(6) To Disney Castle or Bust!
Ed knelt by the door, but if anyone was talking on the other side of it, he couldn't hear them. Everything had finally stopped moving, but he had a feeling that the ship itself hadn't. The take off had been a little rough, but now that they were up in the air, the ship was gliding along smoothly.
Ed shuddered to think of where the ship was gliding along. The air, yes. But that's what made him shudder. They couldn't be in the air! Ed was smart to know that yes, flying ship could be invented, but he also believed that he was smart enough to know that this ship was not the one. It just seemed so bulkly and big, even after Winry fixed it. Two thin wings on the sides wasn't enough to keep it airborn.
No, it was impossible. They were not zooming through the sky.
But then...why was he feeling so air-sick?
"Brother, let's just go out there," Al whispered, crouched in a corner, surrounded by various and unfamiliar items that they had knocked over. "They won't be angry at us if we just tell them we were curious about how the inside of the ship looked. Then they can turn around and take us back. I'm sure we won't get into too much trouble."
"I'm not worried about getting into trouble, Al," Ed replied off-handedly, "I'm just think--"
"AHA!" shouted a sudden, raspy voice. "I knew heard something back here!"
Both brothers nearly jumped in surprise. Standing before them in the now open door was Donald. The duck had his hands on his hips and was tapping a webbed foot impatiently at them.
"Well?" he asked, after getting two blank stares from the Elrics. "What do you think you're doing here, huh? You can't leave your world like that! Tsk, tsk, you two are in big time trouble now."
"Donald, who are you talking to back there?" called someone from up front.
"Come see for yourself!"
Sora walked to the back door and peered into the room at Donald's gesture. In one corner was Al, who was looking pretty worried (or as worried as a suit of armor can be), and right in front of them in the doorway was Ed, who only looked mildly annoyed. (Who he was annoyed at, though, was uncertain.)
"We have stow aways!" Donald announced.
Sora rubbed his forehead and sighed. "Oh no." He seemed flustered."What the heck are you guys doing here?"
"We were...curious about the inside of your ship," Ed replied weakly. Not that he would admit it, but he was feeling a tad uneasy. What were they going to do with him and his brother? Would they make walk the plank? Was there even a plank to begin with? Probably not. It was flying ship, afterall. They'd probably just pitch 'em overboard and let them fall to their deaths...
After seeing the concerned look on Sora's face, however, Ed realized how unlikely that would be. Sora and his friends were clearly too good-hearted to do such a thing. Just by looking at him, Ed could tell that Sora was the kind of person who, instead of squashing a bug that got inside your house, would cup the bug in his hands and release it back outside. Sora throwing them off the ship was as likely as Ed hitting a growth sprut: it wasn't going to happen.
So Ed went back to looking annoyed and kept it at that.
"All right, no problem!" Sora exclaimed, after some apparent thinking. He was just flowing with optimism now. "Goofy!" he called to the front, "Turn around and head back! We need to drop some passengers off!"
There was, for a short period, some amount of confusion. Goofy didn't understand what Sora had meant, so he and Donald brought the two brothers up front with them and showed him. That's when said brothers saw out of the window and flipped out, because instead of blue sky, there was a star-filled black, the occasional meteroid passing by. When they were told this was a flying ship, they never realized just how high it flew.
Ed had been reluctant about flying ships. So, naturally, when learned this was a space ship, he retreated back into denial and told himself it was all just some sort of trick.
Al had been accepting. Instead of coming up with logical reasons why it was impossible, like Ed was currently doing, he simply asked for an explaination.
"Well, they're already here," said Sora. "So we might as well tell them."
After a little squabbling from Donald, who thought this "interference" was only going to cause problems, Sora told the Elric Brothers about how there were many different worlds out there, not just one, and that the gummi ship was used to travel between them. He didn't see any reason to elaborate further and tell them about the broken barriers, and the Heartless and Nobodies. Afterall, they were going to drop them off on their world and that would be the end of that.
Or so he had thought.
"What do you mean you can't find it?" he asked Goofy.
"We must of flew too far. It's not coming up on radar and no one bothered to record the coordinates!"
Ed, who's face had, up until reccently, been planted on the window, turned to raise an eye brow at them. "You can't find our world?" he asked, trying not sounded panicked. "Not that I believe in any this," he quickly added, purely out of stubborness. "I know it's all a trick. But still. You need to, uhh, make it stop and get us back."
"Hey, it's your fault for sneaking on board in the first place," Donald pointed out.
"I'm aware," Ed growled. "Bird brain."
"I wish the monitor wasn't still broken," said Sora, completely ignoring both Ed and Donald. (That seemed to be the best solution to those two.) "Chip and Dale could probably find it for us."
"Shorty," Donald sneered.
"I'm thinking maybe we'll hafta go there first then," Goofy replied thoughtfully. (While also ignoring Ed and Donald.) "There's still a coupla things Miss Rockbell couldn't fixed, so we need to stop there anyway."
"That's it! I'm gonna make duck soup out of you!"
"But what about them?" Sora asked, and by them, he meant the Elrics. "I thought we weren't allowed to take others to different worlds like that."
"Brother, stop it! You can't pull his feathers out!"
"Yeah, but we ain't got no other choice," Goofy said, and that was undeniably true. They couldn't take them to their home world if they couldn't find it. And they couldn't find it until they went to see Chip and Dale.
"I have a magic staff and I'm not afraid to use it! I'll fry your brains out! If you have any."
"I guess your right." Sora took his seat in the middle and began punching in coordinates on the control pannel.
"I have more brains than you, chimera-boy!" Ed yelled, kicking his feet out at Donald in a vain attempt to hit him. (Vain because Al was holding him back.) "I'm way smarter than--whoa!" The ship gave a sudden lurch, shooting through the stars like a fired arrow. "What's going on?"
"We heading out," said Sora, not taking his eyes off the controls.
"Where to?" Al questioned. You wouldn't know it, but he was kind of having fun. He didn't understand, not for the life of him, why though. Maybe it was just the aspect of a new adventure. Because that's definitely what it was turning out to be. No doubt about it.
"Disney Castle," Sora replied. "Or bust!"
"I really hope it's the former," commented Goofy. " 'Cos I think we've busted enough as it is."
--TBC--
A/N: Right. The story was supposed to be at this point about, oh, three chapters ago. Lol. It's no wonder I can never make the deadlines. The deadline for this contest is tommorow, so I won't have it finished in time, obviously. But I will still update it. Maybe not as frequently. But I will. Yay.
My brain is fried, so there will be no Random Extras in this chapter. So instead, I've decided to respond to some reviews! Because I love you guys so much! (In a completely platonic way.)
Musashi the Master: No, Ed doesn't have a Nobody, although I was considering the idea in the begining. I was planning on having Ed being attacked by a Heartless, thus becoming one himself and creating a Nobody...but then I thought, nah, that's too complicated. And then the plot changed completely. xD
icefox35: You remind me a lot of Fuu.
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