A/N Sorry for the long wait, but here's chapter 14! Hope you enjoy!

Disclaimer: I don't own Kingdom Hearts or One Piece.

"Robin?!" Nami exclaimed, shouting over Luffy, Usopp, and Sora at the same time.

"Nico Robin," Smoker growled, looking across the small room at one of the Government's most wanted criminals. Aokiji had told him once of the girl who survived the massacre of Ohara. She knows how to read the Poneglyphs, she could decipher the ancient weapons... Not that it matters anymore, he thought at the end as the ancient weapons were most likely lost along with the Poneglyphs and their entire world.

Jasmine looked over at the people who just entered Aladdin's house, and many of them looked happy to see the black haired woman. "You know this woman?" Jasmine shouted, panic coming to her face as these very same people just told her they would help her plight.

"Yeah, she's on my crew," Luffy explained to the Princess wearing light blue clothes and golden jewelry.

Smoker looked shocked that this woman with a bounty almost as high as Mugiwara's had joined his crew after Alabasta and before their world was destroyed. Before he could say anything though, Nami spoke up to the Princess, "Do you know her?" She glanced back at Robin who she was initially happy to see, but now felt a little more on edge after hearing what she had to say. "I am here for the Princess." Robin, what are you doing?

Jasmine nodded her head as she stared at Robin angrily, "This is the woman who took out all of the palace guards." Sora's eyes widened in shock, along with many of the others in the room who thought she might be an ally judging from Luffy's expression towards her. Jasmine continued with a half-afraid, half-angry voice, "She helped Jafar overthrow my father!"

Nico Robin stared ahead at the group of people in the room with her and despite the calm expression on her face, she was deep in thought. She had not moved from the hole in the wall where she appeared before them, and her eyes examined each of the people in the room.

A Marine Captain is here, Smoker no less. Fighting a Logia would be impossible right now. How did Straw Hat-san get here? Has he been here ever since Destiny Islands? Navigator-san is here too, and... that must be Long Nose-kun. Hmm, he looks older. Strange.

"Oi Robin," Luffy started up in a carefree tone, "why are you working with that Jafar guy?" The rubber pirate put his hands behind his head and was the least concerned of all the people in the room.

Robin turned to the rubberman who was her captain for a short time following Alabasta. Her mind flashed for a moment to the city of Alubarna, after Luffy had defeated Crocodile, when he picked her up and saved her life when she had given up. And then not two weeks after she joined their crew, he left her. She arrived in this strange place with powerful enemies, ones she defeated with her Devil Fruit power and natural ability to survive, but strong ones nonetheless. "Working against him would be foolish," Robin stated calmly as a response. "No force in this city or the surrounding desert could stand up to him, so it was smarter to work alongside him."

Sora tilted his head to the side, then looked at Robin with a stern expression on his face, "Didn't you know what he was doing was wrong?" The fourteen year old asked. Robin looked at the boy who was trying so hard not to look at her judgingly, and to give her the benefit of the doubt. She remembered seeing him in the cave back on his island, etching away at a carving in the stone wall, drawing a picture of him and that cute girl he was always with. "Jafar is a bad guy," Sora continued, explaining why she shouldn't have followed him.

"And what would you have done?" Robin asked, actually intrigued by Sora's statement.

She looked at the boy carefully, but he didn't need a moment to think about it, "I would have fought him of course!" Sora shouted, clenching his right fist tight and pulling it in to his side.

Nami looked at the back of the younger boy in front of her, and she felt guilty. Now that she thought about it, if that horrible man had let her join him, she most likely would have done the same thing. I couldn't stand up to a guy like that, the navigator thought sadly.

"Hmm," Robin hummed, nodding her head as she did believe the boy would have done that. "And if you knew for sure, you had no chance of defeating him?"

"Then we'd fight him anyway," Sora said, nodding his head with such assurance in his voice no one could possibly doubt his words.

"It's what the King would do, hyuck," Goofy agreed, thinking of his good friend Mickey who never would have went along with Jafar.

Aladdin was moving closer to Jasmine, holding up a blade in his right hand as he looked at this woman warily. Robin looked over at him and the girl behind him, "She is rather important to Jafar," the woman stated, still not showing her intentions at all. Her presence in the room had half of the inhabitants feeling very tense as they couldn't read her expression at all. "I heard him talking to a woman about gathering all seven princesses."

