Chapter 40: toy story
I do not own kingdom hearts or the properties shown in this fanfic. They belong to the respective owners and the original story is based on the works of Darius Almighty. Kingdom hearts and trials of the keyblade is owned by square Enix, Disney, and Tetsuya Nomura. Please support the official release.
Right. Now onwards to toy story! As a person who enjoys the franchise (except toy story 4. Please don't ask why. It doesn't deserve to exist and woody shouldn't fraternize with lotso or gabby gabby)
With that out of the way, here's the next chapter. Enjoy!
Bigtime and Baggy Beagle flew through the Dimensional Door with startled screams and shouts, crashing into the spotless white floor of Disney Castle in a heap, no longer in their automobile forms. Bigtime groaned and stood up, rubbing his skull, not bothering to help Baggy. "Oh, my aching-" The door spit out two more people right into Bigtime, effectively flattening him and catapulting the other people onto the floor. Mulan groaned as she collected her bearings, the feeling of being ripped from dimensional space not an experience she wanted to re-experience.
"Well it's about bloody time." Mulan opened her eyes, realizing she seemed to be laying on something soft, turning her head to meet the saucy grin of Captain Jack Sparrow. "I have to admit, I was getting a little worried. But good things come to those who wait, eh?"
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Jack rubbed his sore cheek as Mulan indignantly dusted herself off. "So we're still in the denial stage, are we?"
Mulan glowered at him. "At least no one was around to see that," she muttered.
"Ahem." Mulan froze. Carefully and slowly, she turned around, coming to face the entire crew of the Shera that stood just behind the two, along with po, Beast and sonic, all with the same wide judgmental eyes. "Hope we're not interrupting something," Leon smirked.
"Alright Captain!" po cheered with pumped fists.
"Isn't this a G-rated fic?" Kim Possible stammered.
"I thought she was the sanest one in our party," Beast said disapprovingly.
"Daddy, what were they doing?" was Marlene's innocent question.
"Go ask Denzel," Barret mumbled, trying anything to avoid the subject all together.
"Honestly Mulan," Quistis scolded, utterly disgusted. "Jack, of all people!"
"B-b-but...," Mulan stammered. Jack had suddenly disappeared beside her, reappearing beside Quistis and slinging an arm around her shoulders.
"No need to be jealous, love," Jack grinned, his rum soaked breath making Quistis recoil. "You'll find I'm very flexible. Particularly on the subject of women! Savvy?"
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Now sporting two throbbing cheeks, Jack chose this as the right time to ask, "Why are we here anyway?"
"Where are Sora and Kairi?" Mulan asked, looking around, coming to her fellow Keybladers. "There you all are! Why are we all back here?"
"Long story short?" sonic said. "Our Chronosphere's are busted and now we can't go back. Sora and Kairi are on their own now." Jack and Mulan both pulled out their Chronospheres, finding that their bright lights were now extinguished. Jack shrugged.
"Still might fetch a pretty price back home," he said pocketing the device.
"AHA!" Bigtime suddenly shouted, reminding everyone he was still in the room. "You hear that, you losers?! Those two pipsqueaks are on their own now! You may have been able to beat me and Baggy, but my brothers will avenge us! They won't stand a chance against them!"
"Hiya Bigtime!" Bigtime stopped everything he was doing and rounded to face the person who had addressed him. There were all of his brothers, tied up tightly together and giving weak smiles. "Guess what? They beat us! All of us! Every single one!" Babyface laughed good-naturedly, ignoring the fact that Bigtime's eye was twitching.
"It turns out that beating good guys isn't as easy as we first thought," Bouncer sighed in defeat.
"I mean, sure we were all confident going in...," Burger said.
"But when you get right down to it, it's really quite difficult," Bugle admitted slowly. "Could someone hand me my notepad?"
"It looks like you found that out too!" Bankjob laughed meanly. Baggy laughed as well, though at what he didn't know, and Bigtime slapping his forehead in disbelief.
"Well, who cares!" he suddenly burst out, shaking his fist at the do-gooders. "They still have Ma to deal with! She'll put them in their place!"
"Yeah! Ma's smarter then all of us put together!" Burger exclaimed.
"I can believe that," Leon said, looking straight at Baggy who was simply standing there and staring into space while drool dripped from his mouth, occasionally chuckling.
"I'm afraid that against Sora and Kairi, your mother hasn't a chance," Merlin explained with an ever knowing smile. "That women's nothing more than a thug. Your plans have been foiled. Hope you all enjoy jail." Bigtime wasn't angry, in fact he started laughing.
"You may think so," he chuckled, then thrust his finger at Merlin. "But let's not forget, Beardy! Ma still has your wand!" Merlin scowled. He had forgotten about that. "She'll eat them up and spit em' back out with that thing! We'll still win! Win! Win! Win! Win! Win!" Tifa pounded on his head, knocking him out cold, his brothers all wincing in sympathy.
"Thank you," everyone sighed.
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Sora and Kairi stepped from the light only to fall and sink into something, making gentle "oofs" as they did. Luckily whatever they fell into was soft and cushiony. When they both came to grasp what had happened, they met each others eyes.
"Hey! We're back to normal!" Sora announced. Both he and Kairi had reverted back to their human forms, Sora to his spiky hair and black suit, Kairi to her auburn hair and pink dress. After all the weird things they had become, this was a welcome change.
"Really?" Kairi asked, looking herself over for anything out of place. "Because I don't...feel normal." Sora raised an eyebrow. Now that she mentioned it, he did feel slightly out of place. He looked at his hands. Why were they so shiny? Kairi looked at her elbows and found they were jointed together. Sora tapped his arm, his skin was solid and hard.
"We're...," Sora began.
"Toys?" Kairi gasped. That must have been it, seeing as their bodies were made of plastic. Even their hair was hardened. They still had mobility even though they were supposedly immobile objects.
"So much for being normal," Sora sighed, bending his right arm using his left. "Where the heck are we, anyway?" This place was very strange. They were surrounded by spherical objects, all with the same green and blue pattern: half green, half blue. They were everywhere they looked. They even found that they were standing on them.
"Don't want to make things seem any worse," Kairi said, looking around their odd surroundings. "But Jack and Mulan are gone!"
"What!" Sora looked left and right, but all he saw was more green and blue. "Jack! Mulan!" Where was everyone disappearing too? It was down to just him and Kairi now. He waded through the green and blue, searching for any signs of them. "Guys! Are you in here? Say something if you are!" He put his hand on another green object, and the green shifted, revealing eyes. Not two, but three. And then a mouth. Sora froze when the thing smiled at him.
"Greetings."
"AAAAHHHH!" Sora jumped back to rejoin Kairi, keeping far away from the three eyed thing. Another set of eyes opened on a different green and blue object. Then another, then another. Soon all around them were wide and curious eyes, revealing the objects for what they really were. They were stuffed toy aliens. Short and stubby things wearing blue suits. Their skin was green and their heads were possessed of pointy ears and a single antennae, along with the three eyes. There were so many of them, they were literally swimming in them. So, taking no chances, they scrambled away, pushing all the way to the top, emerging at the surface of the alien sea.
"Whoa..." Kairi gasped in wonder. They weren't just in a sea of aliens, they were in a vending machine of them. Not only had Sora and Kairi become toys, they had shrunk down to the size of ones, too. The machine they were in was shaped like a rocket ship, the top of which was domed with glass. Outside, they could see the inner workings of an arcade, and giant kids having the times of their lives with the games.
"This is the craziest place yet," Sora stammered.
