Now, it's time for the first new world I wanted to tackle in this story. I'd say it's pretty easy to guess the movie it's based on just by looking at the title, but I digress.

Yuffie: "Yay!"

...It's not that big a deal...

Yuffie: "You've gottta make your own fun sometimes. Yay!"

...You're really strange. You know that, right?

Yuffie: "Of course! DarthKingdom doesn't own Kingdom Hearts, Disney, Square Enix, or anything else. Enjoy the show!"

Chapter 65: Aloha!

Sora was suffering from that peculiar feeling of déjà vu. The ten of them were now standing on a beach on a world that was best described as a tropical paradise. The only noticeable difference between this place and his home world was that he didn't see a paopu fruit tree anywhere. Plus, he could see the darker-skinned natives surfing out on impressive waves.

In fact, the places were so similar that he decided best to double-check with Donald. "What's the name of this world again?"

"Hawaii."

"You know, this place is a part of some other worlds out there." Nehrut said.

"Really?" Kairi asked, genuinely curious.

"Yeah. I forget where I heard that."

"If nobody knows anything about this world, things might be a bit difficult for us here." Mickey observed. "Let's take a quick look around. Darkness is close."

As they walked down the beach, Sora couldn't help but think that it didn't look at all dark. The locals were happily going about their business, and everything looked just fine. A few of them greeted them as they passed by, using the phrase, "Aloha!" They all returned the greetings whenever they came along.

It was one of the friendliest places he had ever been, Sora decided, and about as far from Port Royal as one could get. It was only after the fifth person greeted them that something clicked in the Keybearer's head. He stopped dead in his tracks.

The rest of them walked a few more steps before they realized that he was no longer among them. They turned around and Riku asked, "What's up?"

"They're saying 'Aloha.'"

Expressions of comprehension and surprise appeared on a few of their faces, but the others just looked confused. After a moment, Axel asked, "So?"

"And who else do we know who says that?"

Axel pondered this for just a few seconds before his memory flashed back to an irritating little ball of fur he had known from a few weeks back. "Oh not him..."

But suddenly there was a disturbance. And said 'him' was involved.

Further down the beach, people were screaming and running away. There were two beings stirring up trouble over there, but neither one of them were Heartless or Nobodies. He couldn't get a good look at them since sand was flying everywhere. They were perilously close to a small shack labeled, 'Surf Shack.'

"That's our cue." Nehrut said with a hint of exasperation in his voice. They ran.

As they got nearer, they could make out the features of the two combatants. Both were fairly short, around the same height as King Mickey or Donald. The first one looked like a twisted combination between a chihuahua and an insect. Its fur was pale yellow, and it's eyes were dark blue and pupil-less. It had a large nose, two long antennae and a few patches of light brown on its body.

It was shooting around the area with a misty 'tail' replacing its legs. Bolts of electricity were coursing around its body, and flowing between its antennae. It had a weird kind of high-pitched laugh.

His opponent was easily recognizable. He resembled a blue-furred hybrid between a dog and a koala bear.

Stitch (aka Experiment 626) had his extra set of arms out. His spines were sticking straight out of his back and his own set of antennae was twitching.

He kept trying and failing to get a firm hold on his flying opponent, and grunted and growled whenever he failed to do so. He wasn't deterred, however. He would leap right back at the other creature, claws slashing wildly.

Once, while Sora and the others were still a fair distance away, Stitch was able to wrap all four arms around it from behind, bringing it to the ground. He looked triumphant for a second, before it upped the voltage and shocked him into letting go.

When it was airborne again, it stuck its tongue out at him, and giggled. Stitch growled at him, and prepared to pounce again, when suddenly he was surrounded.

The Heartless had arrived in record time. This particular group was composed of mainly Shadows and Neoshadows. There was a new breed with them. The Torchbearers were humanoid with black skin and yellow eyes. There were red markings along their chests and they looked to be wearing purple grass skirts and headdresses. They held torches with flames already burning.

The other creature was just as surprised as Stitch at the appearance of the newcomers and apparently decided that Stitch was the lesser of two evils. He turned his attention from him to the Heartless. It tackled the nearest Shadow, engulfed in lightning, and reduced it to cinders.

Stitch growled at the familiar enemies, and jumped at a Neoshadow. He tore it apart with his four claws. If Heartless didn't fade into Darkness after their defeat, then this one would have been shreds of black flesh topped with yellow ping-pong balls.

