Well, here's the next chapter!
I wasn't initially happy with this chapter, but I like how it ended.

Kingdom Hearts (c) Disney and Square Enix!

OCs (c) to me!

Chapter 15: Monstropolis- Laughter

Lea and Xion looked down at the hidden human child. The child herself just giggled, happy and unaware of the danger she was in. She kept repeating the same phrase over and over.

"Mike Wazowski!"

Flint looked over at the child. "Michael? Ah, he's one of our employees. Perhaps she came with him."

The little girl turned her body, bouncing in Xion's arms. "Kitty!"

"Boo!" They turned to see Sullivan come barreling down the hall, followed by a round green monster with a single large eye! He scooped the little girl out of Xion's arms, hugging her. "Boo, oh you're all right! I was so worried! Don't you ever run away from me again, young lady! Oh, but I'm so glad you're safe."

Xion and Lea stared, slack-jawed as the monster, who they'd watched frighten human children the day before. Here he was, worried about human girl.

Flint blinked, cocking her head to the side. "Sullivan, I didn't know you were a father."

"Uh," the monster scratched the back of his head, shifting his eyes to the side, "actually, she's my cousin's sister's daughter."

Xion's eyes narrowed. "Really? You don't look anything alike."

Sully looked down at her, his eyes widening slightly. "Uh… Flint. Are you giving a tour?"

"That's right. This is Xion, her son Yuyake, Lea and his children Brim and Blaze. We were going to meet you at the demonstration later today."

"H-how about I give the rest of the tour? You should probably go work with some of the newcomers. Mikey and I can handle it." He grinned awkwardly, but Flint didn't seem to notice.

"Oh, I'm sure this will be an amazing experience for our guests! I hope you all understand what an amazing opportunity this is!"

"Oh yeah…" Yuyake nodded, smiling as kindly as possible.

"We're thrilled!"

Flint nodded and turned away, striding down the hall. As soon as she passed out of sight, Sully turned on them. "Look, I can explain…!"

"Please, explain why you have a human girl pretending to be a monster."

Mikey shushed them hurriedly. "Keep it down! Look, it was an accident and all we want is to get her home. Which I've got under control. We just have to get to the scare floor by noon. Which we don't have much time! So, let's go!"

"We'll be coming too, just to make sure that little girl gets home safely."

"Why do you care!?"

Xion loomed over Mikey, her eyes flashing with fury. "Let's just say I care about little kids, human or monster."

Sully let out a groan. "Are you a human advocate? Seriously, last time one of you was here, part of our system was sabotaged."

"We just want to get that kid home safe." Blaze crossed her arms.

"Can we go?" Brim groaned leaning against the wall when he suddenly slipped, falling into Mikey.

Mikey fell and rolled down the hallway and into a trash can. The little girl, Boo as Sully called her, suddenly laughed. The lights flickered and some burst.

"Will you stop making Boo laugh!?"

"I didn't! Just come on!" They ran down the halls, avoiding the area with the busted lights.

The two monsters went running down the hall, with the others following behind as fast as possible. Xion followed quickly, looking directly at Boo the entire time, making sure that the little girl never left her sight.

"I still don't understand," Sulley held her close, "you've got Boo's door?"

"I'll explain later. Run!" The green monster ran into the scare floor. In the middle of the scare floor, under a light. One door. One door stood in the open. A white door with flowers painted on it, clearly the door of a child. Mikey laughed as he saw the door. "There it is! Just like Randall said!"

"Randall?"

"Randall?" The lizard monster that scared Erin.

Boo suddenly whined, flailing in Sully's arms until she snuggled up against him, squealing in fear. Xion immediately ran over, putting herself between the door and the child.

Lea looked over at the kids. "Spread out." They all spread out, weapons in-hand.

Mikey stood by the door, arms crossed. "We're gonna get our lives back. The nightmare is over!"

"Shh," Sully however, ran his hand along Boo's back, "it's ok, Boo."

