The final chapter of Hawaii is here at last. It was fun, but not that fun. Anyway, I hope you enjoyed this new world up to this point! ... In completely unrelated news, is anybody else really psyched about the imminent arrival of God of War 3?

Roxas: "Me! DarthKingdom doesn't own Kingdom Hearts, Disney, Square Enix, or anything else."

Chapter 71: The Giant Mech Fight

"Okay, just up one more level and we'll be in the observation deck." 625 said.

Sora was running through the hallways of the ship, feeling the deck below his feet constantly shaking. It was taking heavy fire, they had to hurry.

They turned the corner which would lead to a lift that would take them up, and were met with a sight that none of them expected.

"Lilo?"

"Aloha guys!" She smiled and waved at him in a perfectly normal manner, as if she was used to being on hostile vessels totally unprotected. She was standing in front of the lift, she poked her finger at the doors. "I think you have to take this one."

Sora looked at Stitch, who looked back and shrugged. "Um... How did you get here, Lilo?"

"I walked." She answered as if it was the most obvious thing in the world. "How else would I have gotten here?"

"Never mind." Sora shook his head. "Listen Lilo, we've got to get to Hamsterviel, so you need to get back to the ship as fast as you can."

"Not a chance!"

Just as Sora was about to protest, he felt something. Fear shone in his eyes, and he turned noticeably paler. He ran towards a window next to the lift and looked out apprehensively. His hand started shaking at his side.

He could see a fairly large, black metal object tumbling through the battle toward the world below, spewing smoke as it did. As they watched, a stray shot from a police cruiser blew off its remaining engine.

"Cooool!" Lilo said, in total awe.

"Kairi was in there!"

"What!?" The three others exclaimed in shock.

Sora tried to reach out to her, to feel her somewhere, hoping against hope that she was alright.

After a desperate minute of searching for her, he felt her presence. She was still there in the falling ship, and still in good health as far as he could tell. But she was confused, scared, and unsure of how to escape her falling prison.

Somewhere in his subconscious, he recalled the controls for the Highwind and the Unity. In his mind, he was sitting in the pilot's seat, his hands on the controls, weaving it in and out between Heartless ships.

He didn't know it, but Kairi saw these very memories…

Kairi suddenly found herself reliving a memory that she knew wasn't hers. She felt herself behind the pilot's seat of the Highwind. Her hands rested comfortably on the controls, but of course, they weren't her hands at all.

She somehow found her way to the controls of Gantu's ruined ship. The only possible pilots who could possibly control this ship within a thousand worlds were several miles away now. But she didn't need Stitch, or even Sora.

Sora was a part of her.

She grasped the controls, and though they were grossly oversized, she found that they moved easily.

With just the right amount of force, she was able to slow the craft's speed. With a tweak of the controls, she was able to level out the vessel, moving toward the world below at a reasonable pace.

Never mind the fact that the ship had two blown out engines. Nevermind the fact that she was in the midst of a massive space battle. Nevermind the fact that the semiconscious Gantu was only a few meters behind her.

She and Sora could handle it.

Sora let out a long, relieved breath when he saw the ship's flight get under control. He felt Kairi's smile on the other end. He mentally returned it, and it showed on his face, as well. "Hang in there, Kairi." He said aloud.

He turned to his companions, looking extremely relieved. "Let's get Hamsterviel and end this."

"Ih!" Stitch barked enthusiastically, and followed him into the lift. 625 and Lilo walked in behind him. He pressed the bright 'up' button. The doors slid shut, and they began to rise.

Just before the doors slid open, revealing the observation room, Sora wondered, "Wait, isn't the power supposed to be off?"

And then the doors parted, revealing an unnerving sight. Hamsterviel was standing in the middle of the room, hands on his hips, and looking extremely smug. Next to him was the experiment pod, which was taller than him. But the worst part was what was standing behind him.

"There's always a giant mech." Sora muttered.