"We're dolls," Kairi stated in disbelief.
"We're not dolls. We're action figures," Sora replied fiercely. Kairi giggled.
"Strangers."
"From the outside."
"Oooooohhhhhhhh!" Sora and Kairi suddenly found themselves right in the middle of a crowd of three-eyed alien dolls, all of them staring at them in wonder. Dozens of them. They both smiled weakly.
"Uh, hi," Kairi said uncertainly. They all gasped again, obviously impressed.
"Greetings strangers!" exclaimed one of them.
"Tell us, what is it like on the outside?" The other aliens crowded around them chattering excitedly. Sora and Kairi looked at each other helplessly. Something happened then, something unexpected. From a compartment in the machine emerged a man, not a man, a toy. Light from the overhead bulbs bounced off the shiny, state-of-the-art, high-tech armour that he wore, and reflected off his clear helmet. His face was handsome and rugged, and his head was wrapped in a purple rubber protective cap. He stood tall and proud over the little green men with his hands at his hips, he looked utterly magnificent.
"Wow," Sora and Kairi gasped at the same time. The toy scanned the surroundings to which he entered, calculating silently, before he jumped in among the aliens, who also marveled at his shininess.
"I am Buzz Lightyear! I come in peace!" he announced, his voice clear and heroic. The dolls all 'ooohhhed' again. "I come here on an intergalactic emergency of utmost importance! I require - Freeze!" He aimed some kind of laser weapon at Sora and Kairi on his wrist.
"Don't shoot!" Sora pleaded with his hands up.
He pointed straight at the two Keybladers then waded his way through the aliens to get to them. "You two are the biggest, naturally you are in charge. I need to commandeer your vessel to complete my mission."
"Uh...what?" Sora said, flabbergasted by his big words.
"Your ship?" He gestured all around them at the rocket ship shaped machine that virtually imprisoned them. "I require a means of space travel in order to return to Star Command and report my mission findings. This world is primitive, but it seems not without a means of intergalactic transportation." Sora and Kairi could only stare at him. Buzz shook his head and sighed. "Locals..."
"He thinks this is a real space ship," Kairi whispered to Sora, who stared back at the toy questionably. He knew he was toy...
Didn't he?
He didn't ponder it more then he had to, because another toy came from the same spot Buzz had. Unlike the Space Ranger, this one seemed pretty low-tech. He was tall and skinny, his thin and flimsy limbs somehow keeping him balanced. He was dressed like a cowboy, with hat, leather vest and a sheriff's badge that read 'WOODY'. His plastic face looked very annoyed crawling and then falling indignantly into the pool of three eyed toys.
"Buzz! Buzz! We got to get out of here!" he shouted, pushing his way past the aliens to get to them. "What are you doing here with these freaks!? Who are you!?" he snapped at the Keybladers and they jumped startled. "Why am I asking that? I don't know. I don't care. We gotta go now!"
Buzz didn't even flinch. "Sheriff Woody, how nice of you to join me. I was just about to question these lower life forms further. Tell me. Who is in charge here?" The aliens didn't answer at first, but all of them pointed up to the ceiling.
"The claaaaaaaaaaaw." A giant and sinister looking metal claw hung silently above them, gleaming in the lights of the machine. That was when Sora and Kairi realized they were in a claw machine game. The ones that were nearly impossible to win. Sora would know, he spent his entire allowance trying to get a stuffed Super Mario.
"The claw is our master."
"The claw decides who will go-"
"And who will stay."
"You got to be kidding me," Kairi said flabbergasted. "That thing's not a leader it's a-"
"Shh! Kairi! Don't anger the claw!" Sora whispered anxiously, remembering that faithful day he spent hundreds of dollars at the arcade.
"Okay, looney hour's over! Buzz, we gotta go now!" Woody hissed to Buzz, The space man took very little notice of him. But everyone stiffened when a large shadow loomed over them. Someone was coming towards the machine, someone big. And whoever it was, it scared the willies out of Woody. "Oh no. Oh please no. Down. Down!" He grabbed Buzz and pulled him down into the sea of green aliens, digging deeper until they were hidden. Sora and Kairi glanced at each other briefly before Woody's hands grabbed their legs and pulled them under as well.
"What is the meaning of this, Sheriff!?" Buzz protested, all of them fully submerged. "This is no way to be treating an officer!"
"What are we hiding from?" Kairi whispered.
"Him...," Woody whispered, more like whimpered back. Through most of the aliens they could see the one who came to the machine. It was a boy, younger than Sora or Kairi, with pasty white skin and black shirt with a skull, and looking quite psychotic. With a nasty chuckle, he placed a dollar in the machine.
"Who's that?" Sora whispered.
"Sid," Woody said covering his eyes. "A vicious toy murderer. A kid who gets sick pleasure in demolishing his own playthings!"
"Like...how?" Kairi asked.
"Screwdrivers, blowtorches, bottle rockets, the kid has a very disturbing imagination."
"It's scum like him that made me join the Space Rangers," Buzz growled. Woody slapped his plastic forehead.
"Shh! The claw! It moves!" whispered one of the aliens. Up above, the claw was moving, controlled by the evil monster Sid outside. It lowered down directly over them, sleek steel shining, then clamped around a hapless alien doll. Once the prize was grasped, the claw retracted, carrying with it the alien, the one that was blocking them from view.
"I have been chosen!" he exclaimed in full joy, rising high above the others. "Farewell my friends! I go to a better place!" Woody gulped. He didn't realize how wrong he was.
"He got it on the first try!?" Sora hissed.
"Sora, let it go," Kairi sighed.
The alien doll was dropped by the claw into the drop-off box to be retrieved by Sid, chuckling a bit too evilly for someone his age. "Oh, we're gonna have lots of fun, you and me," he laughed. He was about to leave, until something else in the machine caught his eye. "A Buzz Lightyear! No way!" Buzz's domed covered head was peeking out of the aliens in full view of Sid, like a diamond in the rough. "You're mine." He slotted another dollar and grasped the claw control stick. He positioned it expertly then lowered it down, grasping Buzz's helmet tightly. "Gotcha!" He retracted the claw, but found he couldn't, his prize was stuck. "Hey! What's the deal!?"
"Don't let him go! We can't let Sid get him!" Woody hissed, while he, Sora and Kairi pulled at Buzz with all their strength against the almighty claw. The mechanism strained in protest, but the three toys held on. Unfortunately, the toy aliens didn't take too kindly to anyone defying their great claw.
"He has been chosen."
"He must go."
"Do not fight the claw!" Hundreds of hands fought against their efforts to save Buzz, pushing him back up with the claw, taking them with them.
"Hey cut it out! Back off you little zealots!" Sora shouted as they pushed them upwards. Soon they would come into Sid's view. When Sora thought that, he felt the sudden urge to go limp for some reason. He didn't know why, but something was telling him to stop moving. The feeling was too strong to ignore so in the end Sora complied, staying perfectly still, but still seeing that Kairi, Woody and Buzz had done the same.
"Whoa! One, two, three, four prizes!" Sid exclaimed when he saw what was attached to the Buzz Lightyear. There was a cowboy, some kind of bishie, and a red-haired doll...and all for the price of one dollar! All of them were dropped off into the slot and Sid hastily picked them up, holding them all with an evil smile.
"Let's go home and play."