One of the Torchbearers held the tip of his torch up to where its mouth would have been. A narrow stream of flame shot from the torch at Stitch, who leapt into the air to avoid it. He landed on all six near it, and chomped his mouth over its head, finishing it. Unnoticed to the small experiment, two more Torchbearers had snuck up behind him.

They were a millisecond away from attacking before they were taken out. The first by a sharp whip crack in the back of the head, and the other by Oblivion piercing through its chest. As they vanished, Stitch's ears perked up and he twisted around. He smiled a perky, toothy grin.

"Sora!" He leapt up toward Sora, who caught him and held him in one arm. Stitch licked him across the face, leaving a trail of green saliva.

"What's up Stitch?" He asked, wiping the saliva from his face.

"Eh." Stitch answered, with the alien equivilant of a shrug.

"Guys?" Kairi was cutting through a pair of Neoshadows. "Could we please catch up later?"

Sora threw Stitch at a Neoshadow. The experiment crashed into it and proceeded to shred it to pieces. Sora leapt at a second and destroyed it with a horizontal swipe of his Keyblade. He stabbed behind him and took out a Torchbearer. He leapt away from the attack of another one and shot ice shards at it.

Mickey ducked under a leaping Shadow and sliced into the air, taking it out as it passed overhead. He leapt toward a Neoshadow and sliced it in half before it even noticed his approach. The King spun around and shot a small ball of light at a Heartless behind him. It exploded against its chest, and took three others with it.

Nehrut stabbed his blade into a Torchbearer. He pulled it out, and used it to behead a Shadow in mid-leap. He thrust out his hand and blasted a group of them away, right into the path of Donald's Firaga spell. The Torchbearer that survived stumbled to its feet, and was promptly beheaded by Kairi.

She impaled another of its kind with her blade, and then fired Light through the remains into a Shadow. She turned around and swiftly cut through two more Heartless with just two quick strikes. She swept her Keyblade in a wide arc, and a crescent-shapes disk of Light sped from the blade's length and cut two Heartless cleanly in half.

Goofy leapt, and landed (shield first) on a Shadow, crushing it. Black mist seeped up from underneath it briefly. He got back to his feet quickly and blocked a stream of fire being shot at him. He moved toward the Torchbearer, still blocking it, and smashed into it when he got close enough. He then threw it like a frisbee into a Neoshadow, and it cut through it, shot around the area, and back to his hand.

Bariss wrapped her whip around a Heartless, and roughly pulled it toward her. She plunged Rose Blade into its chest, and released it. She then roundhouse kicked a Torchbearer in its face, knocking it to the ground. She pounced at it, and plunged the sai into its chest. She pulled it up, and then tossed it into the face of a Shadow.

The Heartless next to it was then flattened by the giant red-orange fist of Riku's Guardian. Riku himself leapt high into the air, and blasted Dawn into a group of Heartless. When he landed, he stabbed through a separate one, and blasted in the other direction.

Yuffie jumped toward a Torchbearer, her feet collided with its chest, and she imbedded her dagger in its face. She jumped off of it the second before a narrow jet of flame ignited the space she had been occupying. She pulled out her shuriken right when she landed, but didn't need to use it. Axel had already cut it in two with his chakrams.

The other creature was buzzing around the area, shooting small bolts of electricity at the Heartless. Every time one got too close, it would shoot away at a ridiculous speed, and turn up somewhere else, electrocuting some other one.

The fight went on for several minutes. A handful of the locals were watching in awe from a safe distance away, wondering what in the world (or any world, for that matter) was going on. A few select individuals were watching very, very closely.

Eventually, the fighting stopped, the Heartless having lost completely. Everyone turned their attention to the golden-furred creature Stitch had been trying to catch.

The second it realized that their attention was back on it, it took flight again. It didn't bother to hang around and torment Stitch again, knowing that it probably wouldn't be able to escape with all the others around. It shot away down the beach at an incredible speed, and was soon out of sight.

Stitch's ears drooped, and he fell back on the ground. He retracted his extra arms, spines, and antennae, and now looked like he had when Sora first met him. He let out a little sound of frustration.

So, Sora sat down next to him, and scratched the small alien's head. He had learned that he liked it behind the ears. Stitch seemed a lot more cheerful after he did that. His long tongue lolled out and he leaned in to Sora's hand.

"What was that thing?" Axel asked.

