Disclaimer: All Disney works are the property of The Walt Disney Company. All other characters and settings are the property of their respective legal owners.

Author's note: Originally posted by Anon e Mouse Jr. on 2017-10-28. This is the first of two chapters posted today.

Disney/Kingdom Hearts Loops, Chapter Eleven

11.1 (Mr. Egret): [Kingdom Hearts] / [Disney]

The Awakening of the Three Wayfarers (Part 1)

As Vanitas fell out of the sky, his Keyblade aimed right at Aqua's heart, Ven tried desperately to break free from his icy prison. He may be totally outclassed, but there was no way he could just let his friend get stabbed-

Before he could finish that thought, a white blur zipped across his field of vision, and suddenly Vanitas was no longer there. He felt something land on his chest, and warmth flowed back into his body. He sat up, shivering, as the spent case of an Elixir fell to the ground. "What was that...?" he mumbled, feeling returning to his lips.

Aqua was by his side immediately. "Ven! Are you alright?!" she asked worriedly.

"Yeah, I'm fine," he replied. "What happened to Vanitas?"

Aqua squinted in the distance. "I… think Mickey got him."

Ventus looked at Aqua with shock. "That blur was Mickey?!"

There was a loud BOOM, and the two Keyblade wielders spun around to see Vanitas slam into the ground hard enough to leave a crater. The source of the Unversed rolled to his feet, and brought up his Keyblade just in time to parry an overhead swing from the white blur, which slowed down enough for Ventus to clearly make out Mickey's distinctive ears. Mickey was wearing a white coat with a hood pulled over his head, and Ventus could see hints of a red shirt and shorts underneath. His entire body crackled with lightning (a Command Style of some kind?) and he had a Keyblade with a golden blade instead of his Star Seeker.

Mickey suddenly looked over at Aqua and Ventus, and a smile lit up his face. "Ven! Aqua! You're all right!" he shouted.

Aqua was about to reply when she saw Vanitas about to smash in Mickey's head. "Mickey! Behind you!"

Without even bothering to turn around, Mickey reached over his head with his Keyblade, turned the blow off to the side, then elbowed Vanitas with his other arm hard enough to send him sprawling. "Is Terra with you guys?" he asked, as if nothing had happened.

Ventus nodded, rather stunned by the casual ease with which Mickey fended off Vanitas. "He's up on top of that mountain, with Xehanort. We have to help him!"

Mickey's smile progressed to a grin. "Okay, I'm right on time, then. I'll keep Vanitas occupied, so go and support Terra. I think he's gonna need your help more than he'll need mine."

He looked at Vanitas, and hefted his Keybade. "I'll be with ya in a bit."

Aqua and Ventus summoned their Keyblade Gliders, and took off for the top of the mountain, as Vanitas charged at Mickey again. Mickey took out a pocket watch, and checked it. "T-minus two minutes before Terra succumbs in baseline," he muttered to himself, as he stepped to the side, and struck Vanitas about the head with the Kingdom Key D, staggering him. "I'll have to make this quick."

Vanitas dove into the ground, and flowed behind Mickey, before bursting out of the ground, and slashing upwards. Unfortunately, Mickey had already spun around, and parried the blow, locking blades with the villain. "You think you're so cool, now that you have that new outfit, don't you?" Vanitas hissed, as he tried to break Mickey's guard.

"Well, it seems to be working, isn't it?" Mickey replied calmly, while not budging an inch. He looked past Vanitas' head, and noted with satisfaction that Ventus and Aqua were already at the top of the mountain.

Vanitas snarled as he noticed that Mickey wasn't even paying attention to his insults. "Hey! I'm talking here! What's your problem you dumb rat? Too busy worrying about your friends? Well don't bother! Once I finish up with you, they're all going to die!"

Mickey suddenly shoved Vanitas back, and then kicked him away, sending him flying back until he hit the side of the mountain. "Alright then, Vanitas," Mickey replied coolly, as he walked over to him. "Ya got my attention. Now, what were you going to say, exactly? Something about 'suffering', maybe? Or about 'anguish'? Maybe something about me being 'too slow'?"

The Kingdom Key D blurred, and Vanitas yelled in pain and dropped his Keyblade, as both his wrists were broken. Mickey glared at Vanitas, and the Masked Boy flinched at what he saw in the mouse's gaze. He was a thing born from pure negativity and hatred, but he couldn't face the emotions that Mickey was wearing so plainly on his face. There was anger, rage even. He expected that. But underneath that, there was something that he did not expect, and possibly could not expect.

Pity.

"Ya know, Vanitas, I did some research about you and your Master," Mickey continued, as Vanitas clutched his shattered wrists to him, his Keyblade lying on the ground beside him. "What he did to make you, and what he did to you afterwards... Awful stuff, if you don't mind me saying so. I was shocked, horrified, sympathetic even. For a while, I really thought that you were the victim in all of this."

"Shut up!" Vanitas screamed, as a horde of Flood popped into existence, pushing Mickey away and bowling him over through sheer force of numbers. "Sympathy?! That's a weakness, you idiot!" he ranted. "Caring for others only leads to you getting hurt! That's why I kept trying to bump off those friends of Ventus: I'm not going to have a weakness like that when we become one being!"

Mickey quickly got to his feet, and began pushing his way back to Vanitas, chopping through the Flood like they were so much wheat to be harvested. "And that is why I know you have to be stopped," he continued, barely breaking a sweat as he mowed through the hordes of Unversed. "Despite all of the stuff that had happened to you, you always had a choice: search for your answers the hard way, and put an end to your suffering; or take the easy way out, and let your pain corrupt you. You had so many opportunities to take the first path, but what do you do? You gave in to the pain! And now look at you! You're nothing but a monster, begetting other monsters on the world!"

"WHY WON'T YOU DIE?!" Vanitas howled in rage, as a Trinity Armor came into being, squashing several Flood as it crashed to the ground, before firing an enormous laser at Mickey. "JUST DIE ALREADY, YOU DAMN RAT! DIE, DIE, DIE!"

The laser's blast died down after the rest of the Flood were burned away, their essence returning to Vanitas and giving him the strength to stand on his feet. "Hah... hahahahaha..." he laughed shakily. "Are you finished, mouse? Are you finally done?!"

The Trinity Armor suddenly roared in pain, as several cuts opened up all over its individual components, before it exploded in a burst of blinding light. Mickey blurred back into view with the dying light of the explosion casting his face in shadow. "No, Vanitas," he replied. "I'll never be done. As long as monsters like you keep endangering people like my friends, I'll always be there to protect them."

