So sorry for taking so long with this again! But with Spider-Man and the website acting up again...!
Anyway...
Now for Toy Story's world!
I thought it was very fun in the game, but the different dimensions thing was weird, especially since they didn't find a way to fix it!
Anyway, I'll be going very outside the box for some things in this world, but I hope everyone is cool with it. If not, then go to another story.
Woody?
Woody: "Thanks partner! gamePsycho11 doesn't own Kingdom Hearts, Square Enix, Disney or Pixar!"
Chapter 17: Toy Box Part I: A World Where Toys Come to Life?!
Back on the Highwind, our heroes talked everything they had just seen.
"That place was..." Yuffie started, but...
"Words can't describe it..." Riku agreed.
"That was like seeing something out of a nightmare," Aqua said. "Only ten times as worse because it was so real."
"Yeah, but the good stuff made up for it," Terra said.
"That's true," said Mickey.
"...Inuyasha's dad," Sora said. "He really must have trusted him and Sesshomaru, even though they didn't get along."
"I hope someday they can overcome their differences for good," Goofy said.
"Something tells me that's gonna take a LONG time," Axel remarked.
"They worked together, though," Kairi said. "It's small, but it's a start."
"So, where to next?" asked Sora.
"The next closest world is called, 'Toy Box'," Aqua said, a little confused.
"Toy Box?" Sora repeated.
"We'll see when we get there," Mickey said.
The Gummi Ship sped ahead. As it did, Sora examined the two charms he found after the battle with So'unga. One had an uppercase 'D' that was brown and had a rock-like appearance. The other one had what looked like two eagle wings, one white and one blue, crossed in an X-shape.
"What are those supposed to be?" asked Kairi.
"New summon charms," he responded.
Kairi yawned a bit, "Wake me when we get there."
~~~~~~~~~~~~Dream State~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Kairi was surrounded by black clouds, apart from the glowing mosaic platform beneath her feet; her platform in the Dive to the Heart.
It was tinted pink, and showed mostly the seas of Destiny Islands in the background. Kairi stood in the middle of the portrait, gazing into the sky with a smile on her face. Her right hand held Destiny's Embrace, her left was held over her heart. The outer ring was made up of her Oathkeeper charms. Riku, Naminé, Donald, Goofy, Mickey, and Aqua were in the pictures around her. Sora was in a heart.
"...What is this place?" Kairi asked as she looked around.
Then she remembered, this was the Dive to the Heart. Sora had told her about it, but why was she here?
"You are a Princess of Heart," Came a voice, making Kairi jump. She drew her Keyblade, before remembering that the voice wasn't supposed to hurt her. "Your heart is one of pure Light. It is time you learned to use it."
"Excuse me?" But she didn't get an answer.
From the shadows beyond the platform, someone was approaching. He was bit taller than her, and striding calmly into what would soon become an arena.
Her jaw dropped; it was Riku.
He was wearing some kind of armor. It was dark blue and violet, and had the Heatless emblem on the chest. His gloves looked like part of the armor itself, though they faded to red. He had some kind of combat skirt made with a beige, cloth-like material. In his hand was the Dark Keyblade.
The fake Riku smirked at her, and wordlessly charged at her. Kairi did the same, Keyblade ready to strike. Their shockingly different blades met in a flash of sparks. They pressed against the other's blades, trying to overwhelm their defenses. They seemed evenly matched, and they leapt apart.
Riku's hand became enveloped in dark energy. He stretched out his hand, and dark energy flew from it in quick, powerful bursts. Kairi leapt to the side, just missing the attacks. Riku fired again, and Kairi brought up her blade. She blocked the blasts, but the force was enough to knock her back a step with each impact. When she nearly stumbled off the edge, Riku rushed forward, blade ready. He struck hard, and if it weren't for good coordination, Kairi would have fallen off the platform. As it was, he knocked her to her knees, and was trying to beat past her blade with multiple strikes.
