"Where to next?" Usopp asked as he hopped back in the ship and took a seat in the much roomier cockpit now that their additions were finished.
It had been a full day since they defeated the real boss of Traverse Town, and everyone was feeling pretty well-rested. They stayed in town for a few days after Maleficent took Riku, but the Heartless were still all over the place and they finally found that large empty suit of armor guy again. This time though, they were all ready for him and everyone was impressed by Sora's Valor Form which worked this time and didn't turn him into a rabid animal. His dark Anti-Form still confused some of them, but as long as he was in control no one really had a problem with it.
"Looks like there's a new world in the computer," Goofy said as he took a seat near the front and gazed at the map they had so far.
"Oh cool," Sora said as he looked at the map too. "These are the places we've been so far? Look, there's Wonderland!"
"And there's the Colosseum," Usopp said, getting hit with a little nostalgia even though it had only been a short time since he left.
"And the gorilla world," Luffy pointed at a planet covered in jungles.
"We're heading here," Nami pointed at a little dot on the other side of the Deep Jungle. Smoker walked over to her and squeezed in to get a look at the map they were describing. He was stunned on the last voyage, but now he wasn't arguing with the idea of other worlds and decided to accept it for what it was.
"Why can't we see what it looks like?" the Marine Captain asked her angrily.
"Because," she sneered right back, "we haven't been there yet. All I know is that there is a world in that location."
"Then let's go!" Luffy jumped into the ship and pulled the hatch closed behind him. It was Donald's turn to drive and the duck quacked in annoyance because of how many people they were now taking around to these other worlds. He started up the vehicle, but then turned it back off and spun his chair around to face everyone.
"Wawawa!" he threw his hands up in the air. "How many more people are in your crew?" He looked at Nami and the surprised woman held up four fingers slowly. "Then that's it! King Micky entrusted us with this mission and to stay with the Keybearer! Every extra person we bring..."
"Risks damaging the world order," Goofy said and lifted up a hand to show that he knew that one.
"What's so bad about that?" Sora asked, wishing he was allowed to bring Riku along and knowing he was going to ignore Donald anyway if he found Kairi.
Donald smacked Sora on the top of the head with his wand and the boy rubbed his head in annoyance. "We're on a mission to restore the world order! People from other worlds aren't supposed to know that there are other worlds."
As he was talking, Smoker was quickly understanding how small their world was in the scheme of things. However, it seemed like this duck was a member of a world that kept the peace among all the worlds, he seemed to have known about the worlds from before trouble even started. These Royal Emissaries are the equivalent of the World Government. "Understood," the Marine said while putting a cigar in his mouth, "unless we find Tashigi," he added.
"Or Kairi," Sora said as well and crossed his arms showing he wasn't giving any leeway there.
Donald quacked exasperatedly, wondering why he even tried.
Smoker took out a lighter, but Nami turned to him and snatched it out of his hand. "What are you doing?" he snarled at her.
"We have to travel from here across the universe! I'm not sitting in a cramped room full of smoke for all that time." She glared at him to make an objection, but Smoker knew no one else appreciated it either and it wasn't like the open sea where you could just open a window, this was space, or something.
He grunted and took the cigar back out of his mouth, sticking it in his coat and grumbling something about loud women. Donald started back up the Gummi Ship and they shot off, heading for their next stop.
After hours of fighting enemy Heartless ships through space, the crew finally made it to the warp hole the navigation gummi found, and they shot through to the other side. Once there, it didn't take them very long to find the hidden world on the map, and it had a beautiful city with palaces and a bazaar visible from the sky. "Shopping!" Nami shouted with money on her mind.
"Food!" Luffy shouted.
"Umm, aren't we looking for the Keyhole," Sora mentioned, trying to make sure their priorities were set. And find our friends, he added to himself since mentioning it usually got Donald upset.
