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Traverse Town (Kingdom Hearts)

"Huh? I'm back in Traverse Town." Sora said as he was walking around.

"Why, hello down there, Sora. I've been waiting." Joshua greeted.

Sora turned around. "You do know you can wait on the ground, right?" He asked. "Come down so we can talk!"

"Now?"

"'Now'? What do you mean, 'now'? You're the one who said you were waiting!" He casually told him.

Joshua shrugged and hopped down. "You know you're turning more into Neku every day. But listen, I'm glad you three showed up because-"

"You 'three'? Does that mean Riku and Sabrina are here?" Sora interrupted.

"Yes. But all of you are still worlds apart." He replied. "They didn't seem especially worried though, they know they'll find you."

"Yeah." Sora nodded.

"Just look at Neku. He and the others all found their Game partners."

"Oh, they're back home safe now?"

Joshua shook his head. "Remember what I told you. Their existence is on the line...and the Reapers are dead set on erasing them for good. But they found refuge in this world, and luckily each other too."

"Reapers?"

"Right. If Neku and the others want to get to where they came from, they need to win the Reaper's Game. It's like a series of missions. Those are the rules of their home ground. Except...this time, the mission is a tough one. They're pitted against a Dream Eater that can summon a hundred more like it. So, I was sort of hoping you, Sabrina and Riku could help us out. You have your Keyblades, and with those, we might still have a chance."

"Well, I'm glad they're here with me."

"If they are, they're on different sides of the portal, and you're on the other. They might be on your side, they might be a million miles away. You can't measure the distance in time or space. Even with the walls between you, it's hard to say."

"Don't worry, they're with me! Even when it might seem like they're not."

Joshua looked away, smiling. "Then...you three are lucky."

"You and your friend are lucky too, Joshua."

Joshua chuckled. "I appreciate you saying that with conviction, even though you have no idea what you're talking about."

"Hey!"

"Anyway...Neku and his partner are pinned down in the fountain plaza. I can count on you, right?"

"Always!"

With Neku and Shiki...

Shiki sighed. "This is starting to wear me down. Can we get a time out?"

Above them, Spellican summoned more Tatsu Steeds and Thunderaffes with lightning, knocking Shiki into the fountain.

Night of Fate (Kingdom Hearts)

A Tatsu Steed fired right at Neku, but Sora got in the way and blocked it. "Missed me?"

"Sora!" Neku exclaimed.

"I'll take it from here!"

"No, I don't need your help."

"'Course you do! Where are your Dream Eaters? How else can you fight?"

"I don't need them anymore."

"Oh, right. Your partner. Well, don't you want to make it out of the Game? Who's gonna help her if you get hurt?"

Neku and Shiki both looked at each other. "Okay, you win. I'll let you do the sweating."

One Dream Eater take down later...

The Spellican looked down at all of them and then disappeared into a portal. "He got away!" Sora exclaimed.

Traverse Town

"Sora." Neku and Shiki walked up to him.

Sora looked at Shiki. "So, you must be Neku's partner."

"Yeah, I'm Shiki. Nice to meet you." She greeted. "Neku told me all about you."

"Cool. But you should have seen him. He looked everywhere for you."

Neku blushed. "Hey, Sora! Stop talking!"

"What? Why? You said you need her. That's a good thing."

Neku sighed. "That's sweet, Neku." Shiki smiled.

"I need you to stop annoying me." He muttered.

"Mhm. Well, I still think it's sweet. It's nice to be needed." Shiki said.

"I'm sorry, is this a bad time?" Joshua asked, walking up to them. "Because that Dream Eater we're after has retreated to the other imaginings of this world."

"'Other imagining'? You mean where Riku and Sabrina are?" Sora asked.

"Yes. They and our other friends will do what they can. But we'll just run ourselves in circles at this rate. We need to trap that thing in one place, and then we can finish it."

"Trap it where?"

"The Third District."

"Okay." Sora nodded as the three of them took off, but Neku suddenly stopped.

"Joshua."

"Yes, Neku?"

"Tell me...are we really gonna make it home?"

