The bandicoots and Sora enter a dimply lit room with tons of equipment and animal cages lying around.
"This place is a dump." Sora says.
"Yeah, why down grade from space stations to a castle anyway, now that I think about it." Crunch adds.
"It would have made it harder for you to get here then." An unfamiliar voice says. Sora turns to find a small yellow skinned man with a big head and a big capital N attached to his forehead. He was currently atop a red hover board.
"Dr. Cortex. What have you done." Aku Aku demands, erasing Sora's question if this was Cortex or not.
"I haven't done anything. Its what I'm going to do is what you should be worried about." Cortex responds as he puts on a black glove laced with circuity of indeterminable purpose.
"And what he's going to do will put me in charge of all the worlds in existence." A darker voice claims. A mask floats out of the dark revealing him to be the voice. Instead of feathers decorating the mask, it looked like hair and bones, where as Aku Aku gave off a wise and comforting feel, this mask sent of an evil and powerful feel.
"Uka Uka, I beg you not to go after Kingdom Hearts again. It will only end in disaster." Aku Aku begs.
"Wrong! I have learned from my mistakes. With Cortex and his armada's help, I will be successful in capturing Kingdom Hearts this time!" Uka Uka booms.
"Uka Uka, you and Aku Aku are evenly matched, and Crash has beat Cortex before. We will stop you again." Coco declares.
"Yes, yes, I am no match for a more experienced keyblade wielder and the orange marsupial that has defeated me countless times." Cortex sighs, but with an air of trickery in his words. "I thought of that before you came." Cortex smiles and summons his keyblade, only... its not his.
The design, the keychain, everything. This was Destinys Embrace. Kairi's keyblade.
"Wha! Thats Kairi's!" Sora yells. Cortex casts an aero spell, sending the bandicoots into a cage, he then locks it with Kairi's keyblade. Aku Aku charges to attack, but is stopped by Uka Uka. "Where is Kairi! Why do you have her keyblade!" Sora demands.
"Rather loud aren't you." Cortex deadpans. "Anyway, this glove can mimic what I call the heart print of anyone, therefore allowing to use this keyblade. If she where able to summon it again it wouldn't respond to her, thats how convincing it is."
"If you hurt her, I swear I'll make you regret it!" Sora yells.
"Sheesh, in one ear and out the other." Cortex says. "Don't worry about the girl, she just so happens to be unconscious in the same cage the bandicoots are in." Cortex fires a firaga at the cage, but it is blocked by Aku Aku, making him disappear with nothing left but a few feathers and a weird sound he just made.
"Aku Aku!" Sora yells.
"Now I believe we are ready to fight." Cortex says before Uka Uka sticks himself on Cortex's face.
"Now, I will inflict a thousand years of suffering on you!" Uka Uka booms before getting into a battle ready position.
Meanwhile, Kairi was just waking up from getting knocked out from that weird looking guy with the strange mask. What was his problem. Sen wakes up to see three humanoid orange creatures starring at her.
"Uh... where am I?" She groans.
"Your in Cortex's castle. Are you okay?" The female of the three asks.
"I think so." Kairi responds. "Thank you. I'm Kairi."
"I'm Coco." Coco introduces herself.
"I'm Crunch, the silent fella beside me is Crash." The buff looking one says.
"Were you captured by the blue guy wearing all the clocks too?" Kairi asks.
"I think you're referring to Dr. Nefarious Trohy, and no." Coco answers. "Cortex threw us in here with his keyblade."
"Keyblade?"
"Yeah, its golden with multiple colours on the ends. Doesn't seem very evil to me." Crunch grunts.
"Thats my keyblade!" Kairi exclaims before trying to summon it back, only for nothing to come. "How!"
"I overheard Cortex say something about making a very convincing heart print or something." Coco says.
"The only one who can get us put now is Sora." Crunch says.
"Sora! Sora's here!" Kairi exclaims.
"Yeah, I take it your from another world too." Crunch says. Kairi was silent, did Sora break the world order again?
"Don't worry Aku Aku told us. We won't tell anyone else." Coco assures. Kairi feels relived despite not knowing who this Aku Aku is.
"Yes, I've been searching everywhere for Sora!" She exclaims. It is then she notices that she is bo longer wearing the leather gear Mando gave to her, but she was now back in the same pink clothes she was in at the keyblade grave yard. She searches her pockets for anything to help, but all she comes up with is the keychain Mando gave her. At least it wasn't lost, but its not going to be much help without a keyblade.
She looks past the cage to see the back of Sora as he was currently facing off against a new individual wearing the same mask as this N. Trophy guy. She wanted to call out to him, but decided against it figuring it would only give the masked man an opportunity to attack.
Cortex strikes first by casting three firaga simultaneously. Which Sora blocks and counters with thunderaga which catches Cortex of guard. Sora uses this to leap up and begin slashing at Cortex, but he is head butted back down, not only that but the head butt was powerful, maybe because of Cortex's large head, Uka Uak, or both.
Sora falls to the ground, but quickly gets back up in time to dodge a thundaga from Uka Uka.
"Foolish boy! I know everything a keyblade wielder could learn! I was once among them! My experience will send you to your doom!" Uka Uka taunts.
"I was among the best of them! I won't let you win!" Sora shouts back. Sora switches his keyblade to Sigma matrix and shotlocks Cortex, firing the magical projectiles that turn to metal. Cortex reflects these and fires a blizzaga to keep Sora off balance. Uka Uka comes off Cortex's face.
"What? You can change it? I need to figure that out. Despite it being powerful, this keyblade is too... colourful for my taste." Cortex says with his short lived freedom as Uka Uka takes control again.
"No matter what our keyblade looks like, we will destroy you!"
"But it's not yours." Sora shoots back.
