"Huh? A beach?"
"Hello, Roxas."
"Naminé? What...wait. Dreamscape?"
"Yeah. Since Sora and Kairi are sleeping, we're pretty much free to interact with each other here."
"Due to the lack of a clock tower ledge, I'm assuming that this is your dreamscape we're in. Looks like the usual island without all the wood buildings."
"I created this place while I was held at Castle Oblivion. I sometimes come here while Kairi's sleeping when I need to think."
"Well, it certainly seems peaceful here."
"Nice pajamas, by the way."
"Oh, like you should talk! You practically live in your sleepwear everyday!"
"It's okay, Roxas. I forgive you for being jealous."
"Gee, thanks."
"Aw...you're so cute when you think I'm serious."
"So...what are your thoughts about this whole wedding business?"
"Well, Kairi's obviously stressing out, but she's putting up a brave front."
"Same with Sora. He's having some doubts whether he can really go through with this. Let alone, if he's really the right guy for her."
"How so? It's no secret that he's had feelings for her."
"I think it has to do more with a lack of self-confidence. He knows that there are many other guys out there that are probably more suited for her. Like Riku."
"That's stupid and you and I both know it. Sure, Riku is smarter, can bench-press 300 pounds, has cheese-grater abs, long flowing hair, a balance of light and darkness, can be paired with both guys and girls; not to mention being able to pass for a trap character..."
"Naminé."
"Um...anyway, what's important is that Kairi chose Sora. Although she might have a bit of affection toward Riku, her heart has always belonged to Sora both figuratively and literally."
"Huh. Thanks, Naminé. I'll make sure to tell him that when he wakes up."
"Besides, his name's already on the prenuptial agreement."
"Wait, what?"
"Aaaanyway, you do realize that if they get married, so will we?"
"Honestly? Would getting married really be all that bad?"
"Roxas, are you proposing to me?"
"What?! No! I was just...I mean, there's nothing wrong with..."
"Hee hee."
"Since we're talking about it, I don't suppose you're one of those people who believes in sex after marriage?"
"..."
"What? It just popped up in my head all of a sudden."
"Wow. Way to ruin the moment."
"Huh?"
"Good night, Roxas."
"...Was it something I said?"
"Kairi, are you crazy?!" The wind whipped through the Princess' red hair as she dive-bombed toward the rapidly closing opening in Xemnas' head.
"Don't worry, Naminé! This is skyscraper distance!" Kairi felt the tips of her boots narrowly escape the hole that sealed itself behind her, shutting out the light and plunging her into total darkness. Unable to tell how far she was from the floor, she quickly shouted "THUNDER!" Bolts of lightning streaked through the air, temporarily illuminating the room she was plummeting into. Kairi twisted her body into a somersault, tucking her legs in before shooting her feet out, landing gracefully on the ground. "See, Naminé? Those skydiving lessons were all worth it."
At first, the girls couldn't see anything but pitch black. Then without warning, the ceiling opened up to the outside natural light, temporarily blinding them. The girls' vision gradually adjusted to their new surroundings. They were standing in the center of a circular area, surrounded by large pointed tips that jutted out like skyscrapers. The walls were strangely white pastel, while the entire floor was purplish darkness that constantly shifted underneath their feet.
"It's like a mix of the World of Chaos, Castle Oblivion and the Dragon Ship," Naminé observed. "But yeah, it looks like we're standing in the middle of the giant crown." Kairi glanced up at the now visible sky and could barely make out their friends' giant mecha trying to search for another opening.
"Random thought. You remember Kari and Sora from Digimon?"
"You mean the two girls from the first two seasons? What about them?"
"I'm trying to figure out how people keep misspelling my name because of Kari."
"So you'd rather be known for 'light' than 'sea?' Although, I find it fascinating that Sora can be a guy or a girl."
"In an alternate reality, Sora could've been our yuri lover."
"Yeah, right. And Riku would be our jealous rival."
"With that hair? As long as he doesn't decide to cut his bangs, he'll always maintain the bishonen status." There was a slight rumble, making Kairi tense up as she fully expected Xemnas to expose himself in a dramatic fashion.
"YOU HAVE ARRIVED." She whipped around to see a fully armored Xemnas, sitting almost lazily in his throne. "I KNEW YOU WOULD NOT DISAPPOINT."