"What's the matter? Come on, it's time to move!" The one-eyed monster gestured to the door.

"The little girl is obviously afraid!"

Lea glanced around, looking into the shadows for anything. For a moment, he thought he saw yellow eyes, but the vanished moments later.

"Mike," Sully's eyes glanced around, searching for danger at every turn, "we can't trust Randall. He's after Boo."

"Who cares? Let's go! This is a limited time offer."

Xion's eyebrow twitched. "Who care!? How can you be so cruel!?"

"Oh, be quiet! You're not the one getting arrested if you get caught!" The green monster snapped.

The blue monster glared at his friend. "Mike, leave her alone. And I don't like this. So, no."

"Look, Sully you wanted her door and there it is. Now, let's move."

Blaze raised an eyebrow. "Uh, are you just ignoring the fact that this sounds like an obvious trap?"

"Mikey," Yuyake sighed, "look. It just seems too good to be true. Think about it."

Mike groaned, turning around. "You want me to prove everything's on the up-and-up?" His feet carried him toward the door. "Fine! He wants the door I get the door…"

"Mike, wait!"

"Hold on!"

"This is a trap!"

"Don't be an idiot!"

Mike threw open the door. He took a moment, glancing back at the group, his face a mask of annoyance before he walked into the room and began jumping on the bed.

Everything seemed fine.

Until a box scooped Mike up.

Everyone suddenly gasped before ducking behind something. Randall came out carrying a large box which now contained Mike. He pulled up a cart full of scream cannisters, which appeared to be fake when Randall opened up the tops of all of them to put the box inside. He rolled the cart away just as the lunch bell rang.

Monsters began pouring into the room, passing by Randall without having any idea the captive he held.

"What do we do?"

Sully immediately stood up, chasing after Randall, ignoring anyone else around him.

"Follow him!" Lea stood up, chasing after the blue monster. The kids and Xion followed him.

Their feet pounded down the halls after Sully. As they rounded a corner into a quiet area of the factory, the group spotted a lone figure in the hallway a monster with a wolf-like face and piercing green eyes. The figure's fur was a dark brown with tan flecks. He wore navy and black clothes covered in belts with knives.

"Chasing after monsters and little children?"

"Who are you?"

The wolf boy pulled out one of his knives and slashed the air. The blades seemed to tear through space, the wolf face vanished, the magic keeping him hidden on this world vanished in a moment revealing a teenage boy with cinnamon-colored skin and dark brown hair.

"Don't tell me, you've forgotten." The boy laughed. "Malachi. Though, I've changed quite a bit since last year." The illusion of his real face faded to the wolf appearance. "Now, why not leave Sullivan to his own fate. You have no reason to be here. Or are you just forgetting Pith?"

Xion bristled at the accusation. "You listen here! I care deeply about my nephew and I won't let you accuse me of forgetting him!"

"You only care about your own children." Malachi scoffed. "If that's the case, just go home." He vanished into a corridor of darkness.

Yuyake raised an eyebrow, his fingers twitching, ready for any attack to appear out of nowhere. "Mom?"

"We have to help. We are in this situation. It is irresponsible to do nothing now!" Lea spoke rather than Xion. "We can go check on your kids after. This is what matters right now." He smiled, his hand resting softly on Xion's shoulder.

The woman smiled. "Yeah." But as they continue to find Sully, she couldn't help but run through Malachi's comment.

Had she forgotten Pith?

The mother of eleven children, and she forgot the child she was supposed to be helping. Now, she'd wasted their time. Sully looked like he had things under control here. Did he need their help?

There was no Heartless.

"Maybe, we should let Sully and Mike handle this."

Everyone stopped and looked back at her.

"Uh, did you hit your head, Aunt Xion?" Brim cocked his head to the side slightly. He paused as she saw his aunt with tears in her eyes. "You were just… just telling Malachi off."