A green targeting reticule snapped into being around Vanitas, and several smaller reticules locked onto various parts of his anatomy. "What?!" he gasped, as he struggled to shake them off. "No no no no no-"

"And now, it's time to end this fight," Mickey proclaimed. "Engaging Shotlock: Galaxy of Marvels!"

He spun his Keyblade in his hand, before pointing it in the air, and releasing an ungodly number of star-shaped bullets, which all struck Vanitas again and again like so many raindrops. Vanitas screamed as parts of his armor were destroyed by the bullets, and darkness started to leak out of them like inky smoke.

Mickey then pointed the Kingdom Key D at Vanitas's heart. "SHAZAM!"

A tremendous lightning bolt ripped down from the heavens, and slammed into the screaming Vanitas with a blinding flash. For a brief moment, his screams turned to something inhuman, like the static on a radio, before he exploded in a cloud of darkness.

Mickey covered his face with his coat to shield his eyes from the blast, and when he looked again, Vanitas was no more. They only sign that he had even existed to begin with was the remains of his Keyblade, badly charred from the explosion.

Mickey sighed quietly to himself, as he picked up the charred Keyblade. "It didn't have to be like this," he murmured, before sticking it into the ground blade first.

He did another brief time check. "T-minus 10 seconds."

Jumping into the air, Mickey soared up to the top of the mountain for the confrontation with Xehanort, leaving behind a memorial to a monster that might have been a man.

11.2 (Mr. Egret): [Kingdom Hearts] / [Disney]

The Awakening of the Three Wayfarers (Part 2)

Meanwhile, on the top of the mountain, things weren't going so well.

"GAAAAAAH!"

"TERRA!"

Terra was sent stumbling back by the force of Master Xehanort's strike, his chest leaking blood from a gash that was visible through his armor. Ventus and Aqua, similarly wounded, were barely able to catch him.

"Ven… Aqua… I'm sorry..." Terra groaned. "Get out of here… I'll buy you some time..."

"No way, Terra!" Aqua snapped. "We're not going to abandon you!"

"That's right!" Ventus chimed in. "You're our friend, Terra. No matter what happens, we gotta look out for each other!"

"I can't risk you guys getting hurt again!" Terra replied, as he forced himself to stand, the darkness roiling around him.

Master Xehanort grinned, despite his various cuts and bruises. "Yes, yes! Now you're starting to see, Terra!" he monologued, pointing his Keyblade at the trio. "Your friends will fall here, and the x-Blade will be forged! So embrace that darkness in your heart, if you ever want to defeat me!"

"Don't listen to him!" Aqua yelled, as Terra yelled in pain and clutched his head, and the shadows started to grow. Xehanort grinned. Soon, his new vessel would be ready, and once Vanitas did away with that annoyance of a mouse, the x-Blade would be-

BOOM

Everybody on the mountaintop shielded their eyes, as an enormous lightning bolt ripped down from the heavens, followed by a peal of thunder only slightly softer than Krakatoa's eruption. Xehanort was the first to recover. "Impossible!" he snarled, as he stalked over to the cliff, looking down at the Keyblade Graveyard below. "Neither of them can cast a Thunder spell that powerful!"

He was then punched in the jaw hard enough to send him stumbling back from the edge. Aqua and Ventus's eyes lit up with renewed hope. "MICKEY!"

The mouse in question hopped over Xehanort, and landed next to the three Keyblade wielders. "Looks like I got here just in time, huh?"

"Mickey?" Terra asked, as the darkness around him receded for the time being. "What are you doing here?"

"With any luck, sabotaging Xehanort's plans and getting us all out of here with our hearts, bodies and minds intact," Mickey replied. "Aqua, can you heal yourself and the others?"

Aqua looked at her Keyblade, then nodded. "Yes, but I'll need time to cast the spells."

Mickey smiled. "Now that I can do!" He then turned to face Xehanort, and pointed the Kingdom Key D at him. "Okay, Baldy! You want them so badly, you'll have to go through me!"

Xehanort rubbed his jaw, where a sizable bruise was beginning to form, and smirked. "Gladly, Mickey..."

He then pointed his Keyblade at his own heart. "Once I claim my new vessel!"

Mickey stopped smiling. "Stopza."

Time ground to a halt on the top of the mountain. Terra and Ventus were looking at the scene with varying degrees of shock, while Aqua was caught in the middle of preparing a Curaga spell. Xehanort's Keyblade was inches away from penetrating his chest, and his face was locked in a mad grin. Mickey nodded to himself as he pulled out his paintbrush. "I had a feeling you would try that, Xehanort. It seems I'll have to keep you pinned down in one place if this is gonna work."

He pulled out a book titled "The Key of Solomon for Dummies," flipped it open, and checked the page. "Hmm... So it's like that? Odd design for a binding pentacle, but it should work."

Putting the book away, he walked over to Xehanort, and quickly sketched out a magic circle on his chest, right where the heart would be, muttering under his breath the whole time. After a few minutes, he smiled, and stepped back to admire his handiwork. "That should do it. Time resumes."

The Stopza spell ended and time resumed its natural flow. Xehanort's grin quickly changed to a look of horror, as his Keyblade was deflected off of the magic circle drawn on his chest. The backlash sent him stumbling, his arms crackling with magic. "What have you done to me, you interfering wretch?" he snapped.

Mickey smiled grimly, as he put the paintbrush away. "Binding pentacle, designed to keep your heart where it belongs. No vessels for you, and no x-Blade either. One way or another, this madness will end here."

Xehanort recovered his composure rapidly, and started stalking towards Mickey. "In that, you are right, Mouse. You are perhaps the biggest thorn in my side to have ever existed. Such dedication to the Light, when the true path to power lies in darkness! How can such an imbecile be a threat to my plans?!"

He suddenly lunged forward, aiming to catch Mickey by surprise, but was quickly parried, the sparks from the Keyblades flying through the air. "All this time, Xehanort, all of this study of the nature of Light and Darkness, and what have you learned?" Mickey asked, as he and Xehanort locked blades.

"What any child would learn in time!" Xehanort retorted, as darkness began to roil around him and he started pushing Mickey back. "The Darkness is where Light began, and it is in Darkness that Light shall end! The Light is inferior! Only with the power of Darkness can-"

"WRONG!" Mickey bellowed, as he suddenly broke Xehanort's guard, and gave him a gash across the stomach. "Light and Darkness are two sides of a single whole! Neither can survive without the other! That's why Ventus suffered so badly when you extracted his darkness to make Vanitas! Heck, that's why there are two Realms to begin with! I should know: I've been to both of them!"

All three of the Wayfarers looked at each other in shock as Mickey's words hit home.

"Mickey's been to the Realm of Darkness?!" Aqua asked herself, as she finished casting Curaga on Terra.

"Ngh... Light and Darkness... connected?" Terra grunted, as he slowly stood up by himself.

