A word of note. Vanitas and young Xehanort, will not be teaming up to create yet another organization XIII. There's no one to fill the numbers and Ragyo and Nui won't be joining as well since their goal conflicts with the two since Xehanort wanted the X-blade to reset the universe while Ragyo wants to spread life fibers throughout it.

Chapter 17: Rainy days

(Music: Scala ad caelum field)

(The slums: Back Alley streets)

A week had passed since the cultural and sports grand festival where Sora and his honnouji allies were forced to retreat from the school after the combined forces of Ragyo and Vanitas defeated Ryuko and Satsuki, disappearing during the battle. Despite helping people evacuate from the battle, many people were still absorbed by the life fiber soldiers, the COVERS, Mako Mankanshoku included. Now the streets of the city were being patrolled by the life fiber beings, alongside their heartless counterparts that resembled them, prowling for any victims to absorb, but also to find and destroy their current greatest threat Sora. Who was sneaking around the streets of the slums,with Satsuki Kiryuin's sword bakuzan in its sheath on his back,hiding behind trash cans and building corners trying to avoid the living suits through the rain.

"You gotta be kidding me, how many of these guys are there?" Sora asked himself as he peeked around an alley corner to watch a squad of COVERS pass by down the street. After the life fiber beings vanished out of sight, the scene paused as Sora turned to the camera.

"For those who are tuning in to our scheduled program right now, you're properly wondering why I'm hiding from living monkey suits." Sora said to the audience as he reached above himself to pull down a board and started drawing a picture of the city of honnouji and a chibi version of himself. "I came to this world after Kairi disappeared when me and my friends defeated master Xehanort and then I met the head honcho in town, Satsuki Kiryuin." Sora explained as he drew a picture of a chibi Satsuki, who had overly large eyebrows drawn on. "I asked for her help to find Kairi, but I think she was more interested in getting my keyblade. After that I met Ryuko Matoi, the best friend I made in this world,who was looking for her father's killer and thought I had something to do with it for a quick moment, which is how I met her." He continued the story as he drew a chibi version of Ryuko punching his chibi self in the face. "Her dad was killed because he made a living uniform with superpowers she calls Senketsu." He said as he grew a chibi version of Senketsu waving. "But, when Ryuko transforms while wearing Senketsu, her look gets kinda skimpy." He explained as the chibi version of Ryuko was now wearing the transformed Senketsu while blushing and covering herself. "Senketsu is made of life fibers. An alien parasite that came to this world a long time ago." He explained as he drew a coupe of human sized life fibers holding ray guns emerging from an alien ufo.

"So the two of us end up living at our Mako's place during our stay in the city while me and Ryuko fight back against the heartless and Satsuki's goons" Sora continued as he drew a chibi Mako waving in front of her home and a scene of him and Ryuko fighting against the heartless. "Finally after a lot of fighting, we meet Ryuko's dad's killer, Nui Harime. Who is a real nut case by the way." Sora explained as he drew a smiling chibi Nui with devil horns and a tail. "She works for Satsuki's mother, Ragyo Kiryuin." He said as he drew a chibi version of Ragyo, petting a yarn ball of life fibers like the cat of a James Bond supervillain. "She wants to use the life fibers to take over the world and so we teamed up with Satsuki in order to stop her." Sora said as the chibi Sora, Ryuko and Satsuki confronting the chibi Ragyo as A chibi Vanitas kicked Sora in the back. "But then my evil twin, Vanitas shows up and botches the plan Satsuki had, while Ragyo released the COVERS to absorb every human being they came across, including my friend Mako." He said as the chibi Ragyo snapped her fingers and many COVERS were summoned with one carrying a panicking Mako .

"When Ragyo took out Satsuki and took her kamui, Junketsu, she went after Ryuko and ripped her heart out." Sora went on as the chibi Ragyo picked up Satsuki and tossed her away while taking a cartoonish heart of Ryuko while she fainted with cartoon x's on her eyes. "Then Ragyo claims Ryuko is her daughter and we were forced to run away with as many people as we could." He said as the chibi Sora picked up Ryuko over his head and ran off from Ragyo and Vanitas. "Ryuko's been in a coma ever since the fighting, and no one's seen Satsuki as well. Now I'm here looking for her, hoping she could help wake Ryuko up. But so far, I haven't found any sign of her." Sora finished recapping as he took bakuzan off his back and held it in his hands with a sad look and the scene resumed as rain resumed falling on his head. Suddenly, Sora heard the sound of something crashing a short distance away and peeked around the corner to see Mataro and Guts stepping away from a fallen trash can.

"Guts, be more careful! We're trying not to get caught." Mataro whispered to the dog.

"Guts!" Guts barked quietly in response as he followed Mako's younger brother down the street.

"Looks like I'm not the only one looking for people. Mataro must be looking for Mako." Sora said to himself as he thought about it for a moment and the chibi Sora jumped on his shoulder before slapping the real Sora across the cheek and disappearing in a puff of smoke. "Wait! Not good! He shouldn't be here!" He realized as he ran after Mataro. Mataro zipped past any COVERS and heartless in a stealthy fashion until he finally came across his objective, an empty food stand, abandoned by the owner when the city was taken over as Mataro and Guts grabbed as much food and shoved it all into a bag.

"Grab as much as you can." Mataro whispered.

"Guts!" Guts barked. After filling the bag, Mataro and Guts retreated through the streets while avoiding any COVERS until they passed through an alley, where they were unfortunately blocked off by a pair of the living suits.

"Ahh! Quit blocking the road, you cheap ass suit!" Mataro demanded as he threw a tomato at the COVER, which stood in silence unassumed as the suits grabbed Mataro and Guts in a tangle of life fibers. "Oh, crap! I was kidding! You're not cheap! Don't eat us, man!" Mataro pleaded as he got closer to the opening of the living suit, until something cut him and Guts free. As Mataro looked around at his savior, it turned out to be none other than Nonon Jakuzure, wearing the nudist beach uniform and a black beret and wielding a black knife.

"You dustrags are going down!" Nonon said as she sliced through the life fiber threads that connected to COVERS and they fell to the ground lifeless.

"You're that elite four chick!" Mataro said relieved as he ogled Nonon's mostly exposed body.

"Well, if it isn't the slacker's brother." Nonon said annoyed until her attention turned to the sky where more COVERS were lowering down into the alley. Knock a couple down, and more show up. Better run!" She advised as she grabbed Mataro and made an attempt to run towards the other side of the alley, only to be blocked off by more COVERS.

"Oh crap! Some escape plan you had!" Mataro exclaimed.

"Shut up and let me think!" Nonon said as she tried to think of a way to escape from the COVERS. Suddenly in a flash, many of the COVERS blocking the alley were sliced in half to reveal Sora with the kingdom key in hand, behind the fallen suits. "Spikes! What are you doing here? I thought you were back in Osaka!"

(Music: Scala ad caelum battle)

"No time to explain! You should get out of here before-" Sora was saying before soldiers and large body heartless appeared in the alley behind Nonon, Mataro and Guts. "The heartless show up!"

"You don't need to tell me twice. Run for it, Guts!" Mataro said screaming as he ran out of the alley with Guts following behind him.

"Guts!" Guts barked as he followed Mataro.