This particular giant mech loosely resembled a giant crab that was about twenty feet tall. It had six large appendages. One set of massive back legs, a middle set armed with some kind of rapid-fire weapons at the tip, and a front set of huge claws with firing weapons included inside. Mounted on the underside of it's main body were two rapid firing plasma cannons more suitable to the police cruisers on the outside. There was a single viewport at the front.

And on the top of it, trapped inside a plexiglass pod built into the mech was Sparky. How in the worlds Hamsterviel had caught him to restore the power, Sora would never know. The experiment looked apologetically down at them.

"Well well!" Hamsterviel said. "You have made it this far, but NO FARTHER!"

"That's because there's no more ship..." Sora said.

"SHUT UP!" Hamsterviel shouted, stamping up and down rather comically. "I will have no more of your disrespect! I have the giant mech, I have the experiments, I have-"

A green loogie hit him in between the eyes, dripping down his face and covering his eyes. He screamed and immediately tried to wipe the gunk off.

"Nice shot, cousin." 625 complimented.

"Good dog!" Lilo exclaimed. Stitch giggled in response.

While Hamsterviel was running around, trying to shake off Stitch's drool, Sora walked toward the experiment's container. He picked it up casually in one arm, and walked back to Lilo. He handed it to her, and she struggled to hold it. 625 helped stabilize her.

"You guys get this back to the ship as fast as you can." He said. "We'll handle Hamster-Wheel."

"It... is... HAMSTERVIEL!" He had finally managed to clean his face off. "And give me back my experiments!"

Sora punched a button on the wall by the lift, and the doors slid shut in front of Lilo and 625. That left Stitch and himself alone against Hamsterviel.

"That does it!"

He ran underneath the mech, and a bluish light shone down from it. Hamsterviel then began to rise up off the ground, and up toward the mech. He entered through an opening in the bottom, which closed right behind him.

He went to the controls, and pressed a button. There was a surge of electricity from Sparky's pod, which then spread to the rest of the metal behemoth.

Slowly, agonizingly slowly, it straightened up with the quiet sound of working machinery. The claws snapped, and opened, revealing the muzzles of two high-caliber plasma cannons. The weapons on the underbelly spun, and aimed at the two.

"Bye bye!" Hamsterviel mocked. He fired with all his weapons. Sora and Stitch leapt in opposite directions, Sora left, Stitch right. No sooner had they done so then the plasma blasts reduced the floor where they had been standing to cinders.

They ran around the mech. Stitch pulled out his twin pistols, and fired them repeatedly at the side of the mech. Sora continuously fired a combination of fire and ice spells from the opposite end. But neither one appeared to have any real effect.

Its middle legs lifted into the air, and opened fire. Blasts of red plasma spewed toward Hamsterviel's two targets, scorching anything they hit.

The two were just able to outrun the blasts, but it soon became clear that they were getting nowhere pounding it from a distance. So Sora decided to use a new tactic. He leapt high into the air, toward Hamsterviel's mech.

"Power!"

He let off a bright flash of light and seemed to freeze in midair. When the light faded, his clothing had changed. It was predominately gold, marked with black. On the shoulders and legs were patterns of three overlapping crosses. The clothes had also become much more loose. Freedom of movement was crucial in Master Form.

Once again, he had a second Keyblade. But this one was floating in the space in front of his left hand, held there by Sora's will. It was known as Ohana's Pride. The hilt was circular, with two red 'fins' sprouting off from either side like those on Jumba's ship. It was linked to the blade's shaft by a pommel that resembled two large sea-shells. The shaft itself resembled a long palm tree, complete with two long green palm leaves. In front of those leaves was a blue silhouette that looked suspiciously like Stitch's gaping, toothy mouth. The keychain was a small, blue pod with the number '626' on it.

Not skipping a beat, Sora shot toward the side of the mech, and drove both blades into its armored side all the way up to the hilts. Sparks flew from the new, narrow openings as he ripped them free and landed back on the ground.

