A/N Sorry for such a long update time. Kind of forgot about this story for a little while. So many stories I am in the middle of, but this one is one where I actually have an ending I can plan for in sight. Hope everyone enjoys this chapter I've had written out for a while as I get to work on this story again.

"What happened to that hunter?" Luffy asked the Disney court magician next to him.

"How should I know?!" Donald exclaimed as the group charged the man.

"He looks like a Heartless," Goofy commented and everyone had to agree that he definitely looked evil.

"Agghhh," the man with purple tinted skin grabbed the side of his head in pain and then looked up with a wicked smile towards Smoker who was running around his right side to flank him. Clayton chuckled menacingly and his black eyes formed small red pupils in the center. He charged at Smoker with more speed than he had in the past, coming right up to the Marine and punching forward.

Smoker didn't try to dodge the first punch; he was reliant on his Logia Devil Fruit power and it had never failed him before. It was a mistake to be too cocky. Now he knew he could be hit, but the hunter still came at him too fast and caught him off guard. The fist slammed into the Captain's face and pushed into his skin, not allowing him to turn into smoke as darkness rippled around Clayton's knuckles. The hunter pushed down off of the fist and slammed Smoker into the ground.

Sora jumped up in the air as the Marine bounced across the ground under him. After seeing how afraid Luffy was of the guy when they first arrived on the planet, the fact that he was being tossed around like that made the child nervous.

"Guess I have no choice," Luffy muttered and stopped running. The pirate put his right fist on the ground and looked up at the foe who started charging towards him. Usopp hadn't seen this the first time so he looked back in shock as Luffy's skin pumped and his skin started to glow red. The pirate still didn't have much control over this move and he had to pump again to get the steam to start flowing off his body; the heat of his blood pumping faster showing through to the outside.

Clayton sprinted straight towards Luffy. He punched Sora out of the way as the kid rose his Keyblade slower than the man was punching. Then he jumped over the fireball that Donald shot at him and right over the dog person who tried to ram him with his shield. He pulled an arm back, but his target vanished.

The hunter slammed into the ground where Luffy was just standing and his punch made a crater in the floor that crumbled in, then doubled, and tripled in size as rocks flew up all around. After the first crater, Nami's eyes went wide, then it tripled and her jaw dropped as her eyes popped out of her head. The crazed man turned to her and she took a step back, but a muscular arm put itself between her and Clayton and the hunter's eyes switched from Nami to Usopp who stepped in front and rose his sword.

Usopp was amazed at his captain's speed though he was still able to follow Luffy as the pirate shot above Clayton and pulled his right fist back. The rubber man held his left palm out in front of him, and then slammed his right fist down hard. The muscular hunter jumped backwards right as the fist slammed into where he was standing and made the crater even larger.

Rock chunks flew everywhere and Sora had to dodge roll to avoid one as it was headed straight for him. He started sprinting forward with Tarzan while Luffy was falling to the ground. The two of them swerved back and forth between each other and then met with Clayton in the middle of the battlefield.

The boy was faster this time and brought up his Keyblade in an uppercut across Clayton's chest. The man rose an arm and stopped the blade, but then Tarzan's spear caught him in the left shoulder. Clayton growled and his wide smile dropped into a nasty snarl as he reached up with his left hand and grabbed the spear, not letting the ape man pull it out. At the same time he sidestepped Sora's second attack and punched the kid.

Sora lifted up the hilt of his blade at the last second and protected his face from what would have been a devastating punch. He was still knocked back several feet and looked up just in time to see Tarzan being thrown across the field at him and they both tumbled backwards.

Nami watched as Goofy charged in only to be swatted away in a similar fashion. "WAWAWA!" Donald ran forward and jumped in the air with his wand raised. A bolt of lightning came down and slammed into the top of Clayton's head, making the hunter roar and turn Donald's direction.

He stomped on the floor and a huge chunk of rock lifted up in front of him. One punch at it, and the chunk of floor flew straight at Donald and knocked the duck back into Goofy who was also lying there. Sora tried healing all his friends, but he only got out one Cure before he felt he was spent. Using Cure isn't like the others, it drains me much quicker! He realized this and wished he had healed Donald instead of Tarzan first, so that the more trained magician duck could heal him and Goofy.