"That's right!" Donald exclaimed and started lowering them towards the front gates of the city. He lowered the ship down behind a sand dune so that it would stay hidden and they disembarked. "Remember, no meddling!" He reminded loudly to the six travelers with him. Most of them just waved him off muttering, 'Yeah yeah.' The duck's face filled with red and he ran-waddled after them quacking like mad.
Walking down a road in the middle of Agrabah, were two shady-looking figures wearing black and purple, and black and red respectively. The two of them walked proudly, staves in hand, as if they owned the city as they walked down the main street. Bazaar stands were empty around them and windows closed on the buildings on either side of the sandy street.
The man with a pointed beard and sinister mustache looked powerful. He held up his staff with the head of a cobra at the top and had his nose pointed up a little as if he was looking down at everyone. There was also a small red bird sitting on his left shoulder staying quiet as the two of them conversed. The woman holding a staff with a green orb at the top had a calm expression as she walked with him, which was somehow more threatening than the man's next to her. Anyone who looked at them were able to see the one in charge was the creepy witch. She was speaking down to the sinister man next to her, who the people of the city recognized. "You said you would have the Keyhole in your grasp Jafar."
"It is no matter," Jafar replied as they continued to walk down the road. Neither looked too worried despite what Maleficent was telling him. "I have the Heartless searching all over for it. It is only a matter of time now."
"You must tread carefully," she lectured him. "Rely on the Heartless too much, and you will lose yourself to the darkness."
"Ha!" He laughed. "Your concern is touching, but hardly necessary. I am not that hunter. My heart is far too strong." He did not sound worried himself and Maleficent just nodded.
"And what of this world's princess? I believe you said her name was, Jasmine?" Maleficent asked, glancing to her left to see the man's reaction.
Jafar frowned at the mention of the girl. "I had her in my hands, but that street rat Aladdin swooped in on a flying carpet! I followed through and overthrew the Sultan anyway, and threw him to the Heartless."
"That was foolish," Maleficent snapped, before calming herself immediately. Jafar looked at her with a surprised look as well and the two stopped walking. She was always calm and collected, except for when her sadistic side came out. Still, he never expected the woman to snap at him in frustration. She continued, "You should have used the old fool as a hostage. The Princesses of Heart are all goody-two-shoes who wouldn't even think about leaving their dear father in your clutches."
Jafar frowned now that he thought about it. He shook his head and chuckled again, "Perhaps, but it is being handled." Maleficent lifted her eyebrows at the former Grand Vizier, and now new Sultan of Agrabah. The tan-skinned man with a black pointed beard stroked it and started walking down the road again, Maleficent keeping his pace. "My new apprentice is taking care of it as the Heartless are all preoccupied searching for the Keyhole."
"An apprentice?" Maleficent questioned. "I didn't take you for the type of man who..."
"She was quite good at taking out the royal guards when I went to claim the palace." Jafar talked up his new apprentice and grinned at the woman he interrupted. "I would say she is stronger than that boy you have taken to."
Maleficent grinned as she realized why the man took on an apprentice now. The two walked with their faces straight ahead again, walking side by side, and the witch thought, He believes he holds as much power as I. She almost laughed out loud at the idea. Still, she continued the conversation, "This apprentice of yours may be strong, but could she wield the Keyblade?" Jafar stayed silent which meant 'no.' Maleficent nodded, "Well I saw Riku grab the Keyblade right out of the Keybearer's hand, and it did not disappear."
Jafar mumbled 'Mmm' in agreement as that was something important that their group definitely needed. She continued speaking to him, "We need all seven princesses of heart to open to final door. Any fewer is useless."
"There is no need for concern, my apprentice will find her," Jafar hissed through his teeth. The bird on his shoulder squawked in agreement before flying off, while the two of them continue to walk. The two tall figures turned down the next street in front of them, and then they froze in their tracks.
"Well, let's just try this way," Sora said to the group of people behind him, looking over his shoulder as he did. Every single one of their faces turned to complete shock at that moment and Sora spun his head back around. "Who are you?!" He shouted at the two dark figures in front of him who looked mildly surprised to see him and those behind him.
