Author Notes from I. Write. Love: So iSpazzeh went to fetch some coffee for us. We didn't get to sleep until about four this morning so she's running on four and a half hours of sleep while I managed to sleep in until about twelve ^^ I so win. On other news that has something to do with the story; BOOYAH CHAPTER TWO. This one's gonna be total crack-ness, I hope you realize that as soon as you see it. WE ARE HYPER ON COFFEE AS I SPEAK.

Or will be…

Whatever.

Disclaimer: I don't own the coffee, the game, or any characters beside Alison, Cody and Paul. If I did own Kingdom Hearts, Testuya Nomura wouldn't have been such a genius, right? Haha. Sqee-Enix will go down someday…

(Off screen: -a lot of crashes and clanks and what not- Oh, she's back)

Shout Out from Spaizz!: =D I HAS COFFEE! Only four hours of sleep and coffee, coffee, coffee! (I.W.L: Oh god…) Oh shut up, Rachie. You with your sunflower seeds. So what if I gave them to you? IF I OWNED KINGDOM HEARTS THERE WOULD BE ENDLESS AMOUNTS OF DR PEPPER AND SUNFLOWER SEEDS DANGIT! (I.W.L: We realized neither of those things exist there… We're gonna diiiiieeee! X_X) Yes, we are. Enjoy reading that, folks! Byez! TIME TO GO GET COFFEE! =D

Both of Us: WE'VE GOT COFFEE!

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I. Write. Love's reply: AHHHH YOU'RE SO LOYAAL! ;-; I love you forever! And ever! But yes, it was pretty awesome, wasn't it? Hahaa! Go read iSpazzeh14's story as well. Same title. She's writing it in her point of view, and since we're kinda co-writing the plot and what-not, you'll see us in each others story a lot.. Hahaha... Anyway. Thanks for the review~! Also, can you get my rum back from Riku plox? I really need some and Spazzeh won't let me steal it from Luxord ;-;

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Chapter Two:

A silence settled over us as we all stood, minds trying to comprehend what Cody had just said. In Kingdom Hearts? That made no sense whatsoever, and I wasn't even the one to say it! At least Cody had more of a grip on reality than I did.

I was about to comment when Paul's southern accent interrupted me. "You're meanin' to tell me that we're in that damn video game?" His voice was nothing less than sheer shock and confusion, something I could understand even if he had seen up until the final battle two times.

Cody nodded. "Yup. We're in Kingdom Hearts, as crazy as that sounds."

"Well, technically..." Alison interjected, "We're not in Kingdom Hearts, 'cause that's a completely different world, y'know?"

"She's gotta point," I smiled at Cody.

The brunette didn't seem to take to our humor very well. "Shut up, smartass. So we're in the video game-" He put way to much emphasis on those two words. "-and we're stuck here. What are we going to do?"

Alison and I met glances, the same smile creeping over our faces when we looked back to Cody and Paul. "KEYBLADES!"

They stared back at us in disbelief. "Are you ser-"

"QUICK! TO THE ARMORY! TALLY-HO!" Alison yelled, marching out of the room quickly, pumping her fist into the air. I followed behind, probably just a little to eager about the situation, but Cody and Paul refused to move.

"Uh, guys?" Paul said, making us stop and turn. "Do ya'll know where you're goin'?"

Alison looked defeated, and I looked up and around. "Well, we're in the Hall of Empty Melodies…" I mused, pointing to the way we were going. "So, that should, in theory, lead us to the very top of the castle… If I'm right."

"I don't think we should trust her gut instinct." Cody said, motioning toward the opposite way. "She had a feeling that there was going to be a zombie invasion one day when she woke up and nearly prepared for it at school." He smirked over at me. "I think we should go this way."

"You can't hold that against me!" I yelled. "It started off just like in my story! Also, no one's going to follow you. You could be just as wrong as me!"

"If we're wrong, than which way do we go?"

"Up, obviously!"

"How the hell are we going to do that?"

"Well, uh…" Dammit. He freaking won!

"If anything, we need to go down." Cody stated, emphasizing his pride by smirking down at me.

Alison was the next to speak. "He's got a point, Rachie. Armory's are usually in the basements of places…" She pointed toward were Cody was. "If my memory serves right, that's where we need to head."

I sulked, defeated and glared at Cody. "Fine, whatever. Lead the way, Ri-Ri."

He growled at the stupid nickname I had given him and started toward the entryway, Paul refusing to move. "Hey, what's wrong?" Cody asked, looking back.

"What about that guy in the hood?"

I frowned. "What about him?"

"What if we run into him? That dark whatever led us here, right? Maybe this is where he came from."