One of its center legs moved to blast at him. Sora raised his left hand, and Ohana's Pride shot upwards at it. It cut through the leg entirely, cutting it in two. The useless stump left behind rotated and swung all over as the appendage struck the ground at Sora's feet.

Hamsterviel turned the mech as far as possible, to face Sora directly. Its left claw rose into the air, and came crashing down toward the Keybearer. He leapt backwards in time to avoid the attack, landing ten feet away from his original position.

The cannons on the mech's underside whined back into life, and shifted to aim directly at Sora. They opened fire, but he didn't move.

With a twitch of his hand, Ohana's Pride moved up in front of Sora. With a wiggle of his fingers, it spun rapidly in front of him. The plasma splattered against the blade before it could get to him. While his left blade was occupied, he engulfed Oblivion in fire.

He swung it in a wide arc, and a fireball blasted from it, exploding against one of the cannons. With a slower rate of fire, Sora leapt into the air, bringing Ohana's Pride with him. A flick of the wrist, and it spun through the air at the other gun.

A twisted scrap of metal fell to the floor as Ohana's Pride boomeranged back to him.

He landed lightly back on his feet, and leapt over a blast from one of the front claws. He went high into the air, floating almost directly above the mech. Its claws rose to follow him, and they began to spin. Energy built up inside of them, until it all spewed out at Sora.

He crossed his blades in front of him and shouted, "Reflega!" A magic barrier appeared around him in the shape of a bubble. The energy attack smashed against it, pushing his bubble back into the wall, still unharmed.

Sora thrust out his left hand, with his new blade floating in front of it. The blade stabbed outside the bubble, into the midst of the energy, which all shot right back at its source.

One of the claws was blasted off entirely, and lay on the floor, twisted and burning.

Sora landed back on the ground, and reverted back to normal, having destroyed four of its six weapons.

Stitch reentered the fight, blasting directly at the viewport where it was possible to see Hamsterviel's angry face. The hot plasma collided with the viewport, only causing minor aesthetic damage. The window was repeatedly singed, making hard to see inside or out.

Hamsterviel's remaining claw lifted into the air, and fired at the experiment. He rolled over to the side of it, and fired at the claw itself. A few bolts of plasma collided with the claw, though once again, this did very little.

The claw lashed out, nearly reducing Sora and Stitch into pulp with one horizontal swipe. They leapt over it, and then were nearly blasted by the remaining middle leg. The blast passed between them so close that they felt the heat radiating off of it. They landed unceremoniously on the ground in a heap.

They were just starting to get back to their feet, when the claw came back and hit them full on. They were tossed bodily toward the wall with just enough force to crack it. Fortunately, the walls in the observation deck were much more sturdy than they were in the room at the back of the ship.

But that just made the hit all the more painful for Sora and Stitch. The two groaned, and got back to their feet.

Immediately, they dodged to the side as quickly as possible to avoid a large plasma blast. Hurrying, they ran around the perimeter of the room, outrunning the blasts by a hair's breadth each time. As they ran, they could hear Hamsterviel shouting, "How do you like that wise guys!? Never underestimate Jacque Van Hamster-Wheel!" Then he caught himself. "Ah vicksglacks now I'm doing it!"

Perhaps as a sign of his frustration, he pulled out a secret weapon neither had seen on the mech before. The top of it (which held Sparky inside his pod) lifted off the main body. It rotated around vertically, revealing some kind of massive cannon, with the pod fastened at the end.

There was another surge of electricity from Sparky's pod, and the cannon let out a quiet humming noise. The inside of the barrel began to glow, and Sora and Stitch were just barely able to get out of its line of fire, when it unleashed thousands of volts of electricity at once.

The bolts exploded against the wall in front of which they had been standing. The force of it was enough to send them flying in opposite directions; Sora to the left, and Stitch right.

While Stitch was still down, Hamsterviel lifted the mech's remaining claw as if to smash him into the ground. It came down hard and fast, but Stitch was able to catch the blow, and held the claw at bay with all four arms.

