. In his left hand, there was a fancy sword that had orange-white energy as the blade, and in his right hand, there was a crossbow.
The person standing to his right was a young man, his attire very similar to Kirito's current look, with more blue, and a fur collar and trimming for his coat. His hair was short and blonde, and his eyes were a green hue. He was leaning on his weapon, which was a sword and kite shield combo, with a blue energy around the ridge of the shield, and a rose head surrounded by ice crystals on its face.
The person on the left of the front boy, standing in an authoritative state, was a young lady, her attire similar to Asuna's, though more armor pieces, and looking more like a mixture of knight and modern soldier. Her hair was long and blonde, with two strands going down to waist level in front of her, and she had a white hairband, and her eyes were a blue hue. Her weapon was a golden longsword with a golden hue around the blade, and a bauble at the butt of the sword that looked like it should be on the head of a staff, with golden flower petals swirling within.
"Well, I've never looked THIS good." Sora noted, seeing the front person he assumed was Yozora, "The clothes kinda match."
"But the faces...they don't look like ours much." Asuna pointed out, looking to the girl she assumed was Alice, "Still, she looks more serious than I do."
"Still, at least we now know who those three are." Kirito argued, seeing the boy he guessed was Eugeo, "I'm wondering if they act like us."
Meanwhile Buzz and Woody looked at the poster, seeing the picture of the three character's weapons in front, and the back side of poster showing the same cover as the one on the games. "Whaddaya know! They ARE video game figures." Woody understood, looking to his partner, "See? I told ya, Buzz. They're toys, just like the rest of us."
Buzz looked to the heroes with Rex, who were standing in the distance. "Well, I suppose."
Sora bent over to Donald and Yui, whispering, "Hey, Donald, Yui. I thought the magic of the Gummi Ship decided how I look. Explain."
"Maybe in their perspective, mama, papa, and Sora all look like those three video game characters." Yui assumed.
"No, it's simple." Donald replied, pointing to Sora, "That's not you!"
"I bet Yayoi would like to have you guys as action figures, kuru." Candy stated.
"Say, Riku would make a great action figure!" Goofy assumed.
"Must be him!" Donald summed up.
"Okay, but how do you explain Alice and Eugeo?" Kirito asked Donald.
"And besides, it could be me!" Sora argued, "I've got the black clothes and... uh..."
"So what?" Donald asked snidely.
"This is causing more confusion than we need." Asuna told the boys.
"All right, everyone. Now that we're back together, it's time to return to Andy's room." Buzz told the team, walking to the center of the shop.
Rex had reached a section that had a lot of strategy guides, searching through them as he asked, "Now? But can't I at least check the strategy guide? I want to know how to beat Bahamut!"
He had just found the guide when Buzz approached him and tossed it aside, saying, "Next time. Right now, we need to go home." Rex looked disheartened, but Buzz patted his snout, and guided him back to where the others were.
"Oh, but you needn't rush off." said a familiar voice. The team spun around, and saw none other than Young Xehanort, appearing out of nowhere.
"Xehanort!" Sora shouted, summoning his Keyblade and leading the team as they drew out their weapons, prepared to fight him.
"I have more to observe." Young Xehanort told them, "I can't let you leave yet."
"It's us that you really want." Sora called him out, "Leave the others out of this!"
"They just need to get back home, so let them go, Xehanort!" Kirito snarled.
"Whatever you have planned for them, we won't let it come to pass." Asuna finished.
"You WOULD say that, champions of light." Xehanort huffed, "Very well, let's skip to the final stage." Unbeknownst to anyone, a Marionette Heartless appeared right behind Buzz, and wrapped the puppet hands around him, before vanishing into nothing. Buzz gasped, before standing limply as he closed his eyes.
"Buzz? What's the matter?" Rex asked, noticing something was off as dark vapors started seeping from his body.
Buzz didn't answer, but instead opened his eyes in a blank state as he directed the laser pointer on his wrist at Woody's head, who turned to see what he was doing. "C'mon, Buzz. Quit fooling around." Woody told him.
"Look out!" Goofy hollered, using his shield to block as Buzz fired his laser, nearly hitting the stunned Woody.
"Wha-?!" Kirito gasped.
"I sense darkness controlling Buzz, kuru!" Candy noticed.
"I can't believe it! Buzz has been taken over?!" Woody questioned, before covering behind Goofy as he blocked Buzz's shots.
"What did you do to him?!" Sora demanded as Asuna charged forward, lunging her Keyblade at Xehanort, who instantly vanished like teleportation. Asuna looked bewildered as she looked about.
"I thought I made it clear." Xehanort answered, appearing walking right by Sora, "I am testing the strength of their bonds." Sora spun and swung his Keyblade, only for Xehanort to vanish again. He reappeared by Kirito as he continued, "In this world, toys have hearts. And those hearts come from a powerful bond." As he said this, Kirito took his own slash at him, only to disappear.
He reappeared on one of the high shelves in the central part of the store, following on like nothing happened, "So what happens when those bonds are stretched to their limit? When they are worlds apart, can cloth and plastic hold on to their hearts?"
Sora bounded up the shelves, taking another swipe at Xehanort, but he vanished and moved just a bit ahead of where he was before. "All I need was a wedge to widen the divide. Someone like you to fill them with distrust and doubt." Sora unleashed a combo of swings, which kept missing Xehanort as he warped between each swing, until he was on the floor again. "And that chasm you created can be filled with a vast darkness." he continued, vanishing as Kirito and Asuna simultaneously struck at him. "See for yourself." he finished, as Sora leapt down to join the pair.
Sora, Kirito, and Asuna looked to their friends. Donald, Rex, and Candy were trying to hold back Buzz, who kept firing at Woody, who was hiding behind Goofy, while Yui supported him. "Sora!" Donald cried out.
"Do something!" Rex hollered.
"On our way!" Sora replied, the trio going to aid them.
Suddenly, Young Xehanort appeared in front of them, creating a shockwave of darkness that sent them flying upwards. He vanished and appeared in front of Sora, an orb of dark red energy forming in his palm, saying, "Not this time." He pressed the energy into Sora, who went flying into the television screen in the far back of the store, showing off a slideshow of things from Verum Rex. He made contact with the screen, and was sucked into it like it was water, vanishing from sight.
