A/N Sorry for another long break, but I was in Europe for a few weeks so I couldn't post any chapters. I did however, start up on a new world and boy is it a fun one. Hope you enjoy!

Chapter 16:

"Luffy just listen for a minute," Usopp groaned.

The captain of their pirate crew leaned back in his seat with his fingers in his ears. "Lalalala!"

"Not listening isn't going to make it not true," Usopp shouted at his Captain. "Zoro's turned!"

"Hey Luffy, maybe we should listen to Usopp for a minute," Sora suggested, totally confused at why Usopp would be saying this.

Luffy turned to Usopp and yelled, "Zoro is scary, but he's not a bad guy!"

"He isn't the same man you remember-" Usopp began, but Luffy started shouting over him again.

"This is ridiculous," Smoker growled. He leaned back in his own chair and reached for a cigar on his coat. As he reached though, his hand stopped and he remembered what Nami told him the last time they took one of these rides. None of the others wanted to have to breathe in the smoke the entire trip, and he grunted but lowered his arm back to his side.

While the pirates argued, Donald got the ship ready for liftoff. Robin was watching the duck court magician closely to see how this vehicle ran that would be taking her to another world. She was still listening to the others in the ship though and wondered herself what could have happened to Zoro.

"Luffy listen to him!"

"I know it's hard to believe-"

"LALALA!"

"Gawrsh Luffy, you really don't seem to want to know huh?" Goofy asked out of nowhere from his own seat up front next to Donald's.

Everyone stopped yelling at each other and looked up to the front where the tall anthropomorphic dog was. Goofy looked straight at Luffy, and despite the pirate's screaming, he had heard the dog over it. The rubber pirate in a red shirt slowly took his fingers out of his ears. He stared at Goofy for a few seconds, then looked back at the others in the ship with him.

Nami and Usopp looked into their captain's eyes. Each of them dropped their annoyed looks at the desperate expression on his face. Luffy was staring at Usopp, and he kept opening his mouth, then closing it a second later. No! Usopp, Usopp was the only one who... He had to be! Luffy clenched his fists angrily and he nodded his head at the long-nosed man, motioning for him to continue.

Usopp nodded back, and spoke up quieter than before. "When we all got separated, Zoro got sent much farther back than you did. He got sent back, much farther than I did."

"Sent back?" Robin spoke up from a little further up in the ship. Donald finally lifted them off the sand so she looked back now completely focused on the conversation.

Usopp nodded his head. "I figure," he began, "since everyone else seems to have come out at the same time, then this is probably right after Sora's island was... destroyed." He said it after hesitating and saw Sora wince at the memory of it. "Which means," he continued, "Zoro and I were sent back in time. I'm not sure about it, so don't quote me on it, but I think Maleficent had something to do with our separation from the rest of you."

"How can you be so sure we didn't just take longer to get to the worlds we landed on?" Nami asked him.

"The Heartless," Usopp replied. "Only recently did they start showing back up again in force. I thought it was weird at first, but when you all showed up at the Coliseum, I started putting things together. Not just there, but it seems like things are starting to move fast on every world. Clayton, and Jafar, and what Zoro did to Plankton..."

"What?" Luffy asked, making Usopp stop for a second. The long nosed man and Nami each tensed up a little and looked at the rubberman. Luffy looked really confused, but he slowly whispered, "Zoro, was in, Bikini Bottom?"

Sora, Donald, and Goofy all jumped in surprise and spun as well. Sora looked the most surprised, "If he was there, then why didn't he come over to us?"

"You don't seem to understand," Usopp muttered, shaking his head sadly for a few seconds. "The first time I saw Zoro, it was over two years ago. Even then, he already looked like he'd been gone for at least three years."

Smoker's bottom lip lowered from his seat in the back of the ship. Could Tashigi have been gone that long? No. That witch said Zoro just found her. That only backs up Usopp's time travel idea more then, if she just showed up... I can't believe I just accepted time travel to be real. The Marine really wanted to light up a cigar now to ease his nerves, but the fact he couldn't was killing him.

"Zoro's old?" Luffy whispered. He sounded like he was in shock. He prepared himself to listen to Usopp, because he knew the only reason he wasn't listening was because he didn't want to hear the hard truth. Still, the age gap between them jumped so far in just a week. "But, why is, why is he with Maleficent?" Luffy wondered, sounding so confused. "Why did you say he was a bad guy?"

