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Chapter 9: A whole new world

"So Alex, where to now?" Kevin asked.

"Wherever the others go I guess, I don't really have a clue..." Alex replied sullenly "Although I could give a good guess."

"Where?" Kevin asked, as he shuffled closer to the cockpit, Jonny following closely.

"Through that..." Alex answered nervously, pointing towards the wormhole type looking thing. Jonny and Kevin gasped in both amazement and fear, trembling at the site.

"Is that a black hole!" Kevin questioned worriedly.

"Not quite..." Alex replied, "But expect a bumpy ride all the same..." He looked at the wormhole, a small frown creeping across his face.

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Ed and Eddy also looked outside of the window, witnessing the wormhole. They looked shocked. Why would they go into a wormhole?

"Hey, what's that thingamajig?" Eddy asked curiously, pointing at the wormhole. Ed had perked up, like a light bulb had lit up inside his head.

"Oh oh, I know! It's a hole!" Ed exclaimed proudly with a childish, almost cheesy grin "What do I win?"

"Ed you Idiot, of course it's a hole! What I want to know is what TYPE of hole!" Eddy shouted furiously.

"It's a wormhole; it allows us to travel to other worlds." Goofy stated, pointing at the wormhole, "It's as harmless as a fly." Double D then walked up to the cockpit, examining the large wormhole. He saw many swirly patterns, with what looked like blue and orange electricity fizzling from it. He placed a small palm on his chin, as he paused to ponder on what the object was.

"Hmm, strange, according to the laws of physics wormholes don't even exist..." Double D muttered.

"In that case, neither should Keyblades..." Sora replied, flashing a cheeky smirk towards his comrade.

"I guess so..." Double D replied.

"Get ready; we're going through in 3, 2, 1..." Goofy announced "Blast off!" As the gummi ship had travelled through the wormhole, with Alex's gummi following suit.

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"So, they're through..." The enigma muttered "And now for the next step."

"What, to see them fail?" The hooded female asked, sighing as she did so "Why bother with these kids?"

"I agree, the useless codgers have seen the light of day for longer than they should." Another man stated "Their inexperience will be their downfall."

"Oh, you'll see..." The enigma replied, an ominous smile slipped across his face.

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"See, now that wasn't so bad was it?" Donald asked, glancing towards the group. They looked surprised, nothing happened. "Anyway, we're almost there, I think I can see something." As he said that, Ed and Eddy had gotten closer to the cockpit, seeing the world they were to land on.

"Is that a giant kitten?" Ed asked excitedly, pointing towards the giant tiger head.

"I dunno Ed, but I do know that I REALLY hate sand..." Eddy muttered gravely.

"Don't worry; we'll be landing soon..." Donald replied.

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"WAARK! I can't find the street rat!" A red and blue parrot exclaimed. A tall man in red robes, enveloped in mystery and intrigue. He had a very long beard, and wielded a large wooden staff in the shape of a snake.

"And the princess, Iago?" The man asked, sighing at the situation.

"Can't find her either Jafar..." Iago muttered "Almost as if she disappeared."

"I see you lost her." A voice said. Iago and Jafar turned around to face Maleficent, the supreme witch of darkness.

"We'll find her soon enough, eventually there won't be enough holes for the street rats to hide in." Jafar replied confidently, turning away from her once more "Besides, I doubt that the princess is so important to us anyway..."

"We need 7 princesses of heart to unlock the final door, any less is useless." Maleficent replied "Have you found the keyhole as well?"

"We've had no such luck yet, but we are searching." Jafar answered.

"Be wary of the darkness, it will swallow you whole if you're not careful." Maleficent advised prudently, smirking at Jafar before walking through portal of darkness.

"We must flush out the street rats..." Jafar muttered "The darkness cannot swallow me, I'm too strong." Jafar then snapped his fingers, as bandit heartless appeared "Find them!" The heartless then scattered throughout Agrabah, whilst Jafar had stormed through the city gates. A young woman had then appeared from behind the market stand, wearing a blue vest and puffy trousers, sporting a golden crown. She had fairly dark skin and brown eyes, as she glanced at the cerulean sky.