"He was expecting us," Naminé muttered.
"Well, he's got a lot to answer for." Kairi tightened her grip on the Keyblade.
Xemnas shifted in his seat. "HOW CONVENIENT TO DROP INTO THE VERY CONTROL CENTER OF THIS ENTIRE VESSEL."
"Oh my gawd, this entire room is the cockpit to this behemoth!" Naminé realized.
"I can't believe how low you've stooped. You've kidnapped me as a child and sent me to Destiny Islands. Your Heartless ravaged and destroyed the worlds. Your Organization and Nobodies took away the two people that were most important to me. You've kidnapped me as bait. You've ruined my wedding. You've kidnapped me a third time. You've forced me to become your pawn..." Kairi's eyes flashed with anger. "You want me so badly? Here I am, Xemnas! You and me! Let's finish this!" With a flourish of vengeance, Kairi charged at the armored Organization leader.
"I THINK NOT." Before Kairi could manage to get within striking distance, a wall of metallic tentacles erupted out of the floor, barring her path.
"What the-" She backflipped out of range as the tendrils made attempts to grab her. On closer inspection, they appeared to be coated with some form of chemical.
"Kairi, watch out!" Kairi looked down and saw a circle of light forming underneath her feet. A few seconds after sidestepping it, more tentacles burst out of the circle, flailing around for its prey before retracting back into the ground. "It's just like Marluxia and Xehanort's Heartless! They're tracking our movements!"
Not being able to hover along the ground, Kairi was forced to run and continuously Dodge Flip away. One stray tentacle managed to brush across her back. To the girls' surprise, Kairi's dress disintegrated where it had made contact.
"Ah! That thing burnt through my clothes!" While she was slowed down from the distraction, another one brushed across the outside of her bicep. Kairi felt a familiar tingling sensation where it had contacted her skin.
"Oh no," Naminé said suddenly.
"What? What is it?"
"These tentacles...I know what they're for."
"You don't mean..."
"They dissolve clothing and make your skin more sensitive. And they're trying to restrain us." Kairi's jaw dropped as she put two and two together.
"Why the #$%& would Xemnas have a security system that performs tentacle rape on intruders?!"
"I don't know. Maybe it's some sort of twisted karma payback for willingly stripping in front of Sora?"
"Pfft. That's crazy, Naminé. You're crazy." Kairi raised her Keyblade. "WIND!" The Aeroaga sphere she had only used once surrounded her body, making her feel slightly safer. Numerous tentacles shot toward Kairi, bouncing off the wind barrier, but she knew better than to let her guard down.
"FREEZE!" Kairi shot a blast of ice over her shoulder, whirled around and aimed a kick at the frozen tentacles, shattering them to pieces.
"FIRE!" To her surprise, the flames integrated with her wind barrier, creating a shield of fire. Unfortunately, she was no closer to annihilating the threat than she was at harming Xemnas. Kairi cast every spell that she knew, but the darkness was relentlessly respawning them like the Hydra.
"Kairi? We can't keep using our magic like this! At this rate..." Kairi raised her Keyblade above her head.
"THUNDER!" Just as Naminé feared, nothing happened. "Uh, Naminé?"
"We're out of magic!" Naminé cried. To make matters worse, the combined Aeroaga/Firaga barrier dissipated into nothingness. Kairi shrieked as tentacles wrapped around her wrists and ankles, hoisting her helplessly into the air. She struggled against her captors, but there were too many for her to fight off. A couple of tickle pokes to her ribs and the Keyblade was easily disarmed. "EEK!" Naminé squealed. "Wait, wha-" She wasn't sure how, but despite being a mere consciousness, the tickling was affecting her as well. It was one thing to be tickled and restrained. For Naminé, being able to feel ticklish without a body was taking torment to a whole new level.
The soles of Kairi's boots became completely dissolved, allowing the tentacles easy access to one of the most ticklish spots on her body. The tips began lightly gliding across her arches, making Kairi burst out giggling.
"M-must re-heehee-sist..." She struggled to maintain as much self-control as possible, willing herself to climb up and over the metal appendages keeping her from her weapon, but this only resulted in her dress to become eaten away as her body rubbed against them.