Xion wrapped her arms around herself, shaking slightly. "I-I made a mistake. I was the one who asked us to stay here." Her eyes looked up, staring into the eyes of her son. "I-I forgot about Pith."

"Mom?"

"I forgot about him. I heard the screams of two of my kids and I just forgot. And travelling the worlds… it felt normal. There's no universe-threatening thing like Xehanort this time. I-I just…"

Lea stepped forward, placing both hands on her shoulders. "Xion! Focus!" He knelt down slightly, his mind flashing back to a moment when he'd found her, confused and afraid, inside Castle Oblivion. At that time, she didn't listen to him.

Hopefully this time, she would.

"We've made a commitment to this world for now." The man smiled warmly. "I'll admit, it's hard to not see this as a calmer situation with someone like Xehanort not involved. Hey, if I'd really felt like we were wasting time here, I wouldn't have let us stay. After this, we'll ask the others if we can regroup and then we'll take you home. You can see your kids, and we won't be wasting our time."

Xion let out a sigh. "A-alright. We'll finish what we started."

The group of them hurried down the hall, only to pause as Sully, with Mike ran past them with Boo.

"Whoa!" Blaze turned around. "Wh-what's happening?"

"Randall's gonna kill us!"

Sully glanced back as they ran. "Randall has a machine to forcefully suck screams away from children."

"What!?"

Xion's eyes narrowed as her mind reached out for her children back home. Imagining them being tortured for screams. It made her furious.

Now.

She was glad she'd stayed.

"We gotta get out of here now!" Mike ran for an exit door. "We can start a whole new life somewhere far away! Goodbye Monster's Inc! Goodbye Mr. Waternoose!"

Sully skidded to a stop. "Wait!" He turned around and ran back.

"What are you doing?"

"Follow me! I have an idea!"

They ran back through the factory, into a different room. A room where Flint sat with some other monsters, one of which was gray with spider legs. Another stood in what appeared to be a model of a child's bedroom.

A bedroom simulation.

"Mr. Waternoose!" Sully yelled as they burst in the room

The spider monster turned, a smile decorating his face. "Ah, James! Perfect timing. And who are these guests?"

"Guests that came to see our company." Flint smiled.

Waternoose grinned. "Now, James, you can show all these monsters how it's done.

"What!?" The blue monster handed Boo to Mike. "No I can't! Sir, you have to listen to me!"

"Pay attention everyone. You're about to see the best in the business. Reset the simulator." The spider didn't seem to hear his employee.

"Mom…?"

Xion took a deep breath. "If Sully does this, then we can talk to his boss."

The fake child settled into bed as Sully walked beside the bed, but with all eyes on him, Boo squirmed out of Mike's arms and scrambled toward Sully. Only Mike and Yuyake saw her.

"Boo." Yuyake hurried after the little girl.

"Mr. Waternoose, there's no time for this!"

"Come on! What are you waiting for? Roar!"

"But sir!"

"Roar!"

Letting out a long sigh, the blue monster turned on the fake child and roared.

And what a roar.

The roar shook the room, sending fear down the spines of everyone present.

But Boo. Poor Boo.

Yuyake grabbed her arm as she reached Sully's side, just as he let out the roar.

Yuyake felt his own body stiffen and bristle at the frightening roar, but the little girl began to scream and cry.

"Well done! Well done, James." The monsters watching clapped.

But Sully. He looked down at the little girl. The girl who'd now run off, crying with Yuyake trying to catch her again.

Xion looked at the frightened child and her heart broke.

But, she couldn't do anything, as Flint, just as she tried to usher the other monsters outside, screamed.

"What is that!?"

Lea turned. "Kids! Come on!"

Rushing into the hallway, they saw a Heartless, and beside it stood Malachi. "I told you to leave this be."

He vanished into the darkness, leaving the creature behind.