"Aladdin..." She muttered, as she pondered the "street rat's" fate...

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"Not too shabby!" Eddy exclaimed "The sand may be bogus, but I could get used to this!" Eddy glanced around the city of Agrabah, a large smirk on his face. Alex had stood shortly behind him, staring confusedly at Eddy whilst scratching his head.

"Eddy, this place is practically derelict..." Alex muttered, walking forward a bit. He sighed, not because of the practically empty hallways, but because of his encounter of this world's particular villain, Jafar. 'If he sees me, he'll try to expose me...'

"So mister 'I know everything' what do you think?" Eddy asked almost comically, scrunching his face to protect his eyes from the sand.

"This place is a dump, that's what I think." Alex replied equally as comical, "Full of sand, nobody here, the place is boarded up; potential encounters with the heartless..." Suddenly a large bandit type heartless that resembled the large body heartless had appeared, bracing the group for the attack.

"You know Alex, we're gonna have to stop you from jinxing us!" Kevin exclaimed, wielding his large spear "I dunno what this heartless is called, but he looks like a bruiser!"

"Shall we find out?" Alex asked, "Ed, go get him!"

"Yes sir!" Ed roared, brandishing his keyblade "Lothar shall slay you!"

"You know, that's really getting old..." Eddy muttered, placing his palm on his face.

"Ditto" The rest of the group muttered, as Ed had darted towards the large heartless. Raising his keyblade high, he attempted to slam down strongly on the heartless' body, only to bounce back. The heartless, had raised its large paw, before bringing it down greatly on Ed. Ed, however had reacted quick enough to roll out of the way, before parrying a large fireball into the large beast after it had fired a flame ball at Ed.

"Go on, you can do it Ed!" Nazz exclaimed. Ed had glanced at Nazz before blushing; however he noticed a large spray of fire coming towards him, rolling out of the way in the process. Twirling his keyblade in an almost flashy manner, he glared at the monster.

"Now you're getting your just desserts!" Ed exclaimed valiantly, as he dashed towards the heartless. Then, mustering all of his strength into a single stabbing attack, he had pierced through the front of the heartless; it dissipated into nothing but a dark smog as it released a heart.

"Well, if Ed can take 'em..." Eddy muttered gravely, stepping forward towards the gate. The group had followed shortly, as they walked though the entrance towards the market place...

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"So, what do I do then?" Riku asked, boring deep into Maleficent with his sharp gaze.

"Alex will provide a distraction alongside his companions against Jafar, while you capture the princess." Maleficent replied, smirking at him. Riku looked surprised, raising an eyebrow towards Maleficent.

"Huh? Alex is working with us? But you said-"

"Yes, I know what I said Riku. I only said that to give you motivation. Don't worry about Alex, you just worry about the girl." Maleficent muttered, as she disappeared into thin air. Sighing, Riku stared at the ground.

Riku muttered "Oh well, as long as Kairi is safe, that's all that matters."

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The group moved through the entrance to the empty bazaar, they saw many stalls throughout the bazaar and to the right of them saw platforms of which to climb on. As the party took small steps forward, two bandit heartless had appeared suddenly, swinging their swords in the air.

"You know guys, this is going to become really boring eventually." Alex remarked sullenly, summoning his sword. As he dashed at the heartless, a pot spider heartless had suddenly crashed into him, sending him into the stall. Nazz had summoned her sword, as she leapt towards the pot spider heartless and destroyed it with a single swipe.

"Nazz!" Kevin exclaimed, as two swords were sent flying towards Nazz. Her life had flashed before her eyes; however Ed had leapt in front of her to deflect the swords.

"Thanks Ed!" Nazz said, as she glanced at Alex. He rose to his feet, brushing himself off.

"You know, that would be funny, if it didn't happen to me..." Alex muttered, summoning his sword again. He jumped out of the store, staring at the heartless. Just as he was about to run at the heartless and attack, he saw Kevin jump into the air:

"Jump!" Kevin exclaimed, as he raised his spear upwards. Soon after, he had crashed into the ground between the two bandit heartless, causing a shockwave which had destroyed the two of them instantly. The group sighed, as Alex had looked around the area.