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After being 'freed' from the confines of the claw machine, Sid had stuffed them all into his backpack, then proceeded to leave the arcade to take them to who knows where. Sid's mode of transportation, his skateboard, carried them all through the sunny streets, bouncing them around in the filthy and ragged pack. The opening was unzipped so they could at least see where they were going, looking out onto the patch of suburbia to which Sid had steered them. There were lines of houses on both sides of a long street with perfectly mowed lawns. Sid stopped at a relatively normal looking one and dismounted his board then walked towards the front door.
"Not good, not good, not good, not good," Woody said while his teeth chattered.
"Sheriff, there's no need to panic," Buzz assured calmly, unlike his friend. "I'm sure the stories about this life form are merely exaggerated."
"How much can one kid really do to his toys?" Kairi asked.
"Maybe he'll just get bored with us," Sora offered.
"Nirvana approaches," said the green alien toy that Sid had also won. "The mystic portal awaits."
"Will you all shut up!" Woody hissed so Sid wouldn't hear them. "You don't get it, do you?! Once we go into Sid's house, we won't be coming out!" His theory was about to be tested because they were now at the front door. Sid opened the door and was immediately met with the barking of the most vicious dog any of them had ever laid eyes upon. This thing made Cerberus look like a puppy. It was white bull terrier with a red spiked collar, snarling savagely at the backpack that held Sid's now frightened toys.
"Whoa, Scud! Down boy! Down!" Sid ordered and the dog complied, sitting obediently though the drool was still dripping. "Hey, I got something for you." Sid's hand came into the backpack and everyone froze, then Sid's hand came out with the three-eyed alien doll in his grasp. "You want it boy? Do you? Huh? Here you go!" He tossed it in the air and Scud caught it in his jaws and began mauling the thing with unrestrained bestiality. The others watched in pure horror.
"That's not right!" Sora growled about to spring into action.
"What are you doing!?" Woody hissed, restraining Sora before he could do anything rash. "First rule of being a toy, kid: don't let the people see you alive!" Sora growled. That explains the feeling back in the arcade. Apparently the rules of toys in this dimension meant you acted like just that: toys. Don't breath, don't talk, don't move. Lucky him. That would make finding Ma Beagle very difficult.
They had to leave the poor alien to its fate as Sid was now heading up the stairs with them slung over his shoulder. "Oh no. Not Sid's room! Not there!" Woody whimpered. They soon came upon a door labeled with 'KEEP OUT' signs; since Sid took no heed of the message, this must have been his room. He opened the door and ran inside, tossing the bag and them onto his bed, painfully.
"Now to get back to work," they heard Sid chuckle. They peaked out of the bag to see Sid holding a stuffed doll in one hand and a plastic pterodactyl in the other, his back to them as he turned to a desk in the corner. They were more weirded out when Sid began narrating. "No one has ever survived a double bypass brain transplant before! Nurse! The jaws of life!" Sid took a pair of pliers and set to work on the doll and pterodactyl. The toys in the bag watched in horror as Sid applied the use of many tools to what ever he was doing, giggling cruelly as he did.
"I don't believe that man's ever been to medical school," Buzz pointed out. Sid stopped working, his work seemingly done.
"Oh doctor! You did it!" he said in a shrill voice as a nurse, holding the result of his labor. The toys recoiled at his creation, giving the doll's body the head of the pterodactyl, the leftover parts laying on his desk. The four of them gulped. Is that what's in store for them? Sid must have heard their thoughts because he turned for them, tossing away the dinosaur/doll hybrid and walking for them. "Now what can I make out of you...?"
"Sid! Lunch!" came the voice of Sid's mother downstairs.
"Alright!" Sid cheered, forgetting them and running out of his room, slamming the door behind him. With him gone, Sora, Kairi, Woody and Buzz poked out of the bag, blissfully escaping Sid's wrath for now.
"That kid is in need of some serious therapy," Kairi commented once he was gone. They cautiously crawled out of the backpack. The room was dark, the window blinds shut, with only a glow light to illuminate, casting a creepy glow on the surroundings. The walls were lined with posters depicting different heavy metal bands and sickening art. Sid's workshop was littered with the body parts of different toys and the Keybladers knew how Sid earned the title 'toy killer'.
"This is certainly a precarious situation," Buzz stated looking around the dark place. He opened a small compartment on his wrist and spoke into it. "Mayday, mayday. Come in, Star Command. Requesting reinforcements. Star Command, do you copy? Star Command!" Still talking into his wrist he walked away from the others.
"He does know he's talking to a sticker, right?" Sora asked. Woody racked a hand across his face.
"Buzz is a bit of a case," he admitted slowly. "He's - how should I put this? - not all there. Batteries not included. You gettin' me?" Sora and Kairi nodded. "He thinks he's the actual Buzz Lightyear! He doesn't know he's a mass produced children's plaything! Space Rangers, Star Command, he thinks it's all real! I keep trying to tell him that but he won't get it through that rubber covered head of his!"
"Ouch," Kairi sympathized. "It's gonna hurt when he finds out."
"How did you two end up in the claw machine anyway?" Sora asked curiously.
"We got separated from our owner, Andy, when Buzz, the idiot that he is, saw that stupid rocket shaped machine! He ran off and I went after him. You know, because he's Andy's favourite toy." He spat the last part. "All I can do is this." Woody reached behind him and pulled a string on his back.
"Reach for the sky!" Woody's lips didn't move so it came from a voice box built inside him. "Last mistake I'll ever make because we are gonna die here!"
"Where does Andy live?" Kairi asked. Woody sighed, stroking his nose and pointing out the only window in the room at the house right beside Sid's. "You live next door?"
"For the moment. Andy's moving today!" Woody exasperated. "And unless Buzz and I can find a way out of here, Andy will leave without us! And we can't exactly fly out the window!"
"Did someone say 'fly'?" Buzz asked, suddenly appearing in-between them. He pressed the largest red button on his chest and when he did, two wings extended from his spacesuit, making him look all the more impressive.
"Ooooooooooo!" Sora and Kairi cooed. Woody slapped his forehead.
"They aren't real wings!" he shouted. "They're made of plastic!"
"They're made of terillium-carbonic alloy," Buzz explained patiently. "And with them, I can indeed fly. To Infinity, and Beyond!" Sora beamed. That was the coolest catchphrase ever! Woody slapped his forehead again.
"Well, you guys can count on superman to fly away home, but I'm not waiting around for Sid to turn me into a pile of ash!" Woody shouted. He jumped off the bed and ran across the messy floor to get to the door. Sora, Kairi and Buzz followed after him. Woody jumped for the doorknob and turned it using his weight. "Darn it! Locked!"
"No worries," Sora said, summoning his Keyblade. The beam of light it shot unlocked the door, Woody able to open it this time around.
"Yes! Freedom!" He swung the door open to meet Scud waiting directly on the other side, snarling and drooling menacingly. Woody immediately slammed the door. "We're doomed. There's no way out! How are we gonna get out of here!?" A sudden noise momentarily drew their attention away. A yo-yo rolled out from underneath Sid's bed, along with the sound of something shifting in the dark.
"Hello?" Kairi called cautiously. A single red eye opened in the shadows. From under the bed came a toy, or what was once a toy. A baby doll's head attached to a metal crab-like body made of pieces of Meccano, with one large claw on one of its arms. The baby head was missing one eye from its socket, but the one it did have was glowing bright red. They stumbled back in shock and horror.
"W-w-what is that?" Woody whispered, hiding behind Buzz. The baby-faced thing stared at them, its head tilting to the side every so often, then clattered to the bed post on all six legs. With its big claw it began tapping on the metal surface of the post in a ceratin pattern.