Usopp knew it was going to hurt his captain, but he couldn't shield it from Luffy forever. "He waited for you," Usopp began in a sad tone. "But, I guess he got tired of waiting. He joined with them. He's already strong, but with the darkness on his side," the sniper shook his head, "he's unstoppable."

"Just because he's with Maleficent," Luffy started angrily. "That doesn't mean he's a bad guy. Riku's with her too! Maybe he just-"

"Luffy!" Usopp yelled at the unbelieving captain. He grabbed the white sash tight and pulled it to the side, revealing the long scar across his torso. He didn't need to say a word, the action was enough.

Sora clenched his fists tight. "Zoro," he whispered, his voice sounding angry. He suddenly realized something and his eyes opened wide while looking at Usopp. "Back in Agrabah, the associate Jafar mentioned who paid you a visit." Usopp looked his way and nodded, making the child all the more angry.

Luffy wouldn't take his eyes off of the scar on Usopp's chest until it had properly registered in his mind. He remembered Jafar talking about someone cutting Usopp down as well, and now he understood. Zoro, you hurt Usopp. You... I don't want to believe it. I need to find you.

"Hey!" A high-pitched voice squawked at them from the front of the ship. Everyone looked ahead to see Donald flying them up into space. He was getting ready to get into gear, but he called out, "Where are we going?"

"To the next world, right?" Sora asked, looking around at the others. As he did, he saw a lot of them looking down and to the side ashamed. "What is it?"

"It's just," Nami began nervously.

"We got our butts kicked," Usopp stated plainly. "I got my butt kicked," he corrected, thinking about his one on one fight with Maleficent.

Smoker growled, but he thought back on trying to stop Maleficent, and she slipped right through his fingers. After seeing what happened to Usopp, who looked like a muscular god, he didn't know if it was a good or a bad thing he didn't catch her. "He's right," the oldest man on the ship growled. They looked over at Smoker and were stunned to hear him say, "We need to be stronger next time."

"If me and Luffy were there it would have been okay," Sora assured the other two older men who both looked at him skeptically. Sora saw no reassuring looks from them, so he turned to Luffy, "You think we could have beaten her right?"

Luffy opened his mouth and lifted up a hand to fist pump and shout 'yeah!' When he lifted his arm though, his shoulder screamed out in pain like his muscles were ripping apart and he dropped his arm back down with a look of excruciating pain on her face.

"Luffy!" Nami exclaimed. "It's that Gear Second thing!" She yelled at him while she sat him down on a chair. "You have to stop using it!"

"No," Luffy muttered. He thought about his fight with Jafar and how only with Gear Second did he manage to get Robin back, and even then, he couldn't stop Jafar. "I just need, to practice it."

"Ahem!" Donald cleared his throat again loudly as they were having a conversation and not deciding on a destination.

"How about we go to the Coliseum then?!" Sora suggested excitedly. They all looked over at the kid with spiky brown hair and he looked very pumped. "There's a tournament being held there right?" He asked, looking back at the front of the ship.

The screen in front of Donald on the ship's dashboard turned on. On the screen was an image of two chipmunks, and they saluted the heroes upon seeing them on the other side of the monitor. "That's right Sora," the chipmunk named Chip called out.

"I hear this one's going to be tougher than the last one," Chip's brother, Dale, shouted on top of his brother's comment. "Better bring your A game."

"Coliseum?" Smoker asked from the back of the large ship, far from the dashboard. "You keep mentioning it but-"

"It's the world I was on," Usopp said, talking to the man in the seat behind him. He strapped himself in and nodded his head with a smile on his face. "I can't wait to see Herc and Phil again. I'm down for some training."

"Great! It's settled then," Sora shouted. He looked around to see if anyone was against it, but they all just nodded at him. "Alright!"

Luffy nodded when Sora looked his way, but the reason he stayed quiet unlike his usual self wasn't because of his physical pain. While everyone strapped in and got ready for Donald to fly them through space, Luffy's eyes darkened. Zoro...

"Well that wasn't very hard," Sora stated. He dropped out of his fighting stance, both of the Keyblades vanished, and his red Valor Form clothes turned back to normal.

