A/N[UPDATED]: GUESS WHO'S BACK! Sorry to keep you waiting for almost a year, It was a combination of severe writer's block and just a lot of stuff to do. I hope to finish this by the end of the year so please review and keep me motivated to keep this goal! I may or may not make a series, It's up to you! Anyway, I hope you enjoy this long awaited chapter, and be sure to let me know how i'm doing. You all know what really belongs to what, and if not... well Kingdom Hearts characters belong to Square Enix, Disney Characters belong to Disney, and Sonic Characters belong to Sega. I'm really tired of mentioning copyrights... Shouldn't it be assumed that most of us don't make our own characters?

Chapter 9: The Raid

Sora, Riku, Sonic, Shadow and King Mickey appeared on a glassy green surface on Eggman's battleship. The group of five looked down to see rotating gears and machines beneath their feet. "Wow," Sonic muttered while looking up and around, "He really didn't change this much."

Mickey cocked his head, confused, "You've been here before?"

Sonic chuckled, "Yeah, in one of our earlier adventures, Eggman used this same ship, but it was red instead of black."

"I guess he likes the design," Riku commented, and moved forward to a small bridge attached to the green platform. Before stepping forward he turned back to the other four, "Okay, we're here now, so what's our- Sora! Get back here!"

Sora had started running across a different path parallel to the first one. " No! I'm going to find Kairi!"

"Wait!" Riku almost ran after him, but Mickey stopped him.

"Let him go. Sooner or later we'll need to find her anyway."

"Besides," Shadow continued, "there's still four of us."

Riku paused to think, then nodded as he watched Sora run across the main deck of the Carrier. "Okay. Then what's our plan?"

"We need to find the doctor and the other Chaos Emeralds," Shadow began, looking out to the massive ship, "and then we'll destroy this place once and for all."

"Uh-huh," Riku was skeptical on the last part, "and how do we do that?"

Sonic spoke up, "Easy. We keep hitting stuff until something blows up!"

The four looked at each other and realized that it was the best plan they had, before running in the direction of the bridge of the ship.

Sora couldn't afford waiting any longer. He had wasted the entire adventure waiting, so this was his chance to end the suspense. He ran across the deck of the ship until the other four seemed like dots in the distance. Sora stopped running, only because he had to. He had come to a gray wall with no means of going around.

"Well," Sora sighed, "That was pointless." He was about to turn around to tell the others of his lack of success when he noticed something on the ground. Centered in front of the gray wall was a yellow and black striped circle. There was a straight line that ran across the stripes, indicating that the circle opened up. "Maybe not," Sora corrected himself.

He summoned his Keyblade and tapped on the circle. Nothing. He stepped around it and tapped again. Still Nothing. Sora smiled, "This should be fun." He aimed his Keyblade at the circle and held it with two hands. "Freeze!" He called out, and a blue beam shot from the tip of his blade. The metal panel froze wherever the beam touched, and Sora kept this up until the entire circle was frozen.

Lowering his weapon, Sora looked down at the chilled metal. He raised his Keyblade above his head, and brought it down hard on the chunk of ice. It didn't shatter the first time, it simply made a large crack. Sora repeated his strike, successfully the second time, and the icy metal shattered and fell inward.

Sora looked down the hole he had just made and saw what looked like a giant lobby. But there was only one way to know for sure. The hole was a little wider than Sora was tall, so he sat with his legs hanging over the edge. Keeping his arms above the opening, Sora slid down, spun around and caught himself before falling. He then placed the protruding blade of his Keyblade over the edge and slowly lowered himself about two feet lower than he was. "Here goes nothing," Sora muttered, and finally pulled his Keyblade back, falling down.

Sora stared at the floor that was approaching quickly. He pointed his Keyblade down and at the last second shouted, "Aero!" A gust of wind flowed from his blade and pushed underneath Sora. It didn't break the fall, but the wind cushioned it enough so Sora could easily roll out.

When he stood up he saw a tremendous transport station. There were glowing railings that seemed to carry wired monorails, numerous Egg Transports that lined each long wall of the rectangular room. At one end of the room was a stairwell and a ramp that led to a yellow and brown striped hovering transport that looked like Eggman's without a seat. The other end had three metal doors lined up in a semi-circle.

Sora walked to the three doors and stared at them. Trying to figure out which door to choose, he called out, "Kairi!"

After a few seconds he heard a faint shout from the door on the right, "Sora!"

Sora heard this and broke into a dead sprint towards that door. In his haste he didn't notice a rotating platform in the middle of the half-circle. When he stepped on it he fell off balance and accidentally spun into the door on the left. The door opened automatically and closed behind him.