"Where did Mickey learn about that?" Ventus mumbled, his eyes wide.

Xehanort abruptly gestured with his hand, and a pillar of earth shot up into the sky, grazing Mickey as he barely sidestepped it in time. "You will concede!" he snapped, as more pillars ripped themselves up from the ground, and Fire and Blizzard spells flew through the air. Mickey kept dodging from side to side, eventually going so fast that he was nothing but a blur. Xehanort growled, before hefting his Keyblade, and also vanishing. Aqua finished casting Curaga on Ventus, and briefly wondered where they had gone.

Then, a shower of sparks erupted seemingly from nowhere. Then another. And another. The ringing of steel on steel echoed through the air as sparks fell like rain. It took a moment for Aqua to realize what was happening. "No way... They're moving faster than I can see!"

Terra frowned in thought. "This doesn't make sense. I know Xehanort's fast, but how the hell did Mickey get this good so quickly?"

Ven nodded in agreement. "Yeah! When Mickey saved me from Vanitas before we met up, he wasn't moving nearly as fast as this! Maybe it has something to do with that Command Style he's using?"

Aqua started casting Curaga on herself. "I'm not sure that's a Command Style. If it was, he would have been forced out of it by now."

"Then what is it?" Ventus asked confusedly, scratching his head.

"I don't know," Aqua replied quietly. "If we get out of this, we'll ask him. He's got a lot of explaining to do."

Their conversation was interrupted by Xehanort being slammed into the ground, and Mickey reappeared, kicking Xehanort's Keyblade away from him, and pointing the Kingdom Key D at his throat. "You see how powerless the Darkness is, Xehanort?" Mickey asked. "Even with the power of your rage, winning is an impossibility. Stand down."

Xehanort clenched his hands into fists, as the darkness around him grew in intensity. "No. There's too much at risk, for me to just give up now!"

He suddenly shoved his hand in Mickey's face, and an explosion of darkness threw him back, sending the mouse sprawling. "I've dedicated my whole life to learning the nature of Kingdom Hearts! Even if it means my very soul, I will see the x-Blade forged and the renewal of the Keyblade War!" He started chuckling, before laughing maniacally. "So BEHOLD! My ascension from this wretched human form into a being of DARKNESS!"

His laughing only increased in intensity, as the darkness around him enveloped him completely. The four Keyblade wielders looked on in horror as the barely visible human form within the cloud of darkness began to writhe and change, growing steadily more monstrous and inhuman. "Oh Xehanort, don't do this," Mickey whispered, his eyes full of sorrow.

The darkness dispersed to reveal the monster Xehanort had become: a hulking black-skinned humanoid beast, with a skull-like head wrapped in bandages, a pair of thunderbolt-shaped horns, long muscular arms ending in wicked claws, and a serpentine tail instead of legs and feet. The heart-shaped hole in his torso and bat-shaped wings only completed the nightmarish picture. Xehanort laughed aloud, as dark magic played around his fingers. "Yes… YES! This is TRUE power!"

He held up his hands, and an enormous globe of darkness began to form between them. "Now you shall learn to fear me!"

Aqua quickly erected the strongest barrier she could around herself and her friends. "Ventus, stay between me and Terra," she ordered. "Whatever you do, do not move!"

Ventus nodded, and gulped. He didn't know how they were going to survive this fight. Terra looked worried, as he kept his Keyblade in between him and the incoming globe. Aqua's brow was furrowed in concentration, as she put her all into making the barrier as strong as possible.

And Mickey... smiled?

"What a moron."

Just then, high above their heads, the light from Kingdom Hearts intensified sharply, and a beam of light illuminated the mountaintop. The globe of darkness dissolved, and Xehanort screamed and writhed about in pain and confusion. "GAAAAAH! WHAT… WHAT IS THIS?!"

"Remember how I said that Light and Darkness were intertwined, Xehanort?" Mickey asked, while dodging the former Keyblade Master's flailing limbs. "Well, your precious Kingdom Hearts is the perfect example! Even though it's in the Realm of Darkness, Kingdom Hearts is the collective light of everybody's hearts! No creature of the Darkness can stand up to that!"

Mickey took the moment to point at Xehanort. "Xehanort! Your next line is, 'Impossible! Nothing can withstand the Darkness!'"

Xehanort gritted his teeth, and reared back to crush Mickey under his fist. "Impossible!" he roared, as his fist came down like a meteor. "Nothing can withstand the Darkness!"

He suddenly hesitated, as he realized what he just said, giving Mickey enough time to move out of the way of the blow. "Terra! Aqua! Ventus!" he called out, ignoring the monster's screams of frustration. "I'll need you help!"

The three Keyblade wielders ran over. "What is it, Mickey?" Aqua asked.

"I'm going to open up a hole in Xehanort's defense using Stopza, but I need you three to deal the finishing blow," he explained. "A fully-charged Trinity Limit directly to the heart should finish him off. Can you do it?"

Terra, Ventus and Aqua looked at each other, and nodded. "Yes."

"Okay! Start charging up, and wait for my signal!"

Xehanort howled in rage, as Mickey went on the offensive, calling on the Strength of Hercules to open up long cuts on Xehanort's arms. Terra, Ventus, and Aqua moved into position, and held their Keyblades in the air. A complex set of runes appeared around their feet, and a soft light began to form and grow at the tips of the Keyblade.

Their efforts were not unnoticed. "FOOLS!" Xehanort shouted, as he lashed at them with his tail. Mickey swatted it aside with almost contemptuous ease. "Interfering rat! Why do you oppose my research? Why must you thwart my plans for another Keyblade War?!"

"Easy!" Mickey shouted back, as he hacked away at the tail, carving huge chunks of darkness away. "I don't wanna see the people I care about get caught in the crossfire! Do you think the Keyblade War will stay within the bounds of the Graveyard?! It will spread across the worlds, and innocent people will die for the sake of Kingdom Hearts!"

"OF COURSE I KNOW THAT!" Xehanort retorted, catching Mickey off guard by suddenly sliding back, before lashing out and striking Mickey with his fists. Mickey reeled from the blow, and Xehanort followed through, dealing a nasty three-punch combo that launched him into the air, before spiking him into the ground like a volleyball.

"Mickey!" Ventus shouted, nearly breaking formation before Terra blocked him with his free hand. "We have to help him!"

"Ven, we'll be no good to him out there!" Terra shouted back. His Keyblade hand was shaking slightly, but he held firm. "If we break formation now, we'll never be able to charge the Trinity Limit in time!"

"Terra's right," Aqua chimed in. "I don't know how Mickey's doing it, but he's currently light-years ahead of us in terms of power. If he can't stand up to that thing Xehanort's become in his current state, what makes you think we have a chance? This way, we can actually help him. We'll have to leave it to him."

