Hello, fellow readers! Welcome back. Now, what do we have:

Blazblade: *facepalms* I knew I was missing something! I was gonna put his reaction to Donald and Goofy in, but it slipped my mind. But even then, it wouldn't be much considering that he was literally trained by a TALKING CAT... so yeah. As for the other worlds, those will get reactions.

Spartastic 4: I decided to use the aura idea as it does make sense for them for not having any wounds whatsoever. To be honest, I think it's just a little habit I didn't notice until now when I started writing, but I'll try to break that habit. I do that because if you are reading this series, you should know about the Kingdom Hearts and Blazblue universes, hence why I'm usually light on character descriptions... I'll put a bit more next time.

Haxorus Knight: I want to update as much as I can, but I'll always wait a few days for feedback and continue from there.

Now, let's continue!

Chapter 3: Land of Weird Wonders

The group of heroes were projected in a small special field as those in the shadows of the room (that was very dark except for the green glow and a blue flame) watched on in annoyance.

"That little squirt took down that heartless! Who'd have thought it?" The Underworld God spoke, "Although, I didn't expect the bluebird and the dark horse to appear..."

"Such is the power of the keyblade. Even then, they had to combine their strengths to defeat it." The Serpent Sorcerer clarified, "However, the child's strength is not his own."

"Why don't we just turn them into heartless? That'll settle things quick enough!" The Sea Witch suggested.

"And their friends are the king's lackeys. Swoggle me eyes, they're all bilge rats by the look of them." The Neverland Pirate spoke.

"You're no prize yourself!" The Bag of Bugs retorted, laughing at his own joke.

"Shut up!" The Pirate didn't take kindly to that as he pointed his hook to threaten him.

"Enough." A voice that belonged to the Evil Fairy herself further down the corridor of the dark room, silencing the other villains. "The Keyblade of Light has chosen him... will it be he who conquers the darkness?... or will it consumed him? Either way, these wielders will prove quite useful."

"My, my, isn't this quite the gathering?" A unknown voice to even them spoke, entering through the double doors behind her.

"And who are you?" She questioned, more eager to know how he got here.

"Let's just say, an uninvited guest..." The man walks towards her first, "But one you will find quite helpful to your schemes."

"Oh really? And what exactly are you offering?" The Evil Fairy knows how to play her cards, letting him speak before passing judgement.

"It's quite simple." The silhouetted man begins to pace around her, noticing the other villains watching with curiosity before stopping in between her and the circle.

Before he spoke again, she was able to notice more of his appearance by the outline of his figure. He wore a fedora on top of his head, which no doubt he matches with a suit of some sort. He then turns around and walks towards the circle as he spoke.

"I noticed that you didn't mention the man in the group. The one with the spiky white hair and red coat..." He stops in between the Pirate and the Sea Witch to then point at the man he described, revealing his right hand wore a small brown glove around his palm.

"Of course we noticed, we were just about to discuss it." The Sea Witch pointed out, "Until you entered..."

The man ignored her and stepped back to walk around the small group over to the other side that was vacant as he continued, "My point being, he and I has had a long history, stories upon stories of all our battles..."

The Evil Fairy walks over as she asked, "And what would you like in return?"

The man then reveals a piercing yellow glow from his left eye that appears as if he's part snake as he answered, "Everything you know about this new universe I find myself in. A simple exchange of information that could lead to quite a alliance..."

The Evil Fairy couldn't help but let out a small devilish smile, "...Very well."

Meanwhile, the Gummi Ship flew across the stars as Goofy was conversing with Aqua.

"Do you have any clues as to where the king might be?" Aqua asked.

"Sadly, no. All we know is in the letter he left us, to find the key... er, keys." Goofy answered.

"Sounds like you just go with the flow..." Ragna commented as his eyes were reading the journal.

"Nothing wrong with an adventure." Terra added.

"You guys sound like you done this before." Sora pointed out.

"Just once, honestly..." Terra said, shifting his eyes a bit before looking out the window.