"Alright, where to next?" Alex asked, as he wandered around the bazaar. The others did the same, before Ed began to chant excitedly.

"Ooh ooh, look what I found!" Ed exclaimed excitedly, pointing at a noticeable looking building. The group had looked at what Ed looked at: an empty space where the door should be and was filled with a pole which went upwards into the building it seemed.

"Shall we go in?" Sora asked, putting his hand in his pocket.

"Maybe later, first we must explore this place a little more." Donald replied. The group agreed, as they walked to the centre of the bazaar. They noticed that one of the entrances to another part of the town was boarded up with wood, barrels and crates, so that left only one option: the alley way on their left

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"I hope Aladdin's okay..." Jasmine muttered, as she hid in between a couple of crates in the corner of the alleyway. Sighing, she saw a group of strange people walk through the alleyway.

"Another dead end guys." Alex muttered. He scanned around, before catching a glimpse of Jasmine, "Huh?"

"Hello, who's there?" Jasmine asked quietly. The group turned towards the crate, seeing Jasmine.

"Who are you?" Sora asked, smiling towards her. Noticing they were friendly, Jasmine had gotten out of her hiding place and had revealed herself.

"Hello, my name's Princess Jasmine." She replied, bowing. The group had bowed in respect to the princess, before Alex raised an eyebrow at Jasmine.

"Why are you hiding, Jasmine?" Alex asked, scratching his head. Nazz elbowed him in the ribs, muttering:

"Stop being rude." Alex had rubbed his side, before nodding at Jasmine to speak.

"Ah yes, ever since my father disappeared Jafar the grand vizier had taken over and used these monsters to do his bidding." Jasmine had replied. She continued "However, Aladdin had helped me to escape and hide from Jafar."

"And where might I find this street rat called Aladdin, Princess?" A voice mocked from above. The party had glanced at the top platform, where they saw Jafar.

"Jasmine, run!" Sora exclaimed, summoning the keyblade.

"Ah, the boy with the key..." Jafar muttered, as three heartless bandits had appeared.

"Man, what is it with this world and heartless?" Alex asked exasperatedly, summoning his sword. The rest of the party had also summoned their weapons, as they braced themselves from an attack from the heartless.

"You know, we should charge people for stuff like this." Eddy remarked, dashing towards the heartless. He leapt high into the air with his sword raised in his hand, before bringing it down on the heartless. However, the heartless had raised its sword in the air, blocking Eddy's attack, sending Eddy back a bit before landing on his feet.

"Eddy, look out!" Nazz exclaimed, running in front of Eddy to deflect the scimitar thrown at him. Alex had then ran at the heartless that had thrown the sword at Eddy, before leaping his into the air with both arms raised high into the air with a firm grip on his sword. Then, bringing his sword down strongly on the heartless, Alex managed to slice it in half.

"One down, two to-"Alex said before being cut off, as he noticed a blur where the two bandit heartless were. The two heartless that the group were fighting suddenly vanished, causing the group to stop being in their defensive fighting styles momentarily.

"What the heck was that?" Eddy asked, searching around the alley. The others looked around too, investigating the heartless mystery, "Was that you Alex?"

"Me? Since when did I move that fast?" Alex asked, scratching his head "Whoever it was, must certainly be helping us."

"Or they could be waiting to suck our brains with a straw!" Ed exclaimed, holding his head with both hands "But I like my brain!" The group laughed at their dim-witted yet lovable oaf, he sure did bring comic relief to the group.

"What brain lumpy?" Eddy remarked slyly, causing most of the group to stop laughing besides Alex and Kevin.

"Ha ha, good one dorky!" Kevin said, smirking at Eddy.

"Yeah Eddy, probably the funniest thing you've said since ever." Alex remarked, placing a hand on Eddy's shoulder, annoying him further.

"Shut it you, at least I don't get knocked out by pots!" Eddy replied sharply, growling at Alex.