"Morse code?" Buzz pondered, until they weren't alone any more. More toys emerged from the many dark corners of Sid's room, each one as hideous and deformed as the other. Toys that had been melded with other toys to make new twisted forms. A small fishing rod walked towards them on a Barbie dolls legs. A green rubber hand sprung out of a Jack-in-the-box and crawled along the floor. The upper half of a jet fighter pilot who's lower torso was attached to a skateboard. A wind-up frog with wheels for lower legs. A toy car on four legs instead of four wheels. The head of a duck attached to the body of a baby which hopped around on the base of a plunger. A bug driving what looked like a man's torso. These mutilated monstrosities came from hiding, all victims of Sid's psychotic ways, surrounded the heroes quickly. Their eyes, the ones that had them anyway, were glowing red.
"Woody, we have to get out of here alive first," Sora said as he and Kairi readied their Keyblades.
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"Hmph! Wash my hands for lunch, I'll wash her hands!" Sid grumbled, marching back up the stairs to do the wishes of his mother, however annoying and feeble he may think them. His sick hobbies she has no problem with but this she nags about! He reached the top of the stairs and saw Scud guarding the door to his room, eyes transfixed on the wood. As he passed his door, Sid distinctly heard strange sounds on the other side. That wasn't odd to him though, he heard strange sounds in his room all the time. Shrugging, he proceeded to the bathroom.
"If we weren't eating grilled cheese I would give her such a hard time," he muttered, scrubbing his hands under the sink, the soapy cleanliness washing all over them. Well, that was done. Now to dry. He reached for a towel, but something on the medicine cabinet caught his gaze.
It was a toy. Some kind of small dog-like woman in a mask wearing a hat with a flower. "Where did this thing come from?" He snatched it up and stared at it. He didn't remember ever getting this. It must be his sister's.
"Oh, well. I'll make sure you're real comfortable here," Sid chuckled cruelly as he walked off with the toy in hand.
"Didn't your mother ever teach you how to handle a lady?" Sid stopped in his tracks when he heard the other voice.
"Hey, who said that?" he demanded, looking around the small bathroom. There was no one else here but him.
"You should learn your manners, boy!" And Sid turned to the source of the voice, the toy in his hand, who was now smiling evilly. Sid balked. The toy was talking to him. And smiling, evilly. "And it just so happens to be your lucky day!" The toy then reached into her dress and pulled out what looked to be a wand, pointing it straight at Sid's shocked face. "Because Ma Beagle is an excellent teacher!" The last thing Sid remembered was a bright light from the wand before he knew no more.
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Sora dodged the claw swipe of the metal crab baby than blocked its other claw with his Keyblade, staying on his two feet while the baby stayed on its six. Metal on metal clashed between them, its one red eye glowing still. Sora jumped back from it again to collect his bearings, then felt something jump on his back. The four legged car clung to his clothes, headlights glowing red and Sora threw him off before he could try anything. Kairi held her own by avoiding the giant Jack-in-the-box hand that tried to grab her. As it lunged again she jumped and stomped on top of it but the frog on wheels had already leapt for her, so she quickly rounded and slapped it away with her Floral Fragrance.
"Help! Help me! Sheriff in need of assistance!" Woody cowboy boots were tied by the fishing rod with legs, with the bouncing duck reeling him in, his hands clawing at the floor to get away. "I'm too young to be eaten, mauled or beaten!"
"Fear not, Woody!" Buzz rushed in heroically and undid Woody's bonds and then faced the fishing rod and duck. "I'm setting my laser from stun to kill! Stay back, Sheriff!" He aimed his wrist laser at the two toys and pressed the button to fire, blasting at them a little red light. Sid's toys blinked at the small dot that was aimed at them and Buzz mouth opened in shock. "My laser has no effect on them! This can't be!"
"Oh, when are you gonna wake up and smell the plastic!?" Woody snapped. "Your laser isn't real! Because you are not the real Buzz Lightyear! You are just a to- AAAAAAAHHHHH!" Buzz grabbed Woody by his legs and swung his stringy body like a sword, whacking the enemy toys away with his face, then setting him back down when he was finished.
"A true Space Ranger knows how to improvise! Brilliant teamwork, Woody!" Buzz laughed, patting the dazed cowboy on the back, the single gesture enough to topple him forward. They were getting the upper hand against the mixed up monsters. These toys didn't seem used to fighting like Sora and Kairi or even Buzz. Whatever they had in store for them, they weren't about to get it anytime soon. Sora, after blocking the baby/crab's claw again, slammed his Keyblade right on its head.
The toy staggered away from Sora, holding its head in pain, then shaking itself off from some kind of stupor. Something strange happened then. Its one red eye faded away to become blue, much more fitting for the head of a baby even though he was deformed. The eye blinked in confusion, as if just waking up from a strange dream. The rest of Sid's toys were having similar episodes. Their red eyes disappeared and were left with confusion and...fear? Then they all just ran away, scurrying off into the shadows of the room and leaving the heroes alone.
"What was that?" Sora asked aloud, scratching his head in confusion.
"They're cannibals. Once they saw we knew how to fight back, they turned tail and ran back to their dwellings," Buzz said confidently.
"I don't know," Kairi muttered, staring off to where they ran. "It kind of looked like they had no idea what they were doing. Like they were being...controlled. Like they had no free will."
"Controlled...," Sora said softly. "By who?"
The door slammed open.
Woody and Buzz, who were closest to the door when it happened, flew across the room when it smacked them and found cover in a pile of clothes, leaving Sora and Kairi to face the new threat at the door. The dark, terrible and evil being of this dimension: Sid.
"Sid," Sora growled. Sora and Kairi wanted nothing more than to put this brat in his place, but the unyielding urge to freeze once again seized them. Sora gritted his teeth. The rules of this dimension wouldn't allow him to act out against Sid, being the small toy that he was, not allowed to move in the presence of a human. They had to give in shortly no matter what their attitude, falling limp to the floor before the child.
They could still see when they were frozen, so they observed Sid's actions from his feet. He was just standing there in the doorway not moving a muscle. Scud was gone, probably off to devour some other helpless toy. It was just Sid, and there was something about him that was a little 'off'. He turned his head down and looked straight at Sora. If Sora could have moved, he would have gasped in shock.
Sid's eyes, they were red.
Sora knew Sid was twisted, but he also knew he was human. Those glowing orbs were similar to the ones those mutant toys had possessed. The same mindless and blank looks. Buzz and Woody saw it, too, from their hiding place in the clothes pile, Woody completely petrified in fear. What had happened to Sid to make him this way?
The red eyed boy locked his gaze on Sora and Kairi, looming over them silently. Then he bent down and picked them both up, holding them in each of his hands. "Yup. Those are the ones," said a mysterious yet familiar voice. On Sid's shoulder crawled up a toy, a toy by the name of Ma Beagle. Sora and Kairi both saw her and tried their best to move but to no avail. Sid was still here and they couldn't budge as long as he was. Ma apparently could, having spent more time here than they had. "What's the matter, darlins'? Having a little trouble being heroes? Ha! Why don't you try using your karate chop action?" Sid said nothing and merely held the two Keybladers.
Ma made a move, whipping out what Sora and Kairi knew to be Merlin's stolen wand. "Let's get busy, son!" She flicked the wand and Sid reacted, walking at Ma's command. That was what was wrong with Sid, he was under Ma's control through the wand. And Ma must have used it to control those other toys at one point or another. Sid strolled across his room at Ma's command, not noticing Woody and Buzz, finally reaching his closet. He picked through his belongings, dangerous belongings. Firecrackers, bottle rockets, gun powder, the kid was loved explosives. Sora and Kairi would sweat if they had the glands for it.