Aqua knows what he means as she stayed quiet in response. Meanwhile, Ragna was reading an entry from the journal that goes as follows:

Much of my life is dedicated to the pursuit of knowledge. That wisdom has guarded this world well, none of our people doubts that. I am blessed by their smiles and respect, even from our king. But though I am a Sage, there are things we have yet to know.

I believe darkness sleeps in every heart, no matter how pure. If given the chance, even a small influence can spread and eventually swallow it entirely, which I sadly witnessed too many times.

Darkness... so many questions with no answer. Where does it come from? How does it affect us so? To protect our world, I must find the answers. If we don't, our people will perish and our kingdom will fall.

"Whoever this man is, he does care about those around him. Which means something happened to him that created this mess." Ragna thought before Donald called out, making him close it and puts it in the chest next to him.

"Get ready, we're about to land!" He said as the others prepared themselves.

The way they entered wasn't what they were expecting, as they were floating down a hole that had rather weird designs. As they got close, they noticed that the furniture at the bottom were flat as the tiled floor before landing on their feet. They then heard a sudden thud as Goofy landed on his belly instead.

"Oh, my fur and whiskers! I'm late, I'm late, I'm late!" Soon after that, a white chubby rabbit runs by, holding a broken pocket watch and was wearing a red jacket over a yellow shirt with an upturned collar, a brown bowtie, gray pants and a pair of small round glasses.

"Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear! I'm here, I should be there." The group just stared as the rabbit ran in a zigzag, rambling to himself along the way. "I'm late, I'm late, I'm late! The queen, she'll have my head for sure!"

He then ran around the corner, silence filling the air before Sora spoke up. "OK..."

"He was panicking a lot for a meeting. I guess the queen isn't the nicest one around..." Terra guessed.

"We should see for ourselves in that case." Ragna added as he walked ahead.

The others followed, but the walk was short as Ragna stared at... a door?

"Did anyone else hear a door slam?" Aqua wondered, which everyone else said no.

Shrugging it off, Ragna opened it... only to meet another door. A bit smaller, it was still a door behind a door. He opened the second one, which lead to... another door? Smaller than the previous one, it's still another door. Everyone just scratched their heads before Ragna opened that one out of annoyance, finally revealing another room inside. The taller ones in the group had to duck their head to avoid hitting the top as they entered, seeing the rabbit from earlier run to a small door that should have been the size of him, despite being bigger before.

"How did he get so small?" Sora questioned, which was actually answered by... the doorknob?

"No, you're simply too big." It said in response.

The group jerked back in surprise, "Whoa!"

"It talks!" Donald stated.

"No shit!" Ragna said. He has seen a lot of things, talking shapeshifting stuffed animals for one, but inanimate objects was new to him.

The doorknob yawned a bit before speaking again, "Must you be so loud? You woke me up."

"Good morning." Goofy greeted.

"Goodnight! I need a bit more sleep." The doorknob was about to fall back asleep before Sora spoke up, "Wait, what do we have to do to grow small?"

"Why don't you try the bottle... over there?" The doorknob answered, still a bit drowsy as he looked past the group.

The group followed his line of sight and sees a chair pop up, along with a table that had two drinks that were red and blue respectively. As the doorknob fell back asleep, they then realized... the room is actually a bit smaller than they thought. As Sora moved towards the table with Aqua and Ragna stepping aside for him, that caused a chain reaction for Terra to back up and hit his foot on a small bed next to him, pushing it into the wall to reveal a hole in the wall.

Before he spoke up about it, they find themselves actually shrinking. Once the effects stopped, they were about as tall as the door itself with Ragna, Terra and Aqua being a bit taller.

"All right, we shrank! You mind letting us in now?" Ragna called out to the doorknob, with no response back. He sighed at this before Terra spoke up, "Over here."

He called over the group to a hole near the corner of the wall, that he stumbled upon earlier. As they entered, the hole lead to a hedge maze they had to navigate through. It wasn't very big, just one path straight ahead that branches off into more as they went deeper. The hedges themselves weren't much except for the red roses scattered about every so often, but some looked as if they were wet, dripping red from their petals. Upon closer inspection, they were actually white roses painted red.

"Why would they paint them?" Aqua wondered.