Luffy saw the duck fly past him and he snapped his head back over at Clayton. He was standing on the right side of the man, Smoker was getting up on the left side, and Usopp was walking forward with both hands on his broadsword from the front. Luffy held the white hilt of his black Keyblade in his right hand, clenching his left fist at his other side, "Attack!"

The pirate vanished to most people's eyes except for the three he was with in the middle of the rocky area. Smoker didn't like listening to Straw Hat, but he agreed attacking together was the best strategy and he planted both hands on the ground, surrounding the four of them in a smoke pillar that was hollow on the inside where Clayton was standing.

The hunter spun his head around as suddenly all his opponents had become invisible. A fist made of smoke flew out of the spinning cloud of white around him and spun his head with a powerful punch. He tried to punch back, but the hand was gone and a rubber fist slammed into his back, knocking him to his knees. Clayton roared in a low voice and darkness filled the floor at his feet, wrapping around his legs and up his body. He screamed again and this time it wasn't in the low voice, but instead his own as he screamed in pain.

Clayton looked up as he sensed something, but he was too slow. A tan-skinned muscular man was falling out of the air above him with his legs thrown back and his arms held above his head with a broadsword in them. "Yaaa!" Usopp brought down his weapon and cut Clayton deep in the left shoulder before the man could raise his right hand and stop the blade from going all the way through.

Another rubber fist was coming at him from behind, so he moved slightly out of the way and the fist slammed into the muscular man holding the sword in his arm. Luffy felt his fist hit, but as he looked closer through the smoke his skin turned blue as he saw Usopp stumble back with a hand held in front of his stomach. "Sorry!" the pirate yelled, staring down at his own fist in fear, wondering if this power was too much to handle.

"Raaa!" Smoker slammed his fists down again as the smoke was clearing. "Mugiwara, finish this!"

Luffy snapped out of it and sprinted forward into the funnel of smoke. He jumped up and then disappeared by moving fast around his opponent to the other side. Clayton spun with one hand still on the blade of Usopp's weapon. He blocked Luffy's next punch but was thrown out of the smoke cloud by the force of it.

The others all watched as Clayton came tumbling out of the smoke cloud. His face was bloody, and his left shoulder was drenched in blood, with more coming out. The man with darkening skin staggered to his feet and the smoke was all going back into Smoker. Usopp wasn't as hurt as Luffy thought from his attack and he walked on Smoker's right as Luffy landed and panted extremely hard as the steam stopped flowing around him.

"Seems you've gotten a little stronger Straw Hat," Smoker mentioned after seeing Luffy's last attack. The Marine Captain was panting a little from using that much power, but he was nowhere near as tired as Luffy who had to use his new attack a twice now.

Every time, I use it, it takes so much, energy, the pirate captain stumbled forward and then planted his feet as his eyes went wide along with everyone else's.

"It can't be," Sora whispered as Clayton ripped with his right hand. The man tore Usopp's broadsword out of his own shoulder and dropped the bloody weapon on the ground. I need more POWER! In a menacingly low voice, he started laughing, and then screamed in pure agony as his left arm grew three times as large, muscles forming on top of muscles, on top of muscles.

His left shoulder was puffed out huge and his right leg followed suit by buffing out. "The darkness is consuming him!" Donald shouted as the ground ripped open and a group of the blue monkeys started jumping out.

"We have to stop him!" Sora exclaimed and charged forward, swiping with his sword and cutting across two of the monkeys at the same time. He thought his strength was fine at the speed it was increasing, but after witnessing those three men take on Clayton when he could barely land a hit, he knew he needed the experience. The boy with spiky brown hair swiped back and forth and then parried as one of the monkeys tried hitting him.

Usopp was sprinting forward and ran past right as Sora took down two of the Heartless. "Great job Sora, I've got the big guy!" The man rolled forward and grabbed his weapon off the ground in mid-roll.

Suddenly Smoker recognized the long nose on the muscular man's face and he muttered to Luffy who was standing next to him. "Isn't that the scrawny kid with the bandanna? What happened to him?" He had no idea how the kid he met in Alabasta could have gotten this big in that short a time.