I exchanged glances with Cody. He had a point. Mr. Dark and Creepers' portal landed us right in the middle of the Organization's castle, meaning 1) he was a member of the Organization and 2) we were in their territory. Those chances didn't seem too good when I thought about them, and I worried about it if I voiced them. I shrugged it off since my brain was processing slower than usual and everyone else probably figured it out already.

"So, if we go down to the armory…" Alison smiled. "We'll have weapons. Powerful, magical weapons." Her smirk got dangerous and evil, making us all take a step back. "So, let's find this place and raid it. It'd be fun, right? Adventure?"

My ears perked up at the last word." Adventure?" I questioned, and she only nodded in response. "I'm in."

Cody crossed his arms. "Okay, so we're going down to the armory for powerful, magical, fun, adventurous weapons, or have I heard wrong?" His question wasn't exactly serious, but I could hear the sarcasm in his voice. "Woo. We'll die in no time…"

Paul winced a little, no doubt uncomfortable at that opinion, and Alison motioned toward the door. "C'mon! Let's go!"

It was more amazing than anything I had ever seen in my entire life. Weapons, upon weapons, upon weapons just laying there in a room, almost taunting us with their power. I swore I felt my jaw drop and Cody made a weird sound from next to me.

"This is going to be fun…" he chuckled, diving for the first thing he saw; Saix's Claymore, Lunatic. My face paled a little as I dove for it as well, grabbing it and keeping it out of his reach.

"This is a bad idea waiting to happen, Cody Hatton. Imagine how much shit we'd be in if you accidentally ruined the castle. I'm thinking that seven Organization members could take four teenagers down easily."

He let it go and returned it to it's place, my eyes then landing on Demyx's sitar, my heart skipping too many beats to count. Alison appeared somewhere next to me and picked up Axel's chakrams as Paul fiddled with Luxord's cards. I picked up the Arpeggio, holding it gingerly with stars in my eyes. "It's… It's like a dream come true…"

That dream was ended as Cody came over and snatched it out of my hands, plucking a string. "Hmm, it's tuned."

"Give it back!" I yelled, glaring daggers and atomic bombs at him.

He looked down at me. "If anyone should hold this, it should be me. I know how to play, after all."

My mood sunk to the floor and I pouted. He could play, and I had given up trying to learn guitar/bass years ago. With my heart broken, I sulked around and looked what was left of the cooler weapons; Marluxia's scythe, Xemnas' light sabers, Xaldin's lances… Then my hazel eyes traveled to Xigbar's arrow guns. A look crossed over my face only I would ever wish to see as I picked one up and turned to Cody, looking down the sight. "Give me back the sitar NOW."

He turned around with a scowl, but quickly put his hands up, the sitar attached to his back by a strap. "Whoa. Someone's trigger happy." He said, backing up a little to avoid the conflict that was rising. "I'm just kidding, by the way."

"Then give me the sitar." I demanded, watching with a smirk as he began to take it off, but Alison slapped me on the arm, causing me to squeeze the trigger and a laser to shoot out, Cody ducking almost too late as it skimmed his cheek.

"Dammit that hurt…" he cursed, glaring at the hole that was now formed in the wall. "That probably gave us away. We need to get out of here now."

Putting our weapons back in their respected places, we jogged toward the door when my eyes caught sight of the thirteen and fourteenth pillars, four Keyblades laid out with key chains next to them. My eyes widened and I gasped a little, Cody turning to look at me. "What?" He asked, then following my gaze he gasped as well. "Holy shi-"

We took tentative steps forward, picking up two of the same Kingdom Key, gingerly looking over them with interest before I picked up two key chains; Sora's crown in black and Kairi's Wayfinder seashell. Setting down my first Keyblade I took off the Hidden Mickey chain off and replacing it with the darker chain, and it changed in front of me, taking on a more skeleton, darker look, bat wings and the kanji for "darkness" formed by the teeth. I reached forward and picked it up, swinging it slightly as Cody gaped. "Whoa…" was all he could say, even as I made the Oblivion's lighter counterpart, Oathkeeper, from another Kingdom Key and the Wayfinder key chain. As I wielded my dual Keyblades, I saw Cody lunge for the Heartless symbol and attach it to his Keyblade, wolf whistling as it turned into Riku's Keyblade.

"Oh man I'm gonna love this!" he cheered, holding it up and dancing a little. "YES. Now I feel like Riku more than I did before!"

Paul didn't go for the last Keyblade, but Alison did, and she picked it up, shaking her head at the remaining key chains. "I think I'll hold true to being Xion and keep it like this." was all she had to say, and I put mine away, deciding not to risk drawing attention to the three newest Keyblade wielders. And why do they make a huge deal out of Sora being a wielder?

With our weapons set, we left the room, going back up the stairs we came from, but Cody's mind obviously wasn't going to leave our Keyblades to chance. "So, don't you guys find it weird we found the exact number of Keyblades we needed as well as the three key chains we needed as well?" he asked, hand lingering on the rail as he ascended.