"At least he gets the general idea." Nonon said with a sweat drop while Sora stepped into the path of the heartless and got into his battle stance.

"Make sure he gets out of here safely. I'll handle these guys!" Sora advised as Nonon ran off after Mataro and the soldiers began their attack by jumping at Sora with kick attacks that he sidestepped away from the attacks and countered with swings of his keyblade that destroyed the heartless. When the large bodies lumbered in and made a jumping attack with their large bellies, Sora countered by hopping over and slashing downward at its exposed backs, when one tried swing its large arms at him, Sora rolled around the attack and performed a rising slash that caused it to tumble forward and fall into some soldiers. When Sora was about to charge to attack, he found his arms being pulled back by life fibers from the COVERS making an attempt to restrain him.

"Oh no you don't! I'm not your food!" Sora said as he pulled hard enough to pull the COVERS towards him and spun them into the air as he pointed his keyblade into the air and unleashed a burst of magic that destroyed the living suits. When the large bodies that Sora damaged earlier stomped around enraged, they charged at Sora in an attempt to run him over, only to be countered when Sora slammed the head of his keyblade into the ground and a blasting shockwave erupted and destroyed the large bodies when they got close, clearing the ally of any threats. "Okay, this is clear. Where's Nonon and Mataro?"

"IT'S GAME OVER,MAN! GAME OVER!" Mataro's voice screamed from a distance away.

"That works." Sora said as he slinged the keyblade over his shoulder and ran towards the sounds of the screaming. After a bit of rushing through the streets, Sora finally found Nonon and Mako's brother on a bridge over a river, surrounded by more COVERS, but also some new creatures that were similar to shadows, but were blue and had red eyes instead of yellow ones. "Unversed. I guess Vanitas left them for me. Thunder!" He shouted as bolts of lightning struck down the floods and burned away the COVERS.

"About time, spikes! Those stupid heartless are everywhere now and you're playing hero elsewhere!" Nonon battered Sora as he approached.

"They're not heartless. They're called and unversed and Vanitas made them. Now you should get going!" Sora advised as scrapers and bruisers unversed appeared behind him. "Get going!" He shouted as Nonon took Mataro's hand and went towards the side of the bridge.

"Wait, hold on. We're not seriously gonna-Waaa!" Mataro yelled as Nonon jumped over the side while Mataro held on and Guts followed over the side.

"Guuuuutttttsss!" He howled as he dove after the two. After the bridge was clear, the scrapers jumped at Sora with swipes of their claws which Sora blocked with his keyblade and countered an unversed with a heavy slash and cut right through it as more scrapers attempted to attack with their claws, only to missed when Sora ducked under the swipes and knocked a scraper into the air with an uppercut of his keyblade and jumped after it to launch it back to the ground and into another scraper, destroying both. Once Sora landed, he performed a slide under a bruiser trying to smash him with its jump attack and threw his keyblade at the bruiser's back and destroyed it and then called his keyblade back in time as another bruiser approached and tried punching Sora, only to get slashed across the chest. After Sora destroyed the unversed, two more like it tried to ram him as he jumped backwards away from them.

"I better take these guys out now so I can catch up with the others fast!" Sora said as he twirled his keyblade and released a shockwave as he turned into second form. Sora made the first move by sliding in with his keyblade and smacking a scraper with an uppercut and then used the head of his weapon as a hook as he tossed the unversed into the crowd and then followed up with a charging thrust that knocked over a few enemies as he passed by and added an arching uppercut that send some unversed skyward before he finish the attack by raising his keyblade up to release a red aura of magic that knocked any unversed that surrounded Sora off the side of the bridge. Once the scrapers were all cleared out, the bruisers made their move by stampeding at Sora, which he avoided by jumping over them and stepping on their heads as stepping stones and hopped off them as he started flying at the bruisers with flying thrusts and destroyed the unversed one at a time with each thrust until he eliminated the last one and reverted back to normal.

"Okay. Hopefully that's the last of the problems." Sora said to himself as he dismissed his keyblade, believing the danger was over. Until he felt the ground shaking and heard something over the side of the bridge to see a brand new heartless that towered in height and was made of medal with a sword in one hand and a drill for the other as it stomped down the canal in the direction Nonon ran off in. "Of course I'm done yet." He said as he watched the large heartless walk away from the bridge. Then Sora took a few steps back and then ran forward and jumped off the bridge and landed on the water before running off after the huge heartless. After a minute or two of running down the canal, Sora finally found the beast, spinning its drill into a barrier where Nonon and Mataro were on the other side of. With the latter holding onto Guts and both shaking in fear while Nonon held her knife ready for a fight.

"Get back you ugly overgrown hunk of junk!" Nonon hissed while the heartless ignored her continued drilling into the barrier.

"Hey!" Sora's voice caught everyone's attention as the heartless stopped drilling while Sora ran up behind it and summoned the fiber cutter keyblade. "If you wanna pick on someone, pick on someone who can fight back!" He said as the large heartless turned towards him, which revealed the multiple shadows piloting the monster as it raised its giant sword to strike. "Man, me and my big mouth." Sora said as he dodged to the side to avoid the sword from smashing him. When the giant spun up its drill and brought it down on Sora, he jumped up its arm and ran up it while dragging his keyblade across the appendage and jumped at the head to use last charge to knock the giant off balance with a pillar of magic. The heartless retaliated by pointing its drill forward and a purple sphere generated at the tip.

"Ahh!" Sora yelped as a unseen force pulled him towards the sphere by gravity magic and the giant had its sword ready to attack him when he got close, but Sora quickly transformed the fiber cutter into its dual scissor blade transformation and countered the heartless's blade by deflecting it with one of his own as he was able to recover from the change in gravity and dodged the drill when it launched at him from a chain and then disconnected the drill by cutting off the chain. When the giant attempted to swipe at Sora with its sword again, he simply used both scissor blades to deflect the sword and then enlarged the scissors to giant size with the heartless's waist caught in between. "See ya!" He exclaimed as he crossed the scissors and sliced the giant in two, letting the halves of it fall to the ground and disintegrate into dark particles as a crystalline heart floated into the air and disappeared.

(Music ends)

(Reflectra magic learned)

"Hopefully that's the actual last of them." Sora said catching his breath as his keyblade returned to normal and was dismissed as the barrier went down, allowing Sora to approach Nonon and Mataro. "You guys alright?"

"We're fine. That barrer popped up the moment the big one backed us into a corner." Nonon said as Sora turned his attention to Mataro.

"Mataro, what are doing here?"

"I'm looking for my sister, dumbass. What else would I still be sticking around this place for?" Mataro answered as Sora sighed.

"Mataro. I told you and your family I'd take care of looking for Mako for you guys. It's too dangerous for you to be outside the hideout." Sora said.

"It's not the only reason he was out here. He just told me while we were running there's a refugee camp not too far from here. It's full of people" Nonon explained.

"Great. Let's call for help and get them out of town." Sora said.

"Hey. I'm the one assigned to Hoonou city today, spikes. I'm in charge here, so first order of business, why are you here?" Nonon questioned.