"Sora!" Kirito and Asuna shouted as they flew, before toppling on the ground as Young Xehanort landed on the ground.
"As for the two of you, perhaps these will satisfy you." He snapped his fingers, and two familiar Heartless formed in front of them. Kirito and Asuna got up to see them.
"High Crowds?!" Kirito gasped.
"The Organization has control of them, too?!" Asuna questioned.
(Insert 'GET READY' from Tribe Cool Crew OST)
No sooner did Xehanort vanish again did they start dancing at the two, their punches and stomps causing shockwaves of darkness to blast around the place, even causing the others to struggle, except for Buzz, who was already possessed by darkness.
"Damn it!" Kirito grimaced, shielding himself, "Everything is just going wrong!"
"Were we...really responsible for what's happening to Buzz?!" Asuna asked, trying to endure the dark shockwaves.
Meanwhile, Sora fell face first onto a metal platform, but quickly got up onto his feet, looking around. He was in some sort of massive, two-floor battlefield made of metal and tech, almost like a factory or construction zone. It was surrounded by water, dark clouds were in the sky making it as dark as night, and Gigas were positioned all over, including one of the Speed-based Gigas next to him that had no pilot.
"Where am I?" Sora asked.
'Haven't you heard?' Young Xehanort's voice spoke up from all around, 'In this world, you come from a video game. So now, you can watch my experiment from inside the screen. That is, if you manage to find a moment's rest.'
Sora noticed red flashing lights about as the other Gigas started to moving, homing in at Sora's position. It was far more than what Sora had to deal with before. "There's got to be a way out." Sora assumed, "Buzz, Woody, hang on!" He leapt into the cockpit of the Gigas next to him, and charged towards the other mechs, firing away at them.
Whenever he took one out, he noticed numbers formed from their defeated bodies. There was a point system in this area, which made sense since he was in a video game. He also figured something out; he saw a whole group right around a large spherical container that, when he shot at it, created an explosion that destroyed the other Gigas near it, and the normal points gained from them being doubled for each based on the trick.
"I have to take them all out as quickly as possible!" Sora exclaimed, dashing his Gigas to one side as he was on the central part of the upper floor. He suddenly heard cracking beneath him. He looked down and realized that the platform was made of thick glass, but it was cracking all about. "Oh, no!" Sora exclaimed, before too many of the Gigas were on the glass, and the combined weight caused it to break apart, causing everyone to fall to the floor below. Sora spun his mech around to look down, seeing the area down below start to electrify. Sora panicked, and used the boosters on his mechs' system to keep itself levitated and floating in the air, while the others hit the area of danger and get electrified, destroying them and causing more points.
"There we go!" Sora cheered, "Next!" He looked about as more mechs started to appear in trios all about the stage, the lead of each one having a silverish hue, and looking tougher than the regular. "I had to ask..." Sora muttered, prepping his mech for battle.
During this time, Kirito pushed himself forward towards the High Crowd, looking to his girlfriend as he called out, "Asuna, stop letting Xehanort get to you! Yeah, Buzz has trust issues with us, but he's only looking out for the friends he has here, while worrying about the ones who are in the other version of their world! The Organization is taking advantage of that, and we can't let them get away with it!"
"Kirito..." Asuna noted, finding the heart to stand against the dark wave of the Heartless, "You're right. Xehanort will pay for what he has done to Buzz! We'll save Buzz from being controlled, and we'll make sure all of them will see each other again!"
Kirito nodded in agreement as his body glowed, and he concentrated as he drew a glowing circle around where he stood, preparing a Dance Stage. He noticed the dance level they had to be at, and called out, "Asuna, we're gonna have to take them out on our own."
"Right. Take the lead in this dance." Asuna told him.
"Sure..." Kirito replied, a little anxious, "It'll be my first Dance Stage I used against Heartless."
"I know you can do it, Kirito." Asuna assured him, stepping next to him.
Kirito smiled and nodded, before glaring at the High Crowd Heartless. "Dance Stage On!" He shouted, stomping the ground, expanding the circle sending light energy sparkling around them, changing the environment and their garments.
(Stage: Inside Wreck-It Ralph arcade stage, multicolor stage floor in front of tall stone and brick apartment building, with the name 'NICELAND' embedded over the front entrance.)
(Insert 'When Can I See You Again' by Owl City)
When can we do this again
When can I see you again
(x3)
(Kirito and Asuna stood together, closing their eyes, as they felt the music course through them. They opened their eyes as the last word echoed.)
Switch on the sky and the stars glow for you
Go see the world 'cause it's all so brand new
Don't close your eyes 'cause your future's ready to shine
It's just a matter of time, before we learn how to...
(Kirito started off subtle with his swordsman-style breakdance moves, unleashing footwork and movement from his hands like he was swinging a sword, with Asuna dancing behind him.)
...fly
Welcome to the rhythm of the night
There's something in the air you can't deny
(Asuna stepped in, and unleashed her street jazz dancing movements for a moment, before twirling back to Kirito's side.)
It's been fun but now I've got to go
Life it way too short to take it slow
But before I go and hit the road
I gotta know, 'til then,
When can we do this again?
(With a clap of their hands, the pair started to dance as one, flowing between dancing the same moves together, to having them utilize their individual dance styles melding together, neither one standing out over the other, but rather complimenting one another
Oh oh oh oh
When can I see you again?
(Attention is shifted to Asuna, who stretches her leg high almost to her head, before going into a twirl and bends over with her fist to the ground.)
Oh oh oh oh
When can we do this again?
(Attention shifts to Kirito balances one one hands as he spins in a wide circles with his feet while performing breakdance moves, before pulling himself into a crouched position with his feet with his arm pulled back like he was prepping to swing his sword.
Oh oh oh oh
I gotta know, when can I see you again?
(When can I see you again?)
(The two pull themselves back up to their feet again, matching movements in their last steps, before looking to the rooftop of the building behind them, where a completely blackened body of 2D Wreck-It Ralph was at, who pumped his arms as a voice bubbled appeared as it said 'I'm gonna wreck it!')