"Well," Jafar started in a normal voice, losing his surprised look after a second. He lifted up his left hand and scratched his beard a few times. "I would say," he wasn't talking to the kid as much as the woman next to him. "If I had to guess, this boy," he nodded at the child in front of him, then looked over at the one in the Straw Hat, "and that one there with the stupid looking hat are the Keybearers. Not much are they?" He questioned loud enough for everyone in front of him to hear. He already knew who weld the Keyblade, but it entertained him to see their reactions.
A few of the members gained angry expressions for he insult, while Usopp, Nami, and Smoker were actually getting a little serious. They looked at these two nervously, and then the Marine Captain shouted, "That's the witch."
Luffy's eyes widened as he recognized the green staff and the dark woman in general. "Where did you take Riku?" The pirate demanded, lifting his pissed expression and getting seriously angry.
"That's the witch who took Riku?" Sora exclaimed looking back at the friends behind him. He spun back and growled out, "So you're Maleficent then?"
"Sora," she replied in a smug tone, showing he wasn't the only one who knew the other's name. "I did not take Riku, he came with me of his own accord."
"Shut up!" Sora shouted, bringing his hands together in front of him. His Keyblade formed in his tight grip and everyone behind him readied themselves.
Maleficent laughed, tilting her head back to cackle for a few seconds. "My dear boy," she started, showing she did not take him seriously at all by the way she had no guard up. Her smile twisted strangely and the sudden movement made Sora's entire group charge forward in a panic, but they were too late. Maleficent snapped her fingers and disappeared in a flash of darkness that shot up from below her feet. Her voice came through the portal, "I shall meet you back at your palace, please arrive with the princess, shortly."
The black portal disappeared and the man she was speaking to frowned and grumbled under his breath. "Do not give me orders." He turned to the group who were all armed and in front of him. He had the urge to fight, to have others come fight them, but he saw the level of these pirates and the Marine during their fight with Clayton. His head turned to the duck and dog holding up a shield and wand. "Ahh, emissaries of the King."
"You know the King?!" Donald exclaimed in a nasally voice, wondering if he should lower the wand he had pointed angrily at the guy.
"Are you and His Majesty friends?" Goofy asked.
"Oh, no," Jafar replied with a small chuckle as all his enemies hesitated in front of them. They looked on the urge to attack him, but really all this man had done was aggravate them with his comments. He had not moved once since their conversation started. "The King is a thorn in my side, just like you bunch. However," Jafar continued, a grin coming to his face. "Your King does not like to involve himself with other worlds does he? Something about meddling?"
The way he was hinting it showed he already knew the answer. "What does that have to do with anything?!" Sora yelled at the guy who was getting on his nerves.
"Well," Jafar droned. "I am the King of Agrabah." A few of the others looked at the dark shady man, and though looking very evil, he was also powerful. "Dethroning a King would of course be, meddling, would it not?"
Donald and Goofy paused and looked in at each other nervously. "He is right," Goofy said, his voice wavering a little as he lowered his shield.
"Are you serious?" Sora asked the two next to him. The boy with spiky brown hair watched his friends nod and he lowered his Keyblade, allowing it to disappear. "Guess we've got no choice."
Sora saw Jafar looking expectantly behind them to the others, and he turned as well to see Nami, Usopp, and Luffy all still holding up their weapons. "Guys, we should listen to-"
"He insulted Hat," Luffy growled, his mouth in a snarl as his beloved Straw Hat was insulted to his face by this man. He wasn't going to let him get away with it. "I don't care if he is a King, I'm gonna kick his ass."
Usopp and Nami nodded, accepting this fate from the moment the man mentioned their captain's hat. Smoker stood next to the pirates and he turned to face them, lifting up his fist and his sea-stone jutte. "Mugiwara," Smoker growled at the pirate. Overthrowing a government was not what Smoker came to do here. He was looking for Tashigi, not playing pirate or letting one run wild. The white haired Marine growled and cursed his foolish actions up until this point, "I knew I had to stop you. There's just no working with pirates."