Her blade was being pushed slowly toward her own face. But she wasn't going to lose to what her friend had almost become. She gathered all her strength, and threw his blade off hers. Riku stumbled backwards, and she slashed at his unguarded stomach. When the blade passed right through it with no effect, she got worried. Riku's hand was covered in dark fire again, and he shoved his fist out, knocking her to the ground. He raised his blade into the air, ready to bring it down on her head, and end her existence. She looked up into his face without any trace of fear. What happened next seemed to go in slow motion. Her hand stretched gracefully out at him, her fingers spread slightly, and pointed at him. It started to glow silver. The glowing intensified into a bright shining light.
Pure silver light burst from her hand in the form of a narrow beam. It collided with the fake Riku's chest, and he flew to the other side of the platform, crashing to the ground.
Kairi got to her feet, and looked at her hand, which was now glowing again, "What...?"
"Your Light is strong. It can be used in many ways. To defend, to attack, to heal. You must master it."
"...The light...inside me," Kairi whispered as she looked down at her hand, then clenched it tightly into a fist.
Fake Riku got to his feet, clutching the false Keyblade in his hand so tightly that it was glowing with dark energy. He ran toward her, but didn't even get half way across the platform. Kairi raised her hand, and fired another blast of Light. Riku was hit in the shoulder, and he stumbled forward, dropping his blade and clutching his shoulder. Kairi fired another blast. It struck Riku in the forehead, and he fell backwards. He got on one knee, his forehead leaking darkness rather than blood. He moved his hand like he was swinging something, and a disk of dark energy shot from the empty space and streaked toward Kairi.
She clenched her hand into a fist, and the Light formed a shield like one of the real Riku's. The disk bounced off the shield, and flew away into the blackness. Struck by inspiration, she dropped the shield, and moved her arm like Riku had. A disk of Light flew toward him, cutting through the air with a humming noise. It struck Riku in the chest, and went all the way through, nearly cutting him in two. Riku dropped his blade, which faded away when it hit the ground. He fell onto his side, darkness pouring out of him like smoke, mingling with the clouds surrounding the platform.
He took deep, gasping breaths, clutching at his wound as he faded away. He looked at Kairi with an unreadable expression. His eyes closed, and he faded into the darkness.
Kairi put away her Keyblade, feeling satisfied.
"Kairi...? Kairi! Kairi!"
~~~~~~~~~~Dream End~~~~~~~~~~~
Kairi gasped as she woke up and looked around as she heard the sound of an alarm blaring.
"Kairi, wake up!" Sora shouted. "We're under attack!"
"What?!" Kairi questioned as she looked up and saw a giant Heartless ship!
It looked like a giant shark with a long body that was separated into segments, and surrounding it were smaller enemy ships!
"Prepare to fight back!" Aqua called. "Battle stations!"
The Dreadshark moved around in the air like a centipede, dropping some spike mines. Knowing they had to destroy them quick, Sora fired the ship's Fira-G Cannons while the Mini Ships fired, as well, detonating the mines before they could explode. The Dreadshark flew towards them, snapping it's jaws over and over.
"Shoot at the head!" Axel yelled as Sora kept firing at the Dreadshark, even though it was still getting closer!
"Do a barrel roll!" Goofy cried, causing Sora to steer the ship out of the way.
"Where did it go?!" Kairi asked.
"It's somewhere around here," Riku replied. "Keep your eyes peeled!"
Sora looked around until he spotted more ships coming from the Dreadshark as it circled back around, but he quickly destroyed them!
"That was close," said Kairi. "Good aim, Sora!"
"It's not over yet!" Sora shouted as he shot down more enemy mooks.
The Dreadshark swerved around, dropping more mines, which Sora shot down or dodged.
"I have an idea," Terra said. "Fly straight at it."
"Are you insane?!" Axel exclaimed.
"Just do it," Terra firmly said.
Sora sighed in frustration before flying straight towards the Dreadshark, which was also flying towards them, mouth wide open.
"When I say so, pull up," Terra told him. Right when they were a minute away from colliding, "NOW!"
Sora pulled back hard and made the Gummi Ship fly up to avoid the Dreadshark! At the same time, Terra jumped down a hatch in the floor, which dropped him out the bottom of the ship, and he flew into the Dreadshark's mouth!