Joined at the hip, yeah your sidekick needs you
Life is a trip down the road that leads you
(The two continue their dance as started to dance together with their individual dance styles, with Asuna in the lead. Up above, the Dark Ralph leapt up and started pounding the top of the building with his fist at the beat of the song.)
Look all around at all the mountains you haven't climbed
It's just a matter of time, before we learn how to...
(Kirito saw the falling bricks coming at them from above, summoning his Keyblade, looking at his feet, then figuring on what needs to be done.)
...fly
Welcome to the rhythm of the night
There's something in the air you can't deny
(He danced as he started swinging his weapon at the debris to the rhythm of the song, stopping the damage from hitting him or Asuna. The two stopped together, looking up to see more dark debris falling down at them. Asuna summoned her own Keyblade, smiling at Kirito, who smiled back, both nodding to one another.)
It's been fun but now I've got to go
Life is way too short to take it slow
But before I go and hit the road
I gotta know, 'til then,
When can we do this again?
(They clashed their blades together, before dancing across the floor, mixing their swordplay into their dance styles to destroy the debris that fell all around them, the two things put together not seemingly out of place with one another.)
Oh oh oh oh
When can I see you again?
(Kirito dodged more falling bricks while performing breakdance moves.)
Oh oh oh oh
When can we do this again?
(Asuna utilized her street jazz while evading the falling debris.)
Oh oh oh oh
I gotta know,
(The two come close together, as a large piece of debris was about to fall onto them. They readied their Keyblades.)
When can I see you again?
(With every syllable of the lyrics, the two slashed the debris, until it was destroyed, leaving the two standing their with glowing bodies. During the music intermission, Fix-It Felix appeared, and waved them over to the building, leaping up from windowsill to windowsill, fixing the broken windows on each floor.)
Don't close your eyes 'cause your future's ready to shine
It's just a matter of time, before we learn how to
(Kirito and Asuna ran to the building, and started jumping from windowsill to windowsill slowly after Fix-It Felix, getting closer to the darkened Wreck-it Ralph, who started pounding the top of the building to rain debris down on them again.)
fly
Welcome to the rhythm of the night
There's something in the air you can't deny
(The two started helping one another by grabbing or pushing each other as they jumped to avoid the falling debris, catching up with Felix, and reaching the roof. Dark Ralph tried to hammer them with his fists, but they leapt up to evade, before pointing their Keyblades at him, shooting a beam of light, hitting Ralph and dismissing the darkness, freeing Ralph and restoring him to normal.)
So let me know before I wave goodbye
When can I see you again?
(Ralph shook his head as he got himself out of the daze as Kirito and Asuna landed, while Felix patted his arm, making sure he was okay. Ralph gave a thumbs up to him.)
Oh oh oh oh
When can we do this again?
Oh oh oh oh
When can I see you again?
Oh oh oh oh
When can we do this again?
Oh oh oh oh
(Kirito and Asuna began dancing together once more as Ralph and Felix watched them from behind, dancing in sync with one another, whether using the same dance moves or their unique dance styles working together.)
Yeah, it's been fun but now I've got to go
Life is way too short to take it slow
But before I go and hit the road
Tell me when
(Ralph and Felix started to do the Fix-It Felix dance, with Kirito and Asuna dancing together, even doing the same dance on the third line. They then jump down from the roof above, down to the ground floor, with Ralph spinning as he fell.)
When can I see you again?
(They land on the ground together, though Ralph hit the ground face first.)
When can I see you again?
Tell me when
(Kirito, Asuna, and Felix run over and help him up again, supporting his side, as he grinned embarrassingly at them.)
When can I see you again?
(They then turn to the camera and strike a pose together, with Ralph & Felix striking their signature poses.)
The two gathered up the dance energy from their performance, and with a simultaneous stomp, they sent it in a wave at the High Crowd, destroying it. In its place, a new Heartbinder was revealed, which Kirito raced to and grabbed, looking at it.
"We got a Heartbinder!" Kirito noticed, "Looks like it summons Ralph."
"You summoned him in the past. Wanna keep it?" Asuna asked.
"Nah. I'll give it to Sora." Kirito answered, "He should be responsible for all the Heartbinders, anyway." They looked to the rest of the team, who now had those who were downstairs before now joining them, seeing their performance. Good news was that the fight was over. Bad news? Buzz was missing.
Just then, they heard the game above, and saw that Sora had just defeated the final boss of the game. With that, the screen went back to the home screen, and Sora escaped from the world inside the game, landing onto the ground.
"Sora!" Kirito and Asuna called out, racing to him.
"Y'all right, you three?" Woody asked as the rest of the team surrounded him.
"Sure. Nothing a little dance power couldn't handle." Asuna replied.
"That's a sentence I wouldn't have assumed saying in the past." Kirito muttered, shaking his head.
"I'm just fine. And you?" Sora followed up, looking at the remaining crew, before asking, "Wait... Where's Buzz?"
"He disappeared into a dark corridor." Goofy answered.
"We couldn't get to him in time, kuru." Candy said sadly, held in Yui's arms.
"Oh..." Sora realized, looking to Kirito and Asuna, who felt guilty for not stopping it, either.
"Sora, guys, how do we get him back?" Woody asked.
"I don't know. My power won't open those." Sora answered, with Kirito and Asuna having expressions showing they couldn't do anything, either. This did not please Woody, who slumped in dismay.
Just then, the army soldiers appeared, with Sarge asking, "Sir, did I hear you say 'dark corridor'?"
Woody tried to regain himself, tilting his hat as he answered, "That's right, Sarge. Any ideas?"
"Well, it might be a long shot, but we've sighted a shadowy portal in the Kid Korral." Sarge explained, "We can infiltrate from a window inside Babies and Toddlers. I'll head there and get it open."
This news pleased Woody as he bent down to him, saying, "Sarge, you're a lifesaver!" He turned to the heroes, asking, "You guys in?" The team gave their 'yeses' in response.
"Please promise you'll bring Buzz home." Rex prayed as they walked past.
"With batteries included?" Ham added.
"Journey safe." one green alien monotonously told them.
"Farewell." a second green alien added.