Sora knew for a fact that Stitch could lift three-thousand times his own body weight, but Hamsterviel was pressing down with a significant amount of force, and it showed in Stitch's expression. He was starting to sweat; something Sora had never seen him do before.

Meanwhile, Hamsterviel moved the mech's remaining middle leg, and aimed its plasma cannon at the experiment while it was still trying to hold off it's claw.

Sora raised his blade, and shot a large ice shard at the claw. While it didn't have much of an effect, the power behind the shot pushed the claw in the other direction. Stitch leapt free, and Hamsterviel accidently blasted his own appendage.

Stitch reclaimed his pistols, which had slipped from his grasp during the lightning attack. He and Sora tried once again to pierce the machine's armor with plasma and flames. But once again, all they succeeded in doing was darkening his viewport.

Sora thought that it was amazing how quickly the tide of battle could change. At the beginning of the battle, he had been crushing him. It was because of the Master Form that it was now missing most of its weapons.

Now it didn't look like they were going to beat it.

"But of course," Roxas said, "That's never stopped you before."

You know it.

So, he tried a different sort of approach. He ran directly at the mech, flourishing his blade. He ran at the mech, dodging or deflecting it's shots as he went. Stitch came up behind him, running on four legs and blasting with the extra set.

He leapt into the air, aiming for Sparky's pod. He was able to get on top of the mech, just barely. He lifted his blade, and slammed it down on the pod, which cracked.

"What are you doing!?" Hamsterviel shouted from below him. He sounded afraid.

Sora was just about to strike again, when the giant machine started to buck and shake violently. The Keybearer tried as hard as he could to hold on, even resorting to grabbing Sparky's damaged pod, but to no avail.

Hamsterviel flung him off his mech, and across the room. Soon after, when Stitch tried the same technique, he expected it. The claw shot out, and smacked the blue experiment across the room to join Sora.

"Give up Key-child!" Hamsterviel shouted at him.

"Okay, that name's just plain unoriginal." Roxas said.

Sora ran at the mech again, but this time with a different strategy in mind. Stitch fell into step right next to him. They ran at the mech, avoiding it's attacks, until finally when the machine raised its claw, he shouted, "Stitch!"

"Aloha!"

The two stood back-to-back. Stitch held both his pistols high in the air, and Sora flourished Oblivion. They held them both out. Sora's blade spewed green energy bullets, and the two spun around each other quickly, never ceasing fire.

The energy spewed all around them, rapidly. They scarred the walls, leaving brownish-black burn marks all over them. But they had a more desirable effect on Hamsterviel's mech. The bolts seemed to explode against it, denting its armored plating, or punching through it entirely. The viewport was holed by eight separate bolts. Hamsterviel had to crouch under the console in front of him.

"Go, go, GO!" Stitch exclaimed. He held his pistols close to him, and curled up into a tight ball shape like an armadillo would.

Not hesitating for a second, Sora gripped the Keyblade tightly, and smacked Stitch at Hamsterviel's mech. The small being wasn't hurt, but the machine soon suffered from a huge dent in the front just under the shattered viewport.

Inside of it, Hamsterviel was knocked to the back of the machine.

Stitch bounced off the mech, and to the opposite wall. He bounced back off of it as well, and came back to smash into the same spot, nearly going entirely through this time.

Sora meanwhile, was gathering energy at the tip of his blade. He held it there for a few seconds, before releasing it all at once at the mech's claw. This time, it was damaged. Actually, 'destroyed' would be a more appropriate word. It was reduced to a flaming hunk of useless metal just barely hanging on to the rest of the appendage.

Another similar blast removed the entire front appendage from the main body, sending it to the ground with a loud clang. And another blast removed the last weapon: the middle right leg with a plasma projectile.

Stitch bounced off the glass wall one last time, and smashed into the same dent he had already made, going all the way through, and hitting Hamsterviel in the gut. All his air left his lungs as he bounced back out the window, landing next to Sora.