"It's been three years for him," Nami said to the Marine as she walked forward. She stared at her friend as he swung his sword only for Clayton to block it with a powerful elbow. The man, or now he could be called a monster, tried spinning and kicking Usopp in the face, but the pirate spun and kicked with his own muscular leg, the two clashing in midair and sending off a shockwave that rippled across the rock surface they were on. The ground shattered beneath them and then the two were gone. Smoker was amazed at how powerful that skinny kid had gotten, and was also getting adjusted to the idea of it being three years for him, but he had to focus.

Luffy and Smoker turned their heads to the left and Nami followed where they looked to see another shockwave that ripped part of the wall off. They turned again and Nami desperately tried keeping up, this time spinning and seeing Usopp with both hands put together in a fist over Clayton's head. The hunter slammed down into the ground and formed another crater after being double punched by the old Straw Hat sharpshooter.

"FIRE!" Sora shouted and the others looked to see all the blue creatures around the boy were gone. The kid was charging at the crater and a fireball shot from his weapon, slamming into the man who was getting to his feet and engulfing him in flames.

POWER! I HAVE TRUE POWER! Clayton started laughing like crazy and ignored the pain as his other arm and leg buffed out beyond their limits and his whole body looked ridiculous. Then his torso buffed out as well to match the rest of him and he finally looked insane as his red pupils grew and his hair burst into flames. "RAAARR!"

Nami watched as the monster charged at Sora and she screamed for the kid to dodge, but Sora just jumped up in the air and spun in a three sixty. The boy finished his full spin and released his Keyblade, throwing it at the charging hunter who was thrice the size he was originally now. The blade cut through the monster's neck and darkness shot out instead of blood, confirming everyone's thoughts that he was already gone.

Clayton roared again and pulled back a fist to hit the kid, but the Keyblade bounced off a cliff wall and flew back through the back of his neck, landing in the kid's hand. As he screamed, the boy who caught the blade lifted it over his head with both hands and brought it down across his face. He followed up by swiping back and forth across Clayton's body before he landed, then when he hit the ground he bent his knees and shot back up with a one handed uppercut through the hunter's entire body.

The Heartless man was going to lift his left leg to kick the kid as he was descending, but two strong arms wrapped around his leg and lifted him up. Usopp had charged from the back and dropped his sword to grab the man, lifting him off the ground and tossing him up in the air. Luffy saw his chance and calmed his staggered breathing, his face turning determined. The pirate pumped his legs and Nami gasped. Even Smoker knew after seeing the pirate use the technique once; this was a risky ability. Straw Hat is risking everything here, but why?

Smoker looked back and saw the woman from the research tent surrounded by scared gorillas. On the other side of the cliff area, the dog guy was sitting on the ground with his shield laying next to him, looking unable to continue. The boy who was attacking Clayton couldn't take him on his own, and this fight was going on for long enough. He's trying to protect the others? Damn pirates, he shook his head and glared at Luffy as steam started rising off the teen's skin.

Luffy vanished to almost everyone there, and he reappeared under where Clayton was dropping down. "Gum Gum," he began, screaming with pain in his voice, and everyone watched as he threw his right arm back and it twisted over and over again. His black Keyblade with a white hilt was still in his hand and he lifted his left palm above him at the man falling down.

Clayton roared and he pulled back his huge dark blue right arm as he was falling. Every man, duck, woman, dog, and gorilla there watched as Luffy screamed and threw his arm forward, "JET KEY RIFLE!" The spinning arm flew towards the dropping enemy faster than Clayton could dodge. The fist slamming into him pushed hard and then the arm started to untwist. The Keyblade spun around and around as it turned into a fan and sliced Clayton over and over again, the muscular Heartless stopping his downward momentum and starting to get lifted up again.

"Followed by..." Luffy shouted as he pulled his arm back and jumped in the air. He flew all the way up to horizontal to Clayton, "JET WHIP!" He spun and his right leg flew out and slammed into the man, knocking him back into the cliff that started to crumble. Clayton dropped out of the air and the cliff dropped with him, huge pieces of it falling on the man as he finally hit the ground.