"I'll say," Usopp agreed, rolling his right shoulder around in its socket a few times. Besides a little stiffness from getting hit off that last parry that Leon managed to beat him on, he didn't feel any worse for wear.

"Heal," Luffy said, lifting up his Keyblade. He waited a few seconds, then waved it around a little and called out again, "Heal!"

"Luffy you idiot, you used all of your magic shooting fireballs at Yuffie," Donald scolded the much less talented magician.

The rubber pirate stopped pointing his not-working Keyblade at Usopp and grumbled in annoyance at the scolding from a duck in a blue hat.

"You swept the floor with the whole bracket! Just what I'd expect Captain Lazerblades," Phil said as he walked up to his old student. Usopp smiled at the pink goat man and thanked him for his teaching over the years. Phil looked behind him and laughed, "Guess I'll go help those guys out."

Leon and Yuffie finished groaning on the floor as Phil finally gave the losers some potions to patch them up. The two competitors who met Sora and Luffy's group in the finals walked over to them. "Great job guys," Yuffie told the boys she walked up to.

Sora scratched the back of his head and grinned at the ninja girl. "You've gotten a lot stronger Sora," a deeper voice said and Sora turned to see Leon nodding at him. This praise really made the kid beam, but Leon continued, "Don't get cocky though."

"Huh, oh yeah." Sora agreed, putting both arms behind his head and leaning back. "I've got to keep it up if I want to stop Maleficent."

"Good," Leon said, glad Sora was taking this seriously. He looked over the kid's shoulders and back towards the bleachers where the two women were. "You got yourself a new comrade?" Leon asked, turning now to Donald. "Thought you said-"

"QUUAACK!" Donald yelled at him in annoyance. "They won't listen to me!"

"Haha, Robin's another member of my crew," Luffy stated, smiling back behind him where the woman was sitting on the bleachers. "I'm gonna find them all."

Usopp looked at Luffy grimly, but the pirate captain seemed dead-set on finding Zoro too. I just hope he doesn't find us first.

"So what do we do now?" A voice said from behind the group talking to Leon and Yuffie. They all turned around to see the buff Marine wearing a new pair of clothes he got nearby. His old ones were pretty destroyed, and though it felt strange getting rid of his Marine uniform, there wasn't much left of it after the last few worlds. Smoker looked at the group, "It is time to get on to the next world," he stated firmly.

"What do you think Sora? Luffy?" Goofy asked the two with Keyblades who the King told him and Donald to follow.

"I do feel stronger," Sora said, punching his arms forward a few times.

Usopp stared at the kid strangely as he did those punches. Is it just me, or is he faster than when we started the first match?

"Hmm," Luffy hummed. "Second Gear still puts a lot of strain," he mumbled. "Guess I'll just work on it in the next world," he said with a shrug. Luffy grinned ear to ear and added with a huge smile, "And it's my turn to fly the Gummi Ship!"

Donald looked at the pirate nervously. "I don't think so. You'll just break it again!"

"That was Usopp!" Luffy exclaimed.

"What?!" The long nosed man yelled. "We only crashed on Bikini Bottom because you two wouldn't let me drive!" He pointed accusatory fingers at Donald and Sora.

The two in question looked at each other and then shrugged as if they had no idea what Usopp was talking about. "It's my turn in the order," Luffy stated, "and that's final." He put his foot down for emphasis and the decision was made.

"Alright," Donald said, then wagged a finger around at their whole group. "But if we crash again," he warned, then pointed a finger into his own chest, "then I'm the only one who gets to drive for now on." He sounded as serious as Luffy did in his previous declaration and the rest of them sighed.

"Got it." Usopp, Luffy, and Sora all agreed together.

"Whoa! What is that?!" Luffy shouted, taking a hand off the wheel and pointing out the window.

"Stop hitting meteors!"

"Look out for the other ships!"

"They're firing at us!"

"Put your hands on the wheel!"

Everyone was holding on for dear life. Donald unbuckled his seatbelt and dove across the seats to pry the wheel away from Luffy, but the pirate chose that moment to dodge and spun the ship in five spins to avoid an incoming round of red blaster fire from enemy Heartless ships. Donald went flying around the cabin while the rest of them screamed upon slamming into another space rock.

"Luffy! What are you doing?!" Nami yelled at her captain who was absolutely horrible at this.