"This again?!" Nami exclaimed, backing up nervously as her legs shook.
Usopp thought the same thing and frowned over at Smoker. Luffy looked at the Marine and jumped backwards as Smoker swung the kairoseki jutte at him. "Whoa!" The pirate exclaimed, then smirked and punched back at the Smoke Man. "I got stronger since last time Smokey!" Luffy called to the man he'd gotten in several fights with since becoming a pirate.
Usopp sighed as Luffy lost track of their real target, and he turned back to face the evil enemy. While Donald and Goofy ran back to stop the two from fighting with Nami. Usopp marched towards Jafar, gaining the attention of Sora who was caught between wanting to fight Jafar or helping Luffy. The boy turned and watched as Usopp walked right towards the man.
"Ah, the famous Captain Lazerblades," Jafar said in a mocking tone. Usopp froze in his tracks, his eyes narrowing at the King in front of him. "You know me?" He asked sharply. The long nosed man was still in his white toga from the Collosseum, with his broadsword held firmly in his right hand out to his side.
"Yes, Hades went on for a great length about you and this Hercules fellow destroying all of the Heartless he releases into his world. It became quite bothersome, though one of my associates was interested. In fact, he was very interested in you. So much so, that he decided to go have a look for himself." Jafar paused as he saw the look of realization come to Usopp's face. Sora looked back and forth between them, no idea what was happening.
Behind them, Luffy and Smoker were in an all out brawl. Luffy went Gear Second, but Smoker had new tricks as well. The two of them shot around, until Smoker slammed the jutte into Luffy's stomach and drained the pirate's strength, removing his Gear Second instantly and making the pirate collapse. He kept the power-draining weapon pressed against Luffy's squirming body until Donald and Goofy were able to convince him to let him go. He was a Keybearer and they needed to help him, and Donald finally had to say that they would leave him behind if he kept attacking Luffy. This got the Marine ending the fight there, but he did mention they could not attack Jafar.
Jafar started laughing at around that time and everyone looked over at him. Usopp was standing before him, holding the white sash across his chest with a tight grip, feeling the scar underneath it. The man cackled and said, "...I believed he was a lost cause when he went to find you, but we all watched as he cut you down. It was actually quite entertaining," he finished, smirking at the teen.
Luffy heard the end of what the guy was saying from over where he pushed up onto his knees. He was panting from his fight with Smoker, mad he still couldn't punch the Smoke Man without his fist going through the guy. He looked over and saw Usopp grabbing the same area where he had a large scar underneath. "What are you talking about?" Luffy called over, thinking this was he guy who gave Usopp that scar or something, making him even angrier.
"It does not matter," he replied, his smile dropping back down into a calm frown. "I have grown tired of you." He lifted up his wooden staff and other arm and held them up to either side.
Out of the ground in front of him, a dozen Heartless holding cutlasses and wearing desert clothing emerged from out of nowhere. At the same time as the Bandit Heartless appeared, a couple large pots on either side of the street exploded out on certain parts, long purple legs shooting out of them and making Heartless Pot Spiders.
Nami was freaking out and she spun around to see three Large Bodies appearing out of nowhere. Between the three were two more, only she had never seen large fat Heartless like these before. These ones were red, and she could see flames coming out of their dark evil faces. "We're surrounded!"
"He uses the Heartless," Usopp muttered, "and he's not like the others, he can actually control it."
Nami thought back to that creature in Wonderland. It was pretty strong, but it was just another Heartless. That stupid queen wouldn't be able to control them either.
Sora thought about the mindless Shadow version of himself that he had to fight in Traverse Town. That was a powerful enemy in itself. And Maleficent created it with a snap of her fingers. He gulped imagining this man being at the same strength, but he lifted his hands anyway and made the Kingdom Key reappear in them.
