A crossover of many cartoons and...maybe one anime old and new, a tweak to many of the worlds to make it more Disney, and I could use some suggestions for the most part. Join Sora, Donald, Goofy and many more toon allies as they journey through the Disney Worlds and fight many dangers that await. That being said: I don't own Kingdom Hearts nor the rights to the characters, nor the songs in said story. Also following on the manga, so it'll be much different than the game. Enjoy
Current World: Deep Jungle
Songs This Chapter
Strangers Like Me (Tarzan, 1999)
Feat. Phil Collins
As soon as Sora, Tarzan, Daffy, Wakko, and Pikachu finally found the land's ground, the dropped down from their vine they were last swinging from.
The group landed in the camp. To which they find it COMPLETELY in ruins. Amidst the wreckage are the gorillas and an elephant that was furiously bursting a horn like thing attached to his trunk, playing it like it was a trumpet.
"Woaaaaaaaah." Sora said agape.
"Look at this place, it's like a typhoon and hurricane had a baby and went full metal on this place." Daffy quipped.
"Brrrrr-brr-brr-brr-br-brr-br-brr-brr-brrrr-b.b...br."
Suddenly Tarzan began hoots rapidly as he galloped from the bushes and ran to the gorillas who were all having such fun crashing, destroying everything they see. Soon, Terk saw Tarzan running rushing to her side, happily.
With a smile on both their faces, the moment these two collided with each other they were immediately Terk tackled to ape man playfully to the ground. The rest...was just roughhousing, from playful noogies and all that.
"Is Tarzan perhaps half-ape?" Wakko mused as he, Sora, Pikachu, and Daffy were watching the human and gorilla playing with each other.
"Ah the bond of a sibling companionship. Truly no bond greater." Daffy says poetically.
"Huh…it's as if he's one of them." Sora mused.
"SORA!" A shout came as the three's attention turned to a familiar set of toons barreling towards the human, toons, and Pokémon.
"GOOFY! Yakko! Tinkaton! Dona-" Sora said coming cheerfully to the group. He was so happy to see them all...well except one. They both looked at each other…
"Hmph." Until they both looked away, sternly.
"We can ignore these lovebirds for now. Right now we-" Daffy said as Sora and Donald darted a glare at the Duck Archer.
"LOVEBIRDS?!" The two yelled in unison.
"Yep lovebirds, anyway," Daffy retorts, earning a growl from the two. "We have one group down, but there's still one group left to find. That only leaves the pig and the younger gremlin."
"Right then, gang, looks like we got another mystery on our hands." Yakko said suddenly wearing a white shirt with a blue collar and an ascot tie on his neck. Where he got it from...it's beyond even the creator of this fanfiction.
"We'll have to split up in teams to find our team." The Warner continued.
"And will there be any Toony Snacks for the ride, Yakko?" Wakko said with his mouth agape and tongue out, panting as if he was a dog.
Suddenly some rustling was heard behind the group, to which they immediately armed themselves.
"The culprit?" Tinkaton asks with hammer at hand.
"Cool your ascot there, Yaks, we're fine." A amiliar voice said in the bushes. Exiting the bushes was our dear friends Dot and Porky alive and well. And it appears they've brought a new friend along the ride.
The Toon Squad united at last.
"There you guys are. Are ya alright?" Goofy asked
"We're fine. Everyone's fine and dandy." Dot answered.
"Ehehe, h-h-hope you don't mind but we've uh…brought a friend over…" Porky confessed as he points to Infernape. This, immediately gained Aipom's attention.
"AIPOM!" Aipom screeched out as it immediately leaps to the Infernape's side and crawled around the fiery ape, happily.
"Hehehe, Infer!" Infernape chuckles as Aipom rested happily atop the creature's back.
"More and more Pokemon, huh?" Sora says as he took out his Pokedex to examine the fiery monkey.
Infernape - The Flame Pokemon, and the evolved form of Monferno. A Fire Type Pokemon. Infernape's crown reflects its fiery nature, and its speed is unmatched.
"Yes, yes, all well and good. Now that that's taken care of..." Daffy said who then turned directly to Sora and Donald specifically. "WHAT WERE YOU TWO IDIOTS THINKING?! IF IT WASN'T FOR YOUR LITTLE FALLOUT, WE WOULDN'T BE IN THIS MESS IN THE FIRST PLACE!" Daffy screeched from the top of his lungs attracting even the gorillas' and Tarzan's attention.
"Hmm?" Tarzan said curiously.
"In a minute, gorilla man, This doesn't concern you. THANKS to the both of you, we don't even know where the Gummi Ship is! WE'RE STRANDED HERE!" Daffy yelled.
"AND THAT'S HIS FAULT, YOU NUMBSKULL! We're on a mission, and he went crazy!" Donald yelled out as he points to Sora.
"ONLY BECAUSE YOU WOULDN'T LAND!" Sora yelled.
"THERE WAS NO REASON TO LAND! THE KING ISN'T HERE, HE WOULD NEVER LAND IN SUCH A BACKWATER PLACE LIKE THIS!" Donald cried out.
"BUT I'M NOT LOOKING FOR YOUR KING, NOW AM I?!" Sora retorted.
"BUT WE ARE! THE KING IS OUR TOP PRIORITY!" Donald retorted back.
"WELL FINDING RIKU AND KAIRI IS MY TOP PRIORITY, WETHER YOU LIKE IT OR NOT!" Sora cried back.
"MY, SHIP, MY RULES REMEMBER?! YOU DON'T CALL THE SHOTS!" Donald cried back.
"WHY CAN'T I?! I'M THE CHOSEN ONE! I'M YOUR 'KEY' TO SURVIVAL AREN'T I!?" Sora yelled.
And while this conflict was engaged, Dot was starting to grow annoyed at their incessive arguing. So the first chance she got, she grabbed a hold of Tinkaton's mallet, taking the little Pokemon AND Porky by surprise.
"Eh, b-but I-" Porky stammered as the Warners rolled their eyes.
"Porks, you of all people should know that we can lift all sorts of things at ease." Yakko says sarcastically.
"Besides, how else was the Author gonna introduce Tinkaton?" Wakko asks.
"Say what, now?" Tinkaton asks as Dot marches to the bickering Donald & Sora.