"But Neku, I thought you couldn't afford to lose. Give up on yourself and you give up on the world."

"Right...so I'll see you there?"

"Me?"

"Yeah. You're my friend. It's your home, too."

Joshua chuckled. "Maybe it's you who's turning into Sora."

"Huh?"

"Thanks."

With Riku...

Riku walked around in the First District. "Traverse Town? Why am I back?" He asked and then saw something in the corner of his eye. "Joshua..."

"Nice of you to join us."

"What happened?"

"Trouble happened. I was hoping one of you could help."

"When did Sora and Sabrina get here?"

"Bravo, Riku. Why couldn't Sora be this quick on the uptake?"

"Yeah well... Sora's a little..." He chuckled, as Joshua joined in.

"Now, let's get down to the problem. We've got a nasty Dream Eater on our hands. It keeps jumping between worlds. Not only that, it knows how to summon creatures like it...pretty powerful ones too. The others are on a mission to stop it, but they need help."

"The others? You mean Shiki and her friends?"

"That's right. They all found their Game partners and Shiki is over fighting in Sora's Traverse Town. In fact, he's helping them out."

"And what about Sabrina? Is she all alone?"

"Technically...no. She has her Dream Eater to keep her company while they're trying to find the Dream Eater."

"Ah, good to hear. So what can I do?"

"Actually, the Dream Eater just reappeared in the Fountain Plaza. I sent Beat and his partner to face it."

"I'm on it." Riku walked away.

"Riku. There's something else you need to know."

"Hmm?"

"These three Traverse Towns separated by the Portal...I was under the impression they were parallel worlds, but it looks like I was wrong."

"Wrong how?"

"That's where it gets tricky. After you, Sora and Sabrina left, Shiki crossed the Portal to join her Game partner. Did you noticed Players have a mission timer inscribed on their hands? Well, when she got to the other side, Shiki had more time left on her clock than her partner. And when Beat's partner crossed over from the other side, she had LESS time left."

"So time flows differently here, there and the other world? So what? That's true of any three worlds. Their home world would be running on a different time axis, too."

"Yes, I understand that. But if these Traverse Towns were parallel worlds, then time would flow the same in all three worlds. But it doesn't, ergo they are not parallel worlds."

"You mean there's a past, present and future."

"No. Impossible. The worlds are clearly separate...it's not just time that sets them apart. As you yourself noted, every world flows at its own pace, which tells me that for all their similarities, these are three distinct worlds."

"Distinct worlds?"

"Yes...but this is all conjecture. It's like the same world imagined by three people. What does that tell you? That we're in..."

"A dream..."

"Yes. Bravo again, Riku. In which case none of this may matter one bit to me or my friends. But to you, Sora and Sabrina, I think it might be a vital clue."

"Right...thanks. So you need me in the plaza?"

"Wow. I'm running out of 'bravos'."

"Be right back."

At the Plaza...

Night of Fate

Beat and Rhyme were facing the Spellican in their battle positions. "Beat!" Riku's voice exclaimed.

"About time, yo!"

"Beat, what happened to your Dream Eaters?"

"Don't need 'em when I got my Game Partner...and I don't need you!"

"Oh, here we go again." Rhyme rolled her eyes. "Five seconds ago, it was 'Where's Riku?'...and now the act?"

"Bwaaaah! Don't tell him that!" Beat exclaimed, as Rhyme giggled.

Have a Nice Talk (Mario and Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story)

Spellican's eye twitched. They were in the middle of battle and now they're having a conversation? "It's so nice to meet you. I'm Rhyme. Riku, right? Sorry my partner's acting like a doofus."

"I am not!" He argued. "You always gotta go around and...and garnish my reputation!"

"Since when? You burned that bridge all by yourself. 'Nobody raises his reputation by lowering others'." She recited while Riku couldn't help but laugh.

"Yo, Riku. You gonna sit there and let her get in my grill?"

"Sorry, it's just...you two are cut from the same cloth."

"I know!" Rhyme smiled.

"I ain't made of cloth!" Beat exclaimed.

An anime angry mark appeared on Spellican's forehead. "Beat looks and talks like a punk, but there's a heart of gold in there somewhere."

