This starts right where the last chapter left off, so I suggest you skim the last chapter to refresh your memory. If you haven't read any of this story yet, then start at the beginning! I hope you like it.

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"Roxas!" Sora cried. Inside the screen, Roxas appeared to be disoriented.

"Wha–?" Roxas's voice crackled out of the speakers.

"Roxas, can you hear us?" Kairi asked stepping forward.

"Sora…? Kairi?" He focused on them. "How did I get here?"

"I just touched the computer, and you appeared," Sora said, just as confused.

"We don't know how it works…" Kairi apologized. "But Naminé said we should come here. Something about Twilight Town being in danger."

"Kairi!" Sora said, thinking of something. "D'you think we could get Naminé into the computer too?"

"I don't know…" Kairi replied, a bit wary.

"C'mon Kairi, just try it," Sora persuaded. Roxas nodded in agreement.

"Okay…" she replied, a bit skeptical. She walked forward and reached a tentative hand out to place them on the keys. She was prepared for the flicker of electricity, but none came. She looked back up at Sora sadly. "I don't think it worked."

But as she pulled her hand back, it passed over a separate screen, and a blue spark shot from her hand into the screen. Moments later, Naminé materialized upon the main screen. Kairi glanced up at the image, and smiled.

"It worked!" Sora said, grinning up at Kairi's nobody.

Inside the computer, Naminé turned to Roxas. She darted a nervous smile at him, before turning back to Sora and Kairi.

"As I think you all know by now, I fear there is something amiss in Twilight Town," she declared calmly.

Sora couldn't help but interject, "Naminé, how do you know about this?"

"It seems that I develop a connection with worlds I have dwelled in for extended periods of time. It must be another of my strange powers. It allows me to see what is taking place in any part of a world, almost as though I am looking into a crystal ball. This is how I found you, Kairi, when you were being held hostage in the Castle that Never Was."

Sora and Kairi both looked enlightened as Naminé went on to explain the problem at hand.

"Just recently, I had been looking in on the goings-on of Twilight Town when I noticed something strange taking place. One of the people I was watching vanished right before my eyes. I thought it might have to do with my powers giving out on me. But as my mind-sight wandered through Twilight Town, I noticed that other people and places were missing. I came to accept the fact that something was wrong. So I contacted you, knowing that I would be able to get to Sora. With his capabilities as keyblade master, I hoped that there might be a way to stop these strange occurrences."

Naminé took a breath, noticing Sora's determined expression.

"We'll be able to help," Sora spoke confidently. "We have to."

Kairi nodded beside him, a solemn expression on her face. Now Naminé turned to Roxas, continuing her explanation. "I am hoping that by replacing you in the digital world, we might be able to keep the disappearances in the real world at bay. My plan is to send Roxas and myself as digital projections into the other world, while you two," she turned to Sora and Kairi, "can use the 'teleporter' right here in this room."

"Sounds good to me," Roxas remarked.

"This might take a while," Naminé said, looking at her surroundings within the screen. She walked away from the main screen, so that her image grew smaller, and she bent down to examine something.

As they waited, Sora was looking around the room, and he noticed something he hadn't seen before. There was a conspicuous piece of paper lying on the ground beneath the computer apparatus.

"Huh…what's this?" He asked, crouching down to pick it up. He smoothed out the crinkled edges, and examined the ornate handwriting. Kairi looked over his shoulder and the two began to read the mysterious document they had just discovered.

Twilight Town is in a dire state. I write this in the hopes that someone will find it, and will be able to interpret my ponderings on the possible causes and solution to the dilemma. I never quite knew it would come to this. I did harbor fears that my tampering with Twilight Town might cause damage, but I hoped that the real town would stay safe. What harm could a computer program possibly do? But it seems that the digital world I have created has left me with as many problems as it solved…

Suddenly the ink seemed to be blotching and smearing, and the words became indistinguishable.

"What? What's going on?" Kairi inquired anxiously.

"No, not again–" Sora said under his breath.

The paper soon began to curl and darken at the edges as though an invisible flame were consuming it. The rest of it vanished from Sora's fingertips, and the two were left staring at his empty hand.

"We have to get that back," Sora said, determined. "It's our only clue as to how to solve the problem!"

Roxas had been watching them, and now asked, "What was that?"

"It said something about what is going on with the world, and how to fix it," Kairi informed Sora's nobody.

"Maybe DiZ wrote it…" Roxas speculated.

Strange shuffling and clicking noises could be heard from the speakers while Naminé appeared to be hooking something up.

"You know, you're probably right," Sora replied, pondering for a moment.

"Got it!" Came Naminé's voice. She came forward and asked, "What were you all talking about?"

"This document we found, which contained information about how to the dilemma at hand. Unfortunately, it vanished before we were able to read all of it."

"Oh, no!" Naminé exclaimed. She thought for a second. "Wait a minute. I think there should be a duplicate in the digital world…"

"That's what I was hoping," Sora said.

"Well, we'd better go then," Kairi advised. "Are we all ready?"

"Yep," Naminé replied. "Okay, Roxas, back to the first world you ever knew," Naminé said, gesturing to the device. "Just put your hand up to it, and it will transfer you. I'll go first, okay?"

"Alright," he replied.

Sora and Kairi watched as Namine's fingers came in contact with the device, and she vanished from the screen.

"Okay, here goes," Roxas muttered, walking up to it. He reached a tentative hand forward, stepping into the space Naminé had just occupied. Soon he too was gone from the screen.

Sora turned to face Kairi and said, "Our turn." Sora gestured for Kairi to go first. When he was alone in the room, he took a breath, looking around himself once more. If things went wrong, this might be the last time he ever saw the very room he stood in. Gathering his courage, and keeping positive thoughts in his head, he reached up to touch the teleporter.

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