"Seven?" Donald started, turning his head towards Sora.

"Princesses?" The boy finished, looking at Donald with a similarly confused gaze.

Nami's eyes widened the largest however. She thought back to Wonderland where that dark portal appeared and sucked in the sweet girl being held prisoner with her. "That's what the person who took Alice said too. Seven princesses, why do you think Maleficent is gathering them?" Nami asked the older woman in front of her.

Maleficent? That must be who Jafar was talking to. Odd, it seems they know of these sorts of things already. "Nico Robin," her thought train was halted by a rough voice coming from the farthest side of the room. Her calm smile lowered a little as Smoker pushed up front next to Luffy and Sora. "Are you our enemy?" he asked, a question that made the room silent again.

Smoker did not miss the woman telling them about Jafar and Maleficent's conversation. There was no need for her to say it to them if they were enemies, but she also said that she was here for the Princess. Jasmine told them she was working with Jafar, but until a few minutes ago, he had not deemed that man his enemy either. He glared her in the eyes, and she looked right back at him.

"Of course she's not," Luffy said loudly. "She's my nakama."

Robin's eyes opened a little wider as she turned her head to the pirate wearing a straw hat. He smiled at her with a goofy grin and continued, "We looked all over a bunch of different worlds trying to find you. So far Sanji, Zoro, and Chopper are still missing, but we'll find them soon too!" Luffy exclaimed, looking really excited that he found another of his crew members.

He looked all over different 'worlds' for me? Nakama. This boy... I would rather work with him than with Jafar to be honest with myself. It was short, but the time I spent on that crew was, fun. That princess will not forgive me though, but perhaps... Robin smiled genuinly at the pirate captain in front of her. "Thank you for looking for me, Captain-san," she stated, the word 'Captain' making the pirates and Sora all smile to see she was still part of his crew.

Smoker lowered his guard a little, but then turned to the princess who still looked on guard. Jasmine stepped forward a little, moving past Aladdin who told her to get back. She smiled at him but then looked back forward with a serious expression, "You killed the guards, did you not?"

Robin lost her smile as she looked back at Jasime. "I incapacitated them, yes. But it was Jafar who released the Heartless on them."

"Heartless," Jasmine whispered, thinking of the dark creatures that almost captured her. She remembered closing her eyes for a second, and then feeling herself get whooshed off the ground as Aladdin came flying in on a flying carpet. The Heartless had chased them, but Aladdin's new friend the Genie had helped them out.

"Finding the princess was the duty Jafar gave me," Robin stated out loud for them all to hear. "And he expects me to return with a prisoner by sunset."

"That's not going to happen," Aladdin said, looking at the woman with a dangerous look in his eye.

Ignoring him for the moment, Robin continued, "Meanwhile, the Heartless are busy at work looking for this world's, 'Keyhole,' was the word Jafar gave it." Sora's eyes widened as he heard this part, and Robin continued, "From what I have heard, they are close to finding it."

"We've gotta stop them!" Sora shouted, wondering what would happen if one of those Keyholes Leon talked about were to fall to someone like Jafar before he could close it.

The black haired woman wanted to ask why, but instead she continued with her explanation for the time being. "The majority of the Heartless are in a place called the Cave of Wonders, searching for it right now," Robin stated. She still had not moved from the hole in the wall, and she started looking at the younger girl with orange hair who was looking back at her with a thoughtful look.

Nami was coming up with a plan, and Robin expected no less from the intelligent navigator. She had one herself, but saying it out loud would be too suspicious-sounding. Many of them would think she was leading them into a trap if the words came out of her own mouth, so she hoped Nami would have a plan that would be similar to her own. Nami's eyes lit up and she looked around at the people around her, "I have an idea," she said, making them all turn her way.

"We know where Jafar is right?" Nami asked, looking over at Robin who nodded her head and said that he would be at the palace awaiting her return with Jasmine, which Aladdin loudly rejected once again. He was looking very defensive as he stood next to Jasmine, watching each of the people with this Robin character carefully after hearing what the woman did to Jasmine's royal guards. If it was just the kid and those animal creatures, he might have been a little more relaxed, but this whole thing was unnerving to him.