A dust cloud lifted up from the rubble, but Luffy wasn't finished yet. As he was descending, he could feel his Gear Second state going away and he threw both of his arms behind him as high as he could up in the air. "Gum Gum," he began and his body was still steaming. He was facing the ground and he saw an arm reach up through a few pieces of rock and clench a fist. "JET KEY BAZOOKA!" He threw both arms down hard with his Keyblade held horizontal in his hands.

Both hands slammed down into the rocks and shattered them, and then he felt them pressing down against skin beneath. It didn't feel like normal skin, but like he was punching one of those Heartless monsters. The amount of force behind his attack, along with the fact that he had the Keyblade right in the middle of it, started pushing farther and farther down into Clayton. Finally the attack pushed all the way through as the blade cut deep, almost slicing the monster in half down the middle.

Luffy finally dropped out of his state and his skin turned back to its normal color. He fell out of the air and tried to land, but his body wasn't listening to him and he just landed on his back. He coughed up some blood and tried to lift his head to see if his opponent was dead, but even that small action was too much for him.

"Luffy!" Sora shouted and ran over to his friend.

Usopp looked over towards the skinny teenager with messy black hair and was glad to see he wasn't dead. That new technique of his is dangerous, he knew he had to talk to him about it later, but first... He turned towards Nami who was also jogging towards Luffy. He ran towards her and asked, "Are you alright?" He was busy fighting Clayton for most of the time, and the man had hit him a few times, so he wasn't able to focus on the weaker people who he was worried about.

"Of course," she stated as they kept running towards Luffy. They heard something coming from the left and skidded to a stop, slowly turning their heads towards the cloud of dust Luffy knocked up with his bazooka. "It can't be," she whispered and they heard a low moan from inside the cloud.

Smoker was walking straight towards the cloud and it cleared around him as he stepped in and looked down at the man lying there. Clayton was writhing around on the ground, his muscles popping and growing, but the man looked like he was in so much pain. "That's what the darkness did to him?" Goofy whispered as he and Donald looked over as well. The duck just quacked nervously as they watched the man writhe around a few more times before slowing down and stopping.

Clayton couldn't handle the amount of power he was given in the first place, but it only kept growing inside him. Still, he wasn't able to stand up to all of Luffy, Smoker, Usopp, and even Sora's attacks in the end. He shook once more and his black eyes turned back to normal for a second to stare into Smoker's eyes. "Help-" he choked out and then his eyes rolled back as his chest ripped open. A bright white light surrounded him and two red hearts started pulling out of his chest. They spiraled around each other up in the air, and then vanished.

A dark pit formed beneath Clayton and started to swallow him up. Smoker stared at the man until the last of him was devoured by the darkness, and then he turned around. When he turned, he made eye contact with the tan-skinned pirate with the long nose.

Usopp was already staring his direction while Nami tried to treat Luffy with Sora's help. Donald and Goofy ran over to the two of them as well, but Usopp said, "Guys," and the Disney creatures looked up to see who was staring at them.

Smoker's face was bloody and he looked worse fo the wear, but that was up against a Heartless who took them all on. This was a powerful opponent, if he was an opponent.

"You," the Marine pointed at Usopp who had his broadsword back in his right hand, leaning over his right shoulder. Usopp had some blood of his own on his face, but he looked better than the Captain did.

Luffy listened to Smoker, but he couldn't look up to see the man. He coughed and muttered, "I can't move." So this is what happens when I use Gear Second too many times in a row. This stinks... Luffy's eyes closed and he fell unconscious.

Smoker continued, "She said it's been three years for you. What did she mean?"

"Exactly that," Usopp responded while keeping eye contact with Smoker. He realized he might not have to fight this man if he chose his words right and he kept talking, "Where do you think we are?" Smoker didn't have an answer for the muscular man who just kept on going, feeling empowered by the Marine's silence. Usopp continued, "We're not on our world anymore. Our world no longer exists, it was lost to the Heartless."

"Oi!" Donald exclaimed and ran up to Usopp, kicking him in the shins. "That's top secret! You can't go around telling people that!"

Smoker looked at the duck, and besides a Devil Fruit, he couldn't see the creature being able to exist in the world he knew. The woman at that camp mentioned that she didn't know what the World Government was... Usopp was still talking and interrupted the older man's thoughts. "Darkness is spreading across all the worlds," he didn't really know what he was talking about, but he had a good idea about it after the last few worlds they'd visited. "Every world I've been to in my three years after being sucked up into that black hole, they were all full of Heartless."