Sid pulled out a particularly large firework. "No, no!" Ma instructed from his shoulder, grinning like a demon. "The big one." Sid put the explosive back, pulling out another much larger and more colourful rocket labeled 'THE BIG ONE'. Woody and Buzz gasped in alarm. A rocket of that size in Sid's hands was never good for a toy. "Perfect! Hahahaha! That'll blow up real good! Get ready, boy!" Ma said to the prone form of Sora, who was scowling inside. "You're gonna make the Fourth of July look like a kid's birthday party! Should be quite the show! Let's go, kid!" The mind controlled Sid turned round and walked off with the Keybladers and the rocket in hand, heading out the door for who knows where, Ma riding with him.
Buzz and Woody emerged from hiding. "Buzz, did you see that!?" Woody whispered anxiously. "That toy was talking to Sid! She can't do that! It's against the rules!"
"Woody, I'm afraid that's the least of our worries," Buzz said sternly. "Those children are in grave danger! We must rescue them from the evil clutches of that fiend! Come on, Sheriff! Duty awaits!"
"Buzz wait!" But the space Ranger was already off for the door. Smacking his forehead for the umpteenth time that day, Woody followed after. He didn't want to be here alone if and when those mutant toys came back. They both ran out of the confines of Sid's room and into the upstairs hallway. Sneaking out the door, they saw Sid turn a corner and head down the stairs. Making sure they weren't visible, Buzz and Woody followed after. They made to make down the stairs after him, but met the guardian of the threshold instead. Scud was on the second flight of stairs and as soon as he spotted them, he licked his lips.
"We should run now," Woody whimpered. Scud barked and they ran down the hall. Buzz found a door to duck inside and Woody found another door too. Woody heard Scud scratching and clawing at the wood once he closed it, and he thought the door was going to break under the pressure. Soon though, the clawing ceased and it was silent. Having waited long enough Woody peaked outside to find Scud gone. The hallway was empty. Sighing in relief, Woody stepped outside and went to the door Buzz had hid in.
"Buzz! You in there? The coast is clear!" he whispered. The door slowly opened. Buzz walked out silently. "Okay, Scud's gone, but he might be back, so..." Buzz stopped talking when he saw the crestfallen expression on Buzz's face as he walked out of the room. "Buzz?" The Space Ranger didn't even seem to notice him, just strode down the hall. Woody's mouth hung open. What had happened to Super Buzz? Woody looked back into the room Buzz had hidden in. Inside was a man, Sid's dad Woody could only guess, passed out in a reclining chair with many empty beer cans around him. Before him was a television and on that television - Woody winced - was a commercial for a Buzz Lightyear action figure.
"Oh no," Woody sighed. He didn't want Buzz to find out this way. He'd rather scream it at him. "Buzz..." Buzz had unconsciously walked back into Sid's room and Woody ran after him. "Buzz wait! Buzz!" Buzz stopped in the middle of Sid's room, then collapsed on his knees. "Buzz...come on! Remember! We gotta help Sora and Kairi!"
"Help?" Buzz whispered so softly Woody barely heard him. "I can't help anyone."
"Come on, Buzz. You're not thinking clearly."
"No, Woody, for the first time I am thinking clearly." Buzz looked at his wrist communicator, noticing just now in had the words MADE IN TAIWAN under the flap. "You were right all along. I'm not a Space Ranger. I'm just a toy. A stupid little insignificant toy."
"Hey! Being a toy is a lot better than being a Space Ranger." Buzz snorted. "I'm serious! And who said you have to be a Space Ranger to be significant? You are a cool toy! Over in the house next door is a kid who thinks that! And two toys who thought the same thing are about to be blown up by Sid! You don't need to be a Space Ranger to be a hero, Buzz. What matters is the strength of your heart." Buzz stared at his friend, amazed his rare outburst of wisdom. It was then he decided toy or not, that he would save Sora and Kairi. He was interrupted, however, by a noise behind them.
Cautiously, almost shyly, the disfigured toys of Sid peeked out of their hiding places and set their eyes on the two. The baby head crab blinked with its now blue eye, the bug driving the torso teetered back and forth on its arms, the duck suppressed a quack. Woody stiffened at first, then looked at their no longer red eyed expressions. They looked frightened, staying a good distance from him and Buzz. Not the evil monsters that had tried to kill them awhile ago.
"Hey! Guys!" he called. They immediately shied away back to their hiding places. "No wait! Please! Listen to me!" Whether they were listening or not he didn't know but he went on anyway. "There are good toys out there that are gonna be blown to bits in a few minutes. We gotta save them. But we need your help, we can't do it alone. Please. They're our friends." He and Buzz waited. The first one to come out was Baby, then the duck, then the fishing rod on legs and soon the entire clan of Sid's room was with them. Ready to administer some justice.
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In the backyard was where the show would take place. Under a brightly shining sun, and among the dead grass scorched by previous toy executions, the zombie Sid made everything ready. Using a roll of duct tape in one hand and the rocket in the other, he strapped the firework to the back of Sora, tighter than what the frozen boy would have liked.
"That's right, make it nice and snug!" Ma laughed from a nearby table with her capture, the still frozen doll of Kairi. "Should be quite the show! Shame we can't stick around for it. You've been awful quiet, haven't you? What's the matter? Feeling a little stiff?" She chuckled at her own joke before puling out Merlin's wand, waving over Kairi's head and showering magic upon her. Kairi found she could move her lips freely now but her body still refused to move.
"Ma Beagle!" Kairi growled, finally able to voice what she was holding in. "Don't think you'll get away with this! We'll take you down just like we did the rest of the Beagle Boys!"
"Ha! I'm gonna let you in on a little secret, honey. My boys are idiots. Can't trust them to do anything right! I ain't like them. I got an IQ. So you can take that little statement and stuff it!" Kairi scowled and craned her neck to look at Sid wrapping tape around Sora with the rocket on his back.
"Why are you only doing this to Sora? Why are you sparing me?"
"You can ask Maleficent once we get back." Ma chuckled some more at Kairi's confusion. "We had two assignments when we got into the dimensions, see? One: cause as much chaos as possible. Two: capture you. Don't ask me why. Something to do with you being a princess or something. Never much cared for royalty. And as soon as I figure out how to get this wand to take us back, I'm handing you right over to her. Until then, we're hittin' the road! And what better way?" She looked at the moving van that was parked next door and still being loaded then grinned; no better getaway vehicle.
"Take one last look at your boyfriend. We're out of here!" She lifted Kairi over her shoulder, strong for being small and headed towards the van at Andy's house. But before she did she pulled out the wand again. "Might as well let the kid have his fun. He reminds me of my boys when they were young!" The wand fired from the tip a bright light that struck Sid on his head. The boy's red eyes vanished, replaced with his normal and a little less evil eyes.
"Hey, what the?" Sid stammered, looking around his backyard wildly in confusion. "How the heck did I get out here!?" The last thing he remembered was going to the bathroom to wash his hands. Now all of a sudden he was in his backyard? "What's going on around here? What happened to my grilled cheese sandwich!?" Normally this would have been a cause for alarm, until Sid looked at the toy in his hands strapped to his biggest rocket.
Sid grinned sadistically. All questions needn't be answered when there was a toy he could destroy.