"Look," Donald sighed. "We got off on the wrong foot, alright? How about we just stop this already, OK? We're attracting too much attention." Donald sighed as he calmed down.
"I'll stop, if we search for my friends." Sora said sternly. Those good 2 seconds were gone and Donald's blood was already at a boil.
"WHY ARE YOU BEING SO DIFFICULT ABOUT THIS!?" Donald screamed.
"BECAUSE THEY'RE MY FRIENDS, DON'T YOU UNDERSTAND!?" Sora retorted.
"Of course, I do, Sora…I JUST DON'T CARE!" Donald said enraged.
"WELL, I DO, YOU POMPUS, STUFFED-SHIRT QUACK!" Sora insulted as everyone except Dot gasped.
"WHAT'D YOU CALL ME YOU, SPIKY-HAIRED PALOOKA?!"
"BIG BEAK!" Sora insulted.
"CLOWN SHOES!" Donald insulted back
"JERKFACE!"
"JERKFACE!"
"NO, YOU'RE A JERKFACE!"
"NUH-UH!"
"YUH-HUH!"
"NUH-UH!"
"YOU'RE A JERKFACE AND YOU KNOW IT!"
"YOU!"
"Jerface say what?"
"WAK?"
"HA!"
"WAAAAAAAK-"
SLAM!
"You idiots weren't even TRYING to think up some good comebacks. This was just embarrassing." Dot says in annoyance as she knocked both Sora & Donald down with Tinkaton's mallet. Both of them were as flat as pancakes. Tarzan & the gorillas could only look in shock as Dot handed Tinkaton back her mallet.
"Thank ya, kindly~" Dot says sweetly.
"Most fascinating..." an unfamiliar voice mused from behind the group. Everybody looked to see a woman with messy brown hair and shining cyan eyes staring back at them in interest.
She was wearing a stiff collar attached to her neck with a necktie below, wearing a pristine yellow corset. She was also wearing a pristine white glove. Yes, glove, the other seem to notice she was missing a glove.
"Gorillas are one thing... and those peculiar monkeys are another…but NEVER have I seen such a unique specimen of anthropomorphic creatures. It's as if they've taken the personality of man itself..." the woman mused taking a look at the Toons in intrigue.
"What's an...uhhhh an..anthro..anter..." Goofy said trying to spell out the word.
"Anthropomorphic. Basically, it means animals that walk and talk like humans." Yakko explains.
"Eh, w-w-well, that's one way to describe us." Porky said as he walked to the lady, to which she was startled, the moment Porky looked at her.
"They've spotted me?" she whispered trying to hide herself.
"Well, you are pretty noticeable. That being said..." Yakko started but was stopped by his little sister.
"Slow your role there, Casanova, you don't even know her name yet." Dot rebutted. Yakko was about to say something, but instead fumed in agitation.
"You always had a knack at ruining my fun, huh?" Yakko sighed.
"It's a thing I do." Dot said sweetly as Porky approached the woman.
"Eh, h-hello, there! We come in p-eh, we come in p-pe-peeac, eh p-p-p-" Porky stammers, but he was just having a hard time spitting it out. Rolling his eyes, Daffy approached the two.
"Peace. We come in peace. Only his words, here, are what's fallin' into pieces." Daffy quips. Name's Daffy, sweet cheeks." Daffy quips, smugly earning a giggle from the woman.
"Hehe, likewise." she giggled a bit.
"Pikapi!" Pikachu says as he and Tinkaton approaches the woman. The woman went on one knee and looked at the two in intrigue.
"Truly fascinating creatures." Jane says as she stretches Pikachu's cheeks.
"Pikaaaaaa…" Pikachu calls out as his cheeks were being stretched like the rubbery mouse he is.
"What can I say, the kid's stretchy. ANYWAY, allow moi to welcome you to this merry little band of…whatever the hell we are. Name's Tinkaton. We've got Porky, Goofy, Daffy, Pikachu, Yakko, Wakko, and Dot…and those two." Tinkaton introduces.
"And don't forget me!" Jiminy says happily as he hops to Goofy's shoulder.
"Oh, and our friendly neighborhood talking cricket. A BONUS!" Tinkaton says happily.
"It is an intrigue to meet you all. My name is-" the woman started to introduce but was interrupted by Tarzan.
"Eep, ooh, oooh, ah." Tarzan simply grunted as he and the gorillas noticing the crowd. The gorillas however stayed back a bit, startled specifically towards Sora, and the lady. But then Tarzan grunted calmly to Terk, who shyly looked to the girl.
"Oooh, ooh..." Tarzan said calmly...peacefully...putting the gorilla at ease. Carefully the female gorilla crept to the woman. At that point they were both watching, eye to eye, mesmerized, and agape.
"Ugh," suddenly groaning was heard from behind Tarzan. It was Sora and Donald coming into.
"How many times will I get hit in the head in this journey." Sora groaned.
"Aww...When ya live in my world, Sora...it's nothing more than a Monday morniiiiing...?" Donald said as he was woken up to a sudden surprise.
Suddenly something touched Jane's shoulder. "Oh, us did you need something, Porky?" the woman asked as everybody looked at her in shock, surprise, scare, the whole kit & caboodle. Porky wasn't even next to her.
"Uh...I'm, a-a-actually right here, Miss..." Porky said shivering.
"Porter. Miss Jane Porter if you m-" Jane said as she stopped herself after she felt a sudden blow of wind from her hair. Something was DEFINITELY behind her.
She then turned around to quite a surprise. Behind her was a towering gorilla with fur completely black and he's MUCH larger than Terk and the other teen gorillas. It was the leader of the Gorillas, himself…Kerchak. He didn't look happy, to say the least.
"Oh..my..." Jane said meekly. And by surprise Kerchak let out a ferocious bloodthirsty roar loud enough for Jane to let out a shriek and cower down.
At that moment, as if he was a hawk, the gorilla stared down at the cowering female, his eyes red, a stern look upon his face, growling, snorting silently. Jane tried to look for cover, but all she found was a small silver pan, so she hid herself with it using that small pan.
The big gorilla meanwhile snorted at the shining end of the small pot. At that moment he snapped back to attention and let out another ferocious...
ROOOOOOAR!
"HIT THE DIRT!" Yakko yelled as the rest of the Toon Squad did as Jane did and cowered down before the great gorilla. Soon enough, Sora while still cowering, noticed more gorillas came our from the clearing.