"Oh yeah, well-"

"Come on guys, stop fighting." Nazz ordered, crossing her arms "We need to find this world's keyhole so we can lock it and prevent it from going out."

"Aww, but Nazz I was about to give the perfect comeback." Alex whined childishly, kicking the sand.

"Yeah, well we need to save this world first." Nazz said in almost a motherly tone. Not wishing to pursue the point further, Alex sighed as he rested his back against the wall. Examining the alley way closely, he noticed something shaped like a keyhole.

"Hey guys, look." Alex said, pointing at the keyhole on the wall. The rest of the group looked too.

"Do you think that's the keyhole?" Double D wondered, placing his palm on his chin.

"Fat chance sock head, it's probably hidden!" Eddy replied surely.

"Well if you're so sure, why don't you go up there? Here, I'll help ya." Alex said, grabbing Eddy by his shoulders.

"Hey, what are ya doing!" Eddy questioned, struggling in Alex's grip. Suddenly, he was thrown onto the area where the keyhole shaped thing was, landing on his buttocks in the process "Ow!" Alex and Kevin had chuckled together quietly, as they looked on at their friend.

"Hey Eddy, have a nice fall?" Alex asked jokingly, before laughing loudly. Eddy grumbled lowly under his breath, as he summoned his keyblade.

"Alright, let's see what this crummy keyhole is for." Eddy grumbled, as he stuck the keyblade into the hole.

*click*

"What was that?" Goofy asked, looking around the alley.

"Probably unlocked something." Sora replied, climbing onto the crate against the ledge. He saw that the others were reluctant to climbing, before smiling at them "Come on, we've got to get across to Eddy."

"Sora, I've been beat up by a pot spider heartless, I am feeling sore all over my body. And you want me to not only climb up that crate to that ledge, but you also expect me to jump across those two wooden things to get across to him?" Alex asked patronisingly, crossing his arms "How dumb do you think I am?" Suddenly, Alex was grabbed from behind, from Ed no less.

"Alley up!" Ed exclaimed, throwing Alex up to Eddy, landing on his backside.

"Oof!" Alex grunted painfully, before getting up on his feet.

"Wow Ed, good idea!" Nazz exclaimed, as Ed had thrown every member of the group up to the two.

"Count to ten, Eddward, count to ten!"

"Yahoohoohooie!"

"Aw phooie!"

"Radical!"

"Dork!"

"Whoo hoo, how cool is this plank?"

"Aargh!" Ed was the only one left, the rest of the group was on the area now.

"Hey Ed, you coming?" Alex asked, smirking devilishly at him. Ed however had leapt up to wear the group were, landing on his feet.

"Geez Ed, what are ya?" Eddy asked exasperatedly, scratching his head.

"I am Lothar, protector of worlds and universes!" Ed exclaimed proudly as he had beaten his chest. The group managed to chuckle at Ed, as they walked through the passageway which lead to another part of Agrabah.

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"Geez, what a dump..." Eddy muttered. The party were inside the house that Ed found, it was quite a small house, only one room. There were a couple of curtains, and there was a massive hole in the wall showing the palace.

"Hey guys, look what plank found!" Jonny exclaimed, pointing to a carpet. It was moving a lot, struggling to get free from the object that it was trapped under, "Pretty cool huh?"

"Is that a magic carpet?" Alex asked, kneeling next to it.

"No Alex, it's just the wind..." Eddy retorted sarcastically, rolling his eyes in the process. Alex ignored him, as he released the carpet from where it was trapped. It suddenly flew around in the air a couple of times, before flying out of the hole in the wall.

"It looked like it went to the entrance of Agrabah." Donald analysed, crossing his arms and tapping his feet.

"Shall we be going then fellows?" Double D asked, as he walked towards the slide.

"Of course, let's go!" Sora beckoned, running through the hole on the wall and jumping down "Geronimoooo!"

"Sora!" Donald and Goofy exclaimed, looking down to where he fell. He looked okay, he was near the entrance of the city.