The rubber pirate looked closer out the front window, "There it is again!" He shouted. This time, a few others caught a glimpse of what Luffy was pointing at.

When it came back into view, everyone dropped their jaws at the sight of it. They did, because it, was a humongous whale, flying out from behind a space rock. It plowed straight through a barrier in the dark void that normally Luffy had to shoot the Gummi Ship's blasters to break through. "Thanks giant space whale!" Luffy yelled, while waving a hand at the whale and not paying attention to the rocks crashing into the ship and making red lights blink all over the place.

"Don't thank it! That's Monstro!" Donald yelled, climbing back up into his seat himself. "And also... GIVE ME THE WHEEL!"

"Yeah Luffy, I think Donald should-" Sora began, then the teen lowered his bottom jaw, squinted his eyes, and pointed a hand out the window. "Is that, your ship?" He asked. Sora could see something flying through space a little differently than everything else, and he could have sworn he saw a lamb's head on the front of it, just like the pirates' ship.

Nami, Usopp, Robin, and Luffy all looked at the kid like he was crazy. They spun back to face outside the window, but since Luffy turned away from the windshield, he was not watching where he was going at all. In front of them was a giant rock wall, and not just one of those they could just smash right through.

"Brace yourselves!" Goofy shouted in panic.

Robin held onto her armrests tightly. Perhaps I should not have gotten on this ship after all.

Luffy put both hands back on the wheel and became focused, but he was way too late. When he spun the wheel they were already about to crash, and he just avoided a head-on collision. The pirate started pressing all types of buttons as the panel in front of him started smoking. That only made things worse and fire broke out on the dashboard.

"Engine Failure. Engine Failure. Emergency protocol activat-" A robotic woman's voice came out of the speakers until it got cut off by the speakers bursting into flames. Explosions happened all around them and the ship's members screamed together, "AHHHH!"

Luffy stood up, covered in soot. He crossed his arms, and then stated in a completely casual tone. "Alright, Donald can drive for now on."

"Drive what, you idiot?!" Donald shouted. The duck quacked angrily and shook around to get all the black soot off of its usually white feathers. "WAWAWA-ack-ack," the duck coughed up ash in the middle of his angry shouts. "The ship is destroyed!"

Gummi pieces lay all over the place, and the crew members lay scattered around the floor near the debris. Nami rubbed her head and felt a hand on her arm. She looked up a little to see Usopp standing there, soot covering his face like the rest of them. He helped her up and patted her down a little to get some of the ash off of her. "Get yourself first baka," Nami scolded him with a small chuckle.

Usopp opened his eyes wide and Nami chuckled as it seemed like he just noticed that he had black on his body just like she did. He wiped his arms down a little and then tried clearing his face with a few swipes. He smiled at her after, looking for a reaction to see how he did.

She giggled a few times at the sight of the black spots on his cheeks and the goofy grin on his face. The younger woman shook her head and said, "Here, let me." She reached up a little and rubbed the black spot on his left cheek a few times. She was working to get it off, but after a few seconds she seemed to forget why it was she was standing this close to him, with her hand on his face.

He was looking her right back in the eyes as she held her hand there on his cheek. Neither of them moved for a few seconds, then out of nowhere a voice said, "Who turned out the lights?"

They both jumped in surprise and turned towards the main wreckage of their ship. Their eyes widened at the sight of a foot sticking out from beneath some huge orange Gummi chunks. They recognized the abnormally huge foot and the voice anywhere. "Goofy!" Nami and Usopp exclaimed at once, running over and grabbing his wriggling foot. The two of them pulled backwards and yanked the dog knight right out from under the ship's remains.

"Hyuck, thanks," the dog said to them.

"You idiot!" Someone shouted as Nami was going to say 'you're welcome' to Goofy. They all looked to the other side of the wreckage and went wide-eyes as a hand flew out of nowhere and punched Luffy straight in the side of the face. The fist had a trail of smoke coming out behind it and they followed the trail back to Smoker who was marching his way angrily. "You crashed us on this world-"

Usopp jumped up and landed in between Smoker and Luffy, a sword already risen in his hands. The two men wearing Ancient Greek attire stared at each other, and Usopp said menacingly, "What did I say about fighting us?"

"You wouldn't let me on the ship," Smoker replied without hesitation. Usopp faltered at that response and Smoker only rose his voice, "But that doesn't matter now, because the ship's broken!"