"Oooh, oooh, ooh..." one gorilla grunted calmly. This one had brown fur, and a female just like Terk. But this one was no doubt much older than her. One could easily pass off the big gorilla as the leader of the pack.
"Hmrp." Kerchak grunted as he walked off back into the forest. Soon everyone, even the teen gorillas followed...all except Terk who was still stunned by her human confrontation, to which Tantor swept her away with his trunk. Tarzan meanwhile, hesitated. He was just about to follow the pack, but he then stopped and looked back at the Toon Squad and Jane.
"Eeh ooh.. ohh.." the female gorilla said silently as she tugged Tarzan to come back. Jane wanted him to stay, but the gorilla female wanted the man to go with her. And so, the gorilla man obeyed and retreated with the female back into the forest, Soon out of the distance.
Jane looked as if she was devastated, but the Toon Squad to which they carefully rose up looked in the distance in confusion. "Well...that was...something." Goofy simply said still in surprise.
"Goodness, them, too?" Jiminy says as he, Pikachu, and Tinkaton looked to see the Aipom & the Infernape following the gorillas.
"Ai…" Aipom says as he looks back to the group with a frown on his face…and then the group went into the jungle.
"Pika…" Pikachu couldn't help but say.
"Tarzan..." Sora said.
"He's one of them..." Jane whispered to herself.
"Gawrsh. Do ya think that was his mother?" Goofy asked in concern.
"Well...uh things kinda went by quickly don't you think?" Yakko asked as Daffy then looked up in the sky.
ALRIGHT AUTHOR, I'M READY FOR YA! ANYMORE SURPRISES YOU WOULD LIKE TO THROW AT US?" The Duck Archer then yelled to the distance. Soon the moment he said that, rustling was heard from the bushes. "Alright, fine, I'll put that one on me,"
Coming out of the clearing is what appears to be a man carrying a musket. The man had black hair with white below. Attire wise, he was wearing a yellow rolled up jacket with a red ascot sticking out. He was also wearing brown trousers and breaches, covering his brown boots.
Suddenly some more rustling was heard, and out came another human figure. This man was not as muscular and he's much older than the one wielding the musket, and he has flaking white hair, covered growing on the side, revealing his balding spot. The old man was wearing a tan shirt with a blue tie, and great yellow overalls pulled up to at least his stomach, and finally wearing long brown shoes.
The old man specifically came barreling to Jane who was still on the ground in shock. "Jane, Jane, oh thank heavens you're alright." the old man said through his shaggy long moustache (covering almost half his face no less) in a more distinct English accent.
"Good heavens what happened here?" the hunter said in a distinct and broad and snobby British accent.
"You want the long version, or the short?" Yakko said smugly.
"Jane, we've been looking everywhere for you, what happened?" the old man asked what the Toon Squad would assume to be Jane's father?"
"Oh my goodness...d-daddy! I was walking w-when" Jane started in surprise.
"Yes, yes..." her father said peaking intrest.
"When a little baby - a little baby monkey that drew a picture!" she continued.
"Yes, go on." her father Mr. Porter said intently.
"Suddenly, monkey starts crying." She continued.
"Oh poor monkey." Mr. Porter says in sympathy.
"But I turn around, AND THERE'S A WHOLE FLEET OF THEM!" Jane exaggerated.
"What? of what?" Mr. Porter asked in concern.
"A WHOLE ARMY OF MONKEYS AND HUGE TREES FULL OF THEM!" Jane exaggerated.
"M-Monkeys?" the hunter asked in shock.
"Monkeys!" Mr. Porter exclaimed.
"Clinging at me! ooh, ooh ahh, ahh, ahh, ahh, ahh!" Jane said as she was ooing and ahhing as if she was a monkey herself. Mr. Porter, the hunter, and the Toon Squad looked at the woman in confusion and concern.
"What is she doing?" Donald asked in concern.
"Now that- she gets that from the books-s-she's very good at this." Mr. Porter pointed out to the hunter and the others as Jane screeches like a monkey...because reasons.
"Oh really." the hunter simply says.
"Terrified, I was, terrified! Suddenly, I was swinging in the vines, up in the air." Jane continued ceasing her monkey screeching.
"Yes, with the monkeys!" Mr. Porters said as Jane started to make swaying movements to exaggerate her point, as Mr. Porter followed her move as well.
"Swinging! I was flying in the air!" Jane said waiving her arms and swaying around the group as if she was a bird.
"In the air!" Mr. Porter piped up.
"And then I was surrounded," Jane said bluntly.
"Wh-what did you do?" Mr. Porter asked in concern.
"And Daddy, they TOOK my boot!" Jane exclaimed revealing to the group a bare foot.
"They to-well, those were the ones I bought you." Mr. Porter said in realization as the hunter only rolled his eyes in this story. At this point the hunter finds the story to be all the more ridiculous within each word she says.
"And I was saved. I was saved by a flying wild man in a loincloth." Jane swooned as the Toon Squad piped up.
"A loincloth, good Lord..." Mr. Porter said in concern and confusion.
"What is she talking about?" the hunter whispered to the researcher.
"I-I haven't the foggiest idea. Takes after from her mother, you know. She comes up with stories like that, not about men in loincloths, of course." Porter whispered back to his comrade..
"But then, the man released me, he sent me down to a safer place nearby the camp." Jane continued.
"Nearby the camp, but why?" Mr. Porter piped up and asked.
"He said he felt something strange at the treehouse. I haven't the foggiest idea what he means." Jane continued. And the rest of the story became pretty clear of what happens next between Sora, Wakko, Daffy, and Pikachu.
"That must be when he came to rescue us." Sora whispered to them.
"Must be, but what does she mean by 'something strange?' I can understand if she meant her acting, but what if not, then what was Tarzan feeling?" Daffy asked.
"It must be Sabor. He must've felt that strange scent of darkness pouring from that kitty when we fought. I mean, cat's can't turn purple right? Unless I missed out on some scientific discovery from another world." Wakko explained.
"Pika." Pikachu said in agreement.
"OH, AND THERE WERE GORILLAS!" Jane said excitedly as Porter and the hunter piped up.
"Gorillas!?" they both said in excitement. Suddenly the hunter raced to her as he placed his hands on her shoulders.