"Heaven is telling me to blow stuff up," he chuckled, slipping into toy killer mode. Ma grinned from where she watched, then took Kairi with her to the moving van, slipping inside while it was still being loaded.
"Houston to Mission Control! Come in, Mission control! Have begun preparations for launch! Launchpad is now ready! Prepare the passenger for his 'final' liftoff." Sora was placed on a table as Sid had so brilliantly narrated. "We are now currently obtaining the ignition sticks. Where are those matches?" He walked off momentarily to search.
After a long while Sora had finally managed to move his mouth with Sid's back turned. "I really don't like him," he hissed. There had to be some way out of this. Kairi was in danger! Still unable to move, he was at Sid's mercy. This was officially his least favourite dimension! Something zipped across the backyard. Out of the corner of his eye, Sora recognized it as the frog on wheels, one of the toys that had attacked them in Sid's room. It drove across the backyard and jumped in a mud puddle, further adding to Sora's confusion. Then the four-legged car zoomed past him and jumped into the sandbox off to the side. What was going on?
"Sora!" Sora looked to the side. Woody was running toward him while Sid's back was turned and Sora couldn't have been happier to see him.
"Woody! Great! Help me out of this thing!" he whispered, nodding at the rocket attachment. Woody put a finger to his lips.
"Don't worry. It's under control" To Sora's dismay, Woody went limp and collapsed in the middle of the yard.
"What are you doing?!" Sora hissed, about to pull his own hair out, but he felt himself go rigid again when Sid came back, with a box of matches.
"Houston, all systems are go. Requesting permission to launch." Noticing Woody laying on the ground where he hadn't been before, Sid paused. "Where did you come from?" he asked, picking the cowboy up. Woody was playing the toy again and didn't make a move. Sid stared a bit then shrugged. "Oh well. I'll deal with you later." He tossed Woody onto the grill of a barbeque and walked back to Sora with a match in hand.
"You are confirmed at ten seconds and counting." Sid struck the match and started counting down. This was it, Sora realized. This was how he was going out. In another dimension. As a toy. With a bang. It was certainly a unique way to go. He barely even noticed when Sid was at five. "Five, four, three, two, one-"
"Reach for the sky!"
Sid froze. Where did that come from? He turned around, and looked at the barbeque Woody was still laying on. "What...?"
"This town ain't big enough for the both of us!" said Woody through his voice box, using one of his many phrases. Sid raised an eyebrow, putting out the match and walking towards him. "Somebody's poisoned the water hole!" Sid scowled and picked Woody up.
"Stupid thing's busted."
"Who are you calling 'busted' buster?" Sid froze. What did it say? He looked down at Woody, who's face was still smiling and plastic,
"What?" he whispered.
"That's right. I'm talking to you, Sid Phillips." Sid balked, staring at Woody in shock while Sora watched in growing wonder.
"W-what is this?" Sid stammered, nearly hyperventilating.
"We don't like being blown up, Sid. Or smashed. Or ripped apart."
"W-we?"
"That's right. Your toys."
Something rose out of the sandbox and Sid was snapped out of his stupor only to be met with a new kind of terror. One of his sister's dolls, burned and charred from his , was standing on its own, repeating the word 'Mama' over and over again. The four-legged car came with her, and the sand was blown away when a large Tonka Truck unburied itself. All of them made for Sid, the boy that was now shaking.
Under Scud's water dish jumped the three eyed alien toy that he had given to his dog, nearly torn apart but walking towards Sid none the less. The mud puddle to the side bubbled and the wheeled frog rose to the surface, along with a horde of muddied soldier action figures, so disfigured and mutilated that they looked like zombies back from the dead, limping their way to Sid. Sora had to admit, that looked pretty scary. And Sid was scared, no doubt about it, backing away from all of them.
When something clamped onto his head he screamed shrilly and jumped away to see Baby hanging from the line of the fishing rod with legs, the duck working the reel, snapping his claws at him, the claws Sid gave him. A green hand shot out from the bushes and grabbed his leg causing him to once again scream and kick it away. However, Buzz and he rest of his mutant toys emerged from the bushes and made for Sid themselves. Crawling, limping, walking, driving, all the mistreated toys surrounded Sid and boxed him in. Sid was petrified. They were alive. They were all alive!
"From now on you must take good care of your toys." Woody was still in his hand, the apparent voice of the toys. "Because if you don't, we'll find out, Sid. We toys can see everything." The cowboy's head swivelled around like something out of a horror movie. Sid whimpered like a baby when Woody's frozen face broke into a sly grin.
"So play nice."
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" Woody was tossed into the air and Sid ran into his house faster than they would have thought possible. He wouldn't be wrecking another toy any time soon. Knowing that made the toys break into triumphant cheers. With Sid gone Sora could move now, getting up and cheering with the other toys.
"Nice work, guys!" Buzz said to everyone. "Flawless! I'm not just saying that. That coming out of the ground thing, excellent!"
"Come on, Sora," Woody called to the boy as he jumped down to meet them. "Let's get you out of that rocket." The honk of a car horn was heard next door. A blue car, probably driven by Andy's mother, was pulling out the driveway with the moving van behind it.
"The moving van!" Sora gasped. "Kairi's on that!"
"It's also our last chance to get to Andy!" Woody stated. "Come on! We gotta hurry! Thanks a lot guys! We'll see you around." Sid's toys waved goodbye with whatever limbs they possessed as Woody, Sora and Buzz ran off to catch the getaway van, Sora completely forgetting he had a rocket strapped to his back.
The truck entered the street and began driving down the straight pavement road behind Andy's car, strictly obeying the rules of the road, oblivious to the three toys running their fastest to catch up to them. Sora, Woody and Buzz booked it to the rear of the truck, their target, a flailing strap attached to the back door, nearly at their fingertips. Their actions didn't go unnoticed by someone's dog. Scud rested on the stoop of Sid's house when he was suddenly roused from his slumber by the toys running down the street. Scratch that - by the chew toys running down the street. An angry growl escaped its lips.
"Come on! We're almost there!" Buzz called ahead of Sora and Woody. He leapt for the strap and managed to hold on to hoist himself up to the truck's door. "Hurry! Who knows when he'll speed up!"
"Easier said than done, spaceman!" Sora shouted back, managing to jump and catch the strap as well, joining Buzz on the truck. "Come on, Woody! You can do it!"
"Must run! Must run! Must run!" Woody panted as his stringy legs ran, then he heard barking behind him. Scud was behind them and coming up fast on all four paws, drooling and snarling like the bull terrier from hell. Woody's eyes grew wide. Sid's house wasn't done with them yet. "Must run faster! Must run faster! Must run faster!" He leapt and grabbed the strap just before Scud's teeth snapped behind him, Buzz and Sora helping up. Scud was beginning to tire and the truck was starting to get away from him. "Ha! You like that! Run home to Sid you mutt!" The truck slowed down and before they knew it, came to a stop before an intersection. It was all Scud needed to catch up. "Oh crud." Scud jumped with an open jaw to chow down only for Sora to wedge his Keyblade between its jaws. Dog breath, drool and the smell of a hundred unlucky toys hit Sora all at once; destroying the theory of a dog's mouth being cleaner than a human's.
"Could use a little help here, guys!" Sora hollered, keeping Scud at bay with extreme difficulty.