"Meega natha queesta, Stupid-Head!" The experiment shouted. He pulled four pistols seemingly from nowhere, and held them aloft. Sora summoned a second Keyblade (his original Kingdom Key) to his off-hand, and held them high. Energy gathered at the tips, swelling to the size of basketballs. Stitch's pistols were vibrating with all the pent-up energy.

They pointed their six weapons at the mech (which was no longer standing up, and looked horribly defeated). Energy spewed forth from their weapons, shooting at the machine. One split second after they fired, there was an explosion, and machine parts flew everywhere, smashing into the floor, walls, and ceiling. (1)

From the fire and smoke, Sparky shot into the air, his ghost-like tail crackling with electricity. Clutched in his mouth was Hamsterviel's tail. He was hanging semiconscious in his grip, fur singed.

Stitch laughed wildly as he dropped the doctor at his feet.

Hamsterviel looked up at them with squinted eyes. He laughed weakly. "You wouldn't do anything too horrible to me. Would you?"

Sora bent down and picked him up by the tail, slung him over his shoulder like an old sack, and ran out of the room with the two experiments right behind him. But not before picking up a shining silver charm laying by the door which had apparently been tossed from the mech. It had a black and yellow circular kind of logo on it resembling a lower case letter 'I'.

But Sora didn't want to think about it right now. They had to leave.

"C'mon guys, this place is gonna blow!" Yuffie exclaimed from the airlock entrance leading to the Unity. The Federation fire was having a serious effect now.

"Where are Axel, Lilo, and 625?" Sora asked, the experiments, and fully unconscious Hamsterviel with him. As he asked this, the deck under his feet shook violently.

"They're at the other ship with Nehrut." Riku shouted from inside, near where Bariss stood. "He's going to fly them out of here!"

They all entered the Unity, and Sora took his usual position in the pilot's seat. "Hang on everyone. Yuffie, get a barf bag, this is going to get rough!"

"Which one closes the airlock!?" Nehrut exclaimed, looking back and forth at the console in front of him with panic in his eyes.

"You mean you don't know!?" Axel asked, just as worried. "Is it this one?" He pressed a small blue button near the steering veins. The ship lurched violently, but didn't separate from the main ship.

"Don't touch that!" 625 said. His ears were quivering in worry. "I'm pretty sure that it's this thing!" He flicked a switch to the right of the button. Two of the ship's cannons blasted at the area near them. There was a bit of violent shaking, and they still didn't move.

"Don't touch that!" Nehrut said.

"What about this?" Lilo said, much more calmly than the others. She reached out to press a red button in between the steering veins.

"Don't touch that!" The other three shouted in alarm.

Too late, though. Everyone closed their eyes, expecting a catastrophe. But instead, the ship ejected from the airlock, and harmlessly backed into open space.

"It's always the big, red button." Lilo said proudly as Nehrut cruised away.

And exactly ten seconds later, Hamsterviel's ship finally succumbed to the concentrated firepower of the Galactic Federation. The first thing to go was the observation deck. Glass and metal fragments from the floor and the remains of the mech spewed into space and were frozen immediately in the vacuum.

Soon, the tail fin broke free of the main body of the ship, falling, burning. The wheel-like body seemed to spin rapidly, the new opening leaking fire which was soon snuffed out from the lack of oxygen.

By the time of its explosion, the police cruisers had pulled back to a safe distance, and the Heartless had fled without a strong leader. Sora and Nehrut were already halfway back to Hawaii.

Back on the same beach where they had been standing for nearly an hour were Bubbles, Mickey, Goofy, Donald, Jumba, and Pleakley. The Grand Councilwoman had since joined them, after it had become apparent that her forces could easily finish the Brotherhood in space without her aid.

Behind them was Gantu's horribly damaged ship, still smoking from its fresh collision.

They walked cautiously toward it, not sure what was inside. That was of course, assuming anything had survived the crash.