"Yeah. He's come through for me, so I know what you mean."

"There, see? I'm a-...Rhyme! You didn't just call me a punk again!"

"Huh?" Rhyme looked at him and then laughed as Riku joined in...then Beat joined in the laughter as well.

Spellican couldn't take it anymore and just basically yelled right at them. "Alright, now we ruffled it's feathers." Riku said, raising his arm. "You guys ready?" He asked as Thunderaffes and Tetsu Steeds appeared in front of them.

"Me and Rhyme'll handle things here!" Beat told him.

"You go after that thing!" Rhyme said.

"Right." Riku nodded and then chased after it.

With Sabrina...

Sabrina sighed. "I'm telling ya...that Dream Eater should be around here somewhere." She said, walking through an alleyway near the plaza.

The Kooma Panda noticed something and then poked her on the shoulder. "Yeah, what is it?" She asked as she turned to see the Spellican appearing in front of them, not noticing the two of them. "There you are." She smirked.

The Spellican casually turned its head and noticed Sabrina. "Yeah, I've been looking for you!" Sabrina told it, summoning Radiant Smasher. "You are going down!"

The Spellican smirked and summoned Cera Terrors as it took off, as they stampeded to her. "Figures..." She muttered as the two of them got ready.

Night of Fate

Sabrina jumped to a wall and used Flowmotion to launch herself from the wall and then jumped up and slammed down on them from above, knocking them away. "THUNDER!" She yelled, using Thundaga as she slashed through a Cera Terror with Zantetsuken.

A Cera Terror charged right to her from the side, but Kooma Panda punched it away, then threw a huge chunk of concrete at it to eliminate it, then Sabrina dove right toward a Cera Terror, then spun around it. "LET'S GO!" She yelled, slashing it from behind, as it was launched to Kooma Panda as it punched upwards to send it flying up, then Sabrina jumped up and slashed down, as it landed on the remaining Cera Terror as Sabrina landed next to them and used Thundaga to eliminate them.

"That was fun." She smiled. "But seriously, where's that damn bird?"

"Sabrina!" Joshua called to her as she turned to him. "The Third District! We're going to pin it between the three worlds! Riku and Sora are already heading over there!

"Got it!" Sabrina nodded and then took off.

Riku was using Flowmotion to catch up to the Spellican and then trapped it as they got to the center of the Third District. "I got you now!" He exclaimed.

"This is MY street, yo!" Beat told it as they caught up.

"You gotta play by the rules." Rhyme said.

Spellican looked at them, then at Riku, as it smirked and then disappeared into its portal. "Oh no! It's getting away!" Beat exclaimed.

"Guys, you got this." Riku said.

Twister (Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance)

"This is so tired, yo. Every time we chase him down..."

"I know, but we got some allies on the other side." Riku told him. "Don't worry."

"Yeah, well...I still don't like it." Beat muttered.

"You know, you are such a good listener, Beat." Joshua said sarcastically. "You're like a sponge, really."

"Me? I'm not a sponge. I'm just me." Beat told him, ignoring Rhyme's giggling.

"You mean 'Daisukenojo Bito'?" Joshua asked.

"HEY! Don't use my full name!"

"That's a weird name." Riku said.

"HEY!" He yelled, as all three of them yelled, as Beat tried his darn hardest not to laugh with them, and then the Keyhole appeared near them.

"Well, it's time to go." Riku said as he walked over to it.

"Hey Riku...thanks." Rhyme smiled.

"Yeah, stay cool. We'll catch up with you soon." Beat waved.

"Mhm!" Rhyme nodded. "Say hi to Sora and Sabrina!"

"Sure." Riku waved at them.

"Riku...remember what I said. Be careful." Joshua warned. "If this really is a dream, it's going to lie to you to try and make you think it's real."

"I got it."

"What? I don't got it." Beat told Joshua.

"You and Sora would break your heads on this one."

"Bwaaah?" Beat looked at him weird, and then the three of them laughed again...this time Beat joining in as Riku aimed his Keyblade at the Keyhole and fired a beam of light.