"Whoa!" everyone exclaimed.
"What's the big idea?!" Donald exclaimed.
Out of nowhere, the giant metal Heartless started blowing up from the inside!
"Hmph...I should've known," Aqua said, smiling proudly.
"Wait, is he gonna be okay in there?!" Sora asked.
"Keyblade Armor is virtually indestructible," Aqua said.
One by one, every section of the Dreadshark exploded, until Terra flew out on his Keyblade Glider as the head blew up!
Terra re-boarded the ship,
"Alright, that's that."
"Way to go, Terra!" Sora cheered.
"Remind me to never pick a fight with you," Axel said. "You are fucking insane!"
"So, how much further till we get there?" Riku asked.
"It's just up ahead," Mickey answered.
"Then what are we waiting for?" asked Sora. "Let's go!"
GAMMA QUADRANT
SECTOR 4
Out in the far reaches of space, a blue comet flew down towards an unknown planet. Except, it wasn't a comet at all; it was a man! He wore a white, green and purple space suit.
His name...was Buzz Lightyear: Space Ranger of Star Command.
As he entered the planet's atmosphere, the comet aura around him turned red from the gravity. As he passed the clouds, he pressed a big red button on the left side of his chest, making two purple wings with red and white stripes on top spring out from his back. The thrusters in his jetpack also activated, and he pulled up as he came to the planet's rocky surface, and flew along it! He dodged the asteroids and barely avoided the large crystals, but eventually made it out of the canyon and into a field of craters. He looked around, yet all he saw was a barren wasteland.
He descended down to the ground and deactivated his jetpack, putting his wings away. He looked around a bit, then opened his left wrist cufflink, revealing a communicator,
"Buzz Lightyear Mission Log, all signs point to this planet as the location of Zurg's fortress. But there seems to be no sign of intelligent life anywhere."
Maybe he spoke too soon, as a bunch of red dotted lights appeared all over him. He looked to the right, and saw he was surrounded by an army of robots! And when they opened their shoulders, two more little robots came out, and four more little robots came out on their shoulders, aiming their laser canons at him!
Buzz dove to the left and pressed a small red button on his right bicep, which fired a glowing red laser beam from his wrist! He fired the laser through a crystal, which reflected to a larger crystal and shot off in multiple directions, hitting every single robot!
They all exploded in a massive green cloud, which sent Buzz flying through the air! He landed in another large crater, along with some robot heads. He quickly got up and ran before any landed on him, and rested against the slope.
Suddenly, one of the rocks lifted up like a flap, and a surveillance bot came out. Once it spotted him, it began to raise an alarm, but he quickly blasted it with his laser. However, Buzz couldn't rest yet, for the ground started to open up underneath him!
It looked like a missile silo hatch, and it was opening in the shape of a 'Z'.
Buzz jumped into the silo, where the hatch closed on him, making the environment pitch black in darkness. Buzz pressed the green button on his right bicep, which caused the green areas on his space suit to glow in the dark, giving himself some light.
Soon he ran down the hall, but he didn't realize that the whole time, he was being monitored by Emperor Zurg.
"Come to me, my prey," he said, chuckling, before he pulled a lever.
In the hallway, the lights turned on, which made Buzz stop running. A wall with spikes came down behind him and began speeding towards him! Buzz turned, gasped, and ran in the opposite direction from the spikes!
As he ran, the spikes were getting closer until Buzz jumped through a door, just as it was beginning to close, causing the spikes to leave a dent in the door.
He got back up and looked ahead, where he saw it. In the middle of a large platform, was a floating battery on a glowing pedestal. The battery had words written it that said, 'Source of ZURG'S POWER'.
Buzz walked along the catwalk before he stopped at a row of floating platforms, which he jumped across...but when he got to the fifth, they ended up falling! However, before he could hit the bottom, Buzz pressed the button on his utility belt, causing a force field to appear around him, which he used to float back up to the top.
"TO INFINITY AND BEYOND!" He shouted as he flew up!
Soon, he approached the battery...but his hand just phased right through it. He tried again, then tried the pedestal, which was also just a hologram, then it disappeared.