Ventus bit his lip in frustration, but continued to charge up the Trinity Limit. Mickey, please be safe, he thought to himself.

"The Keyblade wielders came from all sorts of worlds to fight for the x-Blade and Kingdom Hearts!" Xehanort continued, slithering over to Mickey as the mouse forced himself to his feet. "Only a fool would assume that they would not fight across the worlds! In fact," he laughed, spreading his arms wide, "I had expected them to do just that!"

He then stretched his hand out, and the dull gray Keyblades embedded in the Keyblade Graveyard all ripped themselves out of the ground, and formed a gargantuan cloud of whirling death above the mountaintop. "In fact, if you don't believe me, then take a close look at THESE!" he screamed, as he brought his hand down, and the Keyblades flew towards Mickey at one.

Mickey shook his head to clear it, spat out a tooth, and grinned. "Just as planned. Stopza."

For the second time that day, time stopped on top of the mountain. Terra, Aqua and Ventus gaped at the sight. They were excluded from the stopped time this time around, and could see that their surroundings were in black and white, with two exceptions: First, the Keyblade storm, while immobile, was still gray. Second, Mickey was still in living color, and he was gathering up the Keyblades like they were Munny scattered on the ground.

He then started throwing the Keyblades at Xehanort's immobile form, aiming for the head and the chest, as well as the arms and the tail. While they moved normally while he was holding them, when they got more than three feet away from him, they stopped in time again. When Mickey was out of Keyblades to throw, he then cut at Xehanort's chest twice, leaving a gaping cross-shaped wound. "You all charged up down there?" he hollered.

"Yes!" Aqua yelled back. "We can let it fly at any time!"

Mickey gave them the thumbs up. "Great!" He then turned to Xehanort. "I don't know if you can hear me," he said quietly, "but if you can, then consider this checkmate. Time resumes."

Time started up again, and three things happened in rapid succession.

First, the Keyblades resumed their flight, embedding themselves all over Xehanort's body. Xehanort screamed, as the force of the Keyblades ripped away his arms and tail, reducing him to a torso with a head.

Second, the chest wound Mickey dealt him opened up violently, revealing Xehanort's heart, now blackened and tarnished by his misdeeds.

Finally, the Trinity Limit went off, piercing the now-exposed heart with brilliant beams of light.

Xehanort screamed in agony, as his heart was obliterated under the relentless assault of light, and his body began to disintegrate. "How could this be?" he groaned, as he slowly started to fade away. "Everything was planned from the beginning..."

Mickey landed on the ground. "Destiny is never left to chance, Xehanort. It's only logical that changing destiny would be similar."

Xehanort whispered something unintelligible, before he finally faded away, like the bad dream he was. For a few moments, there was silence in the Keyblade Graveyard.

"So it's over," Terra said, as he armored down, and stretched his arms. "Xehanort's finally dead."

"As dead as it gets," Mickey agreed. "Which means I can finally power down. Shazam!"

There was another lightning strike, and Mickey was suddenly back in his regular clothes, while wrapped in a black coat. "Now, I think you all have a boatload of questions about what just happened, right?"

"That's a bit of an understatement," Aqua replied, smiling for the first time in a while.

"Okay! What do you say we all go back to my place for some ice cream, and I'll tell you all about it?"

The three Keyblade wielders couldn't agree fast enough. Soon, four Keyblade Gliders took off from the Keyblade Graveyard, leaving nothing but a new mountain behind.

11.3 (Mr. Egret): [Kingdom Hearts] / [Disney]

The Awakening of the Three Wayfarers (Part 3)

Mickey, Terra, Aqua and Ventus strolled through the halls of Disney Castle, passing the occasional broom sweeping up. The three humans looked around at the gleaming marble halls and the large windows out into the courtyard with interest, but Mickey moved forward with a singular purpose in mind, as if he was looking for something specific.

"Where are we going, Mickey?" Ventus asked, as the group went into an unfamiliar part of the castle, and started climbing some stairs.

"Well, there's something I've always wanted to show you guys, now that you know about the Loops," Mickey replied. "Remember when I told you all about subspace pockets?"

"That's the thing that lets you take stuff with you when the Loop resets, right?"

"Exactly. Every now and then, I like to set aside a room for some of the souvenirs I've picked up here and there. I'd figure that you guys would like to take a look."

Eventually, the group came to a wooden door in a stone hallways lined with torches. "Here we are!" Mickey announced, rubbing his hands together. "I just need to disable the magic lock on this door. Give me a second..."

He waved his hands and muttered a few choice words over the doorknob, before turning it and swinging the door wide open. Mickey's eager smile quickly deflated. "Wait, that's not right."

Inside of the room, instead of whatever Mickey had been expecting, there was a standard layout for a bathroom in the castle. Including a bath. Which was occupied by Daisy.

Surprisingly, the Keyblade wielders were not immediately bombarded with hair-care products, or deafened by an ear-splitting shriek. Instead, Daisy looked over at Mickey and waved. "Oh, hey Mickey! Good to see you!"

"Hey Daisy," Mickey replied. "I'm trying to give Terra, Aqua and Ventus a tour of the Souvenir Room, but we wound up here. Are the dimensional stabilizers on the blink again?"

"Yep. The Quantum Oscillator's jammed, too, and you know how much of a pain that is to fix. Until Donald sorts it out, you need to turn the knob counterclockwise instead of clockwise after disabling the lock, or you'll keep getting redirected to rooms with people in embarrassing situations."

Mickey snapped his fingers. "Nuts; I knew I forgot to do something. Thanks!"

Daisy waved him off. "No problem. Give your friends my love!"

Mickey laughed. "I will! Bye Daisy!"

He then shut the door, turned the knob counterclockwise, and opened it again. Behind him, the three Keyblade wielders gasped.

Instead of the bathroom, a simply massive atrium stretched out in front of them. It looked like a tastefully-done cross between a museum and hotel lobby, with photographs decorating the walls, and objects from hundreds of different worlds encased in glass display cases, complete with little informational placards. The floor was made of marble, and the ceiling was dominated by a large window, letting sunshine bathe everything in a warm golden glow.

"Mickey, this is amazing!" Aqua breathed, as the four Keyblade wielders walked through the door, and looked around in wonder. "And this is all from places you've visited in the Loops?"

"Yep!" Mickey replied cheerfully, as he passed Terra looking at some pictures of Mickey, Donald and Goofy standing in front of the Ghostbusters Headquarters. "It's a big ol' multiverse out there; there's a whole lot to see, and I don't wanna forget a thing! Plus, it gives me something to do, no matter where I end up."