"This is the Grand Councilwoman of the United Galactic Federation." The Councilwoman announced loudly and clearly enough to be understood to anyone inside the wreck. "Put your weapons down, and step out here into the open, or we will open fire."

The response was a blast of Light energy through one of the sides of the ship.

Jumba and Bubbles aimed their weapons at the new opening. Donald and Goofy took up fighting stances. Mickey, on the other hand, held up his arms, signaling them to stand down. He was smiling.

Out stumbled Kairi, waving dark smoke away from her face. Aside from a few bumps and bruises, she was perfectly fine. She returned the King's smile. "Sorry about that landing. I still need to work on my parking."

She walked up to them, and was immediately greeted with praise.

"I thought only Sora could fly like that!" Donald exclaimed.

"You know, I think he did..." Kairi said thoughtfully, looking up at the sky. Two tiny specks were growing larger and larger.

"Huh?" Donald asked, confused.

"You mean Sora's in there?" Goofy then ran toward the ship, and into the opening. Donald was right behind him, shouting for Sora. They assumed he had been hurt.

Kairi and Mickey laughed quietly to themselves. Jumba and the others looked a little confused.

In a matter of minutes, Jumba's red ship was hovering uneasily above them, as if the pilot was unsure of what to do. Finally, it seemed he had found the landing gear. They deployed easily, but then the ship shot straight up.

Kairi could have sworn she heard muffled shouting from the cockpit as the ship changed directions, and landed with a loud clang. Of course it was only after that that the pilot decided to shut down the engines completely, and inadvertently set fire to a patch of grass.

The boarding ramp opened, and Nehrut shot down the ramp as fast as possible to snuff out the flames.

A queasy-looking Axel stepped down soon after, followed by 625. "How were you able to get around on your own for three years!? You almost killed us!"

"I landed us didn't I!?"

"If Lilo hadn't found the right button, we'd have been burned alive with Hamsterviel's ship!"

"You're welcome." Lilo walked down the ramp with 625, carrying the experiment container.

"Little girl!" Jumba walked up the ramp to meet her, and took the container from her. "I am thanking you for finally recovering experiments!"

"Y'know, we helped." Axel said, feeling a bit annoyed.

"Yes, yes of course." But Jumba was already walking away, looking at the pod with great affection.

Sora's group arrived seconds later in beams of light (the Unity having been put back into orbit).

Stitch immediately ran to his friend. "Lilo!" He flung himself at her, wrapping all four arms around her in a friendly embrace which she gladly returned.

Sora had just enough time to smile warmly at the two, when he was crushed in Kairi's embrace. He pulled her close to him, and kissed the top of her head. She smiled, and leaned up to whisper in his ear, "Thanks."

"Kairi, we couldn't find Sora!" Goofy shouted from Gantu's ship. His eyes fell on the new arrivals. "Oh. Hey Sora!"

The Keybearer laughed.

Riku walked toward Mickey and the Councilwoman, holding a squirming Hamsterviel in both his arms. "Uh, Your Majesties? What do we do with Hamster-Wheel?"

"Hamsterv-" the doctor was cut off when Yuffie clapped a hand over his mouth.

"I will call down an extraction unit to take him into custody." The Councilwoman answered with a nod.

"Hey, we found a big feller in here, too." Goofy called. "It's Captain Gantu."

"Yeah." Donald said. "He's all... Heartless-y."

"There's a nice prison cell awaiting him, too. While he's there, maybe we'll find new ways to combat the Heartless by running a few tests on him." She turned to look at Jumba, who had opened up the experiment's container and was gazing at the tiny experiment pods contentedly. "And as for the experiments..."

With surprising reflexes, she snatched the container away from Jumba. He seemed to have been taken totally by surprise, having been too caught up in staring at them to really notice anything else.

"I'll have my chief scientists liquidate them immediately."

Suddenly, a small, blue blur shot toward the container. Stitch landed near her, clutching the container protectively to him. "Naga! Cousins!"