"Come on down guys!" Sora shouted "There's nothing to worry about!" Shrugging, Donald and Goofy both jumped down as well. The rest of the group also jumped down as well, except for Double D of course, who was really afraid of heights.

"I'm not sure I should risk anything..." Double D muttered, shaking wildly.

"Come on Double D, you've fought worse, right?" Alex asked, "You'll be fine, I'll catch you if you want."

"Well, alright then." Double D replied, reluctantly edging towards the hole in the wall. Alex and Eddy whispered to each other covertly, before snickering.

"Alright Double D, jump!" Alex shouted. Double D, closing his eyes, had a 'leap of faith' so it was towards the group. He was falling towards Alex, who caught him with both arms, "See, nothing to worry about!"

"Thank you, Alex." Double D muttered, as he was dropped on his bottom by Alex, causing Eddy to laugh loudly.

"Don't mention it pal." Alex replied in a snarky manner, chuckling menacingly to himself. Double D frowned at his so called 'friend', huffing loudly.

"Well, I never!" Double D exclaimed, sharply standing up and brushing himself off. He turned his head up high in the air, before walking away from the group at to the entrance of Agrabah. Alex and Eddy were still giggling quietly to themselves.

"You know Alex, that wasn't a nice thing to do..." Sora said, glancing over to where Double D was.

"Aaaah, he'll get over it." Alex replied nonchalantly, smirking still. The group walked to the entrance, and saw the carpet.

"Hey Double D, what does the carpet say?" Nazz asked, walking next to him.

"It wants us to follow it." Double D replied, as the carpet 'nodded' in response to what Double D said.

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The group were in a small location surrounded by palm trees and large rocks, however something was wrong.

"What? What are they?" Eddy asked, pointing towards the sand. It looked like quick sand, but it wasn't. The sound looked similar to a toilet when in its flushing movement. And suddenly, a bandit heartless began to climb up from out of the sand.

"Whoa, freaky!" Ed exclaimed, summoning his keyblade. Alex summoned his sword too, dashing towards the bandit.

"Take this!" Alex exclaimed, jumping in the air as he was raising his sword above his head. Then, with a powerful downwards slash had sliced the heartless it half. Another bandit had climbed out of the sand directly behind Alex, and as it ran towards Alex to hit him with his sword, Alex turned around and diagonally sliced the heartless in half.

"Hey guys, I found someone trapped in this quicksand stuff!" Sora exclaimed, pointing to a young man wearing white shorts, a purple vest and a small turban on his head, who was unfortunately unconscious. The group huddled around him, pondering a way to wake him up.

"Hey Ed, slap him up to wake him." Eddy suggested, as Ed saluted his short friend.

"You betcha Eddy!" Ed exclaimed, as he lifted him up. He slapped him hard in the face, waking him up.

"Uhhh, what's going on?" The man asked, opening his eyes slowly.

"Hey guys, he's awake now." Ed announced, dropping Aladdin on his feet.

"Yeah, that's great Ed..." Alex muttered "But we've got ourselves a problem!" There was an almost army of bandits ready to swarm the group, the party ready to defend themselves as they summoned their weapons. The young man had gotten out a lamp out of his pocket, before rubbing it.

"Genie, get rid of these guys!" He ordered, as a large blue being came out of the lamp.

"Wish numero uno coming up Al!" Genie exclaimed, snapping his fingers, as the heartless disappeared. The party was surprised, and looked at the large blue man in awe.

"Whoa, now that's radical!" Kevin remarked, smiling widely at the genie.

"Yeah, that's so cool dude." Nazz said excitedly. The other party members had looked on in awe, as Genie bowed like a performer.

"Thank you, thank you!" Genie said, smiling greatly.

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"Ah, the great outdoors, I love fresh air!" Genie exclaimed, flying through the air. The party were travelling in the sky via the magic carpet, Sora looking towards the Genie.

"You don't get out much, huh?" Sora asked.

"Yeah, comes with the price: Phenomenal cosmic powers, itty bitty living space." Genie replied sullenly, sighing greatly.

"Can't you just get free?" Alex asked "I mean, you're all powerful right?"