Nami continued once she was assured that Jafar was in the palace. "Then Robin should bring Jasmine to him," she continued quickly as Aladdin opened his mouth to interject, "only the Princess isn't her only prisoner." Everyone stopped for a moment to think on what she said, while Robin smiled seeing that Nami did come up with a good plan after all. "Aladdin you can go with her to make sure she's safe..."

"Yes, Jafar was quite persistent that I capture you as well," Robin said to the man who snatched away the princess from in front of Jafar. "You made him very angry."

"Good," Aladdin said, smirking over at the woman, then realizing he dropped his guard and regaining a frown quick.

Nami continued, "But Aladdin shouldn't be the only one with them. Some of us should go too," she said, looking around at the others with her. Instantly, Luffy's hand shot up, but Nami shook her head at him, "You can't go."

"Ehh, why not?" Luffy asked, and the others were pretty interested to hear why as well.

Nami grinned and said, "While Jafar is distracted by the group at the palace, another group is going to search this Cave of Wonders for the, Keyhole." She remembered seeing Sora's Keyblade light up inside the upside-down room in Wonderland, and then again in the Deep Jungle. She didn't know what was so important about these Keyholes, but the fate of these worlds was at stake so she didn't want to take any chances.

"Sora and Luffy should go to the Keyhole," Goofy stated, the knight nodding his head as he thought about their mission from the King and the one they determined was their own after hearing about it from Leon in Traverse Town. Stopping Jafar and helping Jasmine was a plus, but it was not their main reason for coming to this world. It almost stretched the line with meddling, but as long as the Heartless were involved, this was their fight.

"Got it," Sora said. He smiled thinking about their plan and how it wouldn't work without having so many people in their group. Guess it is a good thing. Donald is just too worried all the time. Next time I find Riku, I'll get him to come along too, that way he could be a part of these missions! The spiky haired teen lifted up his hands and his Keyblade formed in them, "You ready Luffy?" he asked the pirate on his right side.

Luffy looked to his left and down a little before grinning himself. "You bet," Luffy said, lifting up his own hands and making his black Keyblade form in them. The two of them lifted their weapons and put the prongs of their Keyblades together, "All for one-" Luffy began.

Sora continued loudly, "And one for all!"

"I still don't trust her," Aladdin whispered to the girl walking on his left side. The princess wearing blue pants looked to her right at the man she told not to come along multiple times but wouldn't listen to her. He would not leave Jasmine with these people he just met, though as they went over the plan a few more times and he got to know each of them, there were a few he felt safe around. Unfortunately, most of them were in the other group out in the desert right now.

Aladdin marched down the street as a prisoner, his hands tied behind his back with a convincing frown on his face. He struggled against the ropes as they made it to the gates of the palace courtyard. Robin walked behind him and the three others at his sides: the princess she was supposed to bring, a man with white hair wearing a big white coat, and a long-nosed man who had the body of a Greek God.

Usopp was frowning as well, all according to plan, but his was more real than the others who were playing prisoner. Nami, you were all set to come along until you heard about the gold in that cave. I hope this doesn't backfire while we are separated... The muscular man deep in thought walked right through the open gates, his hands tied behind his back as he did. Robin walked behind him, smiling casually as she walked her prisoners through the gates and between the Heartless who came out of the ground on either side of her.

The further into the courtyard they walked, the more Heartless that appeared around them on either side of the path. "Thought you said most of them were at that cave," Smoker grumbled loud enough for the woman behind him to hear. She did not respond to him, and he got a little pissed, but figured someone might be watching them which is why she was staying quiet. He grumbled to himself some more but continued to walk towards the doors of the giant white palace itself.

The building was grand, with large domes at the top, many adorned in gold. Compared to the run down slums they were just in, this place was at the far opposite end of the spectrum. "Wow," Usopp whispered as they walked inside, looking around at all the magnificent paintings, statues, and shiny things around the grand hall they entered.

"Upstairs," Robin said in her usual voice, walking forward again and ushering the group to move forward as well. There was a grand staircase before them leading up to more rooms of this palace, other courtyards, kitchens, bathrooms, it was a massive place. The group walked up together until they reached a set of tall double doors. The doors were opened and the four people who knew this was where Robin was leading them walked in, a few of them gulping as they did.