She desperately stretched out an arm for the disarmed Keyblade. It was one thing to be frozen in bondage by Vexen. At least she had been still armed. But she was damned if she were to finally lose to her weakness here when she was finally face-to-face with the final boss. Kairi tried to block out Naminé's helpless laughter in her mind. Her fingertips were mere inches away, but this left her entire side and underarm completely exposed which the tentacles had no trouble in taking advantage of.
The tentacles wrapped around her wrist pulled her arm taut, forcing her to keep her limb extended as more began to poke and prod her increasingly ticklish ribcage.
"What?! NO!" Kairi squirmed and struggled against her bondage, desperately trying to pull her limbs in, but without the Keyblade, she was completely at their unyielding mercy. "STAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA NOHOHOHOHO-"The tentacles teased her by leaving their ticklee's body suspended just out of range of the Keyblade.
"PLEEHEEHEEESE STAHAHAHAP!" Naminé might as well have been a ball of ticklish flesh, because there was absolutely nothing she could do to stop the torture. Everything Kairi's body felt, she felt in turn. She couldn't squirm away or lash out. It was as if she were chained to a wall, unable to move a finger or bat an eyelash. Even though Kairi was able to resist, Naminé had no such defenses as all of the ticklish sensations immediately reached her consciousness, effectively making her nothing more than a gigglebox.
As if feeding off of the girls' laughter, the metallic ticklers began to pulsate with a yellow hue. "THANK YOU FOR PROVIDING ME WITH THE POWER TO TRANSFORM THIS VESSEL INTO ITS FINAL STAGE."
The tentacles coiled themselves firmly around her limbs and stretched out her body spread-eagle, making sure that no spot on her vulnerable body was left unattended to. Kairi instinctively tried to curl her toes, but the tentacles seemed surprisingly knowledgeable on the best hotspots of a ticklee. They snaked in-between her toes and bent them back, lightly feathering the crease where each digit met the foot. It didn't take long for the chemical coating the tentacles to dissolve the remainder of Kairi's boots.
"NYAHAHAHAHAHA! HAHAHAHAHAH!" The struggling redhead hadn't been aware that the base of her toes was a ticklish area. Whether she wanted to or not, Kairi was being given an absolutely torturous, yet thorough lesson of just how many ticklish areas there were on the human body.
They scribbled across her arches and brushed lightly up and down her calves. Kairi's legs instinctively jerked as the tentacles scribbled both in front and behind her knees. Her thighs attempted to clench themselves shut as the soft surface of inside her trunks were teased with gentle pokes. A few tentacles began to pulsate around her hips, simulating a squeezing motion that made Kairi scream.
"NOHOHOHOHOHO! NAHAHAHAHAT THAHAHAHAHA-" The tentacles that coiled around her arms began to gently flick their tips inside the soft hollows of her armpits. Her biceps spasmed as they tugged against her ties, but the tendrils held firm, forcing her exposed underarms to endure the relentless tickles. Her nerve endings were shocked with ticklish electricity as the wiggling feelers slithered through her cleavage, beginning the process of dissolving her dress open. They traveled down the length of her girlish figure and lazily traced circles across the surface of her stomach. A couple of them swirled inside her navel. Kairi's body danced to its own beat with the metal tormentors playing her like its own musical instrument.
As most of the fabric fluttered into the open air, metal tips began circling up and down her exposed sides like a conveyer belt of feather-light touches that endlessly tickled her sensitive body.
Other than her most private of areas, not a single tickle spot was left unchecked as a tentacle wrapped itself around her neck and under her chin, just loose enough to leave her sporadic breathing unhindered, but enough to keep her head from blocking access to the tickles. Even her ears weren't spared as they flicked in and out like tongues.
"WHAHAHAHAYE AHAHAHAM AYEHEEHEE-" What Kairi was really trying to say was "Why am I not fainting?" Indeed, she didn't seem to be tiring, running out of breath or feeling lightheaded. It didn't make sense that the continuous stimulation hadn't eventually become numb to her nerve endings. Yet, Kairi felt just as sensitive and just as keyed up as the full-body tickling never seemed to decrease in intensity.
"YOU WILL NOT DIE OR FAINT. THESE POWER SIPHONERS SUPPLY YOUR BODY WITH THE NECESSARY COMPONENTS TO MAINTAIN ETERNAL CONSCIOUSNESS, ADRENALINE AND ENDORPHINS WHILE YOUR HEART POWERS THIS SHIP." If Kairi and Naminé weren't distracted, they would've sworn there was a smirk hidden underneath his armor.
