The computer began whirring overtime as Sora's body was integrated into the machine, Donald and Goofy to follow. What began as reality, and a bright flash of light, led to an entirely new world...
"Hunh?" The young man grunted. "Why am I so... blocky?"
Sora studied himself. Smaller details, like the gaps between his fingers, had been more or less left out, while in general he had a much more square appearance.
"It looks like we're in some kinda game, eh Sora?" Goofy's hand ghosted through his chin. "But maybe an old game, from looooong ago."
"Hmm, maybe," Sora noticed just how tinny his voice had become. "But what's a game doing inside the computer?"
"Musta been that thing Yuffie found!" Donald stated the obvious. His original feathery textures had also been replaced with just rhomboid shapes, and he was little more than a mass of blue and white now.
"W-well, either way, let's see if we can get to the bottom of this so we can get o-o-o-o-o-o-oooout."
Sora froze mid-sentence. In an act that terrified both of his companions, his features were taken over by mottled green blobs, and his voice was hijacked by something more recognisable as engine noise than human speech.
"...What was that?!" Donald squawked, stuttering around in circles as his body seemed unable to keep up with his intended movements.
"I... I don't kn-know," Sora flinched, a nauseating lurch melting through him. "Hey, there's a building over there. Let's go see if we can get some hel-help."
And with slow, jerky movements, the trio made their way across piles of what looked like bricks, towards the building in the distance.
"Hey, there's a guy!" Goofy announced, pointing to a small figure in blue at the bottom of the building. He turned to Sora on his left, "reckon we should go talk Te him, Sor-"
"huh?"
"M-maybe he can hELP us." Sora spoke from Goofy's right, feeling incredibly out of control of his own body, as his legs simply jutted out in front of him with no discernible timing or direction.
"Hellooooo?!" Donald cut to the chase, signalling at the character in blue.
"Huh?!" The blue-clad man seemed just as surprised as any of them. "Well, howdy strangers! Name's Fix-it Felix Jr.! What can I do ya for?"
"Well err, Mr Fix-it," Sora extended a jerky hand towards the man in blue. "We were wondering if you could-"
"Please, call me Felix." He didn't take the hand, instead removing his cap and bowing. "Say, you're plenty tall for a plant, aren'cha?"
"Pl-plant?!" Sora gasped, somehow bursting two feet backwards and bumping into Donald. The duck flailed at him, but received no attention.
"Oop! Hold that thought, houseplant! We got a quarter!" Fix-it Felix announced, now wielding a golden hammer. "Might wanna step back a bit, friends. This could get messy."
"Messy?" Sora blanked him. "What could get-"
However, a glance skywards answered his question.
"I'M GONNA WRECK IT!"
Sora's eye twitched. For a beast of a man, at least nine feet tall, was climbing the building in front of them, and smashing chunks out of it!
"WHOA!" Sora gasped, and rolled out of the way of a falling slab of brick. He sprung back into a fighting stance, keyblade at the ready.
"Y'see? Be careful now, alright friends?" Felix advised. "You stay safe, and I'm gonna go to work n-"
It all fell on deaf ears. Deftly evading and repelling the falling debris despite his laggy stature, Sora was too busy to listen.
"Errm, Sora...?" Goofy made an attempt to get through.
"Not now, Goof." Sora huffed, slashing away with his keyblade. "Busy!"
Sora whacked at a lump of chimney with his keyblade as if it were a baseball, and sent it careering through the air.
"Alright, that should about do it!" Felix wiped his brow, up on the third floor. He tapped the remains of the wall with his golden hammer, and watched as it all sprang magically back into place. "Okay, level complete. Great work, gaa-aaaagh!"
Just as he'd turned around to survey the rest of the building, the ball of debris Sora whacked hit him square in the face!
Felix fell limp, and crashed three floors to the floor with a heavy thud. Ominous music rattled across the vicinity, and Felix remained unmoving across the ground.
Sora gasped. "...oh no..."
"Is he...?" Donald whispered to Goofy, who only gave a solemn nod in return.
"Felix!"
The nine foot tall giant leapt from the roof of the building, creating a small trench in the ground with his impact.
