Walking through the portal again, Sora once again finds himself in the middle of a forest. This was getting tiring. When would the search end? He looks around for anyone nearby, and to his surprise, he finds many people staring at him. They look primitive, as in they had leaf loin clothes and wooden spears and shields. But strangely, the most note worthy quality was their wild looking hair that almost looked like an afro.
"Uh... hello?" Sora attempts to greet. One of the people speaks in some language Sora can't understand, but what he could guess, was that he was calling someone over. Indeed someone came, it was a tribesman like the rest of the people surrounding him, however he was noticeably taller (and fatter) and rather than having the wild hair everyone else had, some kind of hat or headdress lay atop his head. He also carried a stick with what looked like a small skull on the end decorated with who knows what. This must be their leader.
The leader observes Sora for a few seconds before exclaiming some sort of command to the people here.
"Does anyone here speak english?" He asks them, but he isn't granted a response. He soon finds out why. Behind him he can see more tribesman trying to roll a boulder unto him. "Hey! What are you doing!" He exclaims but its too late, the boulder had left its perch and was barreling toward Sora. Wasting no time, Sora ran in the other direction as he was chased by the boulder and cheering tribesmen. As he runs, he avoids wooden posts and small fences no doubt put up by the tribesmen, he even has to jump over what appeared to be bottomless pits.
Eventually he spies the end of the line. It was either get crushed by the boulder or jump off a rapidly approaching cliff end... or both! Luckily, the second option would suffice for Sora as he leaped off and used glide to glide away from the now angry tribes men. What was their problem anyway? Sora thought as he glide onto a beach close-by.
Upon landing he can see two islands. One was fairly normal looking for an island, the second was what caught his attention. On it was a castle that touched the clouds and beside it, almost attached lay a factory that dominated whatever else of the island the castle didn't touch.
"Okay, I gotta ask where I am." Sora says to himself. "Theres gotta be someone around here who can tell me." He looks around the island he is currently on and spies a trail leading inland. Thats a start. He travels down the path until he finds a lone house in the forest. He walks up to the house an knocks on the big round door on the front.
After a short wait, a humanoid of some orange animal, Sora had no idea what animal it was supposed to be, answered the door. She had long blonde hair tied back into a ponytail with some of the hair in the front free flowing. She wore a white shirt and overals.
"Quickly. Inside!" She panic whispers. She pulls Sora into the house before he can respond, now he is face to face with the other occupants of the room. One was a really buff and had a prosthetic arm, wore camouflaged pants with no shirt, and he appeared to be the same species of the girl but with a darker fur colour.
Then there was one that seemed the most "regular" of the group if that made sense. He wore jeans with no shirt and had his hair styled sort of like mohawk but it could easily be looked over as being a part of his furr.
Last was the strangest of all. It was a floating mask decorated with four different coloured feathers on its head and its face looked awfully real and almost as if it wasn't mean't to be worn.
"Sorry about that." The girl apologizes. "Its just not safe outside right now."
"Looked pretty safe to me." Sora responds.
"It looks safe, but could ambush us at anytime." She explains.
"Who?" Sora asks.
"Our apologies. We should introduce ourselves and explain everything." The mask says. "I am Aku aku. The one beside me is Crash Bandicoot."
"I'm Crunch." The buff one introduces. "Crunch Bandicoot."
"And I'm Coco." The girl says.
"I'm Sora." Sora introduces. "Now whats going on here?"
"You've no doubt seen the large castle on one of the islands around here." Aku aku asks to which Sora nods. "That castle belongs to Dr. Cortex and he's moving to take over the world."
"We would go and stop him, but Aku is not letting us." Crunch complains.
"I don't know how, but Dr. Cortex somehow got his hands on a keyblade, and no one will stand a chance against him with that much less when he's with my brother."
"Wait! You know of the keyblade!" Sora exclaims.
"Why, yes. I am more surprised that you know of it." Aku aku says.
"Aku Aku, what is a keyblade?" Coco asks.
"Easy, this!" Sora exclaims as he summons Kingdom Key.
"You have one!" Aku Aku exclaims. "We might just stand a chance then."
"You never answered us." Crunch deadpans.
"My apologies, the keyblade is a weapon that has the power to wield unbelievable magic. It can unlock and lock anything among many other wondrous abilities. With one, Dr. Cortex could not only successfully conquer this world, he could do the same with others, or worse, he could break the Alpha lock." Aku Aku explains.
"Alpha lock?" Sora asks.
"Other worlds?" Coco asks. Crash can only scratch his head to show he too was confused.
"I believe I need to start explaining everything." Aku Aku says.