"Join your heart with mine." Vanitas stood in front of his brother. In one swift blow he stabbed Sora directly through the heart.

"Sora!" Donald and Goofy yelled in unison as unversed continued to push them away from their friend.

As Sora fell to his knees with Void Gear sticking out of his chest, Vanitas drew his arm back and pulled Void Gear out which quickly followed by an orb of pure light. Banishing his keyblade as a warning to the watchers Vanitas grasped the orb in one hand.

Meanwhile Sully was stalking up behind Vanitas a lifetime of scaring experience serving him well as he waited to put a stop to whatever was happening, just before Sully was ready to scream Vanitas turned and used a wave of darkness to force Sully back.

"No one shall interrupt our reunion, not like last time." An almost transparent wall of darkness surrounded Vanitas as he clutched the orb in his right hand and just stopped. Donald, Goofy, Mike, and Sully all pounded on the barrier trying to get in screaming Sora's name as his body knelt lifelessly before Vanitas.

A second ball of light emerged from the first and retreated into Sora's body as Vanitas took the first and plunged it deep into his chest. He looked back up at Sora's friends and commented, "No stragglers."

The barrier fell as Vanitas exited via a corridor of darkness with Donald launching himself at the portal only a second too late to follow.

(For best mood setting listen to KH2 Roxas's theme)

"Sora." Donald squeezed out weakly as he looked back at the others too still body. He ran up and started shaking him, "Sora, you have to wake up. Wake up."

Goofy just gave Donald a sad look, and removed his hands laying Sora down folding one hand over the other on top of his stomach.

Mike and Sully stood watching this as Sully attempted to shield Boo's eyes from the scene, quickly moving to her door to get her home before anything else could happen. Saying his goodbyes as quickly as possible Sully came back through and sent Boo's door back to the warehouse before joining the others around Sora.

Sora's chest rose and fell lightly as his body continued to take in breath.

"What just happened here?" Mike questioned. Donald simply shook his head.

"We don't know, we need to get him back to the King to get help."

Mike and Sully shared a glance as they remarked about this "King" the others kept mentioning. "We'll help you get him there."

Goofy shook his head no. "We have to leave now, we can't take you where we're going. I'm sorry."

The others helped Goofy hoist Sora's body into a piggyback form on Goofy's back.

"I'm sorry all this happened, let us know what happens to Sora won't you?" Sully asked.

Donald nodded, "We're friends now after all." With that the three made their leave exiting the factory before returning to the gummy ship.

After helping set Sora carefully in a back seat Donald took the helm and began to pilot the ship towards its new destination, Radiant Garden.

"My mission was successful master." A hooded figure stood upon a cracked pillar surrounded by 12 others, looking up at the central pillar.

"Very good. Now our plan in almost complete, once the seven lights are assembled before us we shall finally have that which we desire. Where have they taken the boy?" Xehanort tilted his head down to face the figure he was addressing.

"His heart now resides within mine. As for his body, I left it behind with the others. It will be all the sweeter when we take that from them as well, I returned the excess heart to his body to keep it safe until we're ready." The figure drew back his hood showing a new face, one bearing Ventus's facial features and hair which was now colored a deep brown, and bright golden eyes.

"So this is the form you have chosen, very well. Keep a watch over the vessels, we may yet have a part for them to play." Xehanort turned to face away from the new Vanitas as he raised his hood once again and departed. A smirk played across Xehanort's face as he stood arms folded behind his back observing the wasteland where the final battle would soon take place.

"Sora, Sora can you hear me?" A high squeaky voice asked. Another floppier voice replied, "That's not going to work your majesty, we already tried that."

"Well we can always try again." A third voice moved closer and repeated, "Sora can you hear me?"

Eyes slowly began to crack open finding the rush of light almost blinding, especially after so long in the darkness.

"He's waking up!" The squeaky voice remarked, then the room held still except for the sound of breathing.

"The light it's too much." The boy in question managed to get out.

"Mikey, Donald, Goofy back away for now." The mature sounding voice commanded, as a more shadowy form moved in front of him, the light backing away the boy found the ability to open his eyes.

"Sora." He cried out suddenly remembering that those last moments, a tear rolling down one check. The boy did a double take, examining his body to find it… wasn't his? He gripped Riku's arm.

"What happened to Sora?" He demanded. "Why am I back?"

"Back?" He heard Donald question from afar. Panic started to build as the boy's chest started to rise and fall rapidly.

"Roxas, Roxas get ahold of yourself its ok. This isn't your fault." Riku tried to comfort the panicked boy holding firm to his hand.

"Roxas?" He heard question in the background, he looked over to see an oversized duck, dog, and mouse in front of him.

As the panic began to fade Roxas felt a new emotion, emptiness. That part where Sora had been for so long was just gone. "Sora's gone?" He whispered incredulously.

"That's what we think, he was taken by a boy named Vanitas. Can you recall any of Sora's memories?" Riku asked giving him space, but Roxas merely shook his head.

"No, Sora's memories are within his heart. While we were still connected I could feel his emotions and see some glimpses of events, I was even able to communicate with him a few times but now that we're separated I can't access them. By the way who are you?" Roxas asked the assembled posse, he turned towards Riku. "You seem familiar."

Riku seemed a bit embarrassed but admitted that he had been the one that took Roxas to Diz, aka Ansem the wise. "Oh boy do you have catching up to do."

For nearly the next hour Riku and the gang filled Roxas in on what had happened and Xehanort. "So let me get this right, Xehanort is the somebody of Xemnas who created the "fake" organization I was a part of but they're now making a real organization to cause a war to create Kingdom Hearts."

"Pretty much, and I don't want to freak you out any more than you already are but it's likely that Xehanort is going to come after you as a vessel." Mickey warned.

"Ok, so it seems like a lot has happened since I've been gone. How long have I been gone?"

"A year, maybe two."

"Well then, what…" At that moment Ienzo entered the room carrying his gummiphone. "Zexion." Roxas yelled jumping up to a standing position and summoning his keyblades.

"Is this a bad time? Nice to see you again Roxas. Perhaps I should reintroduce myself, I'm Ienzo, formerly Zexion. When we were defeated I and others regained our hearts and were recompleted, Aleaus formerly Laxaeus and Dilan formerly Xaldin are also here." Roxas dropped his stance and sat back down.

"A-hayck, sorry we musta forgotten to tell you about them." Goody commented gesturing to Ienzo.

"What's going on Ienzo?" Riku asked.

"Well actually I came to talk about some of the data we've unencrypted, it seems Ansem had surmised that Sora's heart actually held three other hearts. I figure now that one of those must have been Ventus, the other was Roxas, but who was the third?" Ienzo questioned putting a hand to his face. That somewhat shocked Roxas.

"But I'm a nobody we don't have hearts." He insisted.

"Actually powerful nobodies are capable of generating new hearts, like you did. Others like myself actually created new hearts and along with our own original hearts combined to form the us we are now." Ienzo explained. "We are actually in the process of figuring out how to get you your own vessel Roxas."

"My own vessel?" He gasped. "So when we get Sora back we can both have our own bodies?"

Ienzo nodded. Roxas hopped forward excitedly. "Great now how do we get Sora back?"

"We're not sure, we should go see Master Yen Sid first."

Hello KH fans this is a chap I wrote after I played through the monsters inc world, now that I've finished the game I'll hopefully finish this relatively quickly before my KH hype fades. Will I stick near to the actual plot or will we explore a new version of kingdom hearts? Come back and find out soon. I bid you Adieu.