A heartless that resembled a large snake. The creature seemed to go on forever, its body winding down halls, where more screams could be heard. The scales, dark in color, seemed to move with what appeared to be storm clouds. The scales around its head flickered with gold as its head fanned out like that of a cobra, with the Heartless insignia on both sides. Glancing over its prey, the Apophis(1) Heartless hissed, the air around it crackling with dark lightning.

Yuyake closed the door to the simulation room with Sully, Mike, Boo, and Waternoose inside and locked it with his Keyblade. "Get out of here!" He yelled to Flint and the others, who immediately ran.

"Blaze!"

The girl grinned! Her monster form glowed as each phoenix feather lit up with flames. "Burn freak!" Flames licked the hallway, running toward the snake, ready to swallow it whole.

The Heartless hissed, dark clouds formed above its head, launching a torrent of water into the flames. Steam flooded the hall, making visibility nonexistent.

Its tongue flicking in and out, the golden eyes of the creature scoured the misty hall. It saw another torrent of flames glowing in the distance.

With a flick of its head, the mist parted to reveal Blaze, hands glowing. "Made ya look."

From below, Xion and Lea leapt upwards, slashing at the Heartless' throat with their Keyblades. The Apophis gurgled as its throat took the full force of the blow.

Before it could recover, Brim threw his hatchets, hitting it on both sides of its face before he ran in close, flames appearing on his legs as he kicked at the Heartless' already damaged throat. His foot made contact. Flames exploded on the monster's throat.

Yuyake, taking advantage of Brim's distraction, jumped up to the Apophis' head. Both Keyblades in hand, he shoved them into the Heartless' open mouth, preventing it from closing.

"Blaze!"

The girl, coated in flames, rushed forward as the snake tried to shake the Keyblades from its mouth. Blaze grabbed onto the lower gum of the monster, pulling all her flames into one concentrated mass in her left hand. "Bon appetite!" She thrust her hand into the creature's mouth and unleashed a flurry of flames.

Fire spurted out of the back of the snake's head as it gave one last hiss and dissipated into the darkness.

"Well, that's taken care of." Brim dusted off his hands with a grin.

Yuyake nodded. "Let's get back to Boo. She looked really scared."

"Yeah." Xion walked over to the door and unlocked it, but as her hand touched the handle, she paused, listening.

"I thought you would get rid of them!"

Randall?

"I distracted them. You have the kid, what more do you want?"

Malachi? He was working with Randall? And kid? Boo?

"Just get the child to the Scream Extractor."

Waternoose!?

Xion burst in the door. Randall held Boo, his slimy hands over the little girl's mouth.

Malachi stood beside a black door that stood partially open. And behind him stood Waternoose.

"Let Boo go!"

"Not on your life!"

Waternoose sighed. "I hoped Malachi was wrong when he said you were terrorists out to destroy our company… but it looks like he was right."

"What!?"

"Don't worry," Malachi smirked, bearing his wolf teeth, "I'll deal with them now." Holding out his hand, Malachi summoned a whip.

The group all moved to dodge, but the whip began to glow white. Ice spurted up from the ground, trapping everyone's feet. Before even Blaze could melt it, the whip wrapped around them all. With a single pull, Malachi jerked them out of the ice and threw them out the door.

When the whip released, they all rolled across the hard, damp ground.

The first thing they noticed… was that they were human once again.

Yuyake looked up to see an old building with a raised square in the middle. Ropes surrounded the square, and pieces of a broken cage lay everywhere. On one wall, he saw paintings of what appeared to be a purple dragon. "Is this a boxing ring?"

"An illegal one, yes. Built in an old factory." Malachi stood in the ring, his hands holding his old hammer now. "Welcome to my world. Welcome to New York City(2)."

Xion jumped to her feet, her Keyblade flashing into her hand. "Why!? Why bring us here."

"You didn't listen, so I removed you. Maybe I can pound some sense into your heads here." Malachi laughed, glancing around. "Unless you're abandoning Pith to his fate."

"Never!"

Xion leapt forward. Seeker of the Stars(3) clashing against his hammer.