"*Sigh* I was looking for Satsuki." Sora answered which surprised Nonon. "Ever since Ryuko fell asleep, Senketsu did everything he could to try and wake her up since the two of them are so connected. But since we now know that Ryuko and Satsuki are sisters, I was hoping with her there, I could use the power of waking to make a safe dive"

"That doesn't explain why you're carrying Satsuki's sword around everywhere." Nonon said, pointing to bakuzan on Sora's back. "If anything, her best friend should be holding on to that, which is me."

"Well, there's only one place in the city I haven't looked for her yet. The school." Sora explained as looks of shock came over Nonon and Mataro.

"It's official, he's suicidal." Mataro commented.

"Guts!" Guts barked in agreement.

"Are you crazy, spikes?! That place is crawling with COVERS and those monsters! Not to mention, Ragyo and the grand couturier are still there and probably that evil twin of yours. It's something you just forget about!" Nonon said.

"...I can't. Ryuko needs my help." Sora stated which took Nonon off guard.

"Alright. But you shouldn't just charge into the school. Ragyo built it herself, so any secret entrance I tell you about will be worthless. Ragyo's probably got them all covered." Nonon said as an idea popped into Sora's head with a lightbulb over it.

"Unless I use a way in that not even Satsuki knew about." Sora said while Nonon looked confused.

"Huh?"

"I'll give you the details later. Let's just get the townspeople out of town." Sora said.

"Alright, fine. Hey slacker junior. Lead us to the camp." Nonon ordered Mataro.

"Hey! I'm no slacker! In my mind, I've already stolen your wallet ten times." Mataro stated as Nonon checked the pockets on her uniform just to be safe.

"You're skating on very thin ice, pal! Watch it!" Nonon warned Mataro as they walked down the canal to the hidden camp while Sora looked up at the raining sky, towards the direction of the school, and then took out Kairi's charm.

"Wait for me a little longer, Kairi. People need my help." Sora said as he put the charm away and followed Nonon and Mataro.

(?)

When Ryuko opened her eyes, the first thing she saw was the sun, shining in the bright blue sky with white clouds floating by peacefully. As she stood upwards, Ryuko saw the area she was lying on was reflective water that seemed to stretch along with the sky, seemingly endlessly.

"What is this place? Senketsu, do you know how we got here?" Ryuko asked, expecting an answer from her kamui, only to be met with silence. "Senketsu. I'm talking to-AHH!" She yelped as she noticed she was wearing Senketsu, but the jacket and school uniform she wore before finding the kamui. But the reason why she screamed was because her body was completely see through like a ghost. After a moment of calming down, Ryuko looked towards the sky.

"Where am I?"

(Music: The final world)

(World logo: The final world)

(The final…)

(...Final…)

(Nudist beach HQ: Entrance)

As Sora walked down into the entrance of the nudist beach base, he had his head hung in shame because of his unsuccessful attempt to find Satsuki, not paying attention to the hanger full of people. Agents of nudist beach, and refugees from all over the country, saved the COVERS, at least the ones that were managed to be saved. As Sora walked through the base, he didn't notice the recently grounded helicopter he was passing and the two that just walked out of it.

"So it's true you did take off." A gruff voice from behind Sora said as he turned around to see Gamagori and Uzu, wearing the nudist beach uniforms.

"Oh, Gamagori. Uzu? What happened to your goku uniform? I thought it was the only one still working." Sora noted.

"It was. Until it finally gave out in Kanto, when these new monsters showed up." Uzu answered.

"*Sigh* Let me guess, they had red eyes and looked like heartless, but weren't." Sora guessed as Uzu and Gamagori nodded. "Things are getting worse by the minute, we're in a lot of trouble."

"And with Sanageyama's uniform destroyed, you're our last line of defence. Unless Matoi wakes up now and lady Satsuki returns to us." Gamagori said.

"Still can't believe they were sisters this whole time." Uzu commented as Sora looked down to the floor as he was reminded of Ryuko's relation to Ragyo. "What are you going to do? Can't you wake Ryuko up?"

"I can, but I'll properly need Satsuki's help for that." Sora answered.

"What are you planning on doing?" Gamagori asked while Nonon walked in.

"He's planning on breaking into the school to find Satsuki." She answered as Gamagori and Sanageyama were shocked.

"What?! That's insane!"

"Ragyo and the grand couturier are there and are properly waiting for you! They need you to spread life fibers throughout other worlds." Uzu argued.

"It's a risk I have to take. It has to be where Satsuki is, I've checked everywhere else there...You can't talk me out of this." Sora said as the three stood in silence.

"What's your plan?" Gamagori asked, giving in to Sora's determination.

"Where's Aikuro?" Sora asked.

"He's in the briefing room, with Tsumugu, Inumuta, Iori and his uncle. What do you need him for?" Sanageyama questioned.

"You guys may have known he was a spy. But there are some things you didn't know about, like a way in." Sora answered as the three of the elite four realized his plan.

"So if it's a way lady Satsuki didn't know about…" Gamagori started.

"It's a way Ragyo might not know about!" Nonon finished.

"What are you waiting for? Go and find out what Mikisugi knows!" Uzu said.

"I'm on it! I'm on it!" Sora said as he ran off in the direction of the briefing room.

"Is he really our last hope?" Gamagori asked his comrades.

"Yup, he is. But, I have some faith." Uzu answered.

"Some here." Nonon said, crossing her arms and turning away, hiding a blush. (Actually, I have complete and total faith. I just hope he comes through for us.)

(The final world)

Some time had passed since Ryuko had awakened in the world of endless sea and sky, and she was currently walking atop the water, trying to find a way home.

"Damn, where the way out of here? What is this place even?" Ryuko asked as she looked around to try and find if anything was different about her surroundings, but her sight only met more sky and water. "I wonder if Sora's been to this place. Could definitely use his help right now."

"You'll need more than help right now." A faraway voice echoed and alerted Ryuko.

"Who's there?!" Ryuko shouted as she looked around for the source of the voice. A moment later, Ryuko heard some sort of chirping noise and looked up to see a small orb of light fall slowly to the watery floor and then a flash of light forced Ryuko to shield her eyes until the light died down and a small creature, resembling a cat, wearing a cape and pouch with a star on it.

(Music: Chirithy's theme)

"What the.."

"The name's Chirithy. And this the final world." The small creature introduced itself.

"Um, I'm Ryuko Matoi. What's the final world?" Ryuko asked.

"There's nothing else beyond this. No other worlds, this is the end of the road." Chirithy explained.

"Nothing else?" Ryuko repeated as she processed what the cat-like creature told her. "Oh shit...Am I dead?"

"Not exactly. The edges of sleep and death touch, and one can't help the occasional crossover so you're kinda caught between life and death. You're hanging by a thread." Chirithy answered.

"Okay, so I'm not really dead, but I'm here in this place anyway. So that means I'm probably asleep in the real world." Ryuko guessed.

"Indeed, but that doesn't explain everything."

"Like what?"

"You wouldn't look like yourself if both your heart, and your body have been casted into this world." Chirithy explained as Ryuko looked over her see through hands. "Meaning your body is fading back in the real world, and is being dragged here alongside your heart. Did something happen back in your world that put your life at stake?"

"Uh, well. The last thing I remember is fighting, and then…" Ryuko said as she flashed back to the sports festival and Ragyo plunged her hand into Ryuko's chest and shook her head as the memory ended. "I must've fainted after that."