"I'm not going to think about what sinister plans we've got forming in the Organization at the moment. I just want to get back home." I commented. "Not to mention, why wouldn't Xion have a second Keyblade around?"

"Why would she need another one?" Alison asked.

"In case hers broke…?" I wasn't too sure of my own answer, but I had to say something, right? "Not to mention, Keyblades are cool, so keeping an extra isn't a big deal."

Cody didn't feel like arguing from the sound of his sigh, and I think Alison was trying to process how my brain worked, but Paul was silent, still, probably lost in our conversation. When the stairs finally ended, we were in the first room of the castle, Nothing's Call. Looking around at the nearly all white room, I heard Cody wince from beside me and I knew we should get somewhere darker and less obvious. "C'mon, we should head down to the city."

"What?" Alison asked. "There's all sorts of Heartless down there; we'll get killed!"

I brought out Oathkeeper. "With these, I don't think so." She shrugged with an eye roll and we went out the exit, ignoring the Moogle and the circle of light that would most likely heal instead of save our game. The Brink of Despair held a chest, the only thing interesting to us, and inside was a potion that Alison decided to hold onto. Once we left the area, we found ourselves at Memory's Skyscraper, and Cody began to bounce around. "C'mon Rachell! We've got the Keyblades, let's have a fight like Riku and Roxas did!"

"Cody, that's stupid. They were doing inhuman flips and stuff off that skyscraper-" I pointed up to the building with the neon lights flashing and blinking. "and I am not going up there to flip and fall. You know I'm scared of heights!"

The brunette began to pout, and even in the fail lighting from the neon signs, I could tell that he was disappointed to not put himself ahead in our little tally game. With one last sigh, he gave up, and I nodded. "Right, now let's-"

"Watch out!" Cody grabbed my arm and pulled me back as a Neoshadow appeared, a dark puddle under it's feet that faded as the over-sized anorexic shadow twitched and looked at me with it's yellow orbs. As soon as I saw them, my head hurt as a image of viridian and silver flashed before my eyes, sparks from colliding Keyblades erupting as I closed my eyes. 'Why? Why are you fighting me?'

"Rachell!" Cody yelled, shaking me as I snapped out of my weird trance, suddenly drawn back into reality. "Hey, this is a bad time to space out; we're surrounded!"

"Wha-" I looked around, nearly fainting when I saw the amount of Neoshadows around us, each of us, beside Paul, taking a fighting stance with our Keyblades. "Okay, our first fight!" I said, cheering a little at it, but quickly regretting losing focus as a Heartless jumped at me, my Keyblade barely reaching up fast enough to block as it's claws met my cheek. "Dammit!"

I pushed it back, watching it skid away from me, but two more took it's place, and I put away one Keyblade, holding out Oblivion without hesitation. "Bring it, bitch." I taunted, but I doubt they could even understand me. They understood the threat and bounded toward me, dark talons drawn and ready to add more scratches to my face, but they disappeared under the ground with a dark puddle, making me panic. 'Where did they go?' I asked, looking around before I saw the puddle under my feet, barely moving away in time to get the claws cut straight through my blue jean's leg at the bottom. I growled and lunged for it, one swipe making it disappear in a cloud of dark smoke and a few orbs fell to the ground. Alison and Cody came over, obviously done with the few other Neoshadows and Paul reappeared from wherever he had been hiding. I picked up the yellow orbs, putting them in my pocket. "Munny!" I chimed happily.

Alison seemed to be busy checking out Cody's scratches as well as my own to care about the Munny I had gained. With the potion drawn out, she gently dabbed Cody's arm and my cheek with the greenish liquid. It stung like a bitch and I bit my tongue. "Oh shit that hurts." Cody growled, waving his arm to relieve the pain. "I'm not getting hurt here again, even if that stuff manages to heal the wounds fast."

I laughed at him and got a nudge in the ribs as we continued our travel in the city, passing by different Kingdom Hearts spots, pausing long enough to open chests and fight shadows, but letting nothing else get in our way. As soon as we were in the back alley at the beginning of the city, we found the swirly portal we recognized.

"If memory serves right…" Cody said slowly. "This is going to take us to the data Twilight Town…"

I looked at it. "I thought DiZ didn't make the portal until after Roxas was back with Sora, or whatever."

"Sora, Donald and Goofy were the one's who made it." Alison corrected us. "To get to the World that Never Was and save Kairi…" She frowned. "Why, I'll never freakin' know."

I laughed nervously as Cody stepped forward. "Well, it's not going to hurt to try. Not to mention, if we do end up in Twilight Town, we can compete in the Struggle competition!" He looked excited about the fight, and didn't hesitate to step through it.