Untamable (Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance)

Hockomonkey fell to the ground and disappeared, but then Wargoyle appeared in front of Sabrina. "I'm suddenly reminded of a boss rush." Sabrina muttered as she used Firaga on the Wargoyle, but it dodged and then punched her multiple times and sending her over to a wall, but she recovered and countered with a Flowmotion attack, knocking it away.

I wonder... Sabrina thought. "GIVE ME STRENGTH!" She yelled, but no Ragnarock. "I haven't unlocked THAT yet? For crying out loud." She sighed but then quickly avoided the Wargoyle's attacks. "FREEZE!" She yelled, using Blizzaga at Wargoyle.

Wargoyle picked Sabrina up and threw her high into the air, but Sabrina used Thundaga on it before it could send her crashing to the ground, and then Kooma Panda gently caught her. "Thanks." She said and then Kooma Panda punched Wargoyle hard enough to send it flying to a wall, then Sabrina used Strike Raid to finish off the Dream Eater as it disappeared.

"What's next?" She asked, and then the Spellican appeared in front of her. "Oh sweet, now I get to take you out." She smirked, but then it disappeared in the portal. "...Or not." She sighed. "Sora, finish it." She said.

Traverse Town

"Well, you did take out some of its creations." Joshua walked over to her. "Still, Sora should be able to finish it off with Neku and Shiki."

"Right." She nodded and then a Keyhole appeared near them.

"Good luck, Sabrina. I'll check on Sora."

"Right." She nodded as Joshua disappeared to Sora's Traverse Town. "Well, let's see where I head off too next."

"How do you do it?" A voice asked as Sabrina turned to see Young Xehanort walking up to her.

Organization XIII (Kingdom Hearts II)

"What do you want now?" Sabrina asked, glaring at him, getting ready to attack.

"Relax...I come in peace." He told her. "I'm just wondering how you can take on challenges like this and not be so afraid. Every time I watch you battle, you never seem to be afraid."

"Why should I tell you? If I tell you how I do it, you might use it against me when we battle."

Young Xehanort chuckled. "Smart girl."

"Why don't you piss off? I don't need you bugging me."

"Very well... but before I do...I have a message."

"Oh this should be good..." She rolled her eyes.

"If you really think you can just use your light to protect Sora, you can just forget about it. The Organization has a really strong interest in him and they will shrug off your light like it's no big deal."

"No big deal? Yeah right! The light is stronger than the darkness than you think!"

"Oh so you say. Remember, whenever there is light, darkness is nearby. You should probably ask your Nobody. Xarina knows how it feels."

"If I knew how to ask her, I would!"

"Hmph...then I guess Yen Sid isn't so great, after all."

"Listen, buddy...don't make me..."

"Don't waste your breath." Young Xehanort made a portal. "The next time we meet, we'll settle things...then you'll see that your light isn't special." He then walked in the portal.

"He really gets on my nerves..." She muttered as she walked to the Keyhole and then fired a beam of light at the Keyhole.

Sora glared at the Spellican after dealing with the Char Clawbster, then a Keyhole appeared as the Spellican quickly took off, going through it and the Keyhole disappeared. "Not again!"

"Hey Josh, where'd it go?" Neku asked.

"Somewhere else. Out of Traverse Town, and out of my reach. We'll just have to let it go."

"Great..." Neku muttered.

"So we failed the mission?" Shiki asked.

"I'll go after it!" Sora exclaimed.

Calling (Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance)

"What?" Neku looked at him.

"C'mon, I'm not an actual Player. Can't I bend the rules?"

Shiki giggled. "Well, I guess the rules of the world don't apply if your hearts are connected...right, Sora?" Joshua asked. "That's how you roll."

"Right! Then it's settled." Sora nodded as he summoned his Keyblade and ran off, the Keyhole appearing before him.

"Sora." Neku grabbed his attention.

"Hmm?"

"Thanks. It wasn't easy, but you made it easier."

"Yeah." Sora smiled.

"Wow, Neku. You've changed." Shiki noticed.

"Huh?"

"Yeah, you're less dorky." She teased.

"What?!"