"Those blue creatures?" Smoker asked, wondering if he was referring to those monkeys who destroyed his crew.

"Yes, but there are many types," Usopp continued and looked over to the rubbled next to Smoker. "He became a Heartless the second he let the darkness consume his soul."

"That's ridiculous," Smoker argued. "There can't be other worlds. I'm arresting Mugiwara and everyone else here who says they're a pirate."

"There are other worlds!" Sora shouted at the guy who looked back at him. Sora started walking forward and he yelled, "You didn't see it!" The others looked his direction as the kid's voice got quieter. "When I was being pulled into the darkness, I looked down and saw the island I grew up on. It was tearing to pieces. Our world, it doesn't exist anymore, but we're going to change that!"

Smoker tilted his head, confused at everything going on, but most of all by that last statement. He somewhat remembered the ocean he was sailing on fall into a giant pit of darkness, but got distracted again by the boy shouting at him. Sora lifted his right hand and the Keyblade formed on it. Donald tried to yell at him to stop talking, but Goofy held back his friend. The knight realized that having this man as their friend would be a lot better than having him as their enemy. "The Keyblade," the boy stated and Smoker remembered seeing one in Straw Hat's hand as well. "Is the only way to save the planets from the darkness. It's the only way to bring back our world," Sora thought about all his friends from Destiny Islands who were lost and he continued in a positive voice, "and to bring back everyone on it!"

The Marine looked around and saw everyone looking at him, waiting to see what he would do. All my men are, they're gone. There's no reason for me to still be here if this really is another world. "Where are the other Straw Hats?" Smoker asked the woman and the man with the long nose.

"Everyone else got sucked into the darkness too," Nami told the Captain who was listening to them instead of attacking for once. "We're trying to save them."

"Tashigi," the man started and then stopped himself. Everyone looked at him and he frowned at them. "If one of my soldiers was pulled through, do you think she would be..."

"We were all sent to different worlds," Usopp told the man. "I was there for three years in what was only a short time for the rest of you. There's a chance she's out there on a different world..."

"And we'll find her and bring her to you!" Donald finished as he stepped forward. "The King ordered us to find the Keybearers and save the worlds, but we can't take every single-"

"I'm coming," Smoker said and glared at the duck.

"Of course sir!" Donald saluted the man and had a sweatdrop coming down the side of his face. Goofy saluted as well and Usopp let out a breath of relief.

"Don't think that means," Smoker started back up and the others all looked at him, "that when this is over, I won't be arresting you pirates."

"We're about to save the universe!" Nami snapped and spun her head to the Marine who was now the one with a bead of sweat dripping down his face. "Give us a break already!"

"We don't know how long it will be before we can save our friends," Usopp told the other man and he started walking towards him. "But until we do," he got right in front of Smoker and held out his right hand that the Marine stared at hesitantly. "Truce?"

The white haired man frowned and stared straight into Usopp's eyes as the pirate stared back at him. Usopp saw the hesitation and began in a cockier voice, "It's this, or we could leave you here in the gorilla jungle when we get back on our ship."

"Your ship can travel between worlds?" Smoker asked skeptically, but the long-nosed pirate nodded at him and he grunted. Everyone, he thought about all the men on his ship, I will avenge you. Aokigi, I'm following my own sense of justice on this one. I'll have to work with pirates to bring justice, but I can bear the shame. Tashigi... I'm coming to get you back. "Truce," he held out his hand and clenched the pirate's, only for Usopp to clench back harder.

The pirate smiled at his new Logia ally and was glad he was on their side this time. As the two of them lowered their hands, the gorillas seemed to know that there was no chance of further fighting and they came out of hiding.

Sora used Cure on Luffy now that he didn't feel as exhausted, but although Luffy's external scrapes and bruises went away, his raspy breathing from using his new power too much wasn't stopping. "It's not working," the kid with spiky brown hair whispered as he stared at the unconscious pirate.

"It's okay Sora," Nami said and put a hand on the boy's shoulder. He looked up at her and she was smiling fondly at her captain, "He can handle it. He always does."