"Okay, so your heart was removed from your body, then that explains why you're asleep. But something truly shocking to the mind forced into this world. Learned something?" Chirithy asked as Ryuko shook her head.

"Nothing I can remember." Ryuko said, unable to remember the aftermath of her defeat. "Anyway, I should probably get out here now. I'm needed back home."

"Whoa! Hold on! You just can't wander out! Your heart is too damaged and you don't have a door! Don't you wanna hear what I have to say?" Chirithy stopped her.

"Oh, right. How do I get out of here?"

"You'll need to gather the pieces of yourself in order to be stable enough to make the trip back over. Even then, you'll need help from the outside." Chirithy explained.

"Trust me, if I know him well enough, he's already on his way." Ryuko said.

"Let me guess, he has spiky hair and a goofy personally?"

"Heh, yeah. I knew Sora came through here at some point." Ryuko chuckled.

"Yup, he sure knows his way around. Once you gather the pieces of yourself, wait for Sora to open the way. Good luck!" Chirithy said as he transformed into a ball of light and disappeared while Ryuko watched him leave.

"Alright, how do I know what these pieces of me look lik-THE HELL?!" Ryuko screamed in surprise as she looked around to see multiple copies of herself walk around the watery surface, walking around like nothing was out of the ordinary. "Heh, looks like I found them."

(Nudist beach HQ: Briefing room)

"So, the north Kanto gang leaders have fallen, too." Inumuta noted while wearing a nudist beach uniform of his own with some differences as he, Aikuro, Tsumugu and Soroi looked up the computer screen where crosses were marked all over japan, various places that have fallen to Ragyo. "With that, all the schools that were under Honnouji academy's control have been completely wiped out by the COVERS."

"So what you're saying is we're screwed. Out of all of Satsuki's forces, we're the only ones left. You got any good news?" Aikuro asked.

"That depends. Sanageyama's goku uniform was the last we had. It was the only one that survived an attack from Vanitas. Our only asset left is Sora." Inumuta answered.

"The kid can't fight a whole war on his own. He's just one kid." Tsumugu commented.

"I know. If we had Ryuko awake and Satsuki here, we'd have a better chance." Aikuro said as he heard the door to the briefing room opened and turned around to see Sora walk in.

"Hey, I was hoping to find you guys here." Sora said as Soroi approached.

"Ah, master Sora. Care for some tea?" Soroi asked, holding a tray of tea.

"No thanks, Soroi. I'm not planning on staying long." Sora said.

"So, how did your search for Satsuki go?" Aikuro asked.

"Not good. All I found in the city were heartless and the COVERS. And now Vanitas has set the unversed on the loose."

"We know. We're getting reports of these new monsters running amok." Tsumugu commented

"So Satsuki isn't in the city?" Inumuta asked.

"Not in the city. I think she's in the school." Sora answered as surprise came everyone else in the room.

"Whoa! Hold on, kid. Rethink your plan for a moment. Honnouji academy is the most secure place Ragyo has a place on right now, even more than REVOCS headquarters. There's no way you're getting in through the front door." Aikuro said.

"I know. Which is why I was hoping you made a secret way in and out when you were a spy, in case you were caught." Sora said which made Aikuro quickly put on his old teacher disguise.

"Who? Me? I was just a normal school teacher. Why would I have a secret exit? Hahahahahaha!" He laughed in his disguised voice as he was receiving annoyed glares.

"Mikisugi! Focus!" Tsumugu yelled as he punched Aikuro in the face and made him switch back to his normal persona.

"*Sigh* Okay. I did make a back entrance in case my identity was discovered and I needed a quick getaway. But do you really have to do this? Can't you call for help from those keyblade wielders like you?"

"I've tried after the festival. But the gummiphone can't reach anyone. I think your world is too far from any of my friends." Sora answered.

"So we have no choice. Sora will have to infiltrate the academy to save lady Satsuki, since it doesn't sound like reinforcements aren't coming." Inumuta said as he started tapping away on his laptop. "I'm downloading blueprints of the academy, it should help you navigate the school to help you sneak around. Or, to find an advantage."

"And here. The map to my secret entrance. Use it to get inside." Aikuro said as he handed Sora a rolled up piece of parchment. "But be sure to make Ragyo doesn't see you leave through it. Otherwise you're gonna have trouble following right behind you."

"Gotcha. Thanks for the help." Sora said as Inumuta handed him the map of Honnouji and unrolled the map to study the layout of the academy and found what he was looking for. "There! If you guys made prison cells, then Satsuki has to be in one of them." He noted and looked over the map until he found something strange on it. "Wait, you guys had a jacuzzi?"

"Even lady Satsuki likes to relax. Although it was Jakuzure's suggestion." Inumuta commented.

"Well, I better get going. The sooner the better." Sora said as he walked towards the door.

"Master Sora." Soroi stopped him before he could leave. "Bring Satsuki home safely." He requested as the keyblade wielder nodded.

"I will." He answered as he walked out of the door and into the hallway outside. "One more stop." Sora said to himself as he walked down the hall for a few minutes until he came across his destination, the base's infirmary. As Sora opened the infirmary door, he saw the comatose Ryuko with her scissor blade by the bed, along with Senketsu, Mako's mother and father, Sukuyo and Barazo sitting around the bed. "Hey." Sora announced himself as all eyes turned to him.

"Sora, you're back." Senketsu noted.

"Welcome back, honey!" Mrs Mankanshoku greeted Sora with a smile.

"Good to see ya alive!" Mr Mankshoku said.

"Sorry, guys. But I didn't find any sign of Mako while I was gone. I barely even saw the COVERS that swallowed people, and even if I did, I don't know how to get her back." Sora said.

"That's okay. You were trying your best out there, and that's what's matters." Sukuyo reassured him.

"How's Ryuko doing?"

"Stable, as far as I can tell, but there's one thing that don't make sense. She should have a wound or a scar or something where she got her heart pulled out, but she doesn't. How do I put it? It's not human." Barazo noted which riled up Senketsu.

"What did he say?!" The kamui said.

"Senketsu, easy. I know you're upset because you feel like you could've done something to stop it. Believe me, I know how you feel." Sora said.

"Is Ryuko really related to that awful woman?" Sukuyo asked.

"As far as I can tell, yeah. I saw it with my own she got her heart ripped out of her, Ryuko's wounds healed on their own, just like Ragyo's and Nui's would."

"Hey, what about that guy that looked like you? Are you two twin brothers or something?" Barazo asked.

"No, it's very complicated. I thought Vanitas was gone for good. Guess I was wrong." Sora said as Vanitas' words back at the festival played in his head.

"A great deal of negative energy along with my master opening kingdom hearts opened the door for a second chance for me. And I think you know where that negative energy came from. Lose someone?" Vanitas' voice rang in Sora's head.

(I brought him back. We lost the fight at the festival because of me, and now the worlds are in danger again.) Sora thought to himself with a face full of guilt, which Senketsu noticed.

"Sora? Is something wrong?" Senketsu asked as Sora snapped out of his thoughts.

"Oh, sorry. Anyway, I came here to say I'm going back out to look for Satsuki again. And if I come back with her, I'm gonna try to wake Ryuko up myself." Sora said.

"Really?"

"Why can't you do it now?" Sukuyo asked.

