Kingdom Hearts Fan Fiction ❯ Endless Supply ❯ Retrevial ( Chapter 4 )

Dear King Mickey,

I write to you to tell of a recent tragedy, earlier today Sephiroth appeared in Hollow Bastion and proceeded to drug and capture the keyblade master, Sora. We were unable to prevent the event, but were able to pick up that Sephiroth was not working alone. Due to Donald and Goofy's information that Maleficent has yet to be defeated, we suspect that the two of them may be partners. Your court officers have left to revisit worlds to see if any strange occurrences have been happening and to check up on the Princesses. For security reasons, would Queen Minnie be willing offer the Princesses of

Light sanctuary in your castle until this matter is solved? Here at Hollow Bastion, we are doing our best to gather information that could prove useful and await your orders.

 

Sincerely,

Leon

 

King Mickey looked over the letter Leon had sent him again. The news was devastating; if the darkness was growing Sora would be desperately needed. Mickey had always been the brunette's backup, gathering information and providing physical support when Sora needed it. But Sora had needed to do most of the fighting, as it was the mouse that had the extensive network and knowledge of the world. Riku would be a big help, not only in fighting, but finding his best friend. The strength of his heart after choosing the Twilight Path was great. Kairi, well she was a young fighter, and the vertically challenged ruler would prefer it if she did not see too much combat. As a Princess of Heart, she had other roles.

 

The mouse sighed heavily. He had written Leon an immediately response that yes, the castle was open as a haven to the princesses and urged to him to tell Goofy and Donald that they should go about assembling them.

 

For himself, the King was on his way to visit Yen Sid. It always calmed him to talk to his old teacher. That and if anyone knew anything, it would be Yen Sid.

 

“Please be careful Mickey,” Minnie had said at his departure.

 

“Of course, Minnie.” He pecked his wife on the cheek, “I'll be back as soon as I can. And Yen Sid might have some valuable information. Take good care of the Princesses.”

 

She had nodded, and waved from the hanger overlook as her husband took of in

the gummi ship Avalon.

 

After reaching the desired world, Mickey put off seeing his mentor and landed at the Twilight Town train station. He did not know why here of all places drew him, but he knew there was strong pull coming from something on the world.

 

Having no destination in mind, the Disney ruler just started to wander around in the hopes of what drew him to this world would lead him to its actually location. Ambling around the stores he saw mail being delivered, a ball trick in progress, and tons of kids zooming by on skateboards. He could not help but smile at the town's upbeat nature. Still walking, Mickey found himself standing in front of the Old Mansion. Quickly his heartbeat increased, what if what was drawing him was not from Twilight Town, but rather….was the data version of this world still functional?

 

Since he was here, it did not hurt to check. Making his way down to the computer, Mickey could not help but recall the last bit of trouble Sora had gotten into with the lost of his memories. Thankfully, most of them were relinked; hopefully this new issue will not pose such a problem.

 

Starting up the computer, the mouse turned the transporter on and set it to bring him back to the real Twilight Town after an hour had elapsed. He knew that once over there he would be stuck because Roxas had taken his frustration out on the machine on that side. Doubling checking the settings, the king stepped onto the transporter.

 

The arrival was not as smooth as he remembered. As soon as Mickey materialized, he realized his feet were tangled up in something and in a very ungraceful move fell face forward. Of course, years of fighting had imbedded some excellent reflexes in the mouse and instead of landing on his button nose he flipped and landed on his back, head erect to see what had caused the issue in the first place.

 

To his surprise, Mickey found himself looking at a Roxas who had just woken up. He was rubbing his eyes and stretching just like Sora was prone to do after a good night's sleep. The fallen ruler could do nothing but stare in shock at the nobody in front of him; he was supposed to be with Sora, not here.

 

Roxas gave one last stretch and finally opened his eyes, only to find himself staring at King Mickey lying on his back. He was instantly on his feet and helping the other to his.

 

“I'm so glad you came, King!” Roxas burst out. “Something strange is going

on and I have no idea what. We have to help Sora!”

 

The blonde dragged the mouse into the transporter but soon appeared crestfallen as it failed to take them out of the data world.

 

“Looks like were both stuck here now. ARG!” Roxas kicked a chair leg. “Now

how can I tell people to help Sora?!”

 

“Relax Roxas,” the king spoke, coming up to the keyblade user from behind,

“I set the transporter to activate in an hour. Now what's this about Sora?”