Kerchak walked all the way to the large group of humans and other creatures. Tarzan looked at the gorilla who was like a father to him, and they both nodded at each other. Kerchak seemed to trust these people enough and he reached down and grabbed Sora, throwing the kid a hundred feet up in the air and then doing the same for Donald and Goofy.

Usopp grabbed Luffy and tossed him over his shoulder, then grabbed Nami the same way. Kerchak reached as if he were trying to throw them the same way, but Usopp shook his head at him, "I've got this." He jumped up after the other three to follow where Kerchak was sending them.

Tarzan climbed up the vines on a wall and ran over to where Sora dropped first followed by the two Disney creatures. All three of them landed on their butts or faces, while Usopp landed on his feet. Smoker turned his lower body to smoke and flew up there after them, turning his smoke back to legs after arriving up there.

"Whoa," Nami whispered as Usopp put her down. She stared around at the beautiful lake with waterfalls pouring into it and it was amazing. The small gorilla named Terk climbed up the wall with Jane on its back and she was amazed as well.

All of them looked around for a moment in awe, and then Tarzan spoke up. "Tarzan. Home." He led them over to a cave and they all followed him inside, Usopp still carrying Luffy on his shoulder as the captain began to snore.

They didn't have very far to go before they saw a glowing blue light on one of the trees in front of them, still inside the cave. "What is that?" Smoker asked and no one had an answer for him this time as Tarzan walked straight up to the light with Sora walking next to him.

"Ee, oo, oo oo ah," Tarzan said. This was a phrase he was saying very often, and no one understood what it was he was really saying.

"This is your home?" Sora asked and looked around, not seeing Riku anywhere. "But that means..."

Tarzan held up a hand for them all to be quiet and he lifted the hand to his ear. Once they were all silent, Goofy gasped as he realized what the noise he was hearing was. Nami whispered, "It's the waterfalls. They're echoing all the way here."

"Ee, oo, oo oo ah," Tarzan repeated again. "Friends there. See friends."

Jane walked up from the back of the group and smiled, "Oh, now I've got it. Ee, oo, oo oo ah, means heart. Friends in our hearts."

"Heart," Tarzan repeated, confirming her theory.

Sora looked disappointed and tilted his head down, "Oh, so that's what it meant."

Usopp whispered into their newest group member's ear since Smoker looked confused. "It isn't just you and us who have people we need to find scattered through the worlds." Smoker looked down at the child in front who talked about his entire world ripping apart. "He's looking for his friends who were taken just like ours."

Usopp stopped whispering since Tarzan began talking. "Friends, same heart. Clayton, lose heart. No heart, no see friends. No heart, no friends."

Donald and Sora both realized something at the same time. Neither of them wanted to lose the friendship they had and the fight wasn't worth it. The boy turned as Donald was turning to him and Sora apologized, "I'm sorry Donald."

"I'm sorry too," the duck in the blue hat replied sincerely.

"Hyuck! All for one and one for all right?!" Goofy wrapped his arms around both of the smaller guys and pulled them in for a hug.

"Right!" Usopp and Nami called out with the rest of their little group, with the exception of Smoker who just stared at them in silence, already regretting his decision to follow these children.

The blue light faded a little and everyone was able to see the beautiful blue butterflies that were glowing blue and lighting up the cavern. Sora stepped forward and as the butterflies scattered, he saw what he was expecting, an open Keyhole in the tree trunk.

Sora jumped back and his weapon appeared in his hands. He spun it around before pointing it at the Keyhole. A thin beam of white light shot off of his weapon and into the hole on the trunk. "What was that?" Smoker asked as a loud locking clunk was heard.

"Our work here is done," Sora responded and his Keyblade vanished into thin air.

"A gummi!" Donald exclaimed as a small piece fell off of the tree. This time Smoker wasn't even going to bother asking, he figured he'd find out soon enough.

"But it's sure not the King's," Goofy said, disappointed.

As Donald picked it up, he felt soft fur rub up against him and he turned in surprise to see Terk there. It was the same gorilla he came face to face with when he first got to this world. Jane giggled from behind them, "I think someone has a new admirer."