Then, in the middle of the platform, the Evil Emperor Zurg came through a hole in the floor! He was a tall blue/purple alien with silver horns, and glowing red eyes. He had silver chest plating with red edgings, plus silver cuffs and hands, with long robotic fingers. His bottom half resembled a dress robe. He wore a long black cape, with a red interior. It's clasp was his emblem, a red circle with glowing yellow 'Z' styled liked lightning. In his right hand, he held a three barreled blaster, with a long gray tube that went behind his back. The most noticeable thing about him was that every time he talked or made a noise, the large toothed, permanent frown on his face glowed yellow, gradually spreading left and right at the same time.
"So, we meet again, Buzz Lightyear," he stated. "For the last time!"
"Not today, Zurg!" Buzz countered.
Soon, Zurg started firing energy blasts at Buzz, who used one of the platforms from earlier to shield himself. Some of them even bounced back at Zurg, who dodged the blasts before Buzz threw the platform, which hit him right in the head.
"AAAAGH!" Zurg cried in pain.
Buzz front flipped over him, dodging a few more energy balls, landing behind Zurg, turned around and fired his laser!
The laser obliterated Zurg's head, instantly disintegrating it! Smoke rose from the neck before his body fell over.
"Yes!"
It was revealed that this was actually video game...being played by a plastic green T-Rex figurine.
"Great job, Rex!" A toy version of Buzz Lightyear, minus the blue utility belt and his helmet down, cheered.
"I was finally able to use my tail to press the fire button after I jumped!" Rex cheered.
"Good trick to make up for your short arms," Buzz complimented.
AN: (The off-worlders don't look similar to Lego figures, but like Play Arts Kai figures.)
The off-worlders appeared under something; it looked like...a bed?
"What the?" Riku questioned.
There was a big bouncy ball that was golden yellow with a blue stripe and a red star on both sides, and a xylophone, but...they were bigger then they should've been. Once the off-worlders were no longer under the bed, they looked around; they were in some kind of bedroom, but everything was larger. It was almost like they'd...
"Did we shrink or something?" Yuffie asked.
Sora looked at himself in disbelief, "Are we...toys?"
"Not just toys," said Kairi. "I think we're figurines!"
"See, I told you guys!" Rex exclaimed in excitement. "It's Sora, Donald, Goofy and the others!"
A dog with silver slinky body laughed happily, "Golly bob howdy!"
"Uh...hi?" Sora asked as he waved.
"Welcome to Andy's room!" The cowboy welcomed them. "I'm Woody."
"Buzz Lightyear," The space ranger introduced himself.
"Just call me Hamm," said the Piggy Bank.
"Slinky Dog," Slinky said. "How y'all doin'?"
"Good, but how do you know our names?" Riku asked.
"You're the main characters from the Kingdom Hearts video game series!" Rex replied. "I'm a huge fan! But, Kingdom Hearts III is taking so long to come out!"
"That's because Square Enix works on too many projects at the same time," Axel said.
"Who?" Yuffie asked.
"Never mind," Axel dismissed it.
"We have our own video game?!" Sora exclaimed.
"That's awesome!" Kairi cheered.
Suddenly, Riku tensed up.
"What's wrong?" Donald asked.
"I sense a strong darkness approaching," Riku responded.
"Darkness?" Mr. Potato Head questioned. "What're you talkin' about? It's still light out."
"Wait, I feel it too," Mickey added.
"Same here," Kairi said.
"Now that you mention it, I'm getting chills," A cowgirl doll said.
All the toys looked around as they also felt the same chill. Terra jumped up to a window sill, and gasped as he saw a tidal wave of shadows coming towards the house!
"Everyone get down!" Terra shouted as he jumped back over to everyone!
"Why? What's going on?!" asked Woody.
"Don't ask!" Sora shouted as he pushed him down. "Just do it!"
Everyone ducked for cover as the shadows engulfed them! Strangely, they weren't swept away, just temporarily blinded by the darkness.
Once the shadows dissipated, Kairi stood up,
"Everyone okay?"