"It's part of the rules kid..." Genie answered solemnly, again sighing greatly. Aladdin saw the sad expression on Genies blue face, and began to formulate an idea.

"I've got an idea Genie, how about I wish you free, right after my second wish." Aladdin said. Genie's eyes lit up like a kid on Christmas day, and he flashed a wide bright smile towards him.

"You mean it?" Genie asked.

"Yeah, of course!" Aladdin replied, smiling "But first, I need you to make me a prince."

"Why a prince Aladdin?" Sora asked.

"Well, you see there's this girl called Jasmine. And well, she's a princess, she wouldn't want to go with a street rat like me..." Aladdin replied. The group looked at each other, before looking at Aladdin again.

"Jasmine is in danger Aladdin, Jafar has probably got her as we speak!" Double D stressed, alerting Aladdin.

"Really?" Aladdin asked, a look of despair creeping across his face.

"He's right dude, we need to save her!" Kevin explained urgently.

"Alright Genie, change of plans, the second wish can wait! We need to get Jasmine before Jafar does!" Aladdin exclaimed. The group had landed at the entrance of Agrabah, as they quickly attempted to rush to Jasmine's aid...

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"Jafar, you'll never get away with this!" Jasmine exclaimed, pressing her back against the door of the palace.

"Oh, but that's where you are wrong, sweet princess." Jafar replied coolly.

"Jafar!" The sorcerer looked behind him, seeing the party, including Aladdin.

"Aladdin!" Jasmine exclaimed excitedly "You came back!" Aladdin rubbed the lamp behind his back as to prevent Jafar from getting it, before saying:

"Genie, save Jasmine!" The blue man had appeared from nowhere, lifting up Jasmine.

"I'm afraid your second wish has been denied, street rat." Jafar stated. Aladdin, confused for a moment had saw Iago fly towards Jafar with the lamp between his beak.

"Sorry Al..." Genie muttered, before disappearing. Jasmine then fell into a pot which had turned into a pot spider.

"Jasmine!" Aladdin exclaimed, as Jafar suddenly vanished without a trace. Suddenly, many pot spider heartless had joined together, as both a head and a tail had appeared on both sides of the conjoined heartless pot spiders.

"It's become a pot centipede!" Alex exclaimed, summoning his sword. Dashing towards the head of the pot centipede, Alex had leaped high into the air and had raised his sword up high. Before landing, Alex brought his sword down sharply on the head, but...

"Aaarrgh!" Alex screamed painfully, as he was violently electrocuted.

"Alex!" Ed shouted worriedly, running to his aid. Alex was sent back a bit, crumpling to his knees in pain and exhaustion. Nazz had jumped ahead of the boys, before running around the pot centipede. Then, striking some of the pot spider heartless parts, the head and tail had removed themselves from the pot spiders causing all of the pot spiders to run around wildly.

"Thunder!" Double D had shouted, as thunder bolts had appeared from the sky to strike some of the pot spiders. After some of the pot spiders were destroyed, the rest had reformed along with the head and tail, and moved into the market place. Standing up after recuperating, Alex had had dashed towards the heartless whilst being covered by a dark smog. Staring off the pot centipede, Alex gathered a large amount of darkness in his hands as he dropped his sword on the ground. Then, cupping his hands together in a ball, he breathed in deeply.

"Darkness... FIRE!" Alex roared angrily, shooting a large beam of darkness towards the heartless, damaging it greatly. Most of the pot spiders were destroyed, and the rest had fallen to the ground along with the head and tail. Still not finished, Alex had dashed towards the heartless yet again, leaping high in the air. Then, Alex landed on the pot centipede's head by stabbing his sword through it. The pot centipede was finally destroyed, relinquishing a large blue heart; Jasmine was nowhere to be seen as she had vanished from the scene.

"Fair well, street rat..." Jafar muttered devilishly, before cackling harshly at the party.

"Jasmine, no!" Aladdin screamed helplessly, looking downwards toward the ground "I... I lost her..." Sora walked up to him, placing a hand on his shoulder.