They turned back to the team as Woody said, "Don't worry. WE'RE gonna get our friend back."
"Hold on!" Donald called out, pointing to the wall with a ton of merchandise on it, "I saw something shiny over in that direction!" He raced over to it, with everyone right behind him. When they arrived, they looked at all the stuff, which was branded with name 'Dissidia' on it. On top of one of the shelves of boxes, there was a shining orb of light, with the image of crossed pistols vaguely showing on it.
"What is that?" Woody asked.
"I think... Yeah, I'm sure of it!" Kirito recognized, "That's a Soul Pact!"
"Won?" Goofy asked Asuna, who nodded in response.
"Let me get to it!" Sora told the team, and he leapt up to it. He reached the orb, and took it into his hands. It glowed with a gentle warmth in his hands, but at the same time, he could feel there was a sort of rejection from the orb. "This is a Soul Pact?" he asked, "Doesn't seem to want me, though. Maybe because I can't use Soul Burst like Kirito, Asuna, or Yui?"
"Sora, toss it down here!" Asuna called out, "Maybe one of us can get it!"
"Hopefully, it's me." Kirito hoped, getting a glare from his girlfriend, and he defended, "I'm just saying! I mean, you got your Soul Pact reawakened in the last place."
Sora wound up his arm, and swung the Soul Pact down at the trio. Kirito reached a hand up, hoping to get it. However, the orb suddenly curved in midair, and flew down in front of Yui, who dropped Candy in surprise, who cried out as she fell to the ground.
"Looks like it is accepting Yui." Asuna noticed, with Kirito bending over in dismay from not getting one, with Goofy patting his shoulder.
Yui raised a hand to it, and the orb went inside of her. She suddenly saw the image of the person, which turned out to be Yuna. However, in a flash of light, her attire completely changed to something she recognized back in Radiant Garden. Yui summoned out her Keyblade as she raised it high, shouting, "Soul Burst: Yuna X-2 (pronounced 'cross two')" The image of the new version of Yuna appeared, who struck her signature pose, before diving into her Keyblade. The Keyblade shined and transformed into twin pistols, which Yui took in both hands, spun around and pointed them forward with her arms crossed over one another.
The team looked amazed at Yui's new set of weapon, while the said girl looked at her guns. "So Yui's new Soul Burst has her using guns?" Kirito asked, "Makes her suitable for GGO."
"A different change of pace from her magic-based Soul Bursts." Asuna pointed out.
"Might as well give these a shot. Literally." Yui told the team, flipping a gun to point it upwards. With this new power-up, they took off out of the store.
The team went a long way around to get to the Babies and Toddlers area again, dealing with more Heartless as they did. Running there, Yui got to try out her new Soul Burst. Her skills with the guns came from her Pact with Yuna, firing the guns with great accuracy against the Heartless. She did have her Trigger Happy skill, which had her stand still and fire at a rapid fire rate at her opponents. She also had other Gunplay tricks to utilize, even ones that broke through opponent defenses and magic shots. All in all, she was a wiz at fighting from a distance.
The team made it to Babies and Toddlers, where they discovered the small window doors to the Kid Korral. They destroyed the Heartless and pushed forward to the window, going through it one at a time. They made it to the actual entrance, and saw the door was unable to open due to a large amount of blocks in the way.
"The entrance was blocked by blocks?" Sora asked, looking at the collection.
"Can you use the Gigas to move 'em?" Woody asked, waving to the unused Speed-based Gigas.
"Sora, when I was in the Gigas, I noticed a Mag Assemble function on it." Yui explained, "It should magnetically lift the blocks out of the way."
"Do you wanna do the honors?" Sora asked.
"Sure. Watch me!" she told him, and she hopped into the Gigas, activating it. She then rediscovered where the function was at, and activated the Mag Assemble function. The arm of the machine opened its hands up, producing lightning rods as it unleashed a magnetic pull, lifting all the blocks, and moving them out of the way. This allowed the door to open up once more.
"Awesome!" Sora exclaimed, "Teach me that later, Yui!"
"You got it!" Yui replied through the Gigas, before they ran into the open room.
Just as they wandered in, Donald sensed something, looking up to the wall near the ceiling, and saw a ventilation shaft that had dark fumes blowing out of it. "Up there!" he pointed to everyone.
"How are we able to reach that?" Asuna asked.
"Run up the wall?" Kirito suggested.
"No, the vent is too far out for us to get to it if we run up." Sora answered, which Kirito mentally admitted was true.
"Well, there ARE some more blocks here..." Woody noticed, seeing a huge pile of blocks ahead of them.
"We can use those blocks to make a tower to get to that darkness, kuru!" Candy pointed out, which the others agreed to.
Just then, several Gigas ridden by Heartless surrounded the blocks, which got cloaked in darkness, unable to be moved. "Looks like the Heartless figured our plan out." Kirito told the group, "Let's take them out!"
The team went to work dealing with the Gigas swarm, with Sora managing to take down a long-ranged Gigas, hopping in, and started bombarding the Heartless with all of its cannons. Kirito helped Candy unleash her Soul Release to one hit KO a Gigas, while Asuna went into Soul Burst: Tifa Lockhart, and started getting up close and personal with the Gigas, even overpowering the melee ones with her brute strength. Within a couple minutes, the team managed to defeat the Gigas, freeing the blocks from darkness.
"Let me do the honors!" Sora told Yui, using the Mag Assemble on the blocks, making them float up, before building them up on the roof of the ball pit, which was a bit of a distance from the grate, taking a shape of a block you would see in a Tetris game.
"We'll need more than that." Goofy noted.
"Then let's split up and look around." Kirito told the team. "Sora, Donald, Goofy, and Woody, why don't you go to that undercroft area. The rest of us will go to the climbing playground over there."
"Let's check the ball pit, first!" Donald suggested.
"Sure. Let's go!" Sora answered, and the two teams divided up to go look for more blocks.
Yui had to get out of the Gigas as they ventured through the playground tunnels to find blocks. They did find a QR code for a new game on the Gummiphone as they searched, but they did eventually climbed up to the top and found a new set of blocks that blocked the tallest slide in the Korral. However, the moment they got there, they ended up triggering a trap, as barriers formed that prevented them leaving the climbing playground, and filled it with tons of Heartless, including many turret-like Heartless and Marionette Heartless possessing toys inside it.
