I'm so excited about Dream Drop Distance! OMG!

That is all.

They rode mostly in silence. Hotaru had been chattering nervously, incessantly.

"I mean, come on! Mickey and Riku? The keyblade master and the almost keyblade master? Together? And then we have powerless me, rookie Kairi, and you two? No offense," she said at Donald's glare. No one said that she had a point.

Hotaru was just worried. They all were, about Sora, about the heartless, about everything. Hotaru couldn't shake her feeling that something bad was going to happen, but she didn't know what and she couldn't place it.

Kairi had been staring straight ahead the whole time, with a new resolve. Just you watch, Sora, she thought to herself. This time, I'll save you.

"First stop: Wonderland," called Goofy. As they approached, Hotaru inhaled sharply. Something was going to happen here. They were going to meet someone…someone…

Riku was jittery. He had gotten used to just using corridors of darkness and instantly arriving at worlds. This method of using a gummi ship took way too long for him. The last time he'd needed to use a ship, it had been Captain Hook's. Thinking about that made him angry, and so he stood up and began walking around what little room there was in the cockpit of the gummi ship. Mickey was in front driving.

Yen Sid had advised them to visit the worlds in a random order—their keyblades and the hearts of the worlds would bring them where they were needed most, if they were needed. Until then, fighting the heartless in random worlds was the best plan of attack. Riku disagreed with this completely, but it was hard to argue with Yen Sid.

"Agrabah," said Mickey cheerily. Great, sulked Riku. I hate the desert. The islands were always a perfect temperature, bright and sunny without being too hot. He smirked, with a bit of relief, that he could still miss his home. Good to know he wasn't completely empty inside.

Watching the world come up, he was reminded of the first time he was here. He had kidnapped Jasmine while Sora was preoccupied fighting Jafar…

He shook his head. He didn't want to remember that. He had changed since then. This time, he was coming to protect everyone, not hurt them.

Kairi looked around her, eyes looking as if they'd pop out of her head. She had seen only a few other worlds beside her own, and they had been more or less the same. Just coming down the tunnel had been stranger than anything she'd experienced before.

"So, this was the first world Sora's been to?"

"Besides Traverse Town, yeah," said Donald down the hallway to the door. The door opened, and then another one behind it, and then another one. How strange.

"So, I wonder how long before—

They heard a noise behind them, and several soldier heartless had popped up, and several large bodies behind them.

"You were going to mention heartless, weren't you?" asked Donald angrily. Kairi shrugged and dove at them. Her sparring with Riku had actually paid of some; she wasn't completely dependent on magic. She sliced through the first two Soldier heartless, then cast a blizzard spell at the Large Body. As she, Donald, and Goofy took out the heartless, Hotaru shrank back, looking quizzically at the heartless. There was something familiar about these creatures, now that she thought of it. She had definitely seen them before Destiny Islands…
One of the large bodies got the better of Kairi and knocked her against the wall. One of the soldiers came forward dove towards her. She jumped out go the way, but it scratched her leg, sending her falling down. Goofy ran over and blocked another heartless as they came for Kairi.

"Cure!"

Green magic surrounded Kairi's leg, healing the slash mark the heartless had left. Kairi stood up and raised her keyblade.

"Thundaga!"

A shower of lightning rained down, destroying the rest of the heartless. Kairi groaned. "This is going to be harder than I thought…"

"Don't worry, you'll get better!" said Goofy. "Yeah. I spent half the time healing Sora when he started out!" agreed Donald. Hotaru walked over to the rest of them when she was sure that the heartless had disappeared. They all noticed that the heartless had seemed uninterested in Hotaru for some reason, though.

"Maybe they were just preoccupied with the keyblade wielder," said Hotaru shrugging. "Yeah. Well, let's go."

The World that Never Was

Saïx looked at the cloaked figure with contempt. "It seems that Kairi has arrived in Wonderland. Since our other members are busy, and you are so useless in battle, you can go ahead and keep an eye on her and her company."

The female figure scoffed at him. "Geez Saïx. No need to be such a grouch all the time. You ever get tired of being such a jerk?"

Saïx's eyes narrowed. He continued, his voice as emotionless yet cutting as ever, "Do you ever tire of being useless? You contribute nothing to this Organization. You're worse than even Demyx. As a nobody, you should be converted to Dusk."

"Ouch. If I had a heart…" she giggled. "You know, that's rich coming from you. The nobodies are the only ones doing any work around here, remember? I mean, what exactly are you doing? Just standing here all day. And besides, isn't there someone else already on a mission in Wonderland?"

"Something is the more appropriate term. And I think you would see how disastrous it could be if they met. Besides, the puppet is doing its job." Then he chuckled. "Well. The puppet is more useful than you. You really do shame the organization. Hardly worth keeping among our numbers."