"Maybe they ran out of the red ones..." Sora guessed.

Next thing they knew, they heard pleading as guards walked by a path further down, dragging other guards with red paint on them. Strangest thing was, they looked like cards you would see in a card game, such as black spades and red hearts. Though, what the pleads were about caught their attention.

"It was an accident! Please, I don't want my head removed!" The second guard that was being dragged explained on deaf ears.

By the sound of it, the ruler of this world places death sentences on something that's not really major. Ragna then ran off after them before the others could follow, climbing up the surprisingly strong hedge wall to get a better view. Only two guards in sight, Ragna quietly walks across the wall to get to a corner ahead of them and jumps down for a surprise attack. In a swift motion, the red guards were knocked out as the black guards got up to their feet.

"Thank you, kind stranger! How can we repay you?" The first one asked.

"Why were you being executed?" Ragna questioned.

"Oh, we were planting the red roses the Queen had requested, but they got mixed up with the white roses and planted those instead! We knew the Queen would punish us if she found out, so we quickly got the red paint and painted them red!" The second one answered.

"Unfortunately, she did and-" The first continued, which Ragna cuts him off by finishing it with, "You got the guillotine."

The two guards nodded at this, making Ragna have a look of disgust before the one on his left spoke up again. "Oh! This nice girl came up and kindly helped us paint the roses red. She's on trial right now! Please help her!"

"Sure. Now get going." Ragna responded with no hesitation and sent the guards on their way. By the time the conversation ended, the others have caught up with him.

"Didn't have to run ahead like that." Aqua lightly scolded.

"Just getting some info about this place. The Queen isn't exactly kind to minor shit." Ragna retorted.

"Then we can just have to see what's going on." Terra suggested.

"Wait!" Donald yelled out to get their attention.

"What's wrong?" Sora asked.

"Don't you know you're meddling!?" Donald questioned.

"Meddling?" Ragna repeated.

"Oh! That means that people like us from another world can't interact with the events of the world we go to." Goofy explained.

"Then that rule doesn't matter now. The heartless are doing just that, why can't we?" Aqua pointed out.

"Yeah, but-" Donald tried to argue, but knows she has a good point.

Ragna walks pass them as he speaks, "We should get going. An innocent girl is on trial, we're stopping this tyrant."

The others followed with Donald letting out a sigh before going as well. They went the way the guards came from and finds themselves at the end, which was some sort of courtroom. The sound of a trumpet was heard as the rabbit they were following before was blowing it.

"Court is now in session!" The Rabbit announced.

"I'm on trial, but why?" The girl asked.

The girl was very young, with fair skin and medium length blonde hair that was tied by a black ribbon. She wore a blue dress that has a white apron tied to the front, white tall stockings and black shoes.

"Her Majesty, the Queen of Hearts, presiding!" The Rabbit introduced.

The Queen sat on her throne as she held her heart-shaped scepter. She was quite obese, with fair skin color and black hair that had a gold crown on top with matching earrings. She wore a black and red gown over a black and yellow striped dress along with a white collar around her neck as she looked down upon the girl.

The Rabbit then got a tap on the shoulder by another heart-shaped scepter, which belonged to a small man much smaller than the Queen. He nodded at him, which the Rabbit complied.

"And the king..." The Rabbit added with barely any effort compared to earlier.

The King raised his large golden crown up, which got at least one person to let out a small cheer. He had fair skin and neat brown hair, along with a goatee and a small black mustache, wearing a red gown that had white linings that was bigger than his stature.

"This girl is the culprit... there's no doubt about it." The Queen spoke as she then smiled, "And the reason is... because I say so, that's why!"

"That is so unfair!" The girl pointed out.

"Well, do you have anything to say in your defense?" The Queen asked, knowing the answer in her head already.

"Of course! I've done absolutely nothing wrong!" The girl defended herself against the Queen, "You may be queen, but that doesn't give you the right to be so... so mean!"

The Queen obviously didn't take kindly to that as she shouted, slamming her fists on the table in front of her. "Silence! You dare defy me!?"