"Since we know Ryuko and Satsuki are sisters now, I was hoping their connection could help me wake her up. The sooner I get the two together, the better for all of us." Sora said as he went towards the door.

"Good luck!" Sukuyo said.

"Don't die!" Barazo said.

"Be safe, Sora. Please, find a way to bring Ryuko home." Senketsu silently said as Sora walked back into the hallway outside and headed towards the base's exit as a familiar face walked by him.

"Sora." Iori said, catching the keyblade wielder's attention.

"Oh, Iori. Good to see you." Sora said as his attention turned to the giant turbine like machine Iori was pushing through the halls. "Uhh, I don't have the time or the muscles to help test that thing. Maybe Gamagori is around somewhere."

"I figured you could use it, but I wanted to talk to you about something else. I know you're heading to the academy." Iori responded.

"You can't talk me out of it. Everyone else already tried."

"I wasn't going to. I wanted to tell you something that only me and lady Satsuki knows about."

"What is it?" Sora asked.

"Remember when you first came to the academy, and you wore a goku uniform for a short time?" Iori reminded him.

"Yeah, but it didn't work for me. It didn't enhance my power at all, properly because I'm from another world." Sora responded.

"When you handed it back to us, after you quit. I went over it and found that you could have a one percent percent resistance to life fibers. Making it impossible for a COVERS to absorb you. You might see the inside of one, but you'll be able to break free." Iori explained.

"Okay, how does that help me save people from the COVERS that got them?"

"Probably nothing, if anything it's a good defence for you. And that's where this comes in." Iori said as he pointed at the turbine machine. "Anyway. Good luck, me and the elite four are counting on you to bring Satsuki back home."

"I won't let you guys down." Sora said as he walked down the hall and out of sight.

"I'll hold you to it." Iori said as Aikuro approached.

"Hey, Iori. Is that what we're going to use against the COVERS?" The spy asked.

"Yes, it's practically ready." Iori answered.

"Good. Inumuta thinks we're picking up COVERS on the way here right now. You should get to the briefing room and tell us how that thing works." Aikuro requested while Iori nodded in agreement.

"Right away."

(The final world)

(Music: The final world)

"So how does this work?" Ryuko asked as she watched the copies of herself walk by, which were apparently pieces of her. As she approached a copy of herself that was in a loop of walking, reappearing from a few feet away when it reached a certain distance. "Maybe, like this?" She said as she reached her hand out to touch the copy and it disappeared in a flash of light. After the copy vanished, Ryuko looked over herself to see if there were any changes to her see through body and found her shoulder was starting to become solid and gaining color. "Awesome, it does work! Time to find the rest-Huh?" Ryuko stopped as she noticed something new in the place of the copy of herself that vanished. A star made of floating particles, rotating in a circle, and through the star, Ryuko felt the presence of a person. "Is someone there?"

"Everything was fading away from my body, and the one I cared for the most was watching it happen. With what strength I had left, I asked him that if he even forgot who he was, he would still never forget the principals he stood by. And as long someone protects what that person stood for, their principals would never die." A silent voice coming from the star spoke in Ryuko's head.

"What happened to the person you cared about?" Ryuko asked the star, only to get no response. "Guess whoever that was is gone." She said as she walked away and found another copy of herself and then gathered the piece of herself with another star in the place of the copy.

"He had to grow up without us, and because of that, our son has no idea who he truly is. Even so, he strives to be the hero I wanted him to be. I only wish I could be there for his next birthday." Another silent voice spoke from the star. After a minute of hoping that the voice would speak again, Ryuko decided to move on to the next piece of herself and absorbed it while finding yet another star.

"I get it now. These are people and their thoughts, at least what's left of them." Ryuko guessed as more silent words entered her head.

"Without me, my children only have each other left. But still, they survive for the day they can find peace. Until then, I am fine with watching them until their journey is over." The voice from the star spoke and Ryuko decided to move on to the next piece of herself since she knew the star wouldn't say anything else. After collecting the piece, another star awaited her.

"I sacrificed myself so my loved ones could live. I knew I wouldn't survive, but I had something to believe in that kept me moving to ensure they would survive. I believed in destiny." The star spoke and Ryuko moved on. After finding the next copy of herself, Ryuko walked through it to restore more of herself and found another star.

"I passed a lot of responsibility to my student before my passing, despite saying it was his turn, a small part of me thought he wasn't ready since I didn't finish teaching him. Wait, look at that. He managed to find a successor and he's quite the find. Maybe I was worried about nothing. He was ready." The star said as Ryuko walked passed it and found another copy of herself, which seemed to be the last one in the area. After absorbing the piece of herself Ryuko found another star waiting for her.

"I left too many things unsaid to my one and only child, and for that she grew distant from me. When I finally wanted to make amends to her, she disappeared. For a long time, I waited for her to return, but my body was finally giving away to my age. Now I hope she received my final letter of how I truly felt." The star silently spoke.

"Sounds like a lot of people are here because their missing someone, or someone is missing them. Hope dad isn't here." Ryuko wished as she turned her attention to the current state of her body. Her head and her shoulders have been restored and regained their color. "Okay, so far, so good. But what do I do now? I don't see any more pieces of me." She noted as she heard something behind her and turned around to see a purple sphere with spikes surrounding it.

"Seems like my way forward." Ryuko said as she started walking towards the sphere. Before she got closer, another star was sitting in the path. But something about this one was different to Ryuko. "Another one, huh? Hello?"

"Good day." The star spoke with a clear, hearable voice of a girl.

"Whoa, you actually talk."

"You're the second one to still look like a person. Did you come from the same place as him?" The star asked.

"Uh, I guess. But this other guy, does he have spiky hair and is overly nice?" Ryuko responded.

"He is. I'm guessing the two of you are friends. You also seem to be in the same situation as he was."

"So Sora was here before. So who are you?" Ryuko asked.

"No one anymore. They took away my name, everything about me." The nameless star answered.

"Everything? Sorry to hear that. But I'm guessing you're here because you miss someone." Ryuko guessed.

"Yes, but I cannot be certain. He's been changed beyond recognition."

"Let me guess, Sora said he'd go find this guy for you."

"He did. Because I cannot leave this place, I choose to wait here, where I can be found. Your friend is truly nice." The star said.

"He is, isn't he?" Ryuko said with a smile. "So, who's the guy that he's looking for? He could be someone I know."

"Sorry, I asked him that his name stayed between us. A little secret." The star responded.

"Oh, okay I get, it's personal. I guess this little conversation is a secret of ours too. Don't want Sora to think he broke his promise." Ryuko said.

"Thank you for being understanding."

"Well, thank you for the talk. It was nice actually." Ryuko said as she continued her walk towards the sphere.

"I feel the same."

(Underneath Honnouji academy)

"Come on, where are you?" Sora said to himself as he threaded through a hall, lined with pipes on the walls, looking for Aikuro's secret entrance/escape route into the school. After a few minutes of walking through the hall, Sora took out the secret map the nudist beach spy gave to him.