"We should've seen this one coming..." Asuna grimaced, readying her fists.
"I think I saw a Gigas nearby. I'll go pilot it!" Yui answered running away to get to the mech.
"Time to go and do this. Soul Burst: Cloud Strife!" He unleashed the Soul Burst of the spiky-haired swordsman, and brandished the Buster Sword.
"I'll do my part, kuru!" Candy proclaimed, and they went to work on dealing with the Heartless about the place.
Yui was able to find another Gigas in one corner of the place, unpiloted, and took control of it, aiding the team as they easily destroyed the Heartless all about them, even finding materials, to boot. With this, they returned to where they found the blocks, and Yui moved the blocks with her mech's power, unstacking them and sending them out the windows of playground, where they got stacked onto the blocks they already gathered before, making it taller and taking a weird shape, like half of a person's body, but not tall enough to reach the grate.
"Not a bad job, but still not enough." Kirito grimaced.
"I'm sure Sora and the others have it. Let's go down the slide to get to him." Asuna suggested, taking the slide and going down it with a gleeful laugh. Candy joined her eagerly afterwards. Kirito waited for Yui to come out of the mech, and they slid down together.
During this time, Sora and the others went into the ball pit first, dealing with Heartless in the pit using a hanging device in the center and finding the treasure underneath the balls, which was a Thunder Trinket.
"That's not a bad find." Donald noted.
"Shouldn't we look for more blocks?" Goofy asked.
"Right. Let's check the area Kirito was talking about." Woody suggested to the team, and they made their way to the entrance.
After that, he ended up going to the undercroft area that had walls of dice blocks in the way. However, he utilized his Gigas to destroy all the blocks in the way, including the Heartless that spontaneously came out and started attacking them. He ended up using the clusterbombs to destroy a wide amount of Heartless and the dice out of the way. Donald, Goofy, and Woody did all they could to deal with the Heartless within the room.
"Aaaand that's the last!" Sora declared, defeating the Heartless out of the bouncy toy.
"Sora, I found the blocks." Woody told Sora, pointing to several holes within a pile of dice blocks on the side. Sora knocked them aside, and found the blocks Woody was talking about. He used the Mag Assemble to lift up all the blocks, and send them outside to join what Yui and the others added on.
The said team had already gotten out of the ball pit to see the blocks Sora was lifting going towards the other blocks, stacking upon it, and finally taking shape to what looked like a human cactus. With the thorns on its head added on last, it swayed a bit, with some sort of 18-bit victory theme that felt familiar to Kirito and Asuna, still in their Soul Bursts, as it fell to the grate, its hand breaking open the grate, giving them a path towards it.
"What kind of creature is that?" Yui asked.
"A cactaur?" Kirito asked, before questioning, "Wait, how do I know that?"
"Same. I knew what it was, as well." Asuna noted, "Maybe the Soul Pacts of Cloud and Tifa know what it is."
"It looks like a fun guy, kuru!" Candy noted, looking to the grate, which popped open, "And look! It opened up the vent for us, kuru!"
Sora and the others joined their side, looking up at what they created.
"Hey, is that...?" Donald started.
"A cactus?" Sora questioned.
"Yep, and it's our way up to the dark corridor." Goofy noted.
"Let's get a move-on!" Kirito told the team, and they ran up the side of the cactaur, reaching the grate, and going inside.
The eight characters found themselves going in not too far, Kirito and Asuna's Soul Burst wearing off, as the Corridor of Darkness was right ahead of them, seemingly opened up for them.
"No doubt that looks like what we're looking for." Asuna stated.
"It looked like this?" Sora asked Woody and the others who witnessed Buzz's disappearance.
"Yup." Woody answered, as Donald, Goofy, Yui and Candy nodded in agreement.
Sora, Asuna, and Kirito all looked to one another, before nodding in understanding of what they were going to do, and if everyone was ready to jump in. With that settled, Sora said, "Here goes.", and they stepped through.
When they made it through, they found themselves in an area consumed in darkness, with floating toy pieces here and there. It was visible ahead, as far off, they saw Young Xehanort standing in front of a thin pillar of darkness, where Buzz was floating unconsciously in the middle of it. Xehanort was watching them, almost like he was expecting them to arrive.
"Buzz!" Woody cried as they raced over, stopping several meters away from where the man black stood.
"Xehanort!" Sora called out to him.
Woody took a few steps forward as he demanded, "What do you want with my friend?"
Young Xehanort looked back at Buzz as he stated, "Look... Such tremendous darkness. All because he was ripped away from the boy who cares about him most."
Suddenly, darkness started to rise as Woody looked scared at the realization as he asked, "Does that mean...we'll all be like Buzz...if we don't...find Andy?" Darkness swirled at his legs, almost like it was sucking him in.
"Wrong!" Sora barked, walking forward past Woody, "Distance doesn't matter. Andy's part of their heart, just like my friends are a part of mine."
"No matter what is in the way, or what tries to break it, nothing can tear those bonds apart!" Kirito stated, "No matter what, that connection is always there." The others nodded in agreement.
Woody gasped in realization, before lifting his foot, looking at the bottom, where the name 'ANDY' was written on. He looked to Buzz, and saw the same name on one of his dangling feet. He understood that the connection they spoke about was true.
Young Xehanort pulled back a hand to the pillar of darkness, wringing out the energy. Suddenly, a wave of darkness sent Buzz higher while the darkness around them was growing stronger at their feet. Young Xehanort remained undeterred as he mocked, "What? 'Your friends are your power'? Ah... How very true. But if the light of friendship is a form of power, the darkness of being alone is a power...even greater. Darkness is the heart's true nature."
Sora and Kirito refused to give into what he said, but were not sure how to respond, but someone did. "Why is being alone a power, kuru?!" Candy questioned stepping forward, "It's a painful feeling when you are by yourself, closing yourself from your friends, kuru!"
"Candy!" Asuna gasped, fearing she might get targeted by the young Organization member.