"Aladdin, where do you think Jafar took Jasmine?" Sora asked, looking deeply at Aladdin.

"Well..." Aladdin muttered, looking up at Sora "Genie said something about a Keyhole..." The group asked, staring at Aladdin hardly.

"Really?" Alex asked, folding his arms "Where did he say it was?"

"Well, we could try the cave of wonders..." Aladdin muttered, he suddenly began to perk up, as if a light bulb had lit up inside of his head "Guys, follow me!"

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They were back to where they found Aladdin again, but there was no cave, just sand.

"Hey, what's the big idea?" Donald asked, tapping his foot impatiently. As if by magic, a giant tiger head had appeared from the ground, however something was wrong. Its eyes had an eerie, black smog covered its eyes, and a large bandit heartless and two smaller bandit heartless had appeared.

"Uh oh..." Alex muttered, summoning his blade. He then looked up at the cave of wonders forehead, before raising his eyebrows "Is that...?"

"PLANK!" Jonny screeched worriedly, summoning his large hammer. "I'll save ya buddy!"

"Jonny, no!" But it was too late, Johnny had rushed towards the cave. He leapt up in the air onto the fat bandit's head, before jumping up onto the head of the cave of wonders. Then, pulling plank out of its forehead, he held him closely.

"Don't ever scare me like that ever again buddy." Jonny scolded, wagging his finger at him.

"Jonny, look out!" Alex shouted, as balls of energy had flown into Jonny's face, sending him high into the air. He landed on his face just in front of the heartless, unconscious. The two bandit heartless threw their swords at Alex, as he deflected them away from him with his sword "Me, Ed, Eddy and Kevin will take these guys, the rest of you cure the cave!"

"You got it Al!" Eddy replied, summoning his keyblade. Ed and Kevin had ran by Alex's side with their weapons out, as they dashed towards the three heartless. Alex had swung his sword horizontally towards the bandit heartless, slicing it in half. The fat bandit heartless had gathered fire in its hands and attempted to punch downwards on Alex, however he back flipped in the air. He leapt high into the air behind the heartless, throwing his sword with all of his might behind the fat bandit, destroying it. The remaining bandit had rushed at Alex with its sword in the air as it tried to bring it down upon him, however he merely parried the blow and kicked it at Kevin, who had thrust his spear outwards through the chest of the bandit, destroying it.

"Alright, here goes... fire!" Double D shouted, firing a fireball into one of the eyes of the cave of wonders. It looked like the darkness was slowly going away, but was still there. Nazz had leapt in the air, slicing apart the balls of energy that the cave fired at her. She landed in front of the left eye, before jamming her sword in the eye. The darkness was gone, as the eye merely glowed yellow.

"Nazz!" Sora exclaimed, as a ball of energy flew her way. She blocked a little late, the blast sending her away from near the left eye and back on the ground in front of the cave. The cave of wonders began to shake its head about, as the group looked worried.

"Brace yourselves!" Alex exclaimed, shielding himself. Suddenly, the cave of wonders had let out a blast of wind, knocking over all of the party. Most of the party was knocked out, except Kevin, Eddy and Alex, who rose weakly to their feet.

"Ugh..." Alex muttered gravely, as did Eddy and Kevin. The cave of wonders was charging up energy in its right eye, the trio too tired to block. When suddenly, in the blink of an eye, the same blur back in Agrabah had appeared and hit the eye of the cave of wonders, destroying the darkness surrounding it. The blur moved around quickly, before dashing past the three, moving so fast that it left a gust of wind that knocked the three over.

"What the heck was that?" Eddy asked, rubbing his head

"No idea..." Alex muttered, slowly raising to his feet. Eddy and Kevin also had risen slowly to their feet, as they began to slowly examine their surroundings. The rest of the party had awaken and slowly risen to their feet, realizing that the Cave of wonders was back to normal. Aladdin had then stepped forward, the cave of wonders acknowledging him. It raised its chin to the ground and opened its mouth wide.

"You may pass..." The deep voice of the cave rumbling throughout the area. Aladdin ran through the mouth of the cave, with the others following with him...

(TBC...)