Aqua looked at a golden idol roughly the size of her head, perched precariously on a charred stone pedestal. "Is that a problem for Loopers? Finding something to do?"

Mickey thought the question over, as he idly polished the glass of a display case containing a deactivated Toclafane shell with a rag. "It varies. Some of us need to distract ourselves from some nasty events that happen in our native universes, while others need to keep themselves busy, to help themselves cope with their status as Loopers. We're a mixed bag, really. Most of us are doing relatively fine, but there's always a few of us who are… struggling, I guess."

"And what about you, Mickey?" Terra asked, having overheard the conversation, and walked over to join in.

Mickey put the rag away in his subspace pocket. "Me? I… don't really know for certain. My best guess is that every now and then, I hit a Loop that's… less than pleasant, so I keep this collection to help remind me that the multiverse isn't all bad."

Just then, Ventus ran over. "Guys! You gotta see this!"

The four friends hurried over to a case that was cordoned off in its own special section of the Souvenir Room. It was a long case, made of mahogany wood, with a red velvet interior, and it was propped open to display its contents: a simple Keyblade, much like Terra's Earthshaker. The Keyblade was made out of wood, and there was a noticeable crack on the shaft, where it had been broken and later repaired by somebody with passing knowledge of carpentry. Mickey looked at the wooden Keyblade, and Aqua noticed that his smile became just a bit more wistful. "Mickey?" she asked. "Is this what I think it is?"

"Yep." Mickey replied quietly. "It's the Wooden Keyblade that Terra gave to Ventus, and that Vanitas later broke. The first one, in fact, from the first time I experienced a Loop with you fellas while Awake. You guys don't remember it, of course, but I had gotten control of the Star Shard that Loop, so I was able to stick around in Neverland for longer than normal. When I saw Vanitas break the Keyblade, I waited for him to be driven off by you, before collecting the pieces. When I had a spare moment, I fixed it, and I've been hanging onto it ever since."

"Why?" Terra asked. "As another souvenir?"

"No." Mickey responded firmly. "That implies that you're nothing more than a way to pass the time. You guys are more than that. You're my friends." He turned to look at the case. "In fact, when you guys finally start Looping, I was planning on using it to teach you guys how to form subspace pockets of your own. Kinda like a 'Looping commencement gift,' or something."

"Wait, what?" Ventus blurted out. "You really think we're gonna start Looping, like those other people you mentioned?"

Mickey nodded, as his eyes twinkled a bit. "You betcha! In fact, how about this? When all of us are Awake at the same time, let's all meet up at Radiant Garden, and I'll show you a few tricks for making the Loops more fun. Deal?"

The three other Keyblade wielders looked at each other and smiled. "Deal."

11.4 (Mr. Egret): [Kingdom Hearts] / [Disney]

The Awakening of the Three Wayfarers (Finale)

Mickey sat by himself in a bench in a park, and he was more nervous than he had been in a long time. This was one of those rare times when he could not predict what would happen in a Kingdom Hearts loop. He didn't know if the time he spent with his friends had affected them enough to help them remember the Loop resetting. And their actions dictated how the entire loop would play out, for good or ill.

He looked up at the clock tower. It was nearly 3 o'clock. I wonder how they'll react, he thought to himself, when they see the King of Disney Castle waiting here like a kid who's lost his parents?

It was quite a sobering thought, to look around the peaceful streets and fields of Radiant Garden and at the majestic castle in the distance, and know that if his appointment were to fall through that everything here would be almost guaranteed to be destroyed by the Heartless tide. Not to mention that in ten years' time, Xemnas would use the high levels of Heartless as part of his plan to create another Kingdom Hearts, which just meant bad news for the entire Loop.

But more importantly...

"I just want to make sure they're all right," he whispered to himself, as he clenched his hands into fists. If they didn't remember, then Mickey would move Heaven and Earth to see that Xehanort would not hurt them. And that scared him. He had felt like that before, when Minnie, Donald and Goofy were still Unawake, and therefore lacked the foreknowledge of the awful times ahead. In all of its myriad variations.

Mickey still remembered when the Unawake Minnie was captured by Xehanort in a truly unspeakable variant Loop, and separated into a Heartless and Nobody duo as part of his experiments. He used to have nightmares about what he had done to the crazed scientist in retribution, and to Castle Oblivion in his rage. It was a minor miracle that Minnie Woke Up before Mickey really started cracking under the strain of the Loops.

He sighed deeply. Still, that was in the past. He knew where to draw the line now, to keep himself from going mad with power, and he was learning to trust other people to handle their own problems. He would still help, but now he was learning when to let people help themselves. But then, that's chronic hero syndrome for you.

The clock struck three, jarring Mickey back to reality. He looked around his bench, to see if his friends had shown up.

Nobody was there.

Glumly, Mickey got up and was preparing to leave Radiant Garden (but not before leaving a few nasty surprises for Xehanort's forces in key positions), when his large round ears picked up somebody calling his name. Naturally, he turned to look.

What he saw coming towards him made his eyes go quite wide with a sudden hope.

"Mickey! There you are!" Aqua called, as she, Ventus, and Terra hurried down the path towards him. "You haven't forgotten about our meeting, right?"

"Meeting?" Mickey repeated, slowly starting to smile. "You mean you fellas remember?"

Terra nodded, and smiled right back. "That's right. Every single detail."

"Even the trophy room?"

"Especially the trophy room."

Mickey laughed, as he and his friends embraced each other. While he still didn't know how this loop was going to go down, a lot of the stress he was feeling had melted away when they said that they remembered the last one.

They were Awake at last. It didn't matter what Xehanort did now. Somehow, everything was going to be okay.

Mickey knew it.

As the four reunited friends walked away towards the castle while eagerly sharing news and making grand plans for the future, they were blissfully unaware that they were being watched.

Just outside of Twilight Town, inside the room at the very top of his Mysterious Tower, Yen Sid smiled to himself as he looked through his scrying crystal at the scene playing out in Radiant Garden. "Well done, my young apprentice," he murmured to himself. "You have progressed far beyond my expectations, it seems."

Still smiling, he returned to his desk and unfurled a scroll. The contents were sparse, consisting of a simple list of names.

To be precise, the names of every single Keyblade wielder observed in a baseline Loop in Kingdom Hearts.

Yen Sid looked towards the bottom, where the names of Terra, Aqua, and Ventus were written, and placed a checkmark next to each of them. With that edit, only two names, one struck through with a very solid line, and one without such a line, did not possess a check mark.

The former Keyblade Master looked at the name without a mark. "Now, I believe it's your turn, my old friend. And not a moment too soon. It would be nice to have somebody to relate to in these Loops. Keeping such a secret leaves me weary in heart."