Luffy and Smoker each thought about Clayton. The hunter lost control of the Heartless and turned into a monster himself. This guy though, he was a different kind of monster.
"Hey! We weren't fighting you!" Donald shouted at the guy.
Jafar ignored the stupid duck and turned around. He took a few steps away before vanishing into darkness just like Maleficent before him.
"See what you did?!" Nami shouted at the white haired older man she moved closer to all of a sudden. She was less afraid of Smoker than she was of the Heartless around her at the moment, so she did not really mind the fact he was a Marine.
"Me?" The man growled angrily, lighting up a new cigar in his mouth as he did.
"Yeah you!" the woman snapped at him, not afraid of the intimidating tone e tried to use. The Marine sweatdropped as she lifted her face up towards him and yelled, "You'd rather fight us than the shady guy with evil facial hair who was obviously the enemy!"
"He's the King of this country," Smoker began, though he was looking around at the Heartless with less conviction in his voice than before.
"If he's using the Heartless though," Goofy spoke up, lifting back up his shield.
"Then we have to stop him!" Sora yelled, charging at the Large Bodies and the red fat ones called Fat Bandits. The two red ones puffed out their chests and then snapped forward shooting fireballs at the boy with spiky brown hair charging them. Sora leapt up in the air over the fireballs and to the other side of the fat enemies. They turned around slowly, so the young Keybearer managed to get a few hits on their weak spots in the back.
Luffy finally stopped his panting and looked over to where the big enemies were turning around to face Sora, revealing their back to him. He smirked and pulled back both arms, "Gum Gum Baz-" one of the Heartless behind Luffy where he threw his arms brought down a cutlass and slashed the pirate's arm. "Ouch!" Luffy exclaimed, throwing his hands forward to escape further injuries from the Bandits behind him.
Usopp charged the enemies who slashed his captain and he leapt up in the air. The muscular man came down and slammed his broadsword in the center of them, sending six dark-faced Bandits with their heads wrapped up, and rings on their black little fingers, flying in different directions. He saw one swinging down for his head from behind and he lifted up his sword, blocking the attack over his shoulder, then pushing harder and breaking right through the creature's blade.
Smoker looked around as the group he was with fought these monsters of the King of the country. The bastard left me to die by his creatures' hands as well. King or not, he's my enemy. The Marine's face hardened and he turned to see three creatures with black faces and orange wings diving off rooftops above him. The Air Soldier Heartless swooped down with their sharp red claws right towards the orange haired girl battling a Pot Spider with only a wooden staff.
Nami broke the pottery and watched as it exploded and munny flew out of it. Her eyes turned into Munny symbols and she ran forward, but saw shadows descending over her and looked up to see the flying Heartless almost at her. She couldn't raise her staff quick enough, but a pillar of smoke crashed into the three beings and sent them slamming against the wall on her left side.
She spun to see Smoker with both of his hands raised, pulling the smoke back into his body. The man with the Plume Plume fruit turned to Usopp, but he was handling the rest of the Pot Spiders and Bandits with ease. Looking over to the larger Heartless though, the others were having a more difficult time.
A few more Air Soldiers flew down and swiped their red claws at the fighters below, catching them off guard as they dodged the heavy hits from their larger enemies. One of the Fat Bandits and a Large Body were down, but the remaining red one fueled up and fired out a continuous breath of flames that swept back and forth on the street, catching all of the enemies while not hurting his comrades at all.
Goofy fell down to his knee as a Large Body body-slammed him through the flames. "Goofy!" Sora called out, lifting his Keyblade to help his fallen friend. The tip glowed green, and the Cure magic went over to Goofy, but while he was distracted he got hit by the other Large Body's fist. The kid tumbled back and stay sitting with a dazed look on his face, while Luffy tried punching the one that just hit him. His rubber fists bounced off the creature's front with no effect at all, and the pirate frowned as he still couldn't break through their defenses.