Helplessly suspended in the air and completely restricted of any major movements, Kairi's will to fight was utterly shattered. Her only weapon was out of reach and with Naminé helplessly tickled to tears as she was, Kairi once again began to long for death. The extremely ticklish girl thought she had experienced the worst tickling ever when she had been tortured by Vexen. But at least Naminé was there to bail her out. Now stripped of her clothes, her dignity, her protection, and her friends, the Princess of Heart's entire world had been replaced with an eternity of laughter.
She begged and pleaded for the tickling to stop, but her pleas fell on deaf ears. No matter how much she laughed, it was never enough. Kairi had half-expected her face to hurt from the forced smile she possessed, but the endorphins were natural painkillers, leaving her in a comfortable, yet suffering state.
The tentacles had dissolved most of her outfit, leaving just mere patches to cover her naughty bits.
...Until tendrils had the audacity to start running their length between her open legs and across her chest.
"NYAHAHAHA! YOU PERVERT!" The sudden thrilling sensation made Kairi buck and took her laughter to a whole new level. Unwanted arousal and lust began to build upon the tickle torture she was forced to endure. Moans of pleasure began mixing in with her helpless giggles. The remaining censors of her female form were finally eaten away by the tentacles, leaving Kairi completely naked for the umpteenth time that day.
"HEHEHEHEHLP MEHEEHEEHEE SOHOHOHORAHAHAHAHA!" were the only comprehendible words that left the poor girl's lips before the combined pleasure and titillation finally overtook her sanity...
"HELP ME, SORA!"
Sora's head snapped up as Kairi's voice echoed through his mind. "Roxas, did you hear that?"
"I did. We can't wait any longer! We have to..." Roxas' voice trailed off as Xemnas' body began to glow a sickening yellow. "What the..." The mecha's crew watched in horror as Xemnas' King Form began to rise, its crown's points swelling in size and spreading open like a flower. Sharp, giant blades burst out of its shoulders while more buildings began to replicate around its lower half like a virus.
"What's going on?" Riku asked as he propped himself up. Before their very eyes, a horse's body had formed, effectively making Xemnas a centaur. Or as the Greeks used to call it, a "Kentauros."
"Xemnas' power levels skyrocketed exponentially!" Chicken Little reported. "I'd make an Over 9000 joke, but..."
"The crown's defenses have not only repaired themselves, but they've been reinforced with barriers of darkness." A worried expression was written all over Aurora's face. "I've lost visual on Kairi."
"What's the status of Radiant Garden?" But Queen Minnie didn't even need to ask. With Xemnas' Kentauros form complete, the absorption process took only a matter of seconds. "No..." Radiant Garden was no more, leaving the only survivors floating in space inside their giant mecha.
"Okay, whose bright idea was it to invite Galactus to the wedding?" Roxas quipped.
And yet, Xemnas wasn't satisfied. The giant beast turned its attention towards the other worlds, most likely to assimilate them into its collective. And its next target...
Aurora quickly tapped a few keys at her console. "Based on Xemnas' trajectory and heading, he seems to be heading for-"
"Destiny Islands!" Riku exclaimed. "Other than Radiant Garden, our world seems to hold some significance to him."
"Don't know why." Sora ruffled his bushy hair. "Nothing really happens other than the occasional Godzilla attack."
"That's Japan, Sora," Roxas corrected him. "We're the ones that get the meteor strikes."
Sora tapped his foot impatiently. "Can't we go any faster?"
He glanced over at the chipmunks sitting on top of Pluto's head, but they only shrugged. "We could go Ludicrous Speed," Chip suggested, "but that'd just be insane."
"No, making Sora an expendable character would be insane," Riku said. "Right now we just need to catch up with Xemnas."
"And then what?" Dale asked. "As powerful as this ship is, I doubt we even have enough power to slow him down."
"What I don't understand is where he's getting all of that extra power from..." Chip added. Sora's head dropped as he placed a hand over his heart. He could feel Kairi's anguish and suffering pulsate through him. His fingers curled up into fists and his eyes narrowed into angry slits as he realized what was going on. Without a word, he began marching toward the exit. "Sora, where are you going?"