He was soon joined by Lilo, who threw her arms defensively in front of him. "You can't do that to Stitch's cousins! They're his family! And they could be ours, too!"

The Councilwoman looked down at the two sympathetically. "Now Lilo, Stitch, I know how you feel about this, but the experiments are dangerous. If they were to be unleashed, it would spell disaster for not only this world, but others. And I cannot allow that to happen."

"Well what if the pods were just kept away from the water?" Sora suggested, standing behind the two. "Then there'd be no problems."

"Or what if we turned them to good?" Lilo threw in. "You know, found a place where they truly belonged?"

"Lilo..." The Councilwoman said slowly, in a tone one usually reserves for speaking to the fatally ill. "I really don't think that there's much chance for that..."

"What about Sparky?" Kairi asked.

The yellow experiment was hovering a few feet above the ground. He turned around at the sound of his nickname. He floated over next to Stitch, and looked up at her as if pleading.

"Coussssssinssssssssss..." He said, surprising almost everybody.

"You programmed him with vocal cords?" Pleakley whispered to Jumba.

"I don't remember..."

The Councilwoman looked down at him sympathetically. "Experiment 221..."

"Sparkyyyyyyy." He corrected. A few of the gathered friends smiled.

"Oh... Sparky, then." She corrected herself. "Can you prove to me that you are good in any way?"

Sparky looked at Lilo, a questioning expression on his face. She was silent for a moment, and looked around. Her eyes lit up when they settled on the empty lighthouse. "Stitch, Sparky, come here!"

She ran off toward the lighthouse, her little legs carrying her as fast as they could. Sparky floated after her. Stitch tossed the container to Sora, who just barely caught it. It was a lot heavier than it looked.

Lilo threw open the door at the base of the lighthouse (surprising that it was unlocked, it had been abandoned for years), and rushed inside. The experiments followed her in.

Everything was quiet for a few moments, with the group outside wondering what they were doing. And then, after a few moments, they heard the sound of coursing electricity. And suddenly, the giant lamp lit up, shining its bright light through the thick lens out over the ocean.

The dazzling light suddenly illuminated something. And it soon became obvious what it was.

Destiny's Light appeared in Kairi's hand as soon as Hawaii's Keyhole was revealed. She smiled to herself and pointed it at the large phenomenon in the sky. Silvery light gathered around it, and then speared from the tip into the center of the Keyhole. It emmitted a few strange bursts of light before fading from existence.

After that, there was nothing to do. So everyone stood there, admiring the simple beauty of the light shining across the night time sea. A soft smile graced everyone's lips. Naturally, Kairi leaned into Sora, and he placed his arms around her from behind. Yuffie took Riku's hand in hers.

And, as if on its own accord, Nehrut's hand reached over and interlaced its fingers with Bariss's. She looked down at it, and then into Nehrut's face, and smiled. From farther away, Axel noticed this, and winked slyly at Nehrut. He pretended not to notice.

In a few moments, Lilo and Stitch rejoined them, looking very proud of themselves.

"You see?" Lilo asked the Councilwoman. "The experiments can be used for good."

The alien woman looked down at her, wearing a slightly embarrassed smile. "I think if we really try, we can find the one place where they truly belong. Like Sparky belongs at the lighthouse, and Stitch belongs here with me."

"Ahem." 625 interrupted from a few feet away.

"And 625 can probably go to a nice sandwich shop somewhere!" She caught herself, and looked back at the experiment. "You know, we should call you 'Reuben.'"

"I love you." The newly dubbed Reuben said.

"So come on, lady." Lilo continued. "Give the experiments a chance to prove themselves."

The Councilwoman looked down at her, thinking.

"Very well, I won't destroy the experiments. But, only under the condition that you can find 'the one place where they truly belong.'"

"You can count on us, ma'am!"

Yes, I realize how cheesy that ending was. Get off of my back.

Anywho,I hope you liked it anyway, and please review!

(1) "Tiki Smash"