Regaining his balance, Sora stood straight and looked at the room he had stumbled into. There was a large, blue circular platform with machines and computers surrounding it. In the middle of the platform was a single Drill-bot, non-heartless. Suddenly, there was a bright, yellow flash that lasted several seconds. When it faded, the Drill-bot was still there, but it had a heartless emblem on the front. The new heartless hovered off the platform and into a group of about fifty Drill-bot Heartless. Sora looked back to the platform in time to watch another robot get zapped into a heartless.

Wide-eyed, Sora slowly backed away, attempting not to be noticed by the dormant horde of heartless. Refusing the keep his eyes off them, he blindly stepped backwards, hoping to reach the door. He reached his hand back and felt the metal door behind him. Once he touched it, the door whirred open and the light from the station flooded in. The immobile heartless all activated in response to the sudden light, and glowed their eyes on Sora in the doorway. Realizing what was about to happen, Sora turned and bolted out the door, across the half circle, and into the opposite door.

When the automatic door closed behind him, Sora exhaled deeply and placed his hands on his knees. He took a moment to breathe and hope the heartless wouldn't be swarming outside the door when he finally left. He closed his eyes and tried to calm himself down, but a voice to his right interrupted the silence.

"It took you long enough to come find me," said a girl's voice that made Sora happy and anxious at the same time. He beamed up at the girl, who standing inside a jail cell, one hand holding one of the bars, the other at her side. Her innocent smile only brightened her perfect face, and Sora almost forgot that the world was still in danger.

"Kairi!" Sora exclaimed as he ran to her cell. "Are you okay? Did Eggman hurt you? What happened? Tell me everything!"

Kairi chuckled and smiled, "Slow down Sora! I'm fine, and I'm not hurt. You worry too much about me."

Sora paused, knowing she was right. "Okay, so how did you end up here?"

Kairi looked at the ceiling and thought hard. "Well, there was that weird explosion back home, and the next thing I knew, I was laying on a beach in front of this huge building." She held out her arms to demonstrate the enormity of the building.

"What happened next?"

The answer didn't come from Kairi, but from the cell next to hers, "I found her!"

Sora looked to the left and saw what looked like a purple-pink hedgehog. Then again, Sora only knew two hedgehogs and this one looked nothing like them. Her spines didn't go back like Sonic and Shadow, but down, a lot like Kairi's hair. She had a red dress on that was white at the hem, with similarly patterned boots. She wore white gloves with large gold bracelets, and she had a red headband just beyond her ears.

She held out her hand between the bars of her jail cell, "I'm Amy Rose, I'm pleased to meet ya! You must be Sora. Kairi's told me so much about you!"

Sora shook her hand, confused, and looked back and forth between the two girls. "Um, okay." He couldn't think of anything else to say

"Anyway, after I found your little girlfriend, I took her back to my place in Station Square and cleaned her up. Then, we left to look for you two while I looked for my darling Sonic!"

Neither Sora nor Kairi wanted to interrupt Amy during the "girlfriend" comment, but then Sora spoke up. "You know Sonic?"

"Of course! He's my boyfriend!" She said matter-of-factly. "Wait... How do you know Sonic?"

"I met him when I landed on this planet. I wonder why he never mentioned you." Sora trailed off.

"WHAT?" Amy screamed at the top of her lungs, "NEVER MENTIONED ME! HOW COULD HE!"

Sora backed away to Kairi's cell while Amy literally turned red from anger. He quietly spoke out of the side of his mouth to Kairi, "So what happened next?" He didn't take his eyes off Amy, in case she somehow exploded.

Whispering, Kairi responded, "We split up in the middle of some forest, and then this ship showed up. Someone spoke to me through it, saying that he would use me to get to you, and then this blue light came from it. The next thing I knew, I was here."

Sora nodded while watching Amy rant and pace inside her cell. "What about her?"

Kairi paused, "I don't know."

Suddenly, Amy changed from red to pink and leaned forward in her cell again, "When I realized Eggman took Kairi, I tried to find him. It took me a day, but somehow I got captured by a robot and brought here... again." She sounded depressed when she said her last sentence. It didn't last and she soon sounded cheery again, "But now that you're here you can let us go! Is Sonic here too?"

An officially freaked out Sora nodded, and then asked, "How do I open the cell?"

Amy giggled like a teenage schoolgirl, and then pointed at a giant button that was yellow and black striped and red on the top. "Push it down and the cell door will open. Let go and it closes again. It's that simple. Now let me out so I can get to Sonic!"

Sora walked over to the nearest button, looked at it for a moment, and pressed it down with his foot. A loud metallic whirring sound erupted from Kairi's cell and, within moments, the bars had risen above the ceiling. Kairi beamed, ran to Sora, and hugged him tightly, as if it was the last hug she would ever give. She kissed him on the cheek and let go, motioning him to free Amy.