"Foolish little child of light." Young Xehanort scoffed, "You do not realize that very pain can be embraced and welcomed, which will give you strength. The heart is born alone, and it should strengthen itself alone."
"Strength you can't even share is no strength I want, kuru!" Candy retorted, "Miyuki and everyone else back home might be far away from me, but that connection we have has not disappeared, kuru. I know just as I feel that bond with them, they feel the same way for me, kuru!"
"Well said, Candy." Asuna told her, standing next to her, glaring at Young Xehanort. Kirito and Sora nodded in agreement, smiling at the little one.
Just then, Woody patted Sora's shoulder as he passed by him, glaring at the silver-haired man as he said, "Whatever you're talking about, I don't care. Put Buzz back the way he was, then get lost!"
"Or else what, toy?" Young Xehanort asked amusingly.
"Yeah. I'm a toy. And a friend." Woody admitted, taking steps forward, and causing the darkness to disperse with a stomp of his foot, "My guess is no one's ever loved you before. Because you know NOTHING about heart and love."
Sora, Asuna, and Kirito stepped forward right by Woody's side, their own feet dispersing the darkness from the ground. "There are hearts all around us, trying to connect." Sora stated as they stomped together towards Young Xehanort.
"That loneliness you were talking about? That only made Woody and Buzz's bonds stronger!" Asuna continued
"And that's what the heart's true nature is; to never let go of what or who matters!" Kirito followed up, "And it's like Candy said; Just as they haven't let go of Andy and the other toys, they hadn't let go of the guys, either."
"Yeah! You can't keep us from Andy." Woody declared, as the darkness tried to cover them in its power. "We're going home, no matter what. And taking Buzz!"
"Xehanort, you're so caught up in finding the shadows, you forgot about the light that cast them." Sora told him.
Suddenly, the group of heroes unleashed the light in their heart, causing the darkness to disperse, Young Xehanort shielding himself, and caused the pillar suspending Buzz to dissipate, making him shine brightly.
"No!" Xehanort gasped, as the heroes charged at him, their weapons ready. The evil man turned and summoned his long Keyblade, and brought it down on Sora, who got backup from Donald and Goofy as they pressed their weapons against his. Kirito and Asuna went around one side while Yui and Candy went the other direction, and swung their weapons at Xehanort, who backed off from everyone.
"Woody, now!" Sora shouted as the seven heroes went and fought him back to keep him in place. Woody took a leap, using his pullstring as a lasso to loop around a floating studded brick, and swung himself to the floating Buzz, grabbing him and bringing him to the ground. The seven that circled Xehanort looked pleased, while the latter wasn't happy.
Woody's pullstring came back into him as the voice box inside of him spoke up. "Giddy-up, partner! We gotta get this wagon train a-movin'!"
Suddenly, Buzz gasped as he woke up abruptly, looking about, before seeing Woody on top of him, lifting his head to see that he was doing okay, before getting off and getting into a sitting position, leaning on Buzz's hard body. "Woody?" Buzz asked, "Wait... How did I get here?"
Woody took a pause, adjusting his hat, answering, "Oh, I don't know! Maybe somebody switched you into 'dark and stormy' mode."
"But I don't have a-." Buzz started, before realizing what he meant. He looked frustrated as he couldn't believe he ended up getting possessed as well. Woody stood up and held a hand down to him. Buzz smiled, and took it, rising up to his feet again. He placed a hand to his chest as he said, "Thank you, Woody."
"Good to have you back, Buzz." Woody responded.
"Guys, hurry up!" Donald shouted, as they turned to see the seven heroes try to do some damage to Young Xehanort as they tried to attack him one at a time from all sides, only for him to dodge, parry, block, and overpower each of them attacking.
"We're not able to stop him!" Yui exclaimed as she tried to attack, but got easily parried. Sora, Asuna, and Kirito all tried to attack at once, only for him to do a sword spin that blew not just them, but all the heroes away.
"So, even empty puppets can be given strong hearts." Young Xehanort understood, as Buzz's laser pointer was pointed directly at him, "I am going to have to remember that."
"Remember this; our hearts will always be connected to Andy's." Buzz told him, holding his wrist out, ready to fire the laser, "No matter what you do!"
"And that's something you'll never understand, because you're hollower than any toy." Woody scowled.
The seven heroes started to get back to their feet as Young Xehanort, with a dark aura around him, replied, "But now I know a heart can be placed in the vessel of our choosing. For that, let me give you a parting gift to play with."
"Wait!" Sora shouted, racing towards him, and swung his Keyblade. However the attack merely phased right through the man as he started to turn into dark vapors, answering, "Find the hearts joined to yours." Sora looked perplexed, looking as Xehanort vanished completely.
"Heads up, Sora!" Asuna shouted, as the darkness around them started to gather into one place, revealing the blue sky above. The ground was an oversized puzzle-assembled playboard, creating a toy city, complete with roads buildings, and all sorts of other things. The outskirts was a field of clouds and giant floating toys and lands all around.
However, the darkness that was gathered now formed into a Heartless. It was a large purple flying saucer, with a yellow face on the front that turned out to be false, as the real one was on top. It had four face pods on the corner of its body, a glass dome on the bottom, and a tail with a yellow tip on the back of its body.
"That is one gigantic Heartless, kuru!" Candy exclaimed, while Yui pulled out her scanner, analyzing the target.
"That's the King of Toys." she explained, "It basically has all the makings of a tough Heartless! Missiles, force fields, electromagnetic guns, and even can create tornadoes!"
"That doesn't seem like a fun toy." Kirito argued.
"Let's go!" Sora declared, and the team readied to fight, while the Heartless summoned a barrier around the bottom part of it.
The King of Toys pulled itself back while the team charged forward, but Kirito shouted, "Move to the sides!" The Heartless then charged forward while spinning like a drill sending the buildings flying, which were fake and light, . The team tried to evade, but Buzz, Donald, and Candy got caught in the back end of the attack. It spun through the air, arching around until it came around and came to a halt near another area.
"Fire!" Asuna shouted, shooting a fireball at the Heartless, but the attack was blocked by a barrier. "It's blocking it's sides?!" she gasped.