"You saw the gorillas?! Where, Jane, where?!" the hunter whispered excitedly as Jane then looked down as she smiled.
"He left with them." She simply said.
"Who, dear? who?" Porter asked.
"Tarzan." she said.
"Tarzan?" the hunter asked.
"The ape man." she replied.
"Gawrsh. I wonder where ol' Tarzan is now?" Goofy simply said. Finally, the hunter and Mr. Porter turned their attention to Jane and on to the Toon Squad. The hunter however isn't very welcomed to the group.
"Now that storytime is over, it's time we get right to the point. Who...and what are you?" The hunter said as he pointed his two gun barrels specifically in front of Sora's face, who looked a bit in fright.
"Oh, if I had a nickel everytime a hunter points his gun at me, I'D BE RICHER THAN THAT UNCLE OF YOURS, DONNY BOY!" Daffy yells out as Donald gives out a heavy sigh.
"Not. The time. Daffy." Donald says, bluntly.
"L-listen, we mean you no harm! I-I'm Sora. And these are my friends, Goofy, Daffy, Porky, Wakko, Yakko, Dot, Pikachu, and Tinkaton." Sora introduces…INTENTIONALLY leaving someone out.
"Ahem?" Donald coughs.
"Oh yeah, and Donald." Sora says, dismissively.
"D'ohhhhh…WHY I OUGHTA!" Donald yells out.
"Now, now, Mr. Clayton. As...peculiar they look, They don't seem to mean no harm." Mr. Porter said as the hunter who is known as Mr. Clayton lowered his weapon...but not all the way.
"We don't sir, I promise." Sora said to Clayton who still kept his eye on Sora.
"Very well young man. You may stay, but know this, I will keep a sharp eye on you, lot." Clayton said as he went back into the tent. At that moment Jane came up to the Toon Squad.
"Do mind Mr. Clayton. He's very...protective for us." Jane assured as she then asked a question to them. "Now then, obviously, you all aren't related to Tarzan. So, what brought you out here? Are you here to study the gorillas, as well?" Jane asked the group.
"A circus of clowns won't be any use for hunting OR 'studying' gorillas, Jane." Clayton said from inside the tent, but everyone heeded no attention.
"We're here looking for some friends. We have our own ship that led us here, but so we've been told, it's been crashed. So, we're kinda hoping this jungle we would find some stuff that could fix our ship." Sora explained.
"Ah, well, just so happens I found this strange block while me and Mr. Clayton were looking for Jane." Porter said as he took out a red plastic block. It appears to be another Gummi piece. "I can't say I know for sure what good this block will do, but I'm sure you'll fine a better purpose for it than I."
"That's fine sir, in fact this is a piece we need! I'll hold on to it." Donald said putting it in his pockets...BECAUSE CARTOON CHARACTER.
"Hey Donald, n-not that I care. But what even is that?" Sora said still keeping his distance from the duck.
"Wak? It's a Gummi, you saw one already. We need 'em to fix the Ship." Donald explained.
"So, there could be more out there?" Sora asked.
"Yep. We need to find them and bring them back to Chip & Dale. They know their way around gummi repair more than any of us." Donald explained.
"Alright then. I'll help you find the pieces...FOR NOW!" Sora said turning his back on Donald.
"Fine. You can join in and find them. FOR NOW!" Donald said turning his back on Sora.
"OH! Eh, t-th-that reminds me. W-Will this help fix the ship?" Porky asks as he took out something from his alligator pockets. He soon revealed to the group a pristine sparkling blue gemstone as pure as silver.
"OOOOOO SHINY!" Dot beamed.
"Yeesh…too shiny." Daffy says shielding his eyes.
"What IS that, Porky?" Donald asks.
"Eh, I dunno. I-I found this gemstone all by its lonesome in the j-j-ju-jungle." Porky said as everyone looked in awe. The gemstone even caught Jane and Mr. Porter's attention.
"M-my that's such an exquisite gemstone." Mr. Porter said in awe.
"And you say you found this in the jungle?" Jane said curiously.
"Yes Ma'am." Porky simply said.
"That makes no sense. Last time I checked, a million Pokedollars don't just FALL from the sky. So, how could some shiny rare gem be lying around in the middle of the forest?" Tinkaton asks.
"Pika!" Pikachu says in agreement.
"Hmm…perhaps someone misplaced it?" Mr. Porter considered.
"Maybe. Keep it, Porky. Something this priceless shouldn't really be left in the forest." Sora said as the Pig Alchemist placed the jewel in his pocket for safe keeping.
But unknowing to him, a certain hunter peeked his head from inside the tent and listened intently regarding the jewel.
"Hmm..." Clayton mused as he smiled smugly as he returned to the tent.
Meanwhile deeper in the jungle
Deeper within the jungle is the nesting grounds. It is high up in the trees where the gorillas lye. Especially one ape man who stood on forelegs next to the female gorilla who looked back at them in concern. Above all the gorillas is the big black one, the ruler of the pack: Kerchak.
"Everyone, we will avoid the strangers. Do not let them see you, and do not seek them out." Kerchak commanded to the pack.
"They mean us no harm, Kerchak." Tarzan retorted speaking in full English: but to humans it comes out in monkey sounds.
"Tarzan, I don't know them." Kerchak rebutted.
"But that didn't stop you with Aipom and Infernape!" Tarzan says as he motions to the two Pokemon.
"I've made one exception because they were at Sabor's mercy. I won't take anymore chances. Especially with strangers like them." Kerchack retorts.
"They're not strangers, Kerchack! I've spent time with them." Tarzan retorted as his mother Kala tried to object to them both, but Kerchak only continued agitated at the ape man.
"You may willing to risk our safety, but I'm not." the leader of the pack retorted. Soon to everyone's surprise, Tarzan galloped to Kerchak in anger.
"WHY ARE YOU THREATENED BY ANYONE DIFFERENT TO YOU?!" Tarzan yelled out to which it echoed from through the forest. Soon the pack leader snarled and looked to Tarzan at a ferocious glare, to which the man only looked at him boldly.
"Protect this family. And stay away from them." he growled. Tarzan only growled and ran back from the gorilla leader as Kala followed the man in concern.
"Tarzan, for once, just listen to Kerchak." Kala whispered in concern.