Far in front of them, on the other side of the mainly empty dining hall, were the two sinister figures they met on the streets of Agrabah. The two of them were talking to each other while holding their staves, neither one looking all too worried. As they walked closer to them, their naturally loud voices echoed around the room and they began to be able to hear the evil figures' voices. "...and this girl, you say she may be important?" Jafar's voice was speaking, but Maleficent spoke up right after.

"It was not I who claimed her importance, but Zoro," Maleficent continued. Usopp's eyes narrowed while Smoker's widened. The older man looked at the pirate with a long nose who spent three years on a different world, and it looked like this was not the first time Usopp was hearing of the Pirate Hunter. Maleficent continued loudly, "He claimed to have recognized the girl from his own world, unfortunately, the Heartless had already taken her heart by the time he got to her."

Roronoa Zoro? His own world? Who could that be? Smoker thought as he was overwhelmed by this new information.

"Hahaha," Jafar laughed, sensing the sarcasm hidden in Maleficent's voice as she pretended to pity the green haired man. "Oh look," he nodded his head over at his side and the two of them turned to look down the grand hall where five figures were approaching them. "Did I not promise a princess?" he asked, grinning over as Jasmine glared at him.

Jafar grinned even more as he saw Aladdin as well, "Ah, the street rat. What did you think you would accomplish by whisking away the princess? Did you believe she would fall in love with you? You? A pathetic thief!" Jafar started laughing again.

"Jafar! I won't let you take Jasmine!" Aladdin shouted over at the guy with menacing facial hair. His words felt empty without any way to support his claim though.

"Of course you will," Jafar replied, smiling as he walked towards them. He looked at Robin who stood between the two prisoners in the middle of the group, Aladdin and the Marine. "Why have you brought these other prisoners?"

"To present them to you," Robin replied with a cunning smile.

Even the others in front of her believed her words as she spoke. However, Jafar frowned at the woman and said, "Is that all?" His skeptical voice made the others look on edge. "Are you sure, there is no deeper plan behind bringing them here?"

Upon these words, light flapping was heard and they looked to the shadows of the room where the red bird, Iago, flew out and landed on Jafar's left shoulder. "Squuaawwk! I saw ya' talkin' to those people like they was your friends," the bird accused, pointing a wing at her.

"Of course I did," Robin replied, still sounding calm despite the four people in front of her getting ready to attack. They all thought they were busted, but now they stopped and looked behind them where the black haired woman looked like she had planned for this. "And I also know you saw me there Iago, but thank you for reporting before I returned." Her cool steady voice made the small bird feel even smaller and start sweating at the look in her eyes.

Jafar and the menacing woman a few steps behind him were looking over at the thin woman with black hair carefully though. Robin continued casually, "They would have come to find you anyway, so I tied half of them up and sent the others right into your clutches. By now, I am sure they have already met with your Heartless army-"

"Robin don't!" Usopp shouted.

"At the Cave of Wonders," Robin finished.

"I knew it!" Aladdin shouted, spinning around and glaring at the woman who he never trusted to start with. "You didn't show any guilt, any regret when you talked about those guards you helped kill. I knew we couldn't trust someone like that!" Aladdin's ropes fell from his wrists and Robin was mildly surprised as he pulled out a dagger he must have hidden. She made sure to stop the two bigger threats, but not him.

"Nico Robin," Smoker growled. He tried phasing into smoke to get out of his binds and attack her, but suddenly he was feeling very weak. "What the-" he started, then fell to his knees making everyone look over at him. He hunched over with his face towards the floor, and everyone saw two hands sticking out of his back holding a broken piece of steel against him.

"The Kairoseki from your jutte," Robin explained, while the sea stone drained his power. "I took it right after you put your weapons down in Aladdin-san's house."

"You, bitch," Smoker muttered, before falling down on his face and panting heavily.

"Robin," Usopp whispered, his voice seeming to reach all around the room. Jafar had started smirking as Robin proved to be more loyal than he thought, but at the sound of that man's voice, he leaned back a little in surprise. "Luffy trusted you," Usopp whispered, feeling ashamed as he spun around and faced her, "I trusted you!"

Robin's heart fell a little at the look of despair on Usopp's face as he looked at her, but she made no sign of it. "Then, that was the wrong decision," she stated, her eyes cold as she made eye contact with him.