He rolled up the scroll, and set it aside before returning to his arcane studies. If someone were to look at the scroll from above, then they would see that the name in question was still legible.

Master Eraqus.

11.5 (Crossoverpairinglover): [Naruto] / [Phineas and Ferb]

Random Loot Loop!

In the coffer you find…

• a tonic of clouds

• a cabbage

• a glorious bomb of arcane

• an eldritch jet of the scientist

• a magic book containing "Earth Specter"

• a pile of 232 assorted coins of copper and silver

Naruto just stared at the 'jet' that was floating over Konoha. Now, unlike non looping Konoha residents, he had actually seen a jet in the metal before, so he knew this wasn't the Land of the Sky attacking again.

But this wasn't a normal jet. It sort of looked what happened when one of those planes from McQueen's universe got busy with Cthulhu.

"Ha ha ha! I, Doctor Heinz Doofenshmirtz, have finally done it! After so many loops, the Eldritch Jet of the Scientist is mine! I shall use it to destroy you all for the sins you all have no recollection of!" a voice shouted from within the monster jet as it began to eerily glow.

"Is he still hung out about the time Kiba flirted with Vanessa?" Hinata asked her crush as the monstrous jet let loose a laser blast that seemed to be a fusion of Iron Man's UniBeam and Cyclops's optic blasts at the Inuzuka Compound.

"Yep."

"Do you think he's still hung over about the time that Choji ate his Dunkeberries?"

ZAP

"Yep."

"Do you think he's still a fan of those exercise videos Might Guy made that loop he was a television star?"

"BEHOLD MY GLORIOUS YOUTH!"

"Yep... so do you want to get him or should I?" Naruto questioned as Hinata shrugged.

"Go ahead." Naruto nodded before he began to form a giant Rasengan with a spiral within it.

"SPIRIT BOMB SPIRAL RASENGAN!" Naruto threw the thing right at Doofenshmirtz and his 'Eldritch Jet of the Scientist', which was promptly struck and sent flying into the sky.

"LOOKS LIKE DOOFENSHMIRTZ IS BLASTING OFF AGAIN!"

Twinkle

11.6 (Drakohahn): [Gundam SEED] / [Frozen]

Kira Awoke to find himself in a rather girly bed. It took only a moment after that to confirm that he was indeed female this loop. With a mental shrug, she sent out a Ping while waiting for her loop memories. A ping returned near instantly, so it didn't seem like the fellow looper was rather close. A moment after receiving the ping, the loop memories kicked in.

She was more than a bit shocked by the events she recalled as the memories flooded in. She was Kira of Arendelle, elder princess and current heir to the throne. For some unexplained reason, she was born with power over all things cold. Generally, she had only used that power for fun with her sister, Cagalli. However, during one such time, there was an accident and Cagalli took a blast of ice magic to the head. She told their parents, who then took them to the trolls to correct things. In her opinion… the trolls could have done it better. The memory replacement was so Cagalli wouldn't blame her, right? And which kind of fear were they talking about? Other people's fear of her power, her own fear of her powers… or her parents fear of her powers?

As she was contemplating this, she heard a knock on her bedroom door. Blinking out of her reverie, Kira frowned. It was awfully late for anyone to come talk to her. Though, the confusion quickly faded when she heard a familiar voice from the other side.

"Hey Kira, open up!" It was Cagalli. Once she knew that, Kira couldn't go open the door to let her in fast enough.

"So, are you feeling loopy?" Standard question to make sure he was talking to an Awake Cagalli.

"Yeah and I'm looking for an Anchor." There was the usual response. Kira was able to see her just fine in the little amount of light that the stars and moon provided for the room. First thing she noticed was just how odd it felt for Cagalli to be a redhead. "It's been awhile… Sis."

Kira rolled her eyes at the tone used in "Sis". At least she wasn't trying to claim that she was still the elder sister when they clearly weren't born twins this time. "I'm curious about your loop memories. Do you recall anything out of the ordinary happening?"

"What do you mean?" Cagalli looked at her sister in confusion. "Is there something I should be remembering?"

A moment of silence passed before Kira held up a hand and formed a snowball in it. Cagalli was left flabbergasted.

"W-what?! How come I don't recall you being able to do that?!"

"Because of an accident when we were younger and not Awake." The elder sister explained. "A blast of my magic hit you in the head as we were playing with it. Apparently, getting hit in certain places by ice magic will cause the affected person to freeze from the inside out. Also apparently, it's easier to heal when it was the head that was hit compared to when the heart is hit… Don't ask me how that works." Cagalli had opened her mouth to say something when Kira had said that last part. Taking a breath, the Anchor continued. "Anyway, they took you to see these little rock creatures they called Trolls. While healing your head, they decided to change your memories so you didn't know about my magic… because why not."

"Wait a minute!" The younger sister exclaimed. "Loop memories can be altered and/or falsified?!"

"It's not exactly a common occurrence. I mean, depending on the Loop, whether the memories you get are altered or not depends on when you Awaken. Other times, not so much," Kira stated with a shrug. "However, it's also not my first time encountering such a phenomenon. Which is why I was curious if you remembered what actually happened."

The currently redheaded Cagalli crossed her arms and frowned at the fact that her memories weren't what had they had done together. However, as she thought over which memories involved her and her sister, she pieced together the recollections most likely to be the altered ones. Once she had a rough estimate of which ones, she smirked.

"I only have one thing to say about this." She let the silence continue for a second to build up the tension. "Do you want to build a snowman?"

The return smile said more than words ever could.

11.7 (OathToOblivion): [Wreck-It Ralph] / [Mario] / [Legend of Zelda] / [Kirby] / [Ben 10] / [Codename: Kids Next Door] / [Gargoyles]

"Okay, this meeting of Looping Bad Guys Anonymous (AKA Looping BadAnon) will hereby come to order!" Wreck-It Ralph declared. "I'm Ralph, and I'll be your host for this Loop. Okay, we're going to do a role call real quick. Just note the fact that you're here, okay?" he asked, picking up a clipboard sized for his massive 8-bit hands.

"Okay... Bowser?"

"Gwa ha ha! As if I wouldn't be here!"

"Yeah yeah... Ganondorf?"

"Hmph. Of course I'm here!"

"Dedede?"

"Hey, does the penguin even count?" Bowser questioned, jabbing his thumb in the direction of the now-irate King of Dreamland.

"HOW MANY TIMES?! NOT A PENGUIN!"

"Then what are you anyway?" Marx snickered next to Dedede.

"Guys, focus. Okay, Marx is here. Vilgax?"

"Present."

"Benedict?"

"Would it kill you to use my title?"

"Yeah, okay, fine, "Father". Mr. Xanatos?"

"Present, of course."