Smoker flew over with his sea-stone jutte in his hand and slammed it against the front of a Large Body, but the steel bounced off again. When the Heartless swung a fist forward, the Marine Captain stepped to the side, then brought his weapon back again, though this time he closed his eyes and concentrated first. Usopp finished taking out the enemies on one side and looked over to his friends who weren't faring too well, and he saw Smoker pulling back his jutte extra far this time. Then, a strange energy emitted from the weapon that was invisible to the sight, but when the older man swung his weapon forward, the Large Body was sent tumbling backwards in a roll that stopped when it exploded into darkness again.
What was that? Usopp thought as he watched Smoker open back his eyes with a satisfied look on his face. He shot off the ground and slammed his weapon into the next Large Body, but it bounced off this time and the thing swung its arm and knocked the Smoke Man out of the air.
Smoker growled as he got back up to his feet after being knocked down by the beast. Still can only get it about half of the time, the man thought, jumping backwards as his enemy swung the other fist towards him.
"Thunder!" Donald yelled, and a dozen bolts of lightning came down and blew apart the rest of the already-weakened enemies on the street. His Thunder magic was getting a lot stronger lately, and though the duck wouldn't admit it, it was thanks to Sora pushing them so hard to get stronger.
"Sora," Nami exclaimed, running over to the boy still sitting on his butt who had a dazed expression on his bruised up face. "Here," she handed the boy a potion she picked up along with all the munny inside of a Pot Spider Heartless earlier. The small green potion made the boy shake his head a few times and get back up on his feet. He frowned seeing all the enemies defeated and that he was left out of it.
His leg still hurt a little and Nami could see that, but as she was about to ask someone for another potion, the boy lifted up his Keyblade and cured himself. Then, he cured a few others before his magical energy was drained.
"That's a nice technique you got there," Smoker muttered as he looked at the boy. Sora turned to the intimidating Marine who also looked a little injured from the fights. He was out of magical energy, but he lifted up his hand and a potion he had appeared in it, "Here," the kid said, tossing it at the man. The potion broke apart and green light shimmered onto the Marine who felt a few small bruises go away.
"Save your potions Sora," Usopp muttered as he walked towards them from the other side of the street. They all looked over at the muscular man as he continued, "We're going to need them-"
All of Usopp's friends went wide-eyed as another Bandit Heartless came out of the ground right behind him with its sword already raised. He started to turn himself, but he wasn't quick enough. "Hi-yah!" Someone yelled and the creature behind Usopp exploded into black bubbles that dispersed in the air. Everyone looked back behind Usopp to a light-skinned guy in a blue shirt open down the middle that revealed his toned abs and chest. He had a small red hat on, and a friendly smile as he slung his sword over his shoulder and grinned over at them. "Hey there," he greeted the group.
"Who are you?" Sora asked the guy.
"I'm Aladdin," the man replied. "I see you guys have met Jafar's goons. Come on," he said, turning and waving his hand forward for them to follow him. "I have somewhere safe we can go."
Sora started running after the guy as he raced off down the street, introducing himself as he did. Luffy was about to shout at the guy that he just wanted to go fight Jafar, when he saw the street rat Aladdin leap up on a box and then a rooftop. Luffy smiled, "That looks fun," he exclaimed. The pirate ran forward with Donald and Goofy already ahead of him, trying to keep Sora in sight.
Nami sighed and started running after them, but as Smoker moved to go along, Usopp held out an arm and stopped the white haired man. The Marine turned to the muscular man on his right and lifted his eyebrows, wondering what the young man was doing. "You need to stop fighting us Smoker," Usopps stated, keeping his eyes forward and watching as their group advanced. Goofy helped Nami up to a box and then she managed to hop up on the roof next to it to follow the others around. A few more Heartless appeared and their friends fought against them, but Usopp needed to make sure of something.
The long nosed pirate turned to the Marine back with him who was glaring at him intensely. "I don't know what we did to suffer your wrath, but your stubbornness not to work with us is holding up our efforts to fix the world order."