Jafar snapped his fingers and Heartless appeared around Jasmine and Aladdin as Aladdin tried pulling her back the way they came. Heartless Bandits appeared, holding their swords and bouncing from one foot to the other as they surrounded the two of them. Smoker was down, they were captured, and Robin was on his side.

Usopp's long black hair shadowed over his eyes as he lowered them from Robin's gaze. "You're right," he told her, talking about his misplaced faith in her, "and I won't make that mistake again," he whispered, snapping his head up and looking at her with the eyes of an enemy. "HaaAAA!" Usopp yelled, and Robin's eyes went wide as he ripped straight through his tight restraints. The muscular man charged over at the group of Bandits surrounding Aladdin and Jasmine, but he froze as a black portal appeared in front of him. Out from it came the witch with pale skin, and a green staff that emitted an evil vibe from it. "Maleficent," Usopp growled. He was going for one of the swords from the Heartless creatures behind her, and to give Aladdin and Jasmine a chance to escape, but it looked like she was going to block his path through and through. The man got into a fighting stance without any sword, and he kind of wished he could back away from this scary-looking woman right now, and use a slingshot on her... the thought came to his mind and he really did wish he had a long-ranged weapon at the moment.

"All true heroes use swords or fists. Even the ones who knew how to use a bow were always more trained with melee weapons. Why?! You're saying the heroes from where you're from use ranged attacks? Hmm, well, I'm gonna teach you how to use a sword anyway. I got two words for ya' Captain Lazerblades: Heroes. Use. Swords." Ever since Phil told me that, I worked harder than ever to train with a sword, and he was right. People went crazy when I defeated enemies in the Collosseum with a sword in my hand. But right now, I would be happy for just about any weapon. Usopp gulped as the creepy woman in a black cloak lifted up her staff and slammed it down on the floor in front of her.

"You are going to fight?" Jafar asked, sounding surprised.

"You have other matters to attend to," Maleficent assured him. Jafar looked confused for a moment and she continued, "Those brats have proved more troublesome than we expected. Do not allow them to reach the Keyhole before you. If so, this world will never fall to darkness." She looked back at the man in front of her, "I will take care of Captain Lazerblades, and leave with the Princess."

Jafar nodded at her, "I look forward to our next meeting," he said, then motioned over at Robin to come to him. The woman walked right over without hesitation and stood at the man's side, though she did give the bird on his shoulder a menacing look that made it almost release its birdie bowels.

Aladdin was surrounded, but he looked over to see Jafar escaping. They needed to stop him, so he called out, "Genie! Help us!"

"Sorrry Al," a sad voice said even as the Genie appeared in the room. The large blue genie had golden braces on his hands that kept him bound to whoever held the lamp, and now that Aladdin looked over to where Genie was floating, he saw Nico Robin handing the lamp to Jafar. The evil new Sultan cackled at this stroke of fortune and praised the woman next to him as Aladdin shouted angrily at her wondering when she took the lamp.

"Robin," Usopp began, keeping his eyes focused on Maleficent as he spoke to the woman behind him now. She looked at his muscular back with the white sash going across it diagonally. "I will not forgive you for this," he continued, making Robin flinch next to Jafar, a stupid mistake she realized on the spot, but an unavoidable one as she saw him fade away. Darkness surrounded the two of them, and then they were gone.

"Jafar!" Aladdin shouted as he parried a Bandit's blade, then got slashed across the back. He spun and swiped at another behind him, but it leapt back to dodge, while three others dropped on top of him. "Hey, cut it out!" Aladdin was completely swarmed, as was Jasmine, and the Bandit Heartless grabbed them each under the shoulders and dragged them backwards.

"Usopp," Smoker growled up at the long-nosed man at his side. Nico Robin had put the piece of sea stone from his weapon into the binds holding his hands together before she left, so now it was pressed against his skin tightly and he couldn't get himself to stand up. "Get the Kairoseki out from my binds, and I will handle her."

The pirate glanced over at Smoker, then looked back to the woman in front of him. "There is no need," he assured. The pirate grinned at the woman, and if she was going to call him by it, then he was going to roll with it. "Because Captain Lazerblades is here!" He dropped out of his fighting stance, confusing the woman in front of him as he dropped down fast. Then, Maleficent, Smoker, Aladdin, Jasmine, and even some of the Heartless gained shocked expressions as Usopp slammed both fists down into the floor in front of him, and shattered the floor of the room.