"Look!" Sora pointed out at the top, "The sides are blocked, but the top is vulnerable!" He raced up to one of the triangular pieces of building block, and leapt off of it, jumping off another block, and getting onto the top of the King of Toys. There, he saw the true head, and started slashing it with his Keyblade.
"Excellent find, Sora!" Woody called out as Goofy, Kirito, and Yui raced to join Sora.
"Buzz, Donald, with me!" Yui shouted, "Soul Burst: Yuna!" She summoned Yuna in her summoner form, before diving into her Keyblade, transforming it into her summoner staff. Then, with a magic circle, she summoned Valefor to the field, ready for battle. She hopped on as Donald got on, with the pair getting Buzz to hop on behind them.
"You sure this can...support us?" Buzz asked, looking at summoned ally.
"Don't worry. Valefor is strong." Yui assured him, before waving her staff high, "Now, let's rain attacks from above!" Valefor unleashed Sonic Wings, while Donald shot a Thunder spell and Buzz fired his laser down from above, hitting the top of the Heartless around Sora, as Goofy and Kirito landed on the body, striking their weapons at the head, together.
The King of Toys retaliated, when its ridges had doors open up, and missiles the size of the heroes' own bodies shot out and homed in on all attackers. Yui ended up ordering her Valefor to back off and evade from the attack, while those on top of the Heartless had block or get blown off the toy, which was basically Sora and Kirito. Goofy was able to endure.
"Sora!" "Kirito!" Woody and Asuna called to the boys, respectively, as they two and Candy raced over to help them up.
"Watch out, kuru!" Candy exclaimed, as they turned to see the Heartless front gun charge up a ball of electrical energy, before firing it off at the group.
"Asuna, with me!" Kirito shouted, and the two came in and blocked the attack together. It was a power struggle, and the two struggled, but they managed to parry the attack, sending it overhead, causing it to misfire. "Of course a toy like that would fire lasers." the black swordsman grimaced.
"Then we'll just have to responded in kindly." Asuna responded, the team gathering themselves up, and charging in.
This was one of those battles where the environment played an important role to fighting the Heartless, as in the blocks were useful to the team to get to the top of the Heartless, striking it in the head. It did retaliate with spinning charges, doing front flips to throw those on top of it off, missiles, and a charged-up laser ball. Attacks from the side and from below were completely useless, so only the top was the target.
"Yui, here!" Donald called out, tossing a Soul Recovery onto her to keep her using her Soul Burst.
"Thanks, Donald!" Yui thanked him, before using a Fire spell as her Valefor fired off an Energy Ray. Asuna, or now Cure Soul, was in her Precure Soul Burst, and unleashed Soul Sonic with her Soul Guitar Rod, while Sora was slamming his Keyblade over and over again on the King of Toy's head.
It flipped itself over to send the group off of its head, before flying away from them, getting to a new height far from them. All of a sudden, the sky went dark, like they were in a thunderstorm, and all the building blocks started to float up into the air. From the corner face pods, it summoned out antennae that spun like propellers, while it magically summoned out a circle of small machines that generated a ring of electricity around it.
"Oh, great! Now what?!" Sora grimaced.
"It's too far out of range to hit or even use Airstepping!" Soul noted.
"And there are no blocks to reach it!" Kirito pointed out.
Yui was trying to get to it with Valefor, but it suddenly fired off a laser ball that shot her, Donald and Buzz down, sending them to the ground.
"Everyone!" Candy cried out, racing to them to see Buzz and Yui get up weakly, before getting their stamina restored by Donald, who used Cure on them.
"It's no good! We can't even fly up to it!" Yui said in a disgruntle tone.
Woody looked to Buzz before seeing studded blocks suddenly start to float one after the other, forming a hovering staircase that led to the Heartless' head, and called out, "Hey, I bet those might come in handy!"
Everyone looked to the floating blocks. "That'll do!" Soul called out, "Everyone, let's go up an octave!" She leapt high and got to the upper part of the staircase, before leaping from block to block afterwards.
"Wait up!" Sora shouted, as he and everyone else raced up the stairs.
The King of Toys saw them coming, and shot missiles down at them. Soul managed to evade it by getting to the top, and while Sora, Yui, Candy and Goofy made it to the top, everyone else got shot down.
"Everyone!" Sora shouted, seeing them all fall back to the ground.
The group hit the ground, but Kirito managed to get to his feet again, suddenly getting a feeling, as did Woody and Buzz. "No worries. We'll get up there!" he realized.
On top of the Heartless, Soul and Candy began punching and kicking the Heartless in the head, before backing off as Sora used his Kingdom Key to unleash Ragnarok Shotlock onto the head. Yui was far off with Valefor, with Goofy riding on it, but unleashed another Sonic Wing attack to damage it.
The King of Toys then grew aggravated, and unleashed an electrical field shockwave that caused Soul, Candy, and Sora to get flung off, falling to the ground. They managed to regain themselves in midair as Soul caught Candy, but saw a rocket fly by them, with Kirito, Woody, and Buzz flying on top of it. They were reaching the top, going after the Heartless.
Yui and Goofy landed on the Heartless as Yui shouted, "Advance Burst: Grand Summoning!" She twirled her staff as Valefor vanished, before her staff transformed into Nirvana, while she showed off her summoning circle, revealing her summons, before they vanished.
Goofy started to do a Goofy Tornado, spinning around as it damaged the head, while Yui went back to back with Ifrit and Shiva, striking with Meteor and Heavenly Strike, respectively, damaging the head. The rocket-propelled trio appeared, and started striking and spinning with the rocket, damaging with body blows and sparks. They then finished as they flew backwards, before looping around and hurling the rocket at the head of the King of Toys, damaging it more. However, it wasn't enough to finish the job.
"So close!" Woody noticed as they fell.
"Yui, can you finish it up?!" Kirito shouted.
"You got it, papa!" Yui replied, turning to Goofy, "Get down from here! My last attacks gonna do a lot!"
"Okay!" Goofy replied, before jumping off the side, with his shield above his head, like he was trying to use it as a parachute.