"You think you can take me?"

"You have incredible strength and a hammer. My son told me about you. I can easily take a punk like you on."

"I've changed a bit since then!" He leapt back, his hammer vanishing in a cloud of red magic. "My tactics and weapons for starters. Kongō!" He charged forward, the red magic culminating in his hands as suddenly a trident, crackling with lightning appeared.

Yuyake, appearing at his mother's side, knocked the trident up with one Keyblade and slashed with the other.

Letting go the trident, it vanished as Malachi held up his hands, "Shield of El Cid!", just in time to summon a shield bearing the image of a golden dragon.

"What!?"

"Braig's benefactor is kind. Kind enough to grant me new abilities."

"Then we'll just see how good you are with them!" Blaze and Brim ran towards him from either side, their bodies ablaze with fire.

Pushing back from the mother and son, "Babr-e Bayan!" His shield vanished to become a full suit of armor. As soon as their flames touched it, they vanished.

"What!?"

The armor vanished as an axe appeared in the boy's hands, "Forseti's Axe!" sending a torrent of water at the siblings.

Lea narrowed his eyes. "So that's it. Xion!" He ran over, dropping his voice to a whisper. "He can only use one thing at a time. We'll have to fight him fast before he can switch."

"Gotcha!" Xion leapt back, holding up her Keyblade. "HASTE!" Yellow magic surrounded everyone on their side.

"Go!"

The boy grit his teeth as they all charged, his eyes barely able to follow their movements. "Juuchi Yosamu!(4)" A katana appeared in his hands. He swung wildly, hoping to catch the fast-moving warriors as they all rushed to land any sort of blow on his body.

"This ends now!" Xion cast Haste once more on herself before running forward, water coating her Keyblade in a rush of energy. "LIQUID STEEL(5)!"

Her Keyblade slammed into Malachi's katana, shattering the blade as her sword, water and all slammed into the boy's chest.

Malachi flew backwards, slamming into the purple dragon painted on the wall, cracking it. He coughed, moving his hand slightly. Just enough to summon a dark corridor and vanish.

"We need to move!" Lea ran toward the black closet door they'd flown out of.

He pulled the door open, and it opened up to the simulation room. Malachi must've been planning to use it to get back.

"Where could they have gone!?"

"Someone has to have seen them!" Xion's feet pounded the floor as she ran down the halls. Her legs carried her toward the scare floor.

Monsters all stood around, staring up at the conveyor belt that took the doors away.

Brim turned to one of the monsters. "What happened!?"

"Mike, Sully, and Randall just rode some doors into the door vault."

Yuyake ran to a table and grabbed two keycards for doors. "Then we'll do the same!" He ran over, swiping the cards.

"Hey! You can't do that!"

"Watch us!" Blaze's feathers glowed as she erected a wall of fire between them and the other monsters.

The doors Yuyake called came down. They all grabbed on as the doors went back up to the conveyor belt, rocking as the belt carried them into another room.

A room full of thousands upon thousands of doors.

"Heartless!"

Flutterings filled the room. The cloud of black Heartless only broken by the view Vermilion Samba, Marine Rumba, Gold Beat, and Malachite Bolero Heartless.

"I've got them!" Yuyake flipped onto the track above the doors, gliding along it. "Magic Horizon(6)!" Throwing his Keyblades into the air, they morphed into blades of light which began to float in a ring around the boy's body. As he slid along the rail, the blades sliced any Heartless that came near him. "Now!" The circle of blades moved, floating before Yuyake's outstretched hands as they morphed into pillars of light which shot out in every direction, hammering the Heartless into nothingness.

"Over there!"

Blaze pointed to a lone door. Sully dangled from it with Randall standing in the doorway.

Xion opened her mouth to give an order, but before she could, Boo appeared on Randall's shoulder, pulling the monster's antenna. The two disappeared into the darkness of the room as Sully pulled himself up.