"I could help you with that," a voice said. The entire group was so focused on the ship's remains that they hadn't bothered to look around yet. Now that they did, their eyes widened as they realized they weren't in a forest, or a desert, or some crazy world. They had "landed" right in between two buildings, really tall ones considering how dark it was in the alley.

They looked to the end of the alleyway and saw a figure standing there. The voice was a girl's and that was who they saw standing there, just a teenage girl. She had blue hair down to her shoulders, and was wearing a red shirt with a yellow sweater over it.

"See, I told you I saw something fall out of the sky," a squeakier, more-annoying voice said from behind the girl's legs. The group in the alley looked over and saw something stick its head out from behind the girl's left leg.

"A pig?" Usopp deadpanned.

"Why are you even surprised?" Nami asked the man next to her. Usopp looked at Goofy and shrugged, figuring he should just get used to it already.

Smoker looked to the end of the alley, then looked over to where Luffy was standing up. He growled at the pirate for a few more seconds, but then turned to the girl, "How could you help us?"

The girl at the end of the alley grinned over at them, "My dad's the greatest scientist on the planet." She said it like it was a totally casual thing to say. "I'm sure he'll want to help you out with that strange ship you've got there."

"What do you want in exchange?" Nami asked, getting a little nervous by this girl's faked friendly look. 'She looks like... Me!' "Money?" Nami snapped, holding her Munny bag tight.

"Normally yes," the girl replied. "But I think getting a look at that ship there in itself is going to be payment." She looked way too excited and Donald ran in front of the group.

"No no no! You can't look at the Gummi Ship!" The duck quacked at her angrily.

"A Gummi Ship huh?" The blue haired teen asked. Donald dropped his jaw that he just gave up the name of the ship himself. "I've never heard of it," she said, but grinned after, "but that only makes me want to see it more."

"Not a chance!" Donald shouted at the girl.

"But umm Donald," Goofy started from behind his charred-black duck friend. "Don't we need to find His Majesty?"

"And save the worlds," Sora whispered quieter to his friend.

"We need to get the ship fixed," Smoker stated firmly.

"I'll do it!" Donald shouted.

"I don't know how you think you are going to put that heap of junk together without a mechanic, but if you really don't want any help, I guess I'll just go," the teenager shrugged at them and turned around, walking for the end of the alley. "Let's go Oolong."

"Donald, please," Sora begged the magician. "I have to find Riku and Kairi."

"The faster the ship gets fixed, the less chance someone else happens on it," Robin spoke up. She saw Donald's defiant look perk up after that and she continued. "If some thieves were to show up and take parts of the ship, who knows? Maybe they would even be able to build a Gummi Ship of their own."

"Ack!" Donald exclaimed. He spun to the end of the alley and started running down it. "Wait! Wait! You can help!"

"Good one Robin," Nami said to the woman next to her. Robin just grinned innocently as if she had no idea what Nami was implying.

The teenager at the end of the alleyway smirked as she was called back, exactly like she planned it. She stopped and turned around, "Oh? So you do want help?"

"Yes yes!" Donald exclaimed at the girl.

"Sure quick to change your mind there buster," the short pink pig next to the teen said in a mocking tone towards Donald.

While Donald quacked at the pig, the others all gathered at the end of the alley. "I'll tell my dad where to pick up your wreck. Where'd you guys come from?"

"We're from-" Luffy started, but Nami jumped behind him and wrapped her arms around his head, closing his mouth for him.

"Far away," Sora said, smiling at the girl a few years older than him. Seeing the spiky haired kid's smile made the other teenager smile too. She felt, disarmed, just like when she was with another spiky haired boy she knew. "Anyway, it's nice to meet you. I'm Sora, and this is Donald, Goofy, Luffy, Smoker, Nami, Usopp, and Robin." He pointed at each of them one by one and then sighed at the end. "Sure are a lot of us now," he admitted with a small laugh.

Donald looked annoyed by that so Sora quickly changed the subject, "So anyway, thanks for offering to fix up our ship. What's you name?"

"Me?" The teen with blue hair asked, grinning at the kid in front of her. She pointed a thumb right into the center of her chest and said proudly, "I'm Bulma, Bulma Briefs."

A/N Hope you liked it! Leave a review telling me what you think!