Usopp and Maleficent dropped through the breaking floor, and then it spread out wide enough that Smoker fell with the rubble as well. Some Heartless fell down and were crushed on their way, but Aladdin and Jasmine stayed on the floor above as they were dragged far enough away that they avoided it.

Maleficent fell for a few seconds before stopping in midair and floating with a small veil of white around her. The debris disintegrated around her body or bounced off, and she shouted, "Enough!" Her voice made all the debris around her fly out to the sides of the hallway they fell into down below. She looked around for the man who dared break the floor beneath her feet, but all she saw was scattered debris and the groaning Marine captain lying on top of a piece of rubble down here. Her eyes caught something though at the last second and she looked down to see Usopp fly out from the debris beneath her, holding two swords from falling Heartless in his hands.

The swordsman swung with one of his blades, but the white veil was still on Maleficent and she did not look like she felt the attack at all. A huge chunk of ceiling that was lying on the floor lifted up beneath Maleficent's feet, and it lifted her back up to the room above, but Usopp chased right after her and slashed back and forth at the marble floor she was standing on.

Maleficent flew across the dining hall above full of nice chandeliers, long banquet tables, and lots of Heartless. Her rock that she was standing on was stronger than normal stone as it was also covered in a veil of light green, the same emanating from her magical staff. Usopp jumped backwards as the veil finally took enough damage and left the rock, and it fell to the floor where he was just standing. He got ready to charge back at her, but then saw the woman smirking pretty wide. "You truly think you have a chance," she said, the amusement in her voice not appreciated by the man in front of her. "Let me show you, a small piece of my power!"

Maleficent lifted up her arms and the entire banquet hall seemed to drop twenty degrees. It became dark almost immediately, with the lights swooshing out in one gust of wind, and only a little natural light filling the room. Aladdin and Jasmine watched in horror from across the room as Maleficent cackled madly. The wall behind her turned fully black, and then out of the wall came a giant rock the size of a small meteor.

Usopp's confidence from before vanished as he saw the huge black meteor too large to dodge. All he could do was raise the feeble swords of the fallen Heartless Bandits and try to block. His swords broke, but he managed to avoid most of the damage. When he looked back ahead of him though, he realized the woman wasn't summoning one meteor forward, she was calling a storm of meteors. Five more came out of different sections of the wall and flew across the hall where they vanished into another wall of darkness.

The long nosed pirate dodged left and right, then ducked under one of the attacks, only for a pillar of green fire to drop on him. He pushed through the flames, holding no weapons in his hands as he got closer to Maleficent. He had no plan, and he got hit by another meteor seeping darkness that sent him careening to his left, yelling out in pain. "AHH!"

Captain Smoker was in a hallway below the great banquet hall above him, but he did hear that last scream coming from the pirate. Good, he was the strongest of Straw Hat's crew... No! He is one of my allies as it is right now, I should, go help him. The thought came to his mind slowly, and it felt weird, but he did not feel guilty for thinking about helping a pirate at all. The Marine continued wiggling his hands. The woman Nico Robin tied them tight as to 'make it believable,' and his wrists were bleeding as he struggled hard enough to wiggle the piece of sea stone out from his restraints.

"There," he growled, phasing his hands out of the binds and getting back up to his feet. Smoker looked up and his legs turned into smoke, flying him up through the hole in the ceiling and landing him on the floor on one side of it. He was closer to the front of the hall, away from the prisoners being held in the back. He wanted to keep this battle away from the princess and her friend as possible. Once Smoker landed though, his growling expression shifted slowly to one of wide-eyed shock.

"Hahaha, HAHAHAHA!" Maleficent cackled as she held up the beaten, battered form of the man she was facing by his throat. A wall of green flames rose up behind her and giant twisting vines covered in thorns were on either side. She did not have a scratch on her, whereas Usopp's eyes were rolled back into his head, his body burned, electrocuted, slashed, bruised, and broken. "You were no match," she said, tossing him down on the floor. She shifted her gaze across the room towards the princess, but saw the Marine standing in her way, his eyes narrowed at her. "You wish to fight me now?" She questioned skeptically.

"What did you do to my world?" Smoker growled at her. He thought back to what the woman was talking about when he entered the room as a prisoner and shouted, "Who was the woman Roronoa Zoro found?"