"On it!" Buzz said, aiming his wrist laser. He knew it wasn't real now but it still had its uses, activating the light into Scud's exposed eye, blinding the dog to give Sora enough time to push him back and fire a blizzaga spell and freeze his eyes over. Scud stumbled back, whimpering and clawing at the ice on his face just as the intersection light turned green and the van started off again. By the time Scud got the ice off, growled angrily, and went after them again, the light had changed to red. Cars screeched to halt to avoid the dog when he ran into the intersection, creating a massive traffic jam that Scud was right in the middle of, cutting him off from giving chase.
"I think I just became a cat person," Sora sighed as they drove away from the danger. Buzz and Woody nodded in agreement. Together, the three of them managed to open the truck door so it slid overhead, allowing them access to the inside. The truck was filled with furniture and boxes probably containing smaller and more valuable possessions. It looked like Andy's family had packed their whole house with them. Sora wasted no time in searching for his friend by opening boxes where Ma Beagle might have stashed her.
"Kairi! Kairi! Where are you?" Sora shouted while opening more boxes. He ripped another open to a box of toys who all blinked in confusion.
"What's going on here?" asked a plastic piggy bank in annoyance. "We just barely started off."
"Are we there already?" asked a plastic T-Rex toy.
"I don't care, your tail has been in my mustache for half an hour!" snapped a Mr. Potatohead.
"Hey, who's that kid?" A dog, who's middle was a slinky, pointed at Sora. Sora, seeing Kairi wasn't here, went to the next box. Andy's toys peeked out of their box after him. "What's he doing?"
"Slink, Potatohead, Rex, Hamm!" Woody called to each, he and Buzz running to meet them.
"Woody? Buzz?" Hamm said in shock.
"You're alive!" Rex exclaimed making their box tip over. "We thought you were goners! I felt sad! Sad!"
"How did you escape from Sid's house?" Potatohead asked. "I figured you'd be blown up or put in a blender!"
"And how did you get here?" Slink asked.
"No time for that!" Buzz interrupted.
"Have you seen a girl named Kairi in here?" Woody asked all of them.
"Girl?" Another toy emerged from another box Sora had unceremoniously opened, a porcelain woman dressed like a shepherdess and carrying a crook, looking very cross as she approached Woody. "I don't see you for days and the first thing you say when you get back is that you're looking for some girl? How am I supposed to take that Woody?"
"Oh, busted!" Potatohead snickered.
"Uh, Bo Peep, it's uh, really not what you think," Woody stammered under her heated gaze. "See we're just looking for-" A light suddenly switched on in the back of the truck along with the starting of an engine. Something shot out towards them and everyone ducked as a model bi-plane swooped over them and out the open door into the sky.
"So long, hero jerk!" Ma Beagle laughed from the pilot seat as she flew the plane, having used the powers of the wand to make the model into a real flight-worthy craft. In the back seat was Kairi, tied and gagged to keep her from causing any trouble. "Ma Beagle always has a backup plan! Best start flapping your wings if you wanna get to us! Ahahahaha!" Sora gritted his teeth. How was he supposed to get up there? He couldn't fly! Wait a minute...
"The rocket!" Sora exclaimed. It was still taped to his back. Rockets flew, right? It was worth a shot. Silently thanking Sid, Sora pointed himself out the open truck door and lit a firaga at the tip of his Keyblade, then brought it to light the fuse to the rocket. It sparked when it caught and Sora prepared. "Hold on, Kairi."
"Uh, Sora," Woody interjected. "You just lit a rocket."
"Yeah?"
"Rockets EXPLODE!" Sora blanched for a minute. He hadn't thought of that. The fuse ended, and before you could say 'bad idea', Sora blasted into the sky. At breakneck speed he was launched higher and higher by the power of the rocket, skin being pushed backed by the g-force. By jerking his body he was able to steer, but he knew it was only a matter of time before the firework went critical and exploded. With no time to waste, Sora steered for Ma Beagle.
"Geez! How could I forget the magic words again!?" Ma seethed, fiddling with Merlin's wand while at the same time steering the plane. "I got the prize, ditched the hero, and now I can't even get back! How am supposed to get paid? The boys need new masks!" Kairi was forced to listen but Ma didn't notice her secretly using her Keyblade to cut away at her restraints little by little. "Ah, what am I talking to you for? You're still young, you got your whole life ahead of you! Oh, wait, no you don't! Hahahaha!" Sora zipped by and knocked the plane off its kilter. "What the?!"
"Give back Kairi!" Sora yelled, making another pass with his Keyblade drawn. Ma swerved to avoid him. Kairi cried in happiness, muffled by her gag.
"This kid doesn't know when to quit!" Ma growled. Grabbing the stick she turned and kept on Sora's tail. The machine guns on the front opened fired with real bullets, once again thanks to Merlin's wand. Sora dodged and avoided, rolling the rocket so he lay on his back upon it to knock the bullets away with his weapon, and turned round to continue their aerial battle.
Down below, Andy's toys watched from the moving van, eyes watching without blinking as Sora and Ma went back and forth at each other. "Well, this is the most confusing day of my life," Hamm commented.
"I've had worse," Rex said.
"What kind of batteries are they running on!?" Potatohead stammered.
Buzz stared up to the sky, the clear blue sky that was being used as a battleground, and broke into a very enthusiastic gin. "Woody, we've got to help them."
"Yeah, but..." Woody looked up again.
"How are you gonna get up there?" Slink asked as he wandered up. Buzz didn't answer verbally, just pressed the big red button on his chest to extend his spacesuit's wings. He looked at Woody and Woody looked at him. Both broke into radiant grins as they looked into the sky again.
All the while Sora had been fighting against Ma he felt the rocket growing hotter and hotter on his back. Soon it would explode as nature intended it. "This is the part where you blow up, boy!" Ma hollered in her mocking tone. The rocket was blazing hot now; it was gonna blow!
"Not today!" Sora declared and in a single slice, cut the tape binding him to the rocket. It flew up high for a short while before it blew in a fantastic shower of sparks and colours. THE BIG ONE lived up to its name. Sora was safe from the threat of the rocket. Gravity was another story a together. And there was quite a long way to fall.
Kairi screamed Sora's name through her gag while Ma laughed cruelly. "Have a nice fall, key-boy!"
Down, down, down Sora fell, kinda like one of those dreams, except there was no waking up from this one. "Just think a happy thought and you can fly," Sora whispered, reciting one of his old encounters. He opened his eyes, and was still falling. "Aw dammit! What a ripoff!" He was suddenly swept up from under his arms as he awaited the ground. He blinked in surprise and confusion, looking over his shoulder at his saviour or, in this case, saviours.
"Woody! Buzz!" Woody carried him under his arms while Buzz held on to Woody as he flew. That's right, flew. Buzz, using his plastic solid wings, defying all logic and physics in the world, was flying through the air. He was as graceful as a butterfly, as straight as a bird, a Space Ranger on the job. "Buzz, you're...flying!"
"This isn't flying!" Woody laughed. "This is falling!"
"With style!" Buzz added, grinning. Sora laughed with them as Buzz steered them off after Ma.
"I'll admit the kid had some crazy spunk," Ma commented while still flying. "Haven't dealt with a teenager in a while. But a mother knows how to deal with the unruly." Kairi didn't answer, the loss of Sora destroying her attempts at escaping. "Come to think of it, why haven't we heard him go splat yet?"
"TO INFINITY AND BEYOND!" Ma's head spun when she rounded, and when Sora, Woody and Buzz whizzed by on wings of heroism, an unhealthy twitch developed in her eye.