Ragna and the others watched on, angered at the fact that the Queen abusing her power in such a way.

"The court finds the defendant... guilty as charged!" The Queen decided, hitting the end of her staff on the table before continuing, "For fooling me with fake red roses, assault, and attempted theft of my own heart..."

Right there was the evidence the heroes needed as the Queen announced the punishment as she pointed her staff at the girl. "OFF WITH HER-!"

Sora called out, cutting her off. "Hold it right there!"

"What is this!? Who interferes in MY court!?" The Queen was livid at the sudden interruption.

"Excuse us, but we know who the real culprit is!" Aqua called out.

"Yeah, it's the heart-" Goofy then covered his mouth, which Ragna picked up on.

"She's not the one you're looking for!" Terra called out.

"Nonsense! What proof do you even have?" The Queen questioned.

"The rose thing is petty as hell! And the girl couldn't have even hurt you, much less be provoked to attack you!" Ragna denounced her in response. "You got the wrong person and you know it!"

The Queen was furious at his claim, heavily breathing as her face was red. However, she then felt her gown get pulled a bit as the King spoke.

"P-pardon me, dear. But wouldn't it be reasonable for these newcomers to give us a witness or evidence of their own?" He suggested.

She calmed herself and her face returned to normal as she spoke "Fine then. I'll give you one hour to find the "real culprit" and prove Alice's innocence. But, if you do not..."

The floor under the girl suddenly opened like a trapdoor, the same trapdoor opening again in the wall of the cage nearby for the girl to fall out of, locked inside as the trapdoor closed.

"Off with ALL your heads!" The Queen finished, sitting back with a smile on her face. "Report back here when you're ready."

Ragna clenched his fists as he glared at her for a moment, then looked away as Sora spoke. "We just need to prove the heartless were the culprit."

"And how we're gonna do that?" Donald asked.

"Just gotta look around for now." Aqua suggested.

Meanwhile, Ragna walked over to the girl, now known as Alice, in the cage to talk to her.

"Oh, hello. I must thank you for defending me." Alice greeted.

"No problem. Heard about what happened, it's... just stupid." Ragna said.

"I'm Alice. Who are you?" She asked.

"Ragna." He simply answered.

"Nice to meet you, Mr. Ragna."

"Just Ragna is fine."

"Oh, very well. Do you know who was the one that attacked the Queen?"

"Yeah, but it's not supposed to be here at all."

"I see. Please, find that ruffian. I rather not lose my head."

"Don't worry, we will." With that, Ragna heads back to the group as they entered another hole in the wall. As he caught up with them, they find themselves in some sort of strange forest. They looked around as suddenly, a floating cat head with a disturbingly large grin appeared like a-

"What the hell!?" Ragna yelled, surprised at the head disappearing and reappearing a couple of times around them.

It then reappeared once again on the stump next to them, the body of it kinda dancing on top of it before stepping off, putting it back on its shoulders. Now fully formed, the cat had purple and pink fur patterned like stripes on its body, with magenta fur on its head and yellow eyes.

"Who are you!?" Donald questioned.

"Who, indeed?" The cat responded vaguely, "Poor Alice. Soon to lose her head, and not guilty at all!"

"Hey, if you know where the culprit is, tell us!" Sora demanded.

"The Cheshire Cat has all the answers, but doesn't always tell." The cat answered with, "The answer, the culprit, the cat all lie in darkness."

The cat then slowly disappeared as Sora called out, "Wait!"

"They've already left the forest. I won't tell which exit." The cat said, "Follow the pieces of evidence. They are a cinch to find, but can also be quite tricky."

"...Should we trust you?" Aqua questioned.

"To trust, or not to trust? I trust you'll decide!" After answering, the cat disappeared completely.

With no other leads to go on, the group went into the forest to find the evidence they need.

And done! OK, so what's new:

1: I wanted to have a bit more of the movies in each of the visits, as it would give more of a personality to the world as well as add more characters that I thought would be cool to see.

2. Thank god I remembered the villain scene as it was a great opportunity for adding another villain into the mix to counter the heroes.

So, hope this was a good start and see ya next chapter!