"Stitch cousin." Stitch answered.

This was news to them. Sora traded a slightly confused look with Donald and Goofy, who shrugged. None of them knew Stitch had any family. He seemed like one of a kind. Sora looked at Stitch again.

"You have a family?"

"Ih. Ohana!" He answered.

Sora was quiet for a moment. "Oh-whatta?"

"It means 'family.'" came a small voice.

They turned around and saw three people walking towards them. The one in front of the other two was a small girl of less than ten. Her dark skin indicated that she was one of the natives. She wore a red dress with white palm leaves on it. Her hair was long and black, and her nose was a bit large.

The second was another alien, though he was much different than Stitch. He was large in the midsection, had thick arms and legs, and a round head. His skin was mostly dark violet and had patches of pink in some areas. His nose was large and he had two sets of eyes.

The other was another alien. He was scrawny and ridiculously thin. He had pale, yellow-green skin and one large eye. A single antenna poked up from his head, and he had three legs. There were two slightly darker patches of skin on the back of his head.

It was the little girl who had finished Stitch's statement. She was looking at Sora and the others with that wide-eyed awe and excitement that was typical in all little girls. "Woooowwww!" She exclaimed slowly. "Are you Sora?"

He stood up and said, "Yeah, I am. Who are you?"

But instead of answering, she pulled out a camera hanging from a cord around her neck. She snapped a picture of Sora when he was bent down to look at her. The flash was close enough to his face to blind him. "I'm Lilo. Stitch told me a lot about you guys!"

"Uh, okay..." Sora said, rubbing his eyes, which were burning.

Kairi rolled her eyes at him and bent down to address Lilo more closely. "It's nice to meet you Lilo. My name is Kairi."

"You're Kairi?" She excitedly snapped a picture that blinded another person. "Stitch told me that Sora told him a LOT about you!"

"He even told Stitch?" Riku and Yuffie chuckled.

"And you're Donald and Goofy!" Lilo exclaimed. She walked up to the two and took yet another picture. Donald grumbled as his rubbed his eyes, and Sora wondered if she really needed the flash on with so much light already out.

"So what are you guys doing here?" Lilo asked.

"Is not obvious?" The first alien (the big one) asked in a voice that sounded suspiciously Russian. "The Key-wielding boy and his friends are here because of massive amount of Heartless walking around. Is interesting coincidence Experiment 221 escapes at same time."

"What's 'Experiment 221?'" Sora asked.

"Ah! Please do be excusing me." He walked forward and roughly shook Sora's hand. "I am Dr. Jumba Jookiba; Evil genius scientist from Kweltikwan. Is nice to be finally meeting you, Keyblade Master." (1)

"Uh, likewise." Sora was slightly unnerved by the 'evil' part.

"And you can call me Pleakley." The other alien introduced himself, extending his surprisingly flexible arm to shake Sora's hand.

"Do not be interrupting, my optic friend." Jumba said, poking him in his giant eye, causing him to back away. "Now, as I was trying to say, Experiment 221 is what you were seeing just moment ago. Is one of six-hundred twenty six experiments created by me!"

"And Stitch was another one?"

"Yes. Last one I ever made. Recently somebody came across other previous experiments, which were hidden for reason!" He looked pointedly at Lilo and Stitch as he said this.

"Uh, how do you hide monsters?" Yuffie asked. When Stitch looked at her she added, "No offense, dude."

"Experiments dehydrated into small, numbered pods for easy storage. They being reactivated when put in contact with water." Jumba explained. "And as this world is being mostly water, is not good environment for super-destructive experimental beings."

Silence greeted this, until Kairi asked, "Why would you make things like that?"

Jumba shrugged. "It was fun."

Kairi looked as if he was fighting off the urge to slap him across the face.

"Now, thanks to troublesome little girl and 626, Experiment 221 is loose to make trouble. And I am being sure that we are not only ones looking for it."

"Want some help finding it?" Sora offered.

"Would be appreciated!" Jumba said. "Follow me back to house. Once there, we accurately plan our attack. And we must hurry, for we are not only ones looking for experiment."

So, for those of you who don't know, Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep will feature a world called 'Deep Space' where 626 will be a party member, and a certain alien bad guy will serve as a boss battle. Should be interesting.

Now, to all of those who celebrate it, have a Happy Thanksgiving!

(1) This guy's manner of speaking is just too fun.

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