"Huh?" Donald exclaimed with a flustered expression and jumped back. He waved his arms in front of himself and shouted, "No no no no! Daisy would kill me!" Everyone started laughing as they assumed Daisy was his girlfriend and even Smoker cracked a smile before catching himself and frowning deeply.

I have to find Tashigi, then, then... he looked around at the group around him. Is this really the only hope we have of setting everything straight? He shook his head, The fate of the universe, in the hands of pirates.

"What drew the Heartless to that world?" Jafar asked from his seat around the table. Their leader was in the center of the room and she had just showed them the battle between the Keybearers and Clayton.

"The hunter lured them there," Maleficent responded to them all. "It was his lust for power that was the bait. But it seems the bait was too tasty for his own good."

"Oohahaha, yeah! He got chomped instead!" An annoying voice shouted from the other side of the room. Oogie Boogie leaned back in his seat smiling like a madman.

The man in the black and red cape walked forward towards the center table where Maleficent was standing. Jafar looked down at the table and taunted, "A weak-hearted fool like him stood no chance against the Heartless. But that boy is a problem. He found one of the Keyholes."

Sora's image appeared on the table in a green light with a few members of his group walking around him. The hologram showed the people in the dark room the members of the Keyblade weilder's party walking along without a care in the world. Maleficent laughed, "No matter. It will take him ages to find the rest. Besides," she continued, "he remains blissfully unaware of our other plan."

"Yes," Jafar implored, "the princesses."

"They are falling into our hands one by one," the woman with green skin continued with a smirk. "Speaking of which," she turned to the other side of the room where a young girl with blonde hair and a blue dress was looking around frantically at all the scary figures around her. Alice was terrified, and the witch turned her direction, making her only more scared.

"I just want to go home!" she exclaimed as the room became black. "No!" she screamed.

"Is everyone ready?" Nami asked and looked around at their group gathered back inside Jane's tent. No one had any objections so she nodded, "Then it's time for us to get going. Usopp, you've got Luffy?"

"Yep," the muscular man responded. He still didn't have a shirt on, which wasn't much of a problem considering how hot the jungle was. Plus, he blended it well with Tarzan who was only a few feet away from him.

"So where is your ship anyway?" Jane asked.

Donald scratched the back of his head, "It's... not far," he responded. Smoker wanted to see this strange Gummi Ship they kept mentioning as well, and was ready to go for a while now. After being the Captain of his own ship, it was annoying not being the one who decided when they left.

Tarzan made eye contact with Sora and stated, "Tarzan, Sora, friends."

Sora nodded his head, "Yeah, friends." It didn't matter that he was leaving, they would still be friends, in their hearts. He patted his chest once to make sure the jungle man understood.

The group left the tent and walked through the woods again, this time without running into any Heartless. "Now that the, Keyhole," Smoker said reluctantly, "is closed, are the Heartless gone too?" As he finished, two blue monkeys formed in front of them and Sora called down Thunder twice to finish them both quickly.

"No," Goofy told the man who was still getting used to talking to a dog, person, thing. "But there sure are less of them now, hyuck," the King's captain of the guard kept walking and Smoker shook his head at the craziness of all this.

"So where are we going now?" Sora asked as he pushed aside another bush and found where Donald was leading them. Smoker stared wide-eyed at the ship and looked around, not seeing any water near them. He opened his mouth to ask, but figured he wouldn't like the answer anyway so he just shut his mouth again and decided he'd find out in a second.

"Well," Nami started. "We should get that Gummi to Cid. He'll add it to our ship and he said a new path would open up once he did. Then we'll be able to get to the next world and keep looking for our nakama."

"We also need him to make the ship a lot bigger," Usopp added and everyone agreed on that point. Donald grumbled angrily about how they were breaking the rules but everyone else ignored him and after looking at the ship again, they wondered how they had been fitting the people they already had.

"At least the ride will be smoother with Luffy unconscious," Sora offered and the rest of them nodded their heads stoically. Not having to worry about Luffy pressing all the buttons and running around the interior of the ship was a plus.

"Now maybe I can finally get some sleep," Nami said as she walked over and got inside the hatch of the ship.

"I call driving," Usopp said and then he and Donald started arguing as they got in the front two seats. The pirate with the long nose had to pause to put Luffy down so he didn't get the driver's seat and he was grumbling about it as Donald laughed at him. Goofy chuckled and followed them inside leaving only Smoker outside the ship.