"Vaati?"

"..." The silence echoed throughout Ralph's house in the Fix-It Felix Jr. cabinet. Ralph looked up from the checklist to where Vaati was supposed to be sitting. Emphasis on "supposed to" because the Wind Mage was nowhere to be seen.

"Okay, can someone tell me where Vaati is?"

Meanwhile, in Sugar Rush...

"GET BACK HERE, YOU SUGARY CRETIN! RETURN MY CAPE THIS INSTANT!"

"Why the fudge would I want to do that?!" Vanellope tossed back at the irate Wind Mage, zipping off in her kart the instant she got near it. Vaati steamed, enough that the sweets that made up Sugar Rush's level design started melting.

"HERE THIS, VANELLOPE VON SCHWEETZ! I WILL HAVE MY REVENGE!" he yelled at the retreating princess/president of Sugar Rush.

"Wow, you really are a Bad Guy with a line like that!" Vanellope's voice was faintly hear saying. Vaati gritted his teeth, immediately transforming into his Demon Eye form and racing after her.

11.8 (Bardic_Knowledge): [Gargoyles)

As the sun set on Xanatos Enterprises, Goliath felt himself come Awake. Being as careful as he could, he shattered the mystical stone that kept his unAwake self sleeping a thousand years and roared, as was tradition. Moments later, he sent out a ping and received six back. He smiled. Either there were guests, or there were enough natives Awake that at least four of them had to be his clan, so he glided down to the others as they shed their own stone and greeted them.

"The spell seems to have left me Loopy," he said, his standard, start-of-Loop greeting. "Are all of us really Awake?"

And, wonder of wonders, every one of them gave the return signal. The entire clan was Awake! That left the last ping, which belonged to either Elisa or Xanatos. And that question would be answered by Elisa's visit. Xanatos would either introduce an unAwake Elisa to them, as a gesture of good faith to the Gargoyle clan and as a way to smooth relations between her and his business (which had become quite a bit less shady in the Loops, relatively speaking), or the Awake Elisa would sneak up on them and join the conversation herself.

"It's been such a long time since we've all been Awake," said Hudson. "Who wants to go first on their last Fused Loop?"

"I had an interesting one," said Broadway. "I was a dragon, but I didn't breath fire. Instead, we used light - like lasers - for our breath weapons. The really cool part, kinda, was that the Dromoka Clan practiced the same kind of family-style we did in baseline. Every kid was raised by the whole community. It was kinda nice, really."

"Wait," said Brooklyn. "You were on Tarkir, too? I was in Kolaghan's Clan! It was kinda weird flying with four wings, but I flew so fast. Breathing lightning is gonna be fun to use, too."

Goliath raised an eyebrow as he looked between them. "And how is it that neither of you knew the other was there? Didn't you send out a ping?"

"I did, but I didn't feel one in response," answered Broadway.

"I might've been too caught up in a raid when I woke up to notice a ping," Brooklyn said, sheepishly. "And then I was so caught up in how fast I could fly I might've forgotten to do one anyways."

"Makes sense for you," teased Lexington. "I was in Sword Art Online. Joined up with Asuna's - that's the Anchor, by the way - Asuna's guild 'The Yggdrasil Warriors' as soon as I could. And, well..." Lexington blushed and twiddled his thumbs. "I kinda met someone."

Brooklyn cuffed him on the shoulder. "You little fox! Who?"

"Gobber."

Everyone paused to parse this. "Not the weaponsmith-slash-dragon dentist Gobber?" hazarded Bronx (who had learned to speak in a Loop as Scooby Doo).

"Yeah. We didn't really have a chance to go on a date or anything, but we got along great. I hope I can meet him again."

"It's nice to see that you have found someone," said Goliath, cautiously. "I must admit that I'm unsure as to the... height differences, though."

"It wasn't terrible, but then he was deaged to a teenager. And it's not like we haven't learned shape-changing magic at this point, so I could easily grow as tall as I want."

Everyone nodded and murmured agreement.

11.9 (jxz and Anon e Mouse Jr.): [Snow White] / [Sleeping Beauty] / [Cinderella] / [Aladdin] / [The Little Mermaid] / [Beauty and the Beast] / [Pocahontas] / [Brave] / [Mulan] / [Kingdom Hearts] / [The Princess and the Frog] / [Tangled] / [Frozen] / [Peter Pan] / [Alice in Wonderland] / [Wreck-It Ralph] / [Sofia the First] / [Bar Loop]

"Order, Order!" Snow White declared. At her side, Aurora and Cinderella were sitting in chairs, each one decorated with designs that suited the two princesses. "As the oldest looping Disney Princess, I salute you, and I welcome you to this Princess Summit."

"We're glad you could all come." Aurora said. "Now, we'll do something different as always. Cinderella?"

"Thanks, Aurora." The crystal shoe-wearing princess said. "Now, as we have some new princesses, we'll pass list, and talk about something you did after the last summit, or, in case you weren't there, something you have done that's not baseline. Princess Jasmine?"

"Here, and I trained with Gaara about how to use sand Jutsu." Jasmine said. "Now, when Jafar tries to send my castle to the top of the mountains, he's always blocked by sand walls."

"That's a good use of Sand Jutsu." Cinderella said. "Next, Princess Ariel."

From a bubble of water that seemed to float in the air, the mermaid appeared. "Here! Let me tell you, learning Waterbending is a bit hard, but when you master it, you can do things like this!" As she talked, she took a bit of the bubble and changed it into a perfect replica of her castle. Then, she froze it, and put it into her Pocket. "Melody will like this one."

"Oh, yeah, remind me to give her that gift I owe her for helping me with Gaston." Aurora said. "By the way, Princess Belle."

"Here, and I've been learning on transmorphic magic, and breaking spells." Belle said. "If I can't save Beast's flower, at least I can try to give him a good life."

"A good gesture of your part. Next, Princess Pocahontas."

"You know I don't like that title..." the Native American said.

"We know, but you're still a princess." Cinderella said. "Your father is the leader of the tribe, and you took his place in a lot of loops and in Baseline."

"I know..." Pocahontas sighed. "Anyway, I've been training with Merida here," She signaled at the Scottish girl at her side, polishing a crossbow. "to learn how to shoot arrows perfectly."

"She's getting good, at this way we'll soon pass to Crossbows and Giant Bows." Merida said.

"Well, at least we know what were you doing last loop." Jasmine said.

"Next, Princess Mulan."

"I'm not a princess, I don't know why I'm still referred as one." Mulan said.

"Ask Mushu, he told me he once sold the rights of your story to a princess corporation." Snow said. "We just roll with it because of the Hub."

"Yeah, I know- Wait, Mushu did what?"