"Okay, says here, the entrance is right above a funny looking drawing. What drawing?" Sora said as he looked around and found a drawing next to him, and it was of Tsumugu with his mohawk overly enlarged with angry crossed eyes and his tongue sticking out. "Oh, guess that's why Aikuro didn't tell anyone about this place." He noted as he looked up to see a part of the ceiling that seemed to be newer and less worn out than the rest of the ceiling. Sora bended his knees and jumped up high to the ceiling where he grabbed on to a pipe for support and used his free hand to push up the false part of the ceiling and then jumped up through the hole into the room above. As Sora placed the false plating back to where it was, he looked around to see he was in the classroom where he, Ryuko and Mako had spent most of their time at Honnouji academy.

"So far, so good. Hold on, Satsuki. I'm on my way."

(Satsuki's former chamber)

(Music: Villains of a sort)

"It's all gone?!" Maleficent said in disbelief after Ragyo gave her the news of the missing data.

"Unfortunately, according to my traitorous daughter, someone killed my steward and destroyed my research lab. Whoever they were will suffer for stealing from me." Ragyo vowed as she gripped the arms of the throne that was once Satsuki's.

"I very much doubt it. If it's who I think it is that stole from you, then you won't find them." Maleficent said which Ragyo scoffed at. "But I'll still need information. Your daughter is in possession of a book that dates back to the age of fairy tales. During the keyblade war. I'd like to take off your hands."

"Ah, yes. Satsuki's favorite story from her childhood. I've already searched for myself, but Satsuki seems to have hidden it. But she won't keep it a secret for long, I have her tell us in no time." Ragyo promised.

"If not. Then her only use would be as a heartless." Maleficent said with an evil smile.

(Prison cell chamber)

"You're really making me work for this aren't you?" Vanitas said holding his keyblade while pacing side to side in front of the prison he was interrogating. Satsuki Kiryuin, who had her arms bound above her by iron shackles and was covered in bruises and injuries from being interrogated by both Ragyo and Vanitas, however, she had yet to speak anything meaningful. "A whole week and you're enduring a lot of pain. But you can't possibly take can't much more."

"You might be surprised." Satsuki spoke without even looking at Vanitas.

"Oh, you can still talk, good. I thought I might've gone too far. That means you can tell me about what I want." Vanitas said.

"If it's about Shinra Koketsu. Ragyo already heard everything I do know about it." Satsuki answered while Vanitas simply smirked.

"Heh, what makes you think I care about a little dress Ragyo is making?" Vanitas responded while Satsuki had a look of surprise and confusion on her face.

"I thought you were helping my mother achieve her goal." Satsuki said.

"To be honest, I couldn't care less of this world if it's consumed by tiny pieces of fabric, or if Ragyo makes it to other worlds. I was just here to get my power back, along with something else."

"So you're just using my mother." Satsuki said in amusement as she gave a smirk. "Heh, to think Ragyo would be the one being manipulated, it's quite ironic." Satsuki said.

"I just need one thing before I decide to say adios to this place." Vanitas said as he walked up to Satsuki and pointed the tip of his keyblade under her neck. "I know you have a book, one about the keyblade war, which is how you seem to know so much about the keyblade itself. I need it."

"So you helped my mother prepare for the destruction of the human race, all for my childhood book. Sorry, I'm afraid it might've been destroyed during the explosion of the academy." Satsuki answered, which Vanitas gave her an annoyed look at.

"So that's how we're playing it? Okay then." Vanitas said as he turned away to leave. "I'll take a break for now, but when I come back, I'm gonna stop playing nice!" He threatened as he vanished into a dark corridor, leaving Satsuki alone in her cell.

"(He's properly going to kill me. But if that means he doesn't get the information he wants, then it's a sacrifice I'm willing to make.) Satsuki thought to herself and closed her eyes. But then quickly opened them again when she heard a rattling noise and looked up to see a vent above the main entrance to the room moving. A moment later, a foot kicked the vent clean off and Sora jumped out and rolled on the ground before recovering.

"Ah, they make going in vents look so easy in movies." Sora complained as he dusted himself off.

"Sora?" Satsuki weakly said which caught the keyblade weider's attention.

"Satsuki! You are alive!" Sora exclaimed as he summoned his keyblade and pointed it at the lock to Satsuki's cell as a beam of light shot out into the lock and opened with a click as Sora walked into the cell. "Am I glad to see you!" He said while Satsuki gave him a skeptical look. "Is something wrong?"

"For all I know, you could be Vanitas trying to get me to talk." Satsuki accused Sora of being his dark double.

"If I was Vanitas, would I be giving you this?" Sora asked as he reached to his back and presented bakuzan which took Satsuki by a bit of surprise, but still suspicious. "You're not imagining this, I"m really here to get you out of here." He said while Satsuki stared at him quietly.

"...Cut me down." She said as Sora made a small hop above Satsuki and used his keyblade to cut the chains and Satsuki dropped to the floor of the cell with her hands still in cuffs until Sora tapped them with his keyblade and they fell off her wrists. "Thank you.."

"Should we go get Junketsu before we go?" Sora asked.

"No, forget it. It's loyal to Ragyo now that it's free of me. Wearing it again is most likely impossible. Besides.." Satsuki said as she fell to her knees. "I don't think I can make the trip." She said as her body started falling until Sora caught her before she fell to the floor.

"Let's get you out of here. I'm taking back home to the others, and your sister." Sora said as he held Satsuki's arm over his shoulder and walked towards the door out of the cell.

(Out in the academy halls)

"Tell me, who do you think stole the data from my mansion?" Ragyo asked Maleficent as they walked through the empty halls of the academy.

"I believe your thief is connected to the box I am searching for. It's the only way they could've known about the data's existence in the first place." Maleficent answered.

"Sounds like someone is going through a lot of trouble hiding this box." Ragyo noted.

"I'm aware. However, that will not stop me. The contents of that box will be mine." Maleficent vowed and turned her attention to the window, outside towards the giant courtyard, where the COVERS and their heartless counterpart were carrying machinery towards the center of the field, where a giant rocket was under construction. "It seems you're making your final move now."

"Yes. Thanks to the heartless you've supplied me with, our satellite transmitter will be ready soon, instead of a month. Even Shinra-Koketsu will be ready soon." Ragyo said gleefully.

"Aw, your ultimate weapon. Then I suppose this world will be consumed soon enough." Maleficent said.

"Indeed. The day of a great genesis will soon arrive. The humans of this world shall finally fulfill their purpose and the life fibers can spread their grasp throughout the universe!" Ragyo said.

"Then let me spare the trouble of one less human. I shall take Satsuki off your hands."

"Oh, so you don't want the location of her book?"

"We both know she won't talk, for all we know she destroyed it herself. But she'll have a better purpose of being a heartless." Maleficent said when she heard someone approaching as she and Ragyo turned around to see Sora carrying Satsuki up the stairs.

"Don't worry, Satsuki. So far, there doesn't seem to be any troubl-" Sora stopped when he spotted Ragyo and Maleficent staring at him dumbfounded, which turned into annoyance. "Uh, hi?'

(Music: Scala ad caelum battle)

"Well, what do we have here? It seems we have an unwelcomed guest." Ragyo said.

"Please. Allow me." Maleficent said as she waved her staff and a wall of green flame was produced with several neoshadows emerging from the fire. "Destroy him, and claim the girl's heart!" She commanded as the heartless rushed down the hall at Sora.