"What does a pirate care-"
Usopp shut Smoker up loudly, now that their friends were pretty far away. Nami looked back to see the two of them arguing, but she got distracted by more Heartless who were swarming them because Luffy and Sora had their Keyblades out. Usopp had shouted at Smoker, "We do care!" and made the Marine freeze mid-sentence. "Kaya, my father, everyone in my village, I know where they are right now, and being lost in that darkness is not something I would wish on any of my enemies. It's not just me," he shouted at the Marine before him. "Nami's family, Luffy's brother, Sora's friends, and your own comrades in the Marines, all of them are gone, as well as everyone else in our world."
The long nosed man saw Smoker's hardened face soften as the man's mind drifted to thinking about all the Marines he trained with, his mentor and friend Aokiji, everyone. Usopp continued as he thought, "Now, if you would rather fight us than help us save all of them, then I am going to kick you out of the Gummi Ship myself." The pirate turned around and started jogging after his friends, "Luffy and Sora are important for saving the universe. You are disposable, remember that," Usopp called out, frowning as he did. "As am I," he muttered under his breath, his own face filling with determination as he leapt up on a rooftop and sprinted to catch up with his friends.
Smoker stared after the young man who was no longer the same teenager he chased through Loguetown and Alabasta. At the time he couldn't care less about Straw Hat's crew; other than Pirate Hunter Zoro, they all seemed weak. He ground his teeth together as the twenty year old's words echoed in his mind. Leave me behind? He can't do that... Really there was no reason Smoker could think of why they wouldn't just leave him on this planet after they were done with it. He went along with them after leaving the Deep Jungle where he appeared because all of his men were turned into Heartless, but as to why they let him come with them... he couldn't figure it out. Tashigi, he thought, remembering why he was traveling with them in the first place.
The Marine Captain grumbled under his breath, but he finally turned his lower body to smoke and flew after the group he couldn't even see anymore. I will find you. Smoker thought as he lifted over the rooftops and saw the group he was with. And then, we will capture these pirates.
"Nice place," Sora said as he walked in after Aladdin. The boy leaned back and sat on the comfy looking couch near the entrance. As soon as he sat down, he shot back up with a startled look on his face and the others who walked in behind him went wide-eyed to see a carpet lift off of the couch and start swirling around in the air. "Uh, sorry," Sora apologized to the sentient piece of cloth that he mistook for furniture.
Luffy looked at the carpet and exclaimed, "Cool!"
Aladdin turned around and held out his arms, "Welcome!" The friendly looking resident greeted his guests, who introduced themselves back to him, then Aladdin looked over towards a bookshelf on the opposite wall as the couch. Across the small room from the door was a large hole leading outside, and now that the guests looked around, the place looked really run down. "Hey Abu, come on out," Aladdin whispered as he walked over and slid the bookshelf out of the way a little.
As the cabinet moved, a small monkey wearing a pink and red vest and hat jumped out from behind it. "You did a great job," Aladdin thanked his friend as he then leaned down into the hole behind the bookshelf, "Here, take my hand," he said, talking to someone other than the monkey this time.
The tiny monkey who came out from behind the bookshelf ran over to all the people he didn't recognize entering the room. He finally stopped on the one with the straw hat, and he jumped up and landed on Luffy's shoulder. The rubber pirate grinned at the monkey as it danced cheerfully, "Nice to meet you too, Abu," Luffy greeted.
The others sweatdropped at Luffy's weird connection with animals and just looked back over at Aladdin who was helping someone out from behind his bookshelf. "Whoa," Nami whispered as she saw a gorgeous woman in light blue attire being pulled out of a small space in the wall.
"Aladdin, thank goodness you're safe," the woman exclaimed as Aladdin pulled her up. She wrapped her arms around him once she got to her feet and the young man went red in the face.
"Yeah, haha, sorry about running off like that," Aladdin apologized. "I found these guys fighting those monsters that were with Jafar."
"Nice to meet you," she greeted the group who walked in. "I am Princess-, no, actually, I am just Jasmine." She looked down with a crestfallen look on her face.