"Why didn't you tell me there were creatures that looked like me?" Tarzan said glaring back at her. Kala...had no words to respond to that. Tarzan then climbed up into the highest treetop and sulked as he stared in the sunset.
This discovery was both devastating and amazing to the ape man.
"The poor fool." High up atop the gorilla nesting ground…is the robed man.
"So blinded from the truth, so secluded from his own kin, only to be turned into one of these animals. Can't say that I blame him. It almost feels…familiar."
Meanwhile, high up in the skies of the world
"Are we there yet?" A voice called out
"No." A man grunted.
"Are we there yet?" Another voice called out.
"No." The same man said.
"Are we there yet?" Both voices called out.
"NO." The rounded man said now at his boiling point.
"ARE WE THERE YET?" They yell out in unison.
"NO!" The camera then pans to a familiar round egg-shaped man wearing dark blue glasses, with a shaggy moustache and balding brown hair and goggles on top of his head. An egg-shaped man wearing a red coat and pitch-black pants with matching black shoes.
The man rides on an egg-shaped pod, and alongside him are a myriad of his creations. A red robot with an orb-shaped head, and a yellow robot with a cube-shaped head.
Flying alongside the egg-shaped man's pod is a small robotic creature with a dark-blue sheen and devil-shaped horns. The small robot was wearing white gloves, an M-shaped belt, and red boots.
Finally, flying alongside the pod is a young girl with white hair and red eyes. Computer code seems to be taking place of her arms & legs, as well as within her white hair.
A Multiversal Mastermind that goes by the name…Doctor Ivo Robotnik, also known as Doctor Eggman. Alongside him are his creations – Orbot, Cubot, Bokkun, and Sage as they all travel the skies of the Deep Jungle.
"Awww, but Doctor, when ARE we gonna get there!?" Bokkun complains.
"SO, HELP ME, BOKKUN, I WILL TURN THIS EGG-MOBILE AROUND IF YOU ASK AGAIN!" Eggman yells out.
"Uh..i-if I may, Doctor, what…precisely…IS there?" Orbot asks. The Doctor only gives a heavy sigh.
"There, Orbot, as in the brat that made off with the Chaos Emerald in this world. Once we find them, we swipe if off of them and take off. Odds are, it's some pathetic gorilla who's taken it, anyway." Eggman explains.
"But what if it's the Key Bearer?" Cubot asks.
"As there are an infinite number of stars covering the night sky, the odds of the Key Bearer coming to this specific world can be estimated to a total of 99.9999999-1." Sage calculated.
"Not like the Key Bearer is any of our concern. Bokkun! Orbot! Cubot! Keep your eyes on that tracker! I don't DARE want that Chaos Emerald out of my sight!" Eggman commands.
"YES, DOCTOR!" They say in unison. Suddenly a small light below what appears to be a tiny screen was blinking rapidly capturing the 5's attention.
"Oh, for Heaven's sake, what is it now?" Eggman sighs in frustration.
"Incoming transmission from back at the castle. It is…Maleficent." Sage replies in a foreboding tone. Eggman, however, only sighs.
"Oh, brother. Start the transmission." Eggman says, clearly prepared for the worst from that witch.
Suddenly an image enhanced in front of Eggman's tiny screen. It was indeed the horned witch: Maleficent contacting the doctor from afar.
"Maleficent, my dear. To what do I owe the pleasure talking to you, this fine day?" Eggman said politely, yet still keeping his snobbish state.
"I would like to ascertain as to the reason why you were absent to the meeting of the Coven, of late." Maleficent asks, sternly.
"I've already had a Badnik relay what I missed. Much as I would LOVE to chase down a mere boy with the Key, I've got other business to take care of. Said business has taken me to THIS world." Eggman explains.
"The Doctor, I'm afraid, has no intentions of leaving this world until his objective has been fulfilled." Sage replies. Maleficent was not happy with this response.
"Keep that lust for power leashed, Doctor. Less YOU become feed to the very Heartless you intend to enhance." Maleficent says. Eggman only rolled his eyes.
"Is a stern talking down REALLY the only thing you've bothered to contact me about?" Eggman asks.
"I'm just rather disappointed that you think your search for a mere gemstone is more important than the task at hand…such as the Key Bearer's being pinpointed…to the very world you're in." Maleficent simply says taking Eggman and his creations by surprise.
"HE'S HERE?!" Eggman, Orbot, Cubot, and Bokkun scream out in unison.
"Precisely. And it seems, he has something...peculiar placed in his possession. Something I assume is the only reason you arrived to this world?" Maleficent said to him.
"SO, HE'S THE ONE THAT MADE OFF WITH THE CHAOS EMERALD!" Bokkun deduced.
"Well, I was…somewhat accurate with my calculations." Sage replies.
"VERY accurate, my dear. And I thank you for this new update, dearest Maleficent. This new intel will prove to be quite a satisfactory for me. In fact, my job here will be quick now that I know, hehehe. End transmission!" Eggman said as the image of Maleficent faded into the tiny screen. Eggman then looked to the scouter, it seems the blue dot isn't moving.
"Um…Doctor, it seems the dot on the tracker isn't moving. Is that bad?" Orbot asked Eggman,
"It means the Chaos Emerald has stopped moving. Which means the key bearer has stopped moving as well." Sage replies as a wide grin covers Eggman's face.
"WHICH MEANS, WE'VE GOT A GOLDEN OPPORTUNITY! HAHAHAA!" Bokkun cackles.
"YEAH! Uh…what does that mean?" Cubot asks.
"It means, kiddos…that the Chaos Emerald is as good as ours!" Eggman says mischievously.
Meanwhile back at the camp
Back at the camp, Mr. Porter and the Toon Squad were all sat down, with most of the campsite cleaned up, as they looked to Jane who drew an illustration of Tarzan on the blackboard.
"Well, he didn't stand upright, he sort of...crouched just like that." Jane said drawing Tarzan on the chalkboard on a crouched position. "And he supports his weight on the knuckles." Jane continued as her father looked in intrigue.
"On the knuckles!" Mr. Porter said intrigued.
"Exactly like a gorilla!" Jane said excitingly.
"Extraordinary!" Mr. Porter mused.
"Amazing, and he bends over out like this, and he walks like this!" Jane said as she then crouched down the same position Tarzan would, and she begins walking like a gorilla, supporting her weight with her knuckles like Tarzan as the Toon Squad looked in both intrigue and weird.