Shiki giggled and then turned to Sora. "Once you find your friends, Sora, you should come hang out in our town!"

"Definitely." Neku agreed. "See you in Shibuya."

"Sure! It's a deal." He smiled as he went over to them and held his arm out, as Shiki, Neku and Joshua put their hands on them.

"Anything I should pass on to Riku and Sabrina?" Joshua asked.

"Nah, I'll see them soon." Sora smiled as the three of them smiled back at them and then Sora turned back to the Keyhole and fired a beam of light at the Keyhole.

Meanwhile...

Villains of a Sort (Kingdom Hearts)

"Pete, you big thug!" Donald exclaimed.

Pete chuckled. "'Thug' works for me. We all got a role to play, right?" He smirked, holding Minnie hostage.

"Gawrsh, at least he's honest, in a dishonest way." Goofy said.

"Silence!" Maleficent ordered. "No underling of mine should be insulted so. I have great plans for dear Pete and for all the worlds...once I have taken them for my own."

"Then I got bad news for you...that day's never gonna come!" Mickey told her.

"Perhaps you should take a few moments to reconsider. Or does the queen's life mean nothing to you at all?"

"Mickey! Don't you listen to her!" Minnie begged. "You can't let have Maleficent have her-" Pete covered her mouth.

"No! Minnie!" Mickey exclaimed. "All right, Maleficent. Tell us what you want."

"Let me see...shall I begin with this world? I much preferred it in its darker, more ominous permutation."

"You said it. This place needs some lights-out time!" Pete exclaimed.

"You're lying, Maleficent!" Mickey said. "Not even you would go through this much trouble just for that. What is it you're really after?"

Maleficent sighed. "Very perceptive. I presume you are familiar with Xehanort, the man who led me to discover worlds outside of my own?"

"You know him?"

"As do you, I see. Yes, he shared everything with me...how to go about winning a heart over to the darkness, and, most gloriously, about the seven hearts of pure light...the ones that would grant me the power I need to conquer all worlds. However, the worlds were too complex, too much for even me to contain. It seemed I had miscalculated. Then it came to me...of course! I could go about conquering other worlds in my own manner. You do have the 'data' for all the worlds, do you not? And now you will hand it over to me."

"What do you mean by data?" Asuna asked.

"Don't you bozos pretend you don't remember. Me and Maleficent was trapped inside it. Now cough it up!" Pete exclaimed.

"Why do you want the data?" Mickey asked.

"I'm afraid that is no concern of yours."

Mickey clenched his fists and growled under his breath while Kirito and Asuna reached for their swords and Latias reaching over for Kyurem's Pokeball. "Ah-ah-ah...Wouldn't want her Royal Minnie Mousiness to get a boo-boo, now would we?" Pete asked, smirking.

"I see you have failed to recognize the futility of your situation. Very well...face your doom!" Maleficent exclaimed as she fired a green fireball from her staff, but Mew transformed into Gardevoir...but before it could even use Protect, a portal opened up and two familiar chakrams came out as one blocked the flame and the other one went by Pete, forcing him to dodge it...and accidentally freeing Minnie.

"Light!" Minnie exclaimed, knocking Pete away.

"Minnie!" Mickey exclaimed as the two ran to each other and embraced...then Kirito and Asuna taking out their swords, Latias sending out Kyurem and Gardevoir transforming into Lucario and then Mickey summoned his Keyblade. "Maleficent...you lose!"

Maleficent growled under her breath, glaring at them. "Say, uh, milady, I think the pipsqueak's right. We better hit the road!" Pete told her.

"I now know that what I seek lies within these walls. Trust that I will eliminate you in good time." She warned them before making a portal and walking in it.

"Hey! Wait for me! Maleficent?" He ran after her. "Waaaait!" He exclaimed before the portal closed behind Pete.

They all turned around to see Lea walking out of the portal. "You used the darkness to get here? That was reckless." Mickey said as Lea picked up one of his chakrams. "But gosh, I didn't expect you to save us...Axel."

"Axel didn't. My name is Lea...got it memorized?"
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Leave it to Lea to save the day.