"Jasmine," Aladdin whispered as the girl walked over to the hole in the wall and looked out over the empty streets of her city.
"What happened here?" Sora asked his new friend who brought them here.
Aladdin turned to the teenager behind him and explained to him and the whole group with him how Jasmine was actually the Princess of this kingdom. Unfortunately, Jafar overthrew her father a few days ago, but Aladdin managed to save her when Jafar's goons went after her.
"You fought off the Heartless on your own?" Usopp asked, sounding impressed with the young street rat.
Aladdin scratched his head, "Not really," he started. "I was in the Cave of Wonders when I found that magic carpet," he pointed at the creature that landed next to him and stood up on two of its corners as if they were feet. "And I also found this cool lamp with a genie inside!" He held up the lamp he had behind his back and the others looked at it in amazement. "I used my first wish to send away all those creatures and we made a break for it. I know this town like the back of my hand so," he grinned as they made it back safely.
"This world sounds awesome-" Luffy began, and then oofed as a wand slammed into his side and a fist hit him on the top of the head. Nami and Donald both pulled the Captain's head down and started scolding him about talking about worlds in front of people.
"World?" Aladdin asked, also making Jasmine and Abu look at the strangers oddly.
"Well, we come from somewhere far away, almost like a whole other world," Sora said.
"Nice save," Usopp whispered down into the boy's ear as Aladdin smiled at the response.
Jasmine still looked sad as she looked back at them, "I do not know why Jafar is so intent on capturing me. He is a monster," she whispered, looking horribly sad.
"Hey," Aladdin started with the face of a man who just had a great idea. It hurt him to see Jasmine in so much pain, so he looked at the group of fighters in front of him and said, "You guys sure were doing work on those monsters, would you mind giving us a hand?"
Sora turned to his left at Goofy, then his right at Donald, and they both nodded at him. "Of course we will," the boy told the man in front of them. "It's our job to fight the Heartless anyway. That's what those creatures are called."
"Will you really help me?" Jasmine asked the people in front of her.
Usopp nodded his head, the muscular man smiling over at the young Princess with a smile of his own. Nami looked at the muscular man and then over at the beautiful woman and she elbowed back in his stomach. "Oof, what was that for," he gasped out at her. She just hmphed and crossed her arms, though she then smiled over at Jasmine as well and said they couldn't just leave this place to Jafar. Jasmine smiled at the orange haired teenager who had a reassuring look in her eyes.
"These guys could do anything they put their minds to," Nami assured the Princess before her.
"Yes, they even took down an entire criminal organization on our world," another voice agreed. Luffy, Nami, and Usopp all nodded in agreement with that voice. "And the captain defeated the Warlord Crocodile. It was quite the impressive sight." Luffy grinned at the compliment, then his eyes popped open wide. Usopp and Nami each heard the voice as well and slowly started turning their heads over to the hole in the wall that Princess Jasmine was backing away from.
Standing right in the center of the hole, her feet on the edge of Aladdin's house, was a woman who seemed to appear out of nowhere. She had short black hair that was longer than Nami's but only by a little bit. She had on a purple t-shirt, with tight black pants, and everyone in the room looked over at the woman with either confused or shocked eyes.
The room was silent for a few seconds as they all stared at her in varying stages of shock. Smoker's eyes widened and his cigar fell out of his mouth from where he stood closest to the door out of Aladdin's house. The three pirates in front of him had their jaws dropped, while Sora looked surprised as well. Donald and Goofy were surprised solely because she came out of nowhere, and Jasmine was... slowly backing away from the new woman in the room. "Hello," she started, a completely calm voice, "I am here for the Princess."
"Robin!"
A/N Whoa! Robin is here! What is she doing in Agrabah? What's up with the whole 'I'm here for the Princess' thing? Will our heroes be able to save this world? Find out next time on Broken Log Pose! Haha, hope you enjoyed, and leave a review below telling me what you thought of the chapter!