 

 

Receiving King Mickey's orders to gather the entire group Princesses and deliver them to the castle; Sora's companions knew something serious was up. While the heartless number was low now, it may be for much longer and they were short a keyblade wielder. A result, their first stop was none other than Destiny Islands.

 

“Sora was what?!”

 

Riku perked his head up at Kairi's voice. A small storm had swept the islands the previous night and the two of them were helping Sora's mom with the clean up and minor repairs. Insisting that the two of them take a break, he had taken to the kitchen to cut up some watermelon and mix up some lemonade. However, thoughts of food fled his mind at Kairi's exclamation. He ran back to the backyard, and this time was able to determine who had come to tell the news.

 

“Kidnapped! By Sephiroth!” the sliver haired youth heard Donald respond.

 

“Uh huh, and you've gotta come with us to the castle. And Riku too. Oh!

There you are Riku!” Goofy greeted Sora's best friend as he came out the back door.

 

“What's this about Sora being kidnapped, and us leaveing?” Riku went over

to Kairi, who was putting a cloth over Sora's mom's eyes. Apparently she had fainted when she heard the news.

 

“We were at Hollow Bastion, and out of no where Sephiroth appeared! Me and

Goofy didn't have a chance.” Donald took to looking at the stones at his feet. “It was over so fast, not even Leon and Cloud had the time to react.”

 

“But now King Mickey sent us out to gather the Princesses to keep them safe,” Goofy spoke up. “Maleficent is still out there, and we think she and Sephiroth are working together so we have to make sure all the Princesses are safe. Queen Minnie's waiting for you Kairi, and we would hope you would join us Riku in gathering the other Princesses. You see, we don't have a keyblade!”

 

“I wanna help save the others too! I also have a keyblade!” To emphasis her point, the red head pulled out her proof, True to Heart.

 

“Kairi -- ”

 

“Don't start with me Riku!”

 

“Kairi,” he began more forceful, “You're a Princess of Heart, and if anything happened to you the worlds could be in danger. Plus, Sora would murder me if anything happened to you. Stay safe, please? So you can welcome him back and he doesn't have to worry.”

 

“But,”

 

“For Sora, Kairi.”

 

The girl sighed deeply and dismissed her keyblade.

 

“You can come to one world with us Kairi. Agrabah is on the way.”

 

Riku glared daggers at Donald who quickly scuttled around to place Goofy between the two of them. But it was okay; if any world was okay for Kairi to be in it, it was the one with the all-powerful ex-Genie of the Lamp.

 

“Okay, lets get going,” Riku brushed his hand through his hair and started

walking toward the gummy ship.

 

“Riku!”

 

“What now Kairi! Oh…” Riku turned around and was reminded of the out cold figure of Sora's dam. “Lets get her inside where its nice and cold, and then…write a note.”

 

“Gwarsh, a note Riku? Don't you think she will want to know more than that?”

 

“She already knows what Sora's role is in all this. That her son is in constant danger is no surprise, but to hear that the danger you always feared has caught up…we'll just leave note stating not to worry and that we'll bring her son back as soon as possible.”

 

After setting their affairs in order, the group took off.

 

 

Sephiroth sat alone in his room, like always. But he preferred it that way; no one to disturb his thoughts, ask stupid questions, suck up, praise him for his evilness and skills, in short no annoying people.

 

That blonde kid had been annoying. Yeah, he was one Sora's nobodies, but the first ones always had flaws. This one, this one knew two much. Not the fact that they had the hero of Light, but that he had memories of being a nobody with his on agenda. He knew what was good, bad, and had an acute remembrance of Sora. Because of that, the blonde brat was soft. Nobodies did not have hearts and therefore should have no feelings, but this one - and that pale female one - were different. They had showed emotion helping their hearts out of trouble, and even grew attachment to others. As to why these nobodies were different, the sword wielder had no clue. Maybe it was because the hearts were not heartless, but alive and interacting with others. Whatever the case, those two were annoying and Sephiroth did not like annoying people.

 

Nor did he think they were worth any effort. The original that got away would never leave this World That Never Was. Only portals of darkness allowed accesses in or out. And even if he did find a way, the proper nobodies would finish him off. The true ones; lacking emotion and memories of another life, perfect for molding into a force that worked for him. Not that his partner in crime knew that.