"He did not say her name," Maleficent replied. "But she was a young thing, short black hair, glasses," the evil sorceress saw the widening eyes of the man before her and she started cackling. "A friend of yours?" she asked maliciously. "I am sorry to say, she is already gone."

Smoker's fists clenched as he glared across the room at her. "What do you mean?" he growled as menacingly as he could.

The woman started walking his way, not even giving him her entire attention as she walked on a course to go right past his left side. "Her heart has been taken by the Heartless. It is strange though that her body did not disappear," Maleficent realized she was mainly just talking to herself there, and didn't actually care to tell the man all of this. "But you need not know of her state-"

"She is my subordinate," Smoker snarled at her.

"Then she should be disposable," Maleficent replied with a wry smirk. That was the last straw, and Smoker flew forward with his fist pulled back. "Ahh," the witch released a breath of disappointment, "it always ends the same." Smoker's fist passed right through her, a look of surprise appearing on his face as usually that happened when people punched him. He landed behind the woman who vanished, and spun to see she had turned into a small ball of green fire, moving quickly across the room as a will-o-wisp with her voice still coming out of the flames.

Smoker saw where she was going, but as he took a step after her, a wall of green fire rose up in front of him almost all the way up to the ceiling. He did not see what was happening on the other side of the flames, but after a few seconds they lowered back down to the ground and simmered out. Across the room, Maleficent was gone, and so was Jasmine. Aladdin was on his knees, head down on the floor as the Heartless danced around him.

Smoker looked around the room, the destroyed room of the palace they were trying to take back for that princess. "We failed," he muttered, clenching his fists even tighter as he walked towards the hole in the floor and then flew right over it towards the Heartless around Aladdin. The group of them never stood a chance, but destroying a cluster of Heartless did little to ease the pit on anger and despair in Smoker's chest. Tashigi, could you really be... No! I need to hold onto the idea that she is still alive. Smoker's face hardened, If I don't, I will lose my purpose for traveling these worlds. You better stay alive until I reach you Marine, just, stay alive.

"Whoa! What is that thing?!" Luffy shouted, his eyes glowing as he saw where they were about to land. The flying carpet carried them all the way out into the desert, and in front of them was a huge lion's head over fifty feet tall made of sand. Its expression was pretty scary too, making Nami shiver with fear from behind her captain.

"And you're sure there's treasure in there?" Nami asked the small monkey sitting on her captain's shoulder. Abu didn't respond to her, looking out over the sandy desert instead. "Cheer up," Nami told the little monkey who spun around to the orange haired girl behind it. "Our good friend Usopp is with Aladdin, you don't need to worry about him."

"Yeah," Luffy agreed with a big smile, "Usopp's gotten a whole lot stronger in the... last three years," he paused mid-sentence as it still felt weird every time he said it. What was only days for him turned out to be years for his nakama, something he thought deeply about every day. Suddenly the carpet touched down on the ground and everyone jumped off.

"What is this place?" Sora asked in amazement as he could see a glowing red light coming from the mouth of the giant sand head. Abu pointed over at it a few times, right at its mouth, and Nami's face turned blue as she realized what it wanted them to do. "Well," Sora said, looking behind him at Donald and Goofy, then at the two pirates with him and continued, "No time like the present." He marched towards the giant lion head, and then stopped and stumbled around as the entire desert started to shake.

"Oh, my, God," Nami whispered, lifting her head higher and higher up from the ground to look at the face of the sand lion they were walking towards. Its face was not just for aesthetics, the sand creature started moving and the sand in front of it dropped down into deep whirlpools. The red eyes of the creature started to glow, and then on the rims of its glowing eyes, and out of its open mouth, darkness started seeping out and up into the air above.

"That thing is a Heartless?!" Donald exclaimed as he ran up the wall of sand pulling him down. He jumped up over the ledge and looked at the giant mouth as the whole head lifted up, gulping at the sight of those sharp teeth inside.

"Gawrsh," Goofy said from behind the group. "Sure is a big one."

"It's not the only one here either!" Sora exclaimed, looking around as more of those Bandit Heartless were appearing.

"Then there's only one thing to do," Luffy said, stepping forward and punching his left fist into his open palm. "Fight!"