Yui then concentrated, as she glowed brightly, before her eyes snapped and she shouted, "To the Farplane with you!" She summoned multiple summoning circles, as all of her Eidolons appeared. Her Valefor started with Energy Blast, followed by Ifrit unleashing Hellfire, then Ixion with Thor's Hammer, and Shiva with Diamond Dust. Yui leapt off as Bahamut appeared last, and with one concentrated blast, shot off Megaflare, destroying the Heartless with that final attack.
Down below, everyone was shocked and amazed at the final damage that took place with Yui's attack, and they shielded themselves as the Megaflare's shockwaves reached them at ground level. They endured it, before looking up again, and saw Yui fall from the sky, flailing to catch herself. "Yui!" Soul cried out, leaping up with her Precure strength, and caught her in her hands, before she safely brought her to the ground again, her Soul Burst diminishing as she reverted to being Asuna again.
"Awesome, Yui!" Sora cheered.
"Nice job up there, little lady." Woody told her, tilting his hat to her.
"She reminds me of Jesse with that." Buzz pointed out.
"Don't know who that it, but we managed to beat that Heartless!" Kirito declared, with everyone cheering in victory.
Just then, from the sky, something shined and fell to Sora, who saw it and grabbed it, which turned out to be a new Keyblade keychain. "A new Keyblade!" Sora recognized, looking at the keychain that was black string with a claw and one of the Little Green Aliens as the medallion.
"That's called 'Favorite Deputy'." Yui analyzed, getting out of her mother's arms, "That's a Keyblade that is good for strength, and even gains a drop bonus from enemies.
"A drop bonus? Lucky!" Kirito grimaced, looking a bit sour at this. This caused everyone else to laugh at his expression.
Moments later, the team gathered up with the rest of the toys, and had returned to the ground floor of Galaxy Toys, leaving the Space Capsule. The heroes brought up the rear as the others were ahead of them.
"So, Xehanort got away again." Goofy pointed out.
"Yeah. He's a big chicken." Donald scoffed.
"Are all those guys in black that scary, kuru?" Candy asked Asuna.
"Xehanort is definitely a troublesome one. He was pretty darn tough even back when we had full power." Kirito argued, thinking back to when he and Riku fought him in their own stronghold.
Sora stopped as he was already thinking about something, before he looked to the toys and bowed as he exclaimed, "I'm sorry! I wanted to get you back to the real world." This caused everyone to look to him at his apology.
"Sora, we all wanted to help them." Asuna argued, "Don't bear the burden yourself."
Woody and Buzz looked to each other, before smirking as the latter said, "It does seem that we're trapped here."
"We'll never get home." Rex followed.
"Yeah. Stuck like pigs." Hamm compared.
"Our position appears fixed." Sarge stated.
"Oh noo." the three green aliens cried monotonously. The collective words did make the heroes feel guilty for not being able to do anything about it.
"A shame we'll have to stay a little longer..." Buzz stepped forward, smiling as he finished, "...with our new best friends."
The heroes looked surprised at this as Woody stepped forward, leaning on Sora's shoulder, "After all the adventures we had, we're not quite ready to say 'so long'." This made the heroes feel relieved, and joined in with the other toys as they started to laugh and feel glad they were able to stay around longer with one another.
"You guys..." Sora stated.
"I'm glad we're able to stay together for a bit longer, too!" Yui agreed.
Buzz approached Kirito and said, "I'm sorry that I was being so stubborn. Please forgive me."
Kirito was a bit surprised, but then shook his head, taking Buzz's hand as he replied, "There's no need to apologize. You were just wary for the sake of your friends. I would act the same way."
"Yeah, somebody's gotta be the sensible one..." Hamm argued, "...especially since Woody's always gettin' in trouble."
"Gawrsh, that sounds a little like Sora and Kirito, don't it?" Goofy compared.
"What?" Kirito looked confused, as Sora and Woody looked to each other, pointing at themselves.
"And I'm the dependable one!" Donald declared.
"No you're not!" Asuna barked him down, "If anything, I'm the one that has to keep you boys straight."
"Like Buzz!" Rex compared, looking to Asuna, then to Donald, as he noted to him, "...Kinda." This made everyone laugh while Donald did not look amused and only getting a 'kinda' from him.
"Besides, if we go back to the real world, we'll never see you again, right?" Woody pointed out to the team.
Sora, Asuna and Kirito looked to each other, realizing that was true, before Sora pointed out, "But...what about Andy? You care about him so much."
Buzz approached Sora, placing a hand on his shoulder to get his attention as he noted, "And he's still right here with us."
Woody wrapped an arm each around Sora and Kirito, saying, "If we follow our hearts, we'll find him again."
He smiled at the two, who looked back at him with smirks of their own, as they replied, "Yeah!"
They then continued their way to the entrance as Woody asked, "So, gang, are you goin' after the guy in the black coat?"
"We gotta." Kirito replied.
"Something tells me we can't join you on that mission." Buzz assumed.
"Sorry about that." Asuna apologized.
Woody stopped them as he replied, "Don't worry...because you've become a part of our hearts." He walked fowards as the toys stood together, and he turned and pointed to each of their hearts, saying, "So let us become a part of yours."
The seven heroes looked pleased and nodded in response, before joining with them with one last laugh and hug with each other. "Thank you!" Sora thanked them all.
"We'll remember that!" Asuna told them.
"More new friends, kuru!" Candy cheered.
Buzz pointed to the sky as he shouted, "Now off you go. To infinity and beyond!" Everyone looked to the sky, planning to go to that distance. However, no matter how far, their hearts would still be connected to one another.
Some time later, they parted ways with the toys, returning to the ship, their bodies back to normal again now that they left the world's order. "That was really amazing, kuru!" Candy exclaimed.
"Yeah, and there are still more worlds to visit." Goofy pointed out.
"Hopefully, we can find clues to the Guardians of Light or the Lost Princesses of Heart." Sora prayed.
"I'll keep an eye out, kuru!" Candy declared.
"Yui, take us to our next destination!" Kirito told his daughter.
"You got it! Set course to the next world!" Yui declared, getting the ship into gear, and they took off going to the next world ahead of them.
Next Time on Sword Art Kingdom III
Kingdom of Corona! Seeing Lanterns!