When the two girls were released, the new trio lined up at the door. Sora suddenly remembered the hundreds of Drill-bot Heartless that were probably behind it, and became cautious. "Wait," he started, but Amy had become too excited at finding Sonic and ran for the door. "Amy, stop!" He shouted while summoning his Keyblade. Kairi stepped back and braced herself for the imminent battle beyond the door.

When the door opened, they found nothing. Sora lowered his weapon, stood straight and raised an eyebrow. "Well, that was different," he said, shrugging.

"What were you expecting? Eggman Robots?" Amy questioned.

"Something like that."

"Don't worry," Amy pointed to herself with her thumb like Sonic does, "I can take 'em!"

Sora would have responded, but Eggman's voice over an intercom beat him, "Hem-hem. I see you have managed to free my prisoners, Sora. Go ahead and keep them, I just got four more on the deck! Take the Egglift up if you wish to try and save your other friends." He cackled with laughter before signing off.

"Other friends?" Kairi was the first to speak, "Who else is here?"

Sora explained everything as they left the prison deck.

"How do we always get stuck in this mess?" Shadow muttered, while holding his Keyblade out.

"Beats me," Sonic answered to Shadow's right. Riku and King Mickey were facing the opposite the two hedgehogs, all four of them back to back, wondering the same thing.

They had found themselves surrounded by dozens of Drill-bot heartless less than two minutes after Sora had run off. They weren't attacking, but there were definitely too many to take on, and everyone was still exhausted from the battle on the mountain.

"Why aren't they attacking?" Riku questioned, never taking his eyes off the Heartless in front of him.

"Beats me," Sonic answered again. Shadow glared at him for a second before returning his attention forward.

The four stood in battle position for what felt like hours, with nothing happening, until Eggman's voice boomed from above. "Well, look at what we have here! I had thought you Keyblade Wielders were smarter, but it turns out you're just as easy to trap as Sonic and Shadow!"

"What do you want, Eggman?" Riku shouted at the Egg Transport several meters above them.

"Isn't it obvious? I want the last two Chaos Emeralds! Hand them over and I'll let you go free, and I may even stop the Heartless Invasion that started two minutes ago," he cackled as the four below him looked up in anger.

"We'll never give you these Chaos Emeralds!" Sonic called out heroically, swinging his Keyblade to add emphasis.

"Really, now? Well, we'll just have to see about that," Eggman growled as he pushed a button on his transport.

The sound was faint, but it got louder each time. It was the sound of giant wings pushing down the air with massive force, and everyone knew what was coming next. The nearly complete Dragoon flew up from below and continued alongside the Egg Carrier.

Eggman spoke again, "That's not all, I've also-"

"SOOOONIIIC!" A girl's voice shrieked from just beyond the circle of Heartless.

Shadow looked at Sonic, "That sounds like-"

"AMY?" Sonic cut him off, as he watched her pummel through Drill-bots with her giant hammer. Sora and Kairi were running far behind her, unable to keep up. Riku and the King smiled at the fact that Kairi was safe, but quickly switched back to fight mode.

Shadow took the distraction as an opportunity, and used Chaos Control to teleport onto the Egg Transport. He kicked Eggman in the face and stabbed his Keyblade into the main control of the Transport. The hovering Egg flew in random directions, and eventually started to plummet to the deck of the airship.

With the main console destroyed, the Drill-bot Heartless immediately shut down and reverted back to their cube forms. The Egg Transport landed on the deck and Shadow jumped down, leaving Eggman in his seat with a large bruise on his cheek.

He started shouting as he crawled out of the downed transport, "Why do you-... This is... GAH! You've left me no choice! If you're not going to hand over those Emeralds, then I'm just going to beat them out of you! Dragoon, attack!"

The metal dragon rose in the air, tilted it's wings and coasted above a flat platform on the deck. It turned around in mid-air and landed, waiting for the others to come to it.

"Wow, this brings back memories," Sonic sighed as he realized that the Dragoon had landed on the same place they fought Chaos 6 so many years ago.

"Stop reminiscing! We have to destroy the Dragoon!" Shadow scolded Sonic. He was about to speed towards the Dragoon when Sora stopped him.

"Wait!" He held his Keyblade straight up and called loudly, "Heal!" The green healing light emerged from his keyblade and created a dome around the six of them. Everyone suddenly felt refreshed, and no longer exhausted. When the light faded, Sora smiled, "Now, let's take this thing down!" He pointed his Keyblade at the Egg Dragoon, and everyone broke into a run to the final rematch.

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