"I don't suppose these guys are my new tutors are they?" Sora joked as he lifted the unconscious Satsuki onto his back and ran in the opposite direction of the heartless while they chased him down the halls. When one neoshadow caught up to Sora and took a swipe at him with its claws, he hopped away and kicked himself off a wall to fly into the heartless and knocked it away and then continued kicking off the walls, using flowmotion to guide down the hallway, gaining distance from the neoshadows.

"See ya later, let's do this next week!" Sora taunted as he flew away from the monsters and looked forward to see COVERS sliding through the windows and standing in his path with their life fiber tendrils ready to grab him. "Uh oh." He said as he made a quick decision and tossed the unconscious Satsuki underneath the COVERS as she slid underneath them, while Sora fell into one of the open holes of the living suits, quickly closing itself up, so he wouldn't escape while Ragyo and Maleficent approached.

"Hahahahaha. To think that someone as powerful as this boy would fall like this, trying to protect someone else. Humans are so predictable!" Ragyo laughed in amusement, while Maleficent looked skeptical. "What's the matter? I just helped you get rid of a headache.

"It couldn't have been that easy." Maleficent said as she looked at the COVERS that seemingly absorbed Sora, it hadn't even changed shape.

"Hmm. Actually, you seem to have a point." Ragyo agreed as the blade of Sora's keyblade suddenly stuck out of the suit and sliced it open from the inside as Sora jumped out. "WHAT?!"

"WATERZA!" Sora called out as a stream of water followed his keyblade and slammed it towards the ground and an explosion of water blinded Ragyo and Maleficent and blew away the COVERS. When the water faded away, Sora and Satsuki had vanished from sight, but a door to a classroom was wide open.

"Foolish boy. That's a dead end!" Ragyo said as she quickly dashed towards the classroom door. But when she looked inside, the room was empty with no sign of Sora. "What?! How can this be?!"

(Music stops)

"The door must've been opened to mislead us! He must still be inside the building!" Maleficent said.

"No. Forget it. It's just one human the boy saved. Without Junketsu, she has no power. Their no threat." Ragyo said.

"If you don't go after Sora now, he will return to destroy everything you worked for! You have no idea what kind of threat he really is!" Maleficent said.

"Are you saying I can't handle one human? I think you should leave before this world is consumed." Ragyo said as Maleficent gave her a look of annoyed anger.

"Very well! Have your way!" Maleficent said as she was wrapped by green flames and disappeared. "You'll rue the day, you've spurned my help!" Her voice echoed and left Ragyo behind.

"I think I'm fine with that." Ragyo said as she approached the window and watched the construction outside. "I may have losted one daughter today. But another will come home soon enough." She said with a devious smile, which ceased when she heard the sound of a toilet flushing and turned around to see Pete stepping out of a bathroom.

"Geez, does every bathroom here need so many spikes?" Pete said to himself and noticed Ragyo. "Uh, did Maleficent leave without me?"

"Yes." Ragyo said deadpanned.

"Oh man! Not again!" Pete said as he ran down the hall and vanished out of sight.

"Imbecile."

(The final world)

(Music: The final world)

After making contact with the purple sphere, Ryuko found herself in a new area where the watery surface was replaced by a solid white floor.

"I don't see any pieces of me. Did I take the wrong turn?" She asked herself as she took another step and the floor glowed. "Huh? Ahh!" Ryuko screamed as she turned around to see the road she was walking on had disappeared, leading to a deep drop towards the endless sky. Ryuko then started running away from the ledge in fear that the floor was collapsing until the floor rumbled underneath her. "Whoa!" She yelped as a pillar rose up under her, lifting her high above where Ryuko can see she was on a floating cube shaped platform in the middle of the sky, with structures emerging from various sides of the cube, as well as rails connecting from one pillar to another, along with copies of Ryuko appearing everywhere on the platform, either walking, climbing, reaching towards their left hands as if to transform if they were wearing Senketsu, or even swinging their arms around like they were wielding the scissor blade in battle.

"Man, this place is weird. I better put myself back together, or I might think I'm not the original myself." Ryuko said to herself as she looked around to see a grind rail connecting her pillar to the ground, with her copies riding down the rail. "Aaug, I hope I've been hanging around Sora long enough to do this myself." She said as she planted her feet on the rail and slid down it effortlessly and gathered her pieces along the way until she landed safely on the white floor. "That was actually kind of fun." Ryuko said to herself as she started gathering more pieces of herself. From hopping from pillar to pillar where copies were balancing on, to catching pieces floating in the air, and repeating the process until the platform of copies.

"Damn, is that it? I'm only halfway done." Ryuko said as she looked over herself to see her body was halfway restored, but without anymore copies around, she couldn't restore anymore of herself. As Ryuko was thinking of a solution, she spotted a cube floating in midair near a ledge, spinning around slowly.

"Hope this does something." Ryuko said to herself as she gave the cube a smack with her fist and everything started rumbling and felt the floor beneath her shifting. "What's going on?!" She said in surprise as she looked down to see the structure rotate backwards and threatened to toss her off into the sky below. While the structure almost completely rotated, Ryuko jumped over when the rotation was complete, making a safe landing and finding more pieces of herself.

"Whew, close one." Ryuko sighed and started gathering the pieces, following them up rails and pillars, one taller than the last, until finally most of her legs were restored and she nearly reached the top of the tallest pillar.

"Hopefully, this is the last one!" Ryuko said with a grunt as she pulled herself up the pillar and found the last copy of herself. But what surprised her about her final copy is that it was sitting on top of the pillar like when she, Sora and Mako were eating ice cream on Hoonouji's walls.

"*Sigh* Wonder if any of us will get normal lives." Ryuko wished as she stepped up the pillar and absorbed the copy. As soon as she did, the floor started rumbling again. "Huh? Ahhh!" Ryuko screamed as the structure rotated again and flung her off the side. Just when Ryuko thought she was gonna fall forever, she caught sight of the white structure below her and landed on her feet safely.

"That was a close one. I'm getting pretty damn tired of this place already." Ryuko complained as the pillar around her retracted into the ground, along with one in front of her, with a purple sphere being lowered down to her, just like the one that brought her to the structure. "Am I finished?" She asked herself as she looked over herself. Her body was completely restored.

"Yes! I can leave now! Everyone, I'm on my way!" Ryuko vowed as she approached the sphere.

"Why would they want you back?"

(Music stops)

"Huh? Who's there?!" Ryuko demanded as she looked around for the source of the voice. To her, it was speaking in her head, just like the stars did,only it felt dark.

"Did you really forget what you found out. The truth of your past?" The dark voice said.

"The hell are you talking about? What do you know about me?!" Ryuko asked while unbeknownst to her, a dark figure surrounded by a dark aura, making their appearance unseeable had appeared behind her.

"I'm speaking, of your true self!" The figure said as they placed their hands on the sides of Ryuko's head.

"AHHHHHH!" Ryuko screamed in agony as her mind flashed back to the moment Ragyo held her beating heart in her hand.

"Ryuko Matoi, don't you see? Your body is one with the life fibers like mine. I thought you were dead, but now I know. You, are my daughter!" The memory of Ragyo revealing the truth to Ryuko flashed in her mind as in real time she fell to her knees in despair while the dark presence looked down at her.

"Don't look so down. You were denying the truth to yourself. I couldn't just stand by and do nothing. You were always meant to find the truth." The dark voice said.