"Xemnas is getting that energy from Kairi!" Sora felt anger well up inside of him. "He obviously doesn't believe she's suffered enough."
"Sora, wait!" Lady Daisy tugged on Sora's half-jacket. "It was one thing to try to board while he was stationary. But even you can't glide fast enough to catch up to him!" But Sora already had a determined glint in his eye.
"Kairi's in trouble! Do you really expect me to just sit here and let her face him alone?"
"But how are you supposed to get past his barrier?"
With his fiancée's squeals of torment resonating through his skull, Sora helplessly grabbed his head and said the first thing he could think of. "I don't know! Couldn't we somehow hack into the security system and temporarily disable the barrier?" Everyone looked at Sora, who was trying very hard to concentrate on his psyche not snapping. "What? I was just asking."
Aurora wagged a finger in contemplating thought. "You might be onto something." And with that, the crew members began working furiously to make contact with Xemnas' security system.
After a couple minutes, Alice snapped her fingers in triumph. "We're in!"
"Put it on the main screen," Queen Minnie ordered. The group was taken aback by the display. "What the..." The front display consisted only of a simple phrase followed by a blinking cursor underneath.
"A password?" Snow White peered closer at the screen. "It looks to be an anagram of...'It's Disneyland'?"
"What I would give to be there right now..." Roxas mumbled.
"Hmm..." Riku rubbed his chin thoughtfully. "Try Destiny Island."
"What the..." Sora couldn't hide his astonishment as the password was accepted. "How'd you figure that out?"
Riku gave him an incredulous glance. "Really? I just finished saying that he had an obsession with it. Pay attention next time." But Sora didn't laugh. He was uncharacteristically serious for once.
"The main barrier is down, but the barriers of darkness are still surrounding the crown!" Alice blew some stray hair out of her face. "They're not part of the main system, so I can't shut them down."
"You can leave that to me." Sora's fingers tightened around the Keyblade's grip. "Just see if you can get into a position that will make it easier to board."
"We're on it!" The miniscule mecha sped up until it overtook the behemoth. With their destination in front of the forehead achieved, the crew maintained their position and speed for easier access.
Sora gave Riku a searching look. "You sure you're not coming?"
"Kairi grabbed my Keyblade, remember? Summoning it back isn't going to do any good if it leaves her defenseless."
"Why can't you just summon Kairi's Keyblade instead?" Roxas asked. "You're the one that gave it to her, right?"
"Using the powers of darkness," Riku reminded him. "I can't open Corridors of Darkness anymore, let alone summon a second Keyblade back. I'm not exactly a dual-wielder like you two."
"Before you go..." Queen Minnie handed Sora a Megalixir. "Goodness knows you'll both need it."
"Thank you, your Majesty." Sora gave one quick nod to Riku and headed out. Despite the neck-breaking speed the ship was achieving, Sora managed to steady himself out on the mecha's shoulders, taking care not to fall into the seemingly infinite space swirling around him. Xemnas' Kentauros Form felt more imposing to Sora and Roxas when seen in person. And yet...
"Nervous, Sora?"
Sora rolled his eyes. "Please. We've traveled through Gummi space so many times, something this big isn't that scary." Just as Alice reported, although the main energy barrier was deactivated, there were multiple layers of darkness still protecting the cockpit. "Any ideas how we get through those?"
"Remember what Kairi did against that Twilight Thorn's attack?"
"You mean while it was groping her?"
"No, I meant after that. The whole drill thing."
"You mean like I did against Sark when I leapt off that wall and drilled through his head?"
"Yeah. Just like that."
Sora took a flying leap off the mecha and shot off like a missile, a single point of light streaking through the void. Using natural momentum and with no air resistance to contend with, the Keyblade Master pierced Xemnas' defenses until his spinning ripped through the energy barrier. As Sora fell toward the cockpit below, the faint, anguished voices of Kairi and Naminé began growing louder in the boys' ears.
"Never thought we'd take the role of Riku," Sora muttered. Flashbacks of fighting Xemnas' Final Form alongside the Dawn wielder came to mind. Just like Riku had saved him from Xemnas' energy drain, it was Sora's turn to rescue Kairi. "Roxas?"
"Right, Sora." Sora tucked his arms and legs in as a familiar crystallic sphere enveloped his body.
"GIVE US STRENGTH!"