"C-Cody!" I yelled, diving in after him, my eyes widening when I saw the Betwixt Between, shivering at the silence that settled in there. "Eek. Creeper than the game…"

Cody shrugged as Alison and Paul appeared a moment later, blinking at the brightness change. "C'mon." The brunette led the way again, straight forward to the other one, ignoring the vertigo we all probably felt from the turning ceiling and walls, making the entire place seem endless and confusing. I held my head as another flashback of red hair and green eyes flashed before my vision, tears staining tan cheeks and I muttered something I could barely comprehend; 'I… I love him…'

Cody's hand brought me back, and I looked up into his chocolate eyes. "Hey, you first, okay?"

I looked to were he was motioning, and frowned. "Now why would I do that? There could be something on the other side that could kill me!"

"Yeah, but what happened to you 'being the hero'?" he asked, smugness making me scowl.

"Fine, I'll go first…" I turned toward the portal and took a breath, stepping through just as easily as I had the first time, only this time my foot hit the tiled floor of the basement's library's computer room and I smiled. It worked! Cody, Alison and Paul followed suit, and I smiled at the still working computer. "So, we weren't too late in the story line."

"Yeah, but we better get out of here before DiZ shows up." Alison said, leading the way as we left through the doors, walking up the stairs and going into the library, out into the entry way and into the courtyard. The place was still ruined, pillars smashed and ruined all over the grass, weeds overgrown and the gate open as well, but a group of seven arguing outside of it. We made our way about half way to the gate to hear better.

"You four are real lamers, aren't you?" a tall teen spoke, black beanie pulled over his hair as he held up a book away from a spiky haired blonde. "Can't even reach the damn book."

A short brunette girl frowned, green eyes soft. "Seifer, please give us the book back. We need to read it for the project…"

Seifer, at least that's what I assumed his name was, glared at the another blonde, his hair a bit dirtier and messier than the other, throwing the book at him. "Whatever. You losers go read that stupid book and loose the Struggle competition in four days. See if I care… Oh, I will though, because I'll win." He smirked, then motioned for a tall darker teen and a short silver haired girl to follow. "Rai, Fuu, we're leaving. See you later, lamers."

"Yeah, and don't even try praying for victory, y'know? Seifer's gonna win, y'know?" the taller one, Rai, said, his voice hitting every nerve in my body as annoying.

"Useless." Fuu had said, red eyes wandering over to us and widening. "Intruders."

Seven pairs of eyes met ours, and we all swallowed. Cody tensed up, Alison seemed to shrink behind me, I shifted my eyes nervously but Paul seemed calm about it, smiling and waving. "Howdy!"

"Get 'em." Seifer said, his eyes narrowed. "We don't like intruders here."

"Rumble." Fuu announced.

The dirty blonde growled. "Now hold on!" He yelled, getting up to Seifer's face. "What the hell? You don't even know them!"

"They need to know the rules, y'know?" Rai added.

"It's wrong to beat up random kids…" the brunette supplied.

"Yeah, what Olette said!"

"Then would you rather me beat you up, chickenwuss?" Seifer asked the blonde. "Figured not."

"Can't we solve this without violence, or something, Hayner?" a pudgy brunette asked, his eyes darting between the dirty blonde and us.

Hayner growled, then shoved Seifer away. "Go, now. We'll take care of them."

Seifer growled, then sent the entire group the finger before stalking off, Fuu and Rai following loyally. As soon as they were out of sight, his brown eyes met back over to us, face contorted in confusion. "Who are you guys?"

"I think you should introduce yourselves first…" Cody snapped, crossing his arms.

The dirty blonde growled. "I'm Hayner. This is Olette," He motioned toward the brunette girl. "Pence," A wave to the pudgy teen. "And Roxas," His arm went around the spiky blonde's shoulders, and my heart skipped too many beats again. "Now, who are you guys?"

"I'm Rachell," I introduced. "This is Cody, Alison and Paul," I said, pointing to each of them respectively.

"Odd names," Olette said. "You four must be from out of town. Where are you from?"

"Uh…" Alison and I looked to each other. "No one's heard of it."

Agreeing with our answer, Olette stopped, but Pence jumped in. "Are you here for the Struggle in a few days?"

"Yeah!" Cody and I chimed in, cheering. "Damn straight!"

Hayner smirked. "Well, not to brag, but I'm pretty good. I'd hate to fight one of you."

Cody snorted. "I'd hate for you to end up going to the hospital." He shrugged off the rest of his threat. "When are sign ups?"

"Now until the end of the day. You're lucky you showed up when you did. Tomorrow the prelims start, and then it would have been too late." Pence told us.

Roxas was still quiet, looking at me without falter. I broke the gaze myself and looked to Hayner. "Show us were these sign ups are?"

He smiled. "Follow me."