"Oh, I see, like Aunt Isabelle!" Mr. Porter said as he began doing the same thing Jane is doing.
"Now that sounds like one crazy aunt." Dot piped up as the 10 were all looking at the two strangely. Meanwhile back behind them, Clayton was doing a quick shave, using his own machete as a razor...fascinating and manly.
"Oh, this is capital! Oh Janey Jane, what a discovery! A man with no language, no human behavior," Mr. Porter said excited by this discovery.
"And no respect for personal boundaries." Jane added.
"What do you mean?" Sora piped up. All of a sudden Jane was right in front of him, which caught the boy by surprise.
"He was this close! Staring at me!" Jane said. Soon she then returned to the blackboard drawing to add more details to the face...specifically the eyes.
"He was... confused at first, as if he's never seen another human before...and his eyes are intense...and focused...I've...never seen such eyes." Jane mused as if she herself was focused on the eyes...too focused.
"And I never knew you had a thing for blackboards~" Yakko mused.
"Ohhh, how could I ever compare…" Wakko pouts.
"Indeed, shall we uh...leave you and the blackboard alone, for a moment?" Mr. Porter mused.
"Oh, stop it, you three." Jane giggled. "The point is think of what we could learn from him. We must find him." Jane continued.
"Yeah, Tarzan might be who I need to find my friends, Riku and Kai-." Sora piped up.
"ENOUGH!" Clayton said wiping down what was left of the shaving cream down his chin as he then stomped towards the group. "Professor, you are here to FIND gorillas. Not indulge some...girlish fantasy." Clayton reminded the professor.
"Fantasy? I didn't imagine him! Tarzan is-" Jane objected when speak of the devil, suddenly flopping to the ground from the trees was the ape man himself: Tarzan, to the hunter's surprise.
"Right there." Tinkaton piped up.
"Ah! It's him! It'-sit-itr's-it's-it's-t-t-t-t-t-t-TARZAN!" The professor said at a completely fan girlish motion as he frantically went to the ape man so ecstatic to finally meet him.
"PROFESSOR, JANE, EVERYBODY, STAND BACK!" Clayton yelled out as he took his gun and aimed it at Tarzan.
"NO!" Jane yelled out, but before she could do anything, Donald came frantically running up to the hunter and came charging at him, catching Clayton by surprise, the duck successfully tackled the hunter to the ground.
"BANG!" The gunshot that could've been towards Tarzan, but instead…It ricocheted…right to Daffy…who's face was covered in soot and his beak was backwards.
"I thought we were past this…" Daffy says in annoyance.
"WHAT'S THE BIG IDEA?!" Donald shouted to the hunter who was still on the ground...both of them.
"What do you think, duck? I'm trying to protect them from that TH-" Clayton retorted when suddenly he heard his name. Not from Jane, or from the professor, or from anyone from the Toon Squad.
"Clayton." But in fact by Tarzan. The hunter looked at him confused.
"Huh?" Porter said intently.
"Clayton." Tarzan said boldly.
"OHAHAHAHAHA!" Mr. Porter guffawed happily as he fell to the ground happily, completely mind blown
"Have we...met? How does he know my name?" Clayton said looking at Tarzan in confusion as the ape man only stared at him.
"He thinks it means the sound of a gunshot." Jane giggled as Tarzan then went to her, staring at her, touching her hair...boy she was not wrong about the personal boundaries thing.
"Jane." Tarzan simply said. Soon he then galloped to the Toon Squad.
"S-Sora?" Tarzan said to the boy as he stared at him as well, wiggling his spiky hair.
"Uh...hey, T-Tarzan. Could you uh..." Sora said looking at Tarzan weirdly.
"Oh my, I see what you mean about those personal boundaries." Mr. Porter said laughing. Soon Tarzan then watched Clayton, and began to stand up on two legs, trying to copy Clayton's moves.
"What's he doing?" Clayton said as Tarzan looked at him, as he puffed up his chin.
"Look at him, Jane...moves like an ape but looks like a man. He could be the missing link." Mr. Porter said in intrigue. But then Clayton slapped the professor's back as he thought up an idea.
"Or OUR link to the gorillas..." Clayton said as Porter agreed with him.
"AH... YES!" Mr. Porter exclaimed. Soon the hunter then looked to Tarzan to asked him something specific.
"Where are the gorillas?" Clayton asked. But suddenly Tarzan was the trying to climb on the man, but he was pushed off.
"GORILLAS!" Clayton yelled.
"GORILLAS!" Tarzan repeated.
"Shouting won't help, Mr. Clayton. He doesn't understand English." Jane reminded.
"I'll make him understand. If I can teach a parrot to sing God Save the Queen, I can certainly teach this savage a thing or two." Clayton said as he erased Jane's diagram of the ape-man, and did his best to draw a...less artistic drawing of an ape. "Gorilla." Clayton said as he handed Tarzan the chalk.
"Gorilla." Tarzan said.
"OH, He's got it!" Mr. Porter said as everyone looked in awe at the ape man learning so quickly.
"If he can learn that quickly, maybe he can learn about Riku and Kai...?" Sora said as his hope was put short when Tarzan was suddenly using the chalk to draw scribbles and lines all over the blackboard.
"Oh, perhaps not." Mr. Porter took back.
"No, no no no no no no no!" Clayton scolded as he took back the chalk.
"No, no no no no no no no!" Tarzan mimicked.
"No, no, give me that!" Clayton said as he snatched back the chalk as Tarzan tried to get it back. Clayton was simply blocking the ape man off from trying to get the chalk from all sides. Basically it was an all out war with the ape man and the hunter...all for a small wad of chalk. Soon when Tarzan climbed up to him and when Clayton raised his right hand high up to make sure Tarzan wouldn't reach it...
"Mr. Clayton, I think I'll take it from here." Jane said as she snatched the chalk out of Clayton's hand.
Inside the tent
Inside of the tent, everyone gathered around inside...surprisingly there's plenty of room for everyone. At first the room was dark... but then Jane came in and placed a lantern on the small table, to which it was covered under a small contraption: a small projector, projecting light on the tent itself.
Tarzan was looking at everything so curiously, from the lantern to the light of the projector as everyone sat down and looked to the projector.