"Why…"

"Why? Because you needed to find yourself. You deserve the truth. Now the door has been opened, and the path before you has been laid." The presence said as it vanished from sight, leaving Ryuko by herself.

(Nudist beach HQ: Entrance)

The elite four were sitting by the entrance of Nudist beach's secret base, for when Sora returned with Satsuki. But to the four, they had been waiting far too long for the keyblade wielder to return.

"You know what? Forget waiting! I'd say we go out there and find Sora and lady Satsuki!" Uzu said.

"Calm down,Sanageyama! We are more needed here then out there!" Gamagori said.

"What if Ragyo caught him? Did you forget she wants him to take her plans and the life fibers across the universe?!" Sanageyama reminded him.

"Actually, Ragyo no longer thinks Sora is worth the effort. She was ready to kill him by the end of the sports festival." Inumuta spoke up.

"Which means, she won't hold anything back against him if he's caught. Maybe the monkey is right. We should go out there." Nonon suggested while Gamagori tried to think, but it seemed he was caught between a rock and a hard place.

"Damn it, fine. Let's go!" Gamagori said as he led his comrades to a helicopter.

"GUYS!" A voice called out for the elite four as they turned around to see Sora running towards them with Satsuki still unconscious on his back.

"SATSUKI!" The elite four shouted at the same time as they ran over to Sora while Gamagori lifted Satsuki off Sora's shoulders.

"We need help over here! We got a rescue!' Gamagori shouted as a pair of nudist beach operatives ran over with a medical stretcher and Satsuki was laid down on top of it.

"Get her to the medical bay!" Inumuta ordered as the operatives prepared to march off.

"Wait…" Satsuki spoke weakly as her eyes opened.

"Satsuki, you should rest." Nonon advised.

"Sora." Satsuki called for him as the keyblade wielder approached. "Ryuko, is she alright?"

"Yeah, you'll see her soon." Sora assured her as he placed bakuzan on the stretcher next to her. "I thought you might want that back. Been keeping that safe." He said with a smile which Satsuki responded to.

"Hmmp. Don't touch my stuff again." Satsuki said with a grin of her own as she was carried away for treatment and the scene froze and Sora looked towards the screen.

"Did..Satsuki just make a joke?" Sora asked as the top of his head opened up like a lid and a mushroom explosion cloud exploded before his head closed back up and the scene resumed. "Anyway, how is Ryuko?"

"We were just told she was stirring in her sleep. In fact, it sounded like she was talking to someone else." Uzu responded.

"Really? Maybe it's because I got Satsuki back. Where is she now?" Sora asked.

"Where else,moron? In the sick bay, where she's been all week. If you're gonna wake her up, do it now!" Nonon said.

"Thanks!" Sora said as he dashed off towards the medical bay, leaving the elite four by themselves as Inumuta leaned towards Nonon's ear.

"If you wanna ask him out, you should just do it. Before Matoi might." Inumuta joked as Nonon's face turned bright red and angry.

"OH SHUT UP!" Nonon shouted. Meanwhile, Sora was practically running over anyone in his path, even running on the sides of walls to get to the sick bay faster. Down the path, Tsumugu was busy cleaning his needle rifle on a bench, minding his own business and unaware of Sora speeding down the path.

"Hey, what's up?" Sora greeted as he sped by the gunman and spooked him.

"Hey! Watch it, kid! I could've shot someone with this thing!" Tsumugu shouted as Sora vanished down a hall. "Kid has no idea how easy someone could be-" He said as he stopped to notice the feeling in his left arm was gone and looked to see it had gone limp with one of his needles in his shoulder. "Oh crap." After passing by Tsumugu, Sora found the hall where the medical bay would be and ran down in the direction of Ryuko's room, but not without passing by a familiar face.

"Hiya, Sora." Mako greeted while wearing the nudist beach uniform, although it seemed to be a few sizes too large for her.

"Hey,Mako. Not now. I gotta see Ryuko-" Sora said before his mind clicked in place. "MAKO! You're okay! And you're wearing one of those uniforms, of course you are." He said when he noticed Mako was wearing the nudist beach uniform.

"Hey, Sora. Do you know how we ended up back in Osaka? I think I took a nap and the next thing I knew, I was in my birthday suit and my family was crying." Mako said.

"Mako. You were absorbed by one of Ragyo's COVERS and were gone for a whole week. We just made a machine that takes people out of them and it looks like you were pulled out of the one you were in." Sora explained while Mako gave him a clueless and innocent smile, making it clear she didn't understood a word Sora said. "*Sigh. Bad guys got you. Just saved you."

"Oh, okay. I thought for a moment we were in the 9th dimension trying to defeat the giant monkey man." Mako stated as Sora tapped on her head, which made a hollow sound.

"Yep, you're Mako alright. C'mon, we gotta go wake Ryuko up. I kept her waiting too long." Sora said as he walked down the hall.

"Oh, Ryuko's taking a nap too?" Mako asked as she followed Sora down to the medical bay and found the door to Ryuko's room opened where Senketsu and Mako's mother were waiting.

"Your back!" Senketsu said.

Welcome back! Did you get Satsuki?" Sukuyo asked as Sora nodded.

"Yeah, she's being patched up right now. Should get better soon." He said.

"Wait, what about Satsuki?" Mako asked.

"Oh, I guess no one told you yet. You see, it turns out, Ragyo is Ryuko's mother. And that makes her and Satsuki are sisters." Sora explained as Mako's mind was slowly processing what he said.

"Is she alright?" Senketsu asked with concern.

"Give her a moment." Sora said as Mako put the pieces together.

"WHHHAAAAAAAAATTTTTT?! RYUKO AND SATSUKI ARE SISTERS?! BUT THAT MEANS RYUKO IS SUPER RICH!" Mako shouted in disbelief.

"That's the part that's important to her?" Senketsu asked with a sweatdrop, even though he couldn't sweat.

"Anyway, now that I have both you and Satsuki here. I think I can safely wake Ryuko with my power. That's why I wanted this long." Sora said as he turned to the sleeping Ryuko and summoned his keyblade to his hand and waved over where Ryuko's heart would be and the tip of the keyblade shined with light and a purple sphere appeared above the bed, much to Sora's surprise.

"What's wrong, Sora?" Mako asked.

"This wasn't supposed to happen. Ryuko was supposed to wake up right away." Sora explained as he turned to everyone else. "I think I have to leave for a bit. But don't worry, I'll be right back and hopefully Ryuko will wake up." He said as he faced the sphere and disappeared in particles of light.

"Hope he'll be safe." Senketsu said as alarms went off and surprised everyone in the room.

"Is it lunch time?" Mako asked.

(The final world)

In the endless sea and sky, a lone source of light shined for a quick moment before a pillar of light appeared on the water as Sora steeped out of it and looked at his surroundings and quickly recognised the limbo-like world.

"This is…" Sora said as he looked around and saw a figure in the distance walking closer to him. When he focused his eyes and took a closer look, he was surprised to see the figure was Ryuko, wearing the outfit she wore the day they met and keeping her eyes to the ground as she walked. "Ryuko!" He called out as he rushed over to the girl. "I'm so glad you're okay! Good news, Satsuki and Mako are fine and they're waiting for you…" He said, only to be