For Day 17 of the Kingdom Hearts 3 Countdown Challenge - Discovery.
Inspired by the demo event last May where… can't remember who it was, but one of the KH Youtubers mentioned something funny they'd discovered about the Toy Story world in a tweet. Feel free to skip over this one if you want to discover this for yourself as you play the game :)
Sora skidded to a halt and his hand flew to his throat. "Woah, what's going on with my voice?"
Donald took one look at Goofy and burst out laughing. Sora's voice was high and squeaky, and it was funny hearing such a weird noise come out of his mouth. Not even when they'd first met him had his voice been this high.
"Sounds like—"
But Goofy couldn't keep talking because his voice sounded high and squeaky, too. He clasped his hands over his mouth, and Sora dissolved into a fit of high-pitched laughter. That just made Donald laugh even harder, and hearing his own voice sound so weird made him collapse to the floor and roll around. He probably would've cried, too, he was laughing so hard, but their toy forms made that impossible.
Sora glanced at the tanks sprawled out on the floor behind them. One of them had been knocked open and was making a light hissing noise.
He tilted his head. "What's even in those things?" he asked, but before they could figure it out, a bunch of Heartless appeared.
The battle that followed made it nearly impossible to concentrate on the fighting. Sora kept calling his magic attacks and making other noises like normal, only every single thing that came out of his mouth was in that funny high-pitched voice.
When it was finally over, they all collapsed into a giggling pile of laughter. Sora's foot rested against one of the tanks, and he nudged it to get it to roll over. Tilting his head, he squinted to try to make out what was written on it.
"He-li-um?" He crossed his arms and pursed his lips. "Helium. Helium. Now where have I heard that before?" His eyes lit up and he clasped his hands together. "Oh, I remember now! That's the stuff that goes in balloons!" He glanced at Donald and raised his eyebrow. "What? I know I haven't been to school in a while, but that doesn't mean I've forgotten everything, sheesh."
Donald couldn't help himself. He burst out laughing again. He just couldn't take anything Sora said seriously with his voice sounding like that.
Sora rolled his eyes. "Thanks a lot, Donald."
This just made Donald laugh harder, especially when Sora scowled.
"Sora, we can't help it with your voice soundin' like that," Goofy said in between laughs. "We're laughin' at us, too."
Sora relaxed and grinned before glancing back at the tanks again. "We do sound pretty funny. I didn't know helium could do that. Those tanks must be here because the staff uses them to fill balloons up." His eyes lit up again and he sprung to his feet. "I wonder if we can find any balloons around here!"
Donald just rolled his eyes. "Sora, get serious. You said it yourself: this isn't a vacation."
Sora paused to glance back at them. "Yeah, but we can have a little fun, can't we?"
As Donald exchanged glances with Goofy and they scrambled to their feet to follow after Sora, Donald couldn't help but think how happy he was Sora could still find a reason to smile and laugh.
Sometimes laughter really was the best medicine.