"Let's get down!" Lea pointed to a platform where Mike stood, watching.

All of them jumped off, landing on the platform as Sully, Boo in one arm, and the other closed around Randall's neck, jumped down to them.

"You got him!"

Sully laughed. "Yeah. Well, Boo got him. And… I'm glad you guys are alright. Now, let's get rid of this lizard."

"And I know just how!" Mike ran over to a wall, grabbing a rugged wooden door. "Little help here!" Brim ran over, and the two of them set the door up against the railing. "Boo, would you do the honors?"

The little girl began to giggle and the door powered up all on its own.

The green monster pushed open the door with a laugh. "All right, come on, over the plate. Let's see the ol' stuff here, pal!"

Sully held Randall by the neck and tail, swinging him back and forth.

"Here's the pitch!"

Sully, with a mighty throw, flung(7) the lizard monster out the door. "NOOOOOOO!"

"And he's outta here!"

Everyone laughed as Miku slammed the door. "Now, let's get rid of him forever!"

"Actually, I can lock him out." Xion walked over, Keyblade in hand. "Let me." Holding out her weapon, a Keyhole appeared in the center. As she locked the door it glowed and vanished.

"Wow…"

Sully smiled at the group. "Thanks for all your help. Now, we just need to get Boo home."

"We'll come with you."

The blue monster shook his head. "No, we'll handle this."

"What about Waternoose?"

Mike waved his hand. "If we put her back, what's the worst he can do? Fire us? And we know where his scream-sucking machine is, so we can deal with him. And you guys are just guests here. People might want to blame you. So, it's better if you get out of here."

"Alright." Xion smiled. "And I want to apologize. I was angry at you for scaring kids, but you're not so bad, and Boo likes you."

Sully smiled and shook her hand. "Thanks Xion. You've been a big help. And don't worry, I'll take care of Boo." His eyes softened as they looked at the little girl who smiled at him. "Boo, say bye to our friends."

"Bye-bye!" The toddler waved.

As the group walked away to get to a secluded place to disembark, Xion stopped, looking back at Sully. "Hey, you know how Boo was able to turn on the door with her giggles? We have a ship that runs off happiness and laughter… maybe that would work better."

"Yeah… maybe it would."

With that, Xion turned away. As she stepped beside her son, Yuyake they smiled at one another.

Angel watched as Pith slept. He'd changed the bandages on his legs before falling asleep.

"Angel." Xext grinned as he walked into the cell. "Time to go, sister."

"No! Please! I want to stay! I want to go!"

"Come willingly or I'll break Pith's legs."

Angel's eyes widened, as she glanced down at her friend. "A-alright… I'll come."

Xext laid his hand on his sister's should and led her out of the room. He chuckled slightly as he leaned forward and whispered. "You will be the one to break Pith's sister."

I decided to let Sully and Mike deal with Waternoose alone because I think it works better if they leave earlier.

Please review.

Footnotes:

(1) Apophis was the Egyptian god of earthquakes, thunder, darkness, storms, and death. It was associated with chaos as well.

(2) This plus the painting on the wall might give you an idea of where Malachi is from.

(3) This Keyblade, the precursor to what would be Star Seeker, was given to her by Sora's ancestor, Kokoro Gatsu.

(4) All of these weapons are found in mythology. Kongō is a trident from Japanese myth. The shield of El Cid is from Spanish myth. Babr-e Bayan is a suit of armor or a coat from Persian myth. Forseti's axe is from Norse myth. Juuchi Yosamu is a sword from Japanese myth.

(5) Liquid Steel is a water based spellblade move from Final Fantasy X-2.

(6) This is a combination of Xion's limit break: Event Horizon, and Roxas' limit break: Magic Hour.

(7) I blame the internet… but I wanted to say that Sully yeeted him through the door.

VAs:

Malachi Bridge- Khary Payton (Aqualad, Wasabi, Grimlock, Cyborg, Rafiki, Ten)