"You haven't been laid for years, have you?" said replied the girl cooly. "Well, somebody higher up seems that I still have use." Saïx started to talk again, but she cut him off. "Blah, blah, blah. All right, I'll keep tabs on our latest keyblade wielder." She saluted and disappeared into a corridor of darkness. Saïx put a hand to his head. He wasn't sure how long he could keep this up.

Kairi looked around the next room, her eyes wide open. Then she looked down and saw the two doors ahead.

"Why are the doors so small?" she wondered aloud.

The doorknob yawned and opened his eyes. "Oh goodie, visitors," said the doorknob sarcastically. Hotaru and Kairi exchanged glances. A talking doorknob? "Oh, even better, it's that loud duck again."

"Who are you calling loud!" shouted Donald at the doorknob. The doorknob yawned again. "Would you go away? I'm trying to finish my nap."

"You're nap? You never do anything but sleep, you lazy good for nothing…"

Goofy, Kairi, and Hotaru all turned red as Donald continued to let out a string of obscenities at the poor doorknob. The doorknob didn't seem fazed, however. "I'm a doorknob," he said finally. "I shouldn't even be talking, nevermind being awake all the time. And you know what lies behind me, so you know I don't exactly open and close all the time. Now will you just drink the potion and get out of here?"

"Potion?" wondered Kairi out loud again. She picked up one of the vials from the table in front of her. "You mean this?"

"Kairi, wait a minute!" said Goofy, but it was too late; Kairi was already drinking from the wrong bottle. "Huh. I feel funny…woah!" Her legs suddenly shot up first, then the rest of her body began following suit. She threw her arms up in surprise as she got taller, taller taller…

"Oh great," groaned Donald. Kairi groaned as well. She tried to move her arms, but found they were stuck in place.

"So…I guess that was the wrong one, huh?" she asked sheepishly. "What was your first clue?" asked Donald, tapping his foot as the doorknob started to laugh. Hotaru sighed and picked up the other bottle. "So, this one, right?" she said, and took a sip. She grimaced at the taste, and then saw that everything began getting bigger. Er, she was getting smaller.

"Huh. This place is definitely weird," she mused, looking around with a new view.

"Halt!" Hotaru turned and saw several card soldiers standing and holding their weapons at her. "Are those…cards?" she asked.

"Yes, and that's a duck, and that's a dog, and there's a giant girl, and I'm a doorknob," replied the doorknob in a snide voice. "And I'm sure there's something different about you too."

The card soldiers seemed transfixed at the giants around them for a moment, then turned toward Hotaru, who was of a more manageable size. "You're wanted for questioning with the Queen," said a soldier, and two more came up behind her and grabbed her.

"You let her go!" said Kairi, trying futilely again to move. Donald ran over to step on the soldiers, but Goofy held him back. "You're just gonna hurt Hotaru!"

Hotaru struggled as the card soldiers dragged her off through the door. Kairi groaned as they dragged away her friend.

Her adventure sure wasn't starting out well.

WOOH! Another chapter!

So, yeah…originally, I was thinking of featuring more of Wonderland from the movie that was never in the kingdom hearts games, but I decided against it. I already had the plotline more or less figured out, and didn't feel like re-watching the movie to find something (This is fanfiction, not a day job lol). I'm going to warn you guys right now: When it comes to world involvement/ plots…there really isn't going to be much. The worlds are basically going to serve as playing fields for other things that are going on; world villains and main characters aren't really going to make much of a difference. Also, I sort of made each of the world plots long; this is sort of an accident, and I will probably be shortening little things here or there, but it was mostly to make up for the fact that I'm also not putting very many worlds in this. I may put something brief to say the characters have been to other worlds, just so it doesn't seem to quick, but just that nothing interesting happened there.

And I wonder who this mysterious person they're going to meet is…lol. I'm actually putting the other fanfic, Sailor Hearts, on a short hiatus (like it hasn't already been); I'm delaying posting the next chapter until I finish Wonderland for Kairi. Let's just say…there's a tiny bit of an overlap that might be interesting. I have the chapter already done and don't feel like moving things around too much, so I'll just wait. After I finish Wonderland for Kairi and Agrabah for Riku, I think this will go on a mini hiatus so I can focus on Sailor Hearts just a little bit. Part of me wanted to have it finished before, part of me wanted it after…and there's something I want to reveal in this fanfic that I don't really know if it would be a spoiler in Sailor Hearts or not (This is taking place directly after Sailor Hearts, btw, so be looking for an explanation of why Hotaru ended up at Destiny Islands!). I'm trying not to make Sailor Hearts too predictable, but…I feel like the ending is a little predictable. Oh well. How many of you are even reading both of these? I'm pretty sure I only have one commenter, who I must give much love to, but I think I have a few other followers. I want to make sure I will see this through the end before I advertise it a bit more, though. So, have fun!