"Heartless! Deal with this brat!" Uka Uka commands. Then, multiple lab heartless appear from the darkness and charge at Sora. He switches to his Silver Rose keyblade, form changing it to it scythe for, and using it to beat back the swarm. Uka Uka takes this opportunity and swoops in with Cortex's hover board and slashes at Sora a bit, knocking him back. He recovers and uses his shot lock to speed back to Cortex and hit him a few times before being knocked back by a head butt. Definitely Uka Uka. Backing up, Sora switches his keyblade to Ki-matua and transforms it into its flight form. Getting into the air (or at least, as high as he could in the room) Sora begins firing on the heartless from above with a few stray bolts hitting Uka Uka.
Uka Uka flys up to Sora's level on his hover board and fire a beam of darkness at him. It hits the flight vehicle causing it to transform back into a keyblade, luckily Sora is unfazed by this and has a sword fight in mid air, mostly pressing the offensive to keep himself in the air while Uka Uka blocked his attacks. In the mist of this, Uka Uka quickly detaches himself of Cortex and attempts to take control of Sora. Sora struggles to remain in control of his own body while trying to pry Uka Uka off himself. Meanwhile, after Cortex quickly recovers from the headache that comes from Uka Uka's control, he slashes at the vulnerable Sora. Having enough of this, Uka Uka detaches himself from Sora and goes back to Cortex.
"Time to end this!" Uka Uka demands. Sora launches a firaga at him only for it to be deflected and hit again with a slash, sending him to the ground. Uka Uka takes this opportunity to throw mines down his way. After recovering, Sora dodges all the mines thrown his way except one manages to get lucky enough to blast him to the ground. The heartless surround him.
"Surrender and this goes no further boy." Uka Uka demands as he slowly descends. Sora remains still, thinking of a way to get out of this.
"Don't give up Sora!" He hears a familiar voice. Is it? He looks over to the cage to see Kairi with the bandicoots watching his battle. Seeing Kairi again give him the strength to get up.
"So... you have chosen death." Uka Uka says.
"No Uka Uka. I chose light." Sora quickly sends out a keybeam, as it was called, with a specific target in mind. Cortex's glove. The beam hits and Cortex drops Destiny's Embrace. The gloves circuitry appears to be all but destroyed as stray wires can do nothing but spark.
"No No!" Cortex says after Uka Uka rips free from him. "Our keyblade is gone!"
"Our first one yes." Uka Uka says.
"Who did you kidnap now!" Sora demands.
"No one. Not yet." Uka Uka smiles. Sora's Kingdom Key then vanishes from his hands.
"What?" Sora asks. The, blue skinned with bronze-ish armour with clocks installed in it appears.
"I'm what." He says, showing off the same circuit covered glove which he holds Kingdom Key. "I am Dr. Nefarious Trohy. And Uka Uka suspected that something like this happen, so he had me make a back up using DNA you left when attempting to raid us."
"But how did you do all that so fast?" Sora asks.
"Nothing is fast or slow when you are master of time." N. Trophy says. Then, out of nowhere, N. Trophy was hit with a firaga. He looks up to see Kairi, Destiny's Embrace in hand along side the bandicoots.
"Lets see what the master of time can do." Kairi taunts. There is then a sudden explosion from one of the castle walls. When the dust clears, it is revealed that it is N. Gin piloting a space ship that had done the deed.
"This fight is for another time." says as he Cortex, and Uka Uka board the ship.
"Wait!" Kairi demands as she rushes at Trophy to attack, only to be blocked and pushed back.
"I have spoken. Crash! I look forward to our rematch as well." Trophy says before the ship takes off. Crash makes an angry face and makes angry nosies at the ship now getting further away.
"If we wanna catch them, we have to get back to the house now." Crunch brings up.
"Uh, right behind you." Sora says. With that, the bandicoots leave the room, leaving only himself and Kairi. Kairi immediately rushes into a hug with him. The two just stay like this for awhile, until Sora can feel his shoulder getting wet. He pulls Kairi back to find her crying. "What is it?" He asks.
"I'm sorry." She mumbles.
"Sorry? You don't have anything to be sorry about Kairi." Sora assures.
"The second Keyblade war... its over isn't it." Kairi asks.
"...yes?" Sora says, failing to see what she was coming up
"I did nothing to help like always. I was a liability. It was supposed to be different!" She shouts.
"Its okay. You aren't a liability, Kairi. You helped in any way you could and thats nothing to cry about if you couldn't do more." Sora says.
"Maybe. But compared to everyone else, I'm useless." She says.
"You don't have to prove anything to me, and I'm sure the others would say the same thing." Sora assures.
"Your right. I don't have to prove anything to myself. I was only trying to prove to myself that I'm not just someone who needs to be rescued all the time. I know how that sounds, but..."
"No I get it." Sora says. "Its okay to feel like that. Being a keyblade wielder has taught me there will always be evil in the world. And when a new evil shows itself, I would have no one else but you, Kairi, to fight it with." Kairi is touched my Sora's words.
"Sora... thank you." She hugs Sora again, who returns the hug. For a moment, they completely forgotten everything that happened before. Right now, it was just about them. And they wouldn't have it any other way.
AN: I know I don't normally do these at the end of chapters, but the lack of reviews has encouraged me to do this. Please tell me what you think of whats going on in this story so far. Even a simple "It was good" or "I think this could have been done better" would go a long way for knowing what to do and what not to do. This will help especially with this chapter, cause as you've read, a lot of big stuff happened and I wanna know if I did anything wrong. The Cortex/Uka Uka fight was pretty big so there's that and after that was Sora and Kairi's reunion, which is the first time I've ever tried to write an emotional scene so I wanna know how that went. Thank you to all those that will review this. Your help is appreciated... unless its a troll, in which case, thanks for getting my hopes up for nothing.