"I'm good," Sora responded.
"Same here," Aqua said.
"Wait, not everyone is present and accounted for!" Woody said with worry.
Soon, everyone else noticed as well; Woody, Buzz, Rex, Hamm and Slinky were the only toys still in the room, along with the off-worlders.
"What in the world just happened?!" Buzz asked.
Then, some Heartless appeared behind them, a type they'd never seen before. They looked like some sort of space toy, holding a laser blaster. (Toy Troopers.)
"Heartless!" Rex exclaimed in fear!
The off-worlders summoned their weapons and charged at the Toy Troopers.
"You guys take cover!" Riku shouted as he managed to cut down one of them. "We'll take it from here!"
"Good call!" Hamm agreed, scampering towards under the bed.
Buzz suddenly had this urge to press the button for his laser. Curious, he did, and was surprised when an actual red laser beam shot one of the Heartless!
"What the?!" he exclaimed.
"How-?" Woody was surprised as well.
"Hey Woody, you've got some new accessories," Slink pointed out.
Woody looked at his waist; he now had a lasso, and his empty gun holster now had a black Colt New Frontier revolver, with a brown wooden grip and a 5 1/2-inch barrel. AN: (I thought it'd be cool if Woody had these extra cowboy items for battle!)
Woody pulled out the pistol and spun it on his finger, then fired at a Toy Trooper, damaging it!
"Wow!"
Buzz and Woody nodded at each other, and ran over to join the fight! Goofy threw his shield, making it bounce off every enemy it hit. Yuffie threw some kunai, hitting three more. Riku and Axel fought back-to-back, using Dawn and fire attacks. As the Toy Troopers were taken out, Shadows appeared along with two more new breeds that looked similar to the Red Nocturns and Yellow Operas; Vermillion Sambas and Gold Beats.
"Flyers, huh?" Buzz had an idea; he activated his wings and just like he'd hoped, the thrusters in his jetpack activated, lifting him into air. He flew around, firing his laser at every enemy he could.
Woody yanked a Trooper into the air with his lasso and shot it, obliterating it. Sora, Mickey and Terra delivered fast and swift attacks to every Heartless they could, while Kairi and Aqua unleashed flurries of magic and Light attacks!
Before too long, all of the Heartless had been vanquished!
"Did we get all of them?" asked Kairi.
"Yeah, looks like it," Terra responded.
Buzz descended back to the floor, "How is this possible?"
"First that wave of darkness, all of our friends vanish, then actual Heartless show up out of nowhere," Woody took stock of the situation.
"Not to mention all of the crazy powers you guys have now," Slinky added.
"Maybe that wave was from the Heartless," Rex suggested. "I betcha they took the rest of the toys somewhere."
"No, that's too complicated for the Heartless to do on their own," Riku argued.
"It's true," Kairi said. "Someone must be pulling the strings."
"The Organization?" asked Goofy.
"Definitely," Axel agreed.
"Organization XII?" Rex asked. "But they're gone, aren't they?"
"Remember what happened in Dream Drop Distance?" Slink reminded him.
"Oh, right," Rex realized.
"Kairi, can you sense anyone?" Sora asked his girlfriend.
Kairi closed her eyes and focused,
"...No one else here but us."
"How do you know?" Buzz asked.
"I can sense the hearts of every person, toy or animal in this world," Kairi explained. "Before that wave of darkness, there were a lot more. But now, we're the only ones..."
"So Andy, Mom, Molly, Buster, Jessie, ...Bo...?" Woody asked in sadness.
"I'm sorry Woody, but I can't sense them..." Kairi apologized.
"But that doesn't make any sense," Mickey said. "This world is still in the Realm of Light, so it hasn't been destroyed by the Heartless. Something else must have happened."
"Yeah, but what?" asked Riku.
"Who knows?" asked Aqua. "But one way or another, we have to fix this."
"I sense some darkness a good distance from here," Terra said.
"Lead the way," Axel urged.
Yeah, I thought Figure Arts would be a better look than Lego.
I decided to go with different dimensions thing as well, but it'll actually get fixed!
Read and review, please!