"What are you waiting for?" Sora asked already halfway into the cockpit. He reached his hand outside the ship for the man with white hair. "Whoever this girl you're looking for is, she's probably waiting for you right now." Smoker's eyes went wide and Sora continued, "I know Kairi is waiting for me, and I want to get to her as soon as I can. So let's go!"

Smoker reached up his hand, and the oddly strong fourteen year old with the weapon/key that could save the universe, pulled him into their magical ship.

"Alright! Everyone hold on!" Donald called out and turned on the ship. Everyone was buckling in, but Luffy was just lying behind the back seat with Smoker sitting on the floor next to him holding him down. What happened next shocked the Marine who thought nothing else would be able to. The ship lifted off the ground and shot up in the air, all the way until they flew up to space and around the dark void.

"This is..." the Captain remembered when his warship fell off the side of the Earth. This was exactly what his crew saw floating around in the darkness. Huge chunks of land floated off in space around them, obstacles hovered in their path and the duck guy swerved around to avoid them while also pulling the triggers on the joysticks and shooting down enemy ships flying at them.

"This is going to be a long trip," Usopp told Nami who was sitting behind him. They had to go all the way past the arena he spent three years at to get to Traverse Town. He kind of wanted to stop there, already missing Phil and Hercules, but he had to put saving his old comrades first. "You can go to sleep," he told the orange haired woman next to him.

She nodded at him and was going to say something, but all that came out was a loud yawn as she stretched her arms above her head. "Actually, everyone should get some sleep," Usopp told the rest of the ship's crew. Donald wasn't allowed since he was driving, but the rest of them could. "We don't know what's waiting for us ahead, but the Heartless are everywhere. We need to be well-rested to keep fighting them."

"Gawrsh, alright," Goofy replied and closed his eyes, instantly snoring. Sora jumped at how easy it was for the dog and then started laughing at Goofy's silliness.

"Ok then," Sora said. "I can't wait to show Leon how much stronger I've gotten," the boy stated and put his arms behind his head in his seat. He began resting his eyes and soon passed out like the others.

"You can sleep too," Usopp told Smoker after an hour of flying in silence. He'd look back occasionally and see the Marine captain staring around in space or down at Luffy or at the rest of the crew. Smoker opened his mouth to argue but Usopp already knew what he would say and taunted him, "'I can't trust pirates!'" He mocked in a low tone that didn't sound much like Smoker and made the Navy officer snarl. "I know you think we're going to attack you in your sleep, but we don't really want to. Luffy would never let us first of all..."

Smoker remembered back in Alabasta when Roronoa Zoro saved him from drowning. He asked the man why, and the swordsman responded by saying it was Luffy's orders. Usopp continued, "And second of all, you are the least of my worries. I don't want to do anything to you, except to help you find the person you're looking for. What use would attacking you be when we have the same enemies? The Heartless are destroying worlds, plural. The conflict between you and pirates in our own world doesn't matter anymore, it's trivial compared to the big picture."

The Marine started lowering his guard and he looked back around the cockpit at the peaceful group lying around him, most of them sleeping with smiles on their faces. They didn't look like what he'd call evil. "Besides," Usopp whispered and looked away and out the front windshield, "over the last few years I gave up the label of a pirate. I was a hero," he smiled fondly remembering the good times with Herc, helping the skinny boy become a hero, helping him train, and find his place in the world. "And a hero would never let something happen to a man while he was sleeping."

Usopp didn't look back behind him, but he knew Smoker was still awake. The older man was thinking hard about what the pirate was saying, and he was right, their issues were trivial compared to what was going on now. And he's right, I won't be saving anyone if I'm falling asleep on the battlefield. This could be a fatal mistake, his eyes started to close, I could be getting myself killed here. No matter how much logic he tried to use to convince himself that it was wrong, his heart told him there was no danger, and that's what compelled him to fall asleep in the end.

A/N Hope everyone enjoyed this chapter cuz I know I did! This was pretty awesome and now we have Smoker traveling with the crew which could be a good thing, or not... Anyway, hope y'all had a good read and I promise the next chapter will be out sooner than the 8 month wait of last time!