"No matter now..." Cinderella said, trying to save the tiny dragon's life through a lot of loops. "Now, what have you done?"

Mulan relaxed a little. "As you know, I've been learning from swordmasters, and last loop I found myself in an interesting place." After saying that, she took a few multicolored stones from her Pocket. "With these, I can infuse my swords with different attributes, and they allow me to poison an enemy, freeze him, or steal a bit of his life force. Not that I'll use the last one, of course. The downside is that I need a number of these things to enchant a weapon, and they are only in that world."

"Interesting. Do you mind if I ask for some?" Kairi asked, sitting alongside the other 'Honorary' Princesses.

"Yeah, you can. But let's wait for a loop together, so I can know how many El Shards your Keyblade needs."

"Alright. Next, Princess Tiana."

"I've been learning a few things about voodoo." Tiana said. "You know, in case that the curse that Facilier does can't be broken by breaking his amulet... And in case Naveen is more of a prick in some Loops..." She finished, muttering.

"And your cooking?" Mulan asked.

"Great thing you asked; Here," she said, taking a big cake from her Pocket. "I cooked this last night, it's a Bayou Special MegaMix Cake, my Magnum Opus in desserts. If you want Gumbo, I have a great recipe I learnt a few loops ago from a master cooker. Come on, try!"

Each princess and honorary princess took a bite, and were amazed for the deliciousness of it. "Wow! This is really good!" Belle said. "Mind if you give me the recipe later?"

"Not at all! I'll upload it to your PADD as soon as possible."

"I'd like a copy too, if you don't mind," Snow said. "Next should be Merida, but we've heard about what has she done-"

"Hey! I've done more things!"

"Finding ways to kill Mordu easily isn't new, you know." Cinderella declared, as the Scottish princess pouted. "Now, Princess Rapunzel."

"Here." The (now) brunette princess said. "Now, you're all wondering why I cut my hair." No one talked, but everyone wondered it. "Well, I learnt to use my healing magic with my own hands after a few loops where my parents had to put the flower in my body as a gel to save me. So, every time, after escaping the tower with Eugene, I cut my hair, and enjoy a simple day without my 'mother'."

"Interesting, and a good thing too. Princesses Anna and Elsa?"

"Please, each one separately." Elsa said. "We do different things, we told you that last time. Besides, I'm a Queen."

"Right." Snow made a note. "You were a princess though, and you'll always be considered one of us. So, what did you do?"

"Well, I Replaced Jadis, from Narnia," Elsa said. "Not a big fan of what she did, even if it's a bit like what I did. So, I de-froze everything, except for my palace, and I made elections for a Prime Minister. Aslan won, and I became just a political figure without power."

"That's not as good as it sounds, for your information," Jasmine said. "But I'm sure all of us have been there." A few murmurs of agreement were heard.

"And you, Anna?" Snow asked.

"Not much, just making sure that my sister never freezes the kingdom, again."

"You do it once in Baseline..." the Snow Maiden muttered, while a few princesses chuckled.

"Alright, now, the Honorary Princesses." Snow White said.

"I think I'll go first." Wendy said. "I've been practicing about making Fairy Dust since that loop I replaced Tinker Bell."

"You're getting good at that, by the way. I think Peter wants you to teach Izzy to make her own Fairy Dust." The artisan fairy said.

"Hey, you can talk normally!" Kairi said.

"Well, I've exactly trying to learn how to make a miniature translator fairy-human. It works well, for a prototype." Tinker Bell said.

"Cool. Do you girls mind if I go next?" Alice asked. When the princesses agreed, she spoke. "I've decided to ask Discord for a few lessons on how to use Chaos Magic."

"Wait, what? How? Why?" Mulan asked.

"Do you want to know?" The "Princess" of Wonderland grinned, with a grin that reminded the others of the Cheshire Cat... Before disappearing like the cat, leaving only the eyes. After a few seconds, she reappeared, while the princesses all stood in silence, with only Vanellope clapping.

"Alright... Now, who's next?" Tiana asked.

"Oh, Me!" Sofia, the youngest princess, said. "I'm glad you invited me to this summit, I've only seen a few of you, and only whenever I need help from a princess."

"And we're still glad to meet you, Sofia." Cinderella said. "By the way, how is your princess training going?"

"Really good! Last loop, I looped in a world, where I had to practice being a princess, with a little cute fairy!"

"Huh?" Aurora said, smiling. "Do you know the three qualities you need to be a Grand Princess?"

"Of course! Do you?" Sofia asked, a glimmer in her eyes. Aurora nodded, and both of them chanted "Strong! Kind! Beautiful!" while holding little keys that looked like dresses.

"Well, that explains where Aurora was last loop. And how Maleficent was destroyed." Snow White said. "Now, I guess Kairi's next, then Vanellope, and then we can continue with-"

"Wait!" The glitch princess shouted. "What about you two?!" She pointed to Snow and Cinderella. "I mean, we get Aurora, but you two?"

"Oh, right. Well, I was with Kairi and Anastasia, even if she isn't technically a Disney Princess, so I was hoping she explained more," Cinderella told them.

"Yeah, I was with them fighting Xehanort," Kairi said. "I promised Ven a calmed loop if I woke up while he was with Eraqus, and I'm usually a little kid, so I needed help."

"It's a good thing we were Awake for that, I needed to ventilate a few things... My stepmom annoys me a lot sometimes..." Cinderella said.

"I see..." Vanellope said. "But what about our great leader herself?"

"Yeah Snow, what have you been doing?" Jasmine asked.

"Well, I've been doing something special with the dwarfs. Do you wanna know?" Snow said, smiling playfully.

"Does it involve Minecraft?" Vanellope asked, for the shock of the princess, who was going to release a few Diamond Ores from her Pocket.

"... How did you know?"

"Eh, almost every time I see them, is 'Dig this, Dig that! Snow is making progress with her Diamond Ore Fabricator!', You know, things like that." Vanellope smiled, and winked, making the oldest Looping Princess speechless. "By the way, I stealth looped into your world last time." She finished, smiling and glitching all the way.

11.1-11.4: So the Wayfarer trio are Looping, and Yen Sid is Stealthing...

11.5: There was a Random Loot Generator thing a while back. This is from it.

11.6: (shrugs) Not much else I can say.

11.7: Ah, BadAnon… a good place to be yourself.

11.8: Yes, it's official canon (even outside the Loops) that Lexington prefers his own gender. So does Gobber of How To Train Your Dragon. Whether their friendship will go further is entirely up in the air.

11.9: Disney Princesses have some interesting discussions. (Note: This is edited from the original version to remove its mention of "multiversal network"; that's been replaced with uploading to PADDs on request. I also added one or two lines to clarify certain parts.)