"What is this kid? A freakin' terminator!?" She grabbed her stolen wand and used its magic to make the plane steer itself while she climbed out of the pilot's seat and onto the top wing of the bi-plane. "Come on, kid! You want a piece of Ma?! You don't have the guts to take me on!" Buzz swooped over them and Woody drooped Sora onto the other side of the wing so he and Ma were now facing each other in a classic showdown a hundred feet off the ground. Kairi, now seeing Sora was alive and well, set back to the task of freeing herself.
"You're a proverbial thorn in my proverbial side," Ma growled. "If you want a job done right you got to do it yourself!"
"Bring it! Your Beagle dimension-hopping ends here!" Sora slipped into his classic fighting stance and Ma twirled her wand like a baton. Ma blasted magic from the wand's tip and Sora blocked with the Keyblade, then dodged another blast aimed for his head. Ma fired a barrage of spells at the ever-blocking Sora while the two of them balanced on the wing high above ground; not once giving Sora a chance to catch his breath. Sora was beginning to suspect Ma was better at using that wand than Merlin himself.
"Take that! Take this! And some of these!" Ma chortled, shooting the wand like a trick shooter; around the side, over the head, through her legs, backwards, upside down, she was a much better shot than Merlin. "Dance, monkey, dance! Shake what your mama gave ya! Up, down, turn around! Ha!" The last blast shot the Keyblade out of Sora's hand, sending it to the ground below. "And a ha!" Another blast paralyzed Sora before he had the chance to summon his weapon back, keeping him frozen to the spot, helpless. Ma approached with an evil smile, wand blazing with dangerous power.
"Stick that in your pipe and smoke it!" Ma laughed and raised the wand to strike.
But Kairi, now freed from her bonds and Keyblade at the ready, chopped down through the model plane and blew it into many pieces, completely destroying it. The bits and pieces of the aircraft dropped from flight like a rock, along with its three passengers, all of whom were screaming. Plummeting through the air with no means of stopping, it was the only thing they could do.
"Alright Ma!" Sora shouted through the passing air, pulling out his Chronosphere. "You're going back where you came from! Your sons are waiting!" However, in a last ditch effort, Ma fired the wand again and hit his Chronosphere. "Hey!" Ma snickered at his device's expense. Out of nowhere Kairi zoomed and grappled with Ma.
"This doesn't belong to you!" Kairi shouted, wrenching the wand out of her grubby hands and whipping out her own Chronosphere. Before Ma could react, Kairi blasted her, sending her from this dimension to her own, her angered wail vanishing with her.
Buzz dive bombed while still carrying Woody to keep up with the still free falling Keybladers. "Quick! Grab on! The ground at this velocity is not a good thing!" Buzz shouted.
"No!" Sora hollered back. Buzz wouldn't be able to carry all of them. And he and Kairi had to make tracks. "You and Woody go back! We'll be fine!"
"Are you sure?" Woody asked.
"Yeah!" Kairi replied. "Now go on! Andy's waiting!" The Space Ranger and the Sheriff gave their friends a mock salute one last time before they veered off and headed for home. "You ready, Sora?"
"Yes please. The ground is getting quite close," Sora stated, eyeing the quickly approaching landscape below them. Kairi activated her Chronosphere when they were only a couple of feet from the earth; they disappeared from the dimension just before being flattened.
Meanwhile, two toys flew down the road toward the moving van driving in the direction of their new home. While their other toy friends were there waiting for their return, the truck was not what Buzz and Woody were aiming for and they flew over it without much of a care. There was only one target they had in mind. The blue car leading the truck didn't notice when they swooped in overhead, or when Buzz retracted his wings and they both fell through the sun roof.
One little boy, known to many happy toys as Andy, lifted his head when he heard thumps beside him, and looked to inspect what he had heard.
"Woody! Buzz!" Andy exclaimed happily. His two favourite toys that he thought he had lost had appeared out of nowhere before him. He swept them up and hugged them innocently. "I can't believe it! It must be a miracle!" While the boy rejoiced, Buzz and Woody momentarily drooped to the frozen toy mask and winked at each other.
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Sora and Kairi floated through the endless stream of light that was their means of traveling through dimensions. Now they only had one dimension in mind, their own. With the Beagle Boy crisis over and the last of them sent back to where they came from, it was finally time for them to return home and resume their quest. The Chronospheres guided them all the way through.
"Sheesh, that was time consuming," Sora sighed, he and Kairi able to communicate in the void. "Merlin really needs to take better care of his magical universe influencing things."
"Hope he makes sure this never happens again," Kairi said, holding Merlin's wand and her Chronosphere. "We can't always have fillers like this happen."
"At least it's finally over." Sora spoke too soon, as his Chronosphere suddenly sparking in his hand. "Huh?" The small device was beginning to malfunction. Ma's attack with the wand must have messed with its inner systems somehow. Sora was now traveling with faulty equipment through the space between dimensions, not very safe, and that's why he was suddenly pulled of course. "Whoa! What's going on!?"
"Sora!" Kairi shouted grabbing his hand before they were separated. Sora's busted Chronosphere was pulling him off to who knows where, so Kairi held on tight before he did. The force of the pull was getting to her, however, and Sora was beginning to slip. "Hold on! Don't let go!" Their fingers were barely grasping each other, until finally, Sora was lost.
"Kairi!" Sora shouted before he vanished into the light of the void. Before Kairi could call out to him, she felt herself being pulled out by her working Chronosphere and whisked away.
She reappeared in Disney Castle when the magical silver door spat her out like a loogie, skidding along the floor beside Ma Beagle who had arrived just before her. When her seven tied up Beagle Boy sons saw her, there were mixed feelings of emotions. Fear, happiness, mostly fear.
"Uh, hi Ma," Bigtime stammered forcing a nervous smile. "Funny thing happened to us when we went in there..."
"Oh shut up!" Ma snapped, burying her face in the floor. Kairi, meanwhile jumped to her feet and ran back to the door, only for it to close in her face and seal itself shut.
"No! Sora! Sora!" Kairi cried, pounding on the big door to no avail.
"Whoa! Easy there, princess!" Kairi felt two strong hands grip her shoulders and turn her around coming face-to-face with Beast, the rest of the missing Keybladers with him. "What's gotten into you?" Beast asked.
"You got Ma Beagle! That's great!" Mulan said happily, watching as Ron and Adelbert tied up Ma with the rest of her sons, wincing when Burger bit Adelbert. "Sorry we couldn't be there to help. There was no way for us to get back."
"Not that I wanted too," Jack put in, inspecting the Cornerstone of Light and wondering if anyone would notice him lugging it back to the Shera.
"Hey, where's Sora?" po asked. "Shouldn't he have come back with you?"
"I don't know!" Kairi cried, close to breaking down. "Something happened in there! He just disappeared! I don't know where he went! We have to help him!"
"No offence, Kairi," Leon interrupted from the window, where Kairi now noticed nearly everyone was standing, all with the same troubled looks on their faces as they gazed outside. "But we have bigger problems to worry about right now." Kairi was about to protest but Leon had a no nonsense attitude about him. Curiosity got the better of her and she ran to the window to see what could be worse. It didn't take long to find what.
An army was outside, and not just any army. Packs of snarling red-eyed Omega Heartless backed up by legions of well armed skeleton soldiers marched in unorganized fashion across the plains outside. Hundreds of monsters of the dark defiling the pure world with their very presence. Leading them on were the three remaining servants of the Horned King: Rosso, Azul and Nero, the acting leaders. All of them marched towards the main gate of Disney Castle with nothing to get in their way, one goal in mind. They would fulfill their master's wishes, no matter what.
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