"Felix!" The giant gasped, scooping up Felix's lifeless body with a single enormous hand. "You okay buddy?!"
Felix said nothing. But luckily for all concerned parties, a resounding 'voop, voo-voo-voop!' bounced through the area, and Felix suddenly sprang awake again!
"Whah?!" Felix gasped, shaking his head. "Ralph?! What's wrong, why'd you-"
"Those little space invaders attacked you!" The giant - known as Ralph, apparently - pointed an accusing finger at Sora.
"Ohh no, Ralph, it was an accident, I'm sure..." Felix muttered, still groggy. "Ya see what I meant about keepin' a safe distance, little houseplant?"
"O-okay!" Sora grinned awkwardly, backing away slowly.
"Sorraaa... I think we should run." Goofy gulped.
"Yeah, it's about time you kept a LOTTA distance!" Ralph the giant hollered. He ever-so-gently placed Felix back down on the ground, and roared. "STAY OUTTA MY GAME!"
And next thing Sora knew, the nine foot tall monolith was charging at them!
"RUN!" Donald cried, knocking into Sora and Goofy as he made his escape. The three tumbled off of the platform, and onto a little monorail-like contraption, which began to move at a desperately slow pace upon their falling into it.
"RAGH!" Ralph roared, crashing into the monorail behind them. "You're NOT getting away that easy!"
"Raaalph!" Felix cried in the background as the monorail picked up speed, taking Sora, Donald and Goofy away from the platform. And isolating them with a murderous giant.
"Eheh..." Sora gulped, he and Donald gathering behind Goofy. ""L-look, let's just cool down, and-"
"No!" Ralph bellowed, wielding his humongous fists. Goofy raised his shield slowly, as their only form of defence against the monster. However, that defence didn't last long, with Ralph's fist smashing into it and turning it cleanly inside out.
"Ahaw..." Goofy chuckled nervously, and span the shield around.
"Look, please! Just let us expl-"
"I ain't lettin' you nothin'!" Ralph raged, pummelling Goofy's shield once again. "You stay away from Felix, an' away from my g-whoooaaa!"
The monorail stopped suddenly, tipping all four characters off of it and into an enormous white room. Sora was first to his feet, and had no time to acknowledge the cornucopia of colourful characters inhabiting the giant, train station-esque room.
"Whah?!" Sora gasped, swerving to avoid an enormous fist. "C-c'mon, give us a chance!"
"Bad guys like you don't get chances!" Ralph growled, tearing what looked like a bench from its hinges and bodily throwing it at the trio. It misses horribly, and clattered across the floor, narrowly missing other characters as well with accompanying screams.
"People could get hurt!" Sora huffed back, his aching legs screaming for a rest. But another thrown object - this one could've been a mailbox? - told him that Ralph was not about to listen.
A pair of curt nods had him set up.
"Donald!" He cried, and the duck launched a Fira spell at Ralph, hitting him in the face. The giant roared with pain, but pain wasn't the intent.
"Goofy!" Sora yelled, and Goofy slowed for just long enough. Sora's foot connected with his shield, and the young man kicked off of it into the air. Keyblade in hands, he locked himself around the giant's shoulders.
"GRAH!" Ralph roared, flailing to detatch the teenager. "Get off me, ya little Goomba!"
"Not until you calm, down!" Sora grunted, tightening his grip on the keyblade.
"Urgh...!" Ralph grunted, stumbling all over the place as he attempted to dislodge Sora from around his neck. Things were getting knocked over. Cats were shrieking. Other characters were going haywire. And neither of them were giving up.
The pair staggered right past an electric blue man who had shocked in front of them both, and ambled through another dark tunnel.
Sora continued tightening his keyblade, cutting Ralph's air supply and finally bringing the giant to his knees. Once he was sure Ralph had 'calmed down', he he stumbled back in front of the giant, and knelt down.
"I just wanna talk. Alright?"
Slowly, a heaving Ralph wrenched himself onto his back, and gulped down several litres of fresh air.
But another surprise was in for the pair tonight, as a cacophony of metallic clicking sounded from behind Sora:
"Start talkin'!"