The first slide was a gorilla, to which Tarzan looked curiously as he crouched forward to the slide.
Whatever you do, I'll do it, too
Show me everything and tell me how
Next slide was a gentleman standing straight with his hands behind his back. Soon Tarzan took the advantage to do the same pose.
It all means something, and yet nothing to me
Then slides came the following, a jungle almost as large as the landscape here, then a buzzing city, most likely where Jane, Mr. Porter, and Clayton all came from, and then a giant castle...though it seemed to of stricken Sora odd the moment he saw the castle.
"You OK, Sora?" Goofy whispered as he looked at the key bearer in concern.
"It-It's nothing." Sora lied as he looked strangely at the picture intently.
"That place...why does it seem familiar? There are no castles in town, and I've never went anywhere else but the town and the island" the boy thought as the next slide came a picture of the sphinx. Soon Dot and Tinkaton noticed as Jane looked at the next slide a man and a woman dancing in a ballroom, dreamily.
I can see there's so much to learn
It's all so close, and yet so far
Soon Tarzan looked at the projection in confusion, but nonetheless swept Jane off her chair and they both danced wildly around the small spaces of the tent. Everyone looked at the two happily...all except Clayton who only looked at them in a bored expression.
I see myself as people see me,
Oh, I just know there's something bigger out there
Soon the next slide came in and Tarzan looked in intrigue as he has the first view of the solar system.
At night
Soon everyone except Clayton went out into a wide opened field and explored the amazing view that of night time.
Sora and Donald still tries to keep their distance, The Warners, Pikachu, and Tinkaton were lying down on the grass and reclined, And Goofy, Porky, and Daffy were collecting fireflies.
It seems Wakko is hatching a plan to eat the fireflies, while Tarzan, Jane, Mr. Porter, and Sora were all looking up in the stars above.
Mr. Porter than pointed to something up in the sky, Tarzan couldn't see anything until he looked up in the telescope and found a comet shining brightly.
I wanna know,
Can you show me,
I wanna know about the strangers like me
Tell me more,
Please show me,
Something's familiar about the strangers like me
"So, every star up there makes up a world, huh?" Sora said looking up into the stars in the sky. "There must be a lot of worlds up there. Riku...Kairi... they must be waiting in one of them." Donald overheard the boy talk and he felt a twinge of guilt within him.
"Sora..." Donald simply whispered.
The next day
The next day was a more productive day for everyone.
As the Toon Squad searched through the jungle for more Gummi pieces, Through the day the Porters were really helping Tarzan out with trying to connect him back to human society.
Jane tries to start simple by reading to Tarzan a few storybooks as Tarzan tries to read each word. And then Professor Porter then shows Tarzan a contraption known as the retroscope, an almost old timey flipbook contraption.
Each paper forms an animation of a man riding a pennyfaring. Something that Tarzan used to speed through the trees freely in jungle on his spare time. It was lucky for Mr. Porter to have such a thing.
Soon after that, Clayton tried to teach the ape man more about the gorillas by showing him clearly a picture of one. Little did the hunter know, Tarzan wasn't even paying attention to him, but instead was observing Jane as she was making drawings.
He and the others noticed Jane was so intent on her drawing. Soon the Warner Brothers and Sister took a peek at what she was drawing and found it was another well-designed drawing of Tarzan.
Every gesture, every move that she makes,
Make me feel like never before
Clayton finally notices that Tarzan wasn't paying attention, so he took his head and faced it back to the gorilla picture in irritation, but that doesn't stop him from looking intently to the girl.
Why do I have this growing need to be beside her?
The next morning
Day three of Tarzan's human training begins with the ape man looking up in the skies of the world blissfully in the nesting grounds as the gorillas around him sleep.
Ooh, these emotions I never knew
Of some other world far beyond this place
Dawn breaks, Tarzan rose up from the nesting grounds and jumped the path down below. But little did he know, there were two gorillas awaken, who looked to the ape man in concern. Kala and Terk.
Beyond the trees, above the clouds,
I see before me a new horizon
Making his way down to the camp once more, the ape man first meets up with Clayton and following him, he puffs his chest and struts forward the same way Clayton would.
I wanna know,
Can you show me,
I wanna know about the strangers like me
Not even a second later, Tarzan stopped what he was doing, and noticed Jane drawing a picture while looking to a small little bird in front of her. It's clear that her sketch was of the bird itself. Soon Tarzan came forward to her and looked to what she was doing, Jane showed him and sure enough it was the bird, fabulously detailed.
Tell me more,
Please show me,
Something's familiar about the strangers like me
Startled, the bird flew away, saddening Jane. There goes her inspiration. Or at least that's what SHE though, Tarzan however came up with an idea.
Away from the camp
Far from the camp, Tarzan carried Jane up a vine with the bright sun in their face in the jungle. Tarzan opened the branch bushel and the next thing Jane's sights were set on was such a beautiful view…of the Deep Jungle.
Come with me now to see my world,
Where there's beauty beyond your dreams
It was a nesting ground not for gorillas, but for birds. Hundreds, maybe thousands of birds of different colors and sizes were flocking and nesting all around the place while the sun was raised up shining a golden gleam everywhere.
Tarzan and Jane entered further into the golden grotto as Tarzan called upon a few using a his own bird sounds. Jane looked happy as she and Tarzan help many Birds with their arms and one resting on their heads, it was almost as if she was having fun.
Can you feel the things I feel...right now...with you?
Soon night time befell the jungle. However it didn't stop Tarzan and Jane as they were sitting on the branches as the moonlight shines down upon the two.
Take my hand
There's a world I need to KNOW-O-OW~
When night fell, Tarzan carefully took Jane's hand, and they both launched in the sky, but Tarzan hoisted Jane to a vine as he was swinging one as well. It was when she opened her eyes, that Jane came to notice that she was swinging a vine by herself.
Soon Jane was just swinging freely and blissfully through the trees having the time of her life. Soon Tarzan caught up with her and grabbed on her vine. She then noticed her vine slowed down and soon vine to vine, she was faced to faced with Tarzan.
They both started into each other's eyes.
Back at the camp
"Anything Tarzan?" Dot asked the ape man, but he only galloped to her and stared at her, took off her bow and wiggled her ears.
"H-HEY, PALLY!" Dot calls out as everyone huddled up in the campgrounds, except Porky, Pikachu, Donald, and Goofy who went out into the jungle in search of more gummi pieces.
"Alright, buddy-boy. We've got the perks to pick on our sister." Yakko says as Wakko levitates Tarzan away from Dot.
"YOU TWO DON'T EVEN HAVE THOSE PERKS!" Dot yells out. Soon Sora then walked up to him and asked him the question he was dying to get the answer to. And now that Tarzan understands more English than before. He's Sora's only hope.,
"Please, Tarzan. Where are they? Where're my friends, Riku and Kairi?" Sora pleaded. To his dismay, Tarzan didn't answer straight away, instead he went to look to the diorama of the solar system in curiosity. Everyone looked at him in concern, but Clayton in a hint of agitation.
"Lad, we've been in this jungle for quite some time, and we've yet to see these friends of yours. The Gorilla Nesting Ground is the ONLY place that hasn't been explored yet, but we've been wasting all this time doing what HE wants. Once more the boat could be here, any day now. Now, ask him straight out." Clayton said in agitation. As much as she didn't want it, Clayton had a point. Jane approaches Tarzan.
"Tarzan..." Jane called to him, and the ape man immediately heeded her call. He turned to Jane, Mr. Porter, Clayton, and half the Toon Squad.
"Will you take us to the gorillas?" Jane said slowly, everyone then sees Tarzan lower his head in disappoint for a second. "Do you understand?" Jane asked.
"I understand." Tarzan responded. Everyone beamed a bit.
"Good work, Jane." Mr. Porter whispered as Clayton them stepped forward.
"Well?" he pestered.
"I can't." Tarzan responded as the Toon Squad sighed.
"What?" Mr. Porter and Clayton said in unison.
"What do you mean you can't?" Sora asked.
"Why not, Tarzan?" Jane asked.
"Kerchak." Tarzan simply said as he went off to the direction of the tent as the Sora sighed, and the Porters looked down in disappoint.
But Clayton however wasn't having it. The hunter then stomped to Tarzan, grabbed his shoulders, and scolded at him whilst showing him once more the picture of a gorilla.
I wanna know,
Can you show me,
I wanna know about the strangers like me
Tarzan simply ignored the man and jumped passed him and went inside the tent. In frustration, the hunter ripped the gorilla paper into little tiny pieces.
At that night, Tarzan returned to the projector and watched it clip after clip, picture after picture as he intently watched them as Jane, Mr. Porter, and half of the Toon Squad were all in the tent taking a nap. Despite some of their snoring, Tarzan was clipping through the slides at a rapid pace as more and more information was absorbed in him.
Tell me more,
Please show me,
Something's familiar about the strangers like me
I wanna know...
Finally, Tarzan made it to the final slide and found a picture of a man presenting flowers to a lady. This picture... gives Tarzan an idea actually.
Outside the tent
Outside the tent was a certain hunter sitting down in a table drinking tea to himself as the moonlight shined down upon the camp. Obviously it was Mr. Clayton. He was waiting...waiting...waiting...waiting...BAH! until the man stood up and threw the teacup down.
"This isn't getting us nowhere! Those gorillas are somewhere out there, and what are we doing? Serenading in some foolish love story between Jane and some loincloth wearing SAVAGE!" Clayton yelled in annoyance as he then paced and paced through the camp.
"The boat is coming tomorrow, and there isn't any time left. One day. One day to find those gorillas, I'll hunt them down! EVERY LAST ONE OF THEM! I don't know how, yet…but I will…even if I have to stake my life on it." Clayton said as he began to smoke from his pipe.
"Will you now?" A familiar deep and chilling voice echoes through the camp.
"WHO'S THERE?!" Clayton calls out as he took out his musket. Soon…the robed man appears in a portal of darkness.
"Who…who are you? You're CLEARLY not apart of the expedition. Did you come here with those damned clowns?" Clayton demands keeping his weapon pointed at the man.
"You could say that. We are similar in the fact that…we don't quite fit in this story…now do we?" The robed man simply asks.
"Well…the boy is quite…peculiar. As is his company of clowns." Clayton says in agreement as the robed man simply sat down and poured a cup of tea for him and the hunter.
"Uh…thanks. Now out with it. The boy is strange, yes, but where're you going with this?" Clayton asks.
"You'll never get anywhere so long as that boy sticks with the ape man. For you see…there is something very special that the boy has in his person. And so long as he has it, your search for gorillas will be in vain." The man simply says. Clayton scoffs at that.
"Please. What does the boy have to do with all this?" Clayton asks.
"As I said. You can't hope to reach your goal so long as an otherworldly force pursues you…which is why I'm here to help." The robed man asks as Clayton drinks his tea.
"Is that right? Well, forgive me for being so bold, but you seem rather…frail to do anything to take on this…supposed 'otherworldy force'" Clayton says skeptically.
"Who said I will be the one to take down the boy?" The robed man asks, mischievously. Clayton raised a brow as the man got up from his seat.
All it took was the robed man to raise his arms out…to summon a force of familiar golden-eyed monsters to form as his army – The Heartless.
Not only are the Shadows, Soldiers, and Large Bodies coming out to play – but new varieties. All of which take the form of monkeys with claws, monkey with slingshots…and even monkeys with swords.
"The only way to stop an otherworldy force is with another otherworldly force." The robed man says as Clayton looks in awe.
"My word…" Clayton says in surprise.
"I offer you, Clayton, the power to control the Heartless. With them, you can do as you command them to. Especially…to snuff out the light from those impetuous gorillas. All I ask…is for you to make the boy surrender…The Keyblade." The man explains.
"The Keyblade…" Clayton says in intrigue.
"The very weapon that the boy has been given. Let's just say…there's someone else who rightfully deserves it." The man simply says. Clayton couldn't help but ponder…before giving a smug look on his face.
"Such peculiar creatures…perhaps they will indeed be JUST what we need." Clayton says mischiviously as he shook the robed man's hand.
Soon…darkness flowed through the hunter's veins. And almost instantly, the Heartless scurried to his side. Almost as if his heart has such a delectable amount of darkness within it.
"By the way…" The hunter simply says. "I don't quite think I ever got your name, sir."
The man could only chuckle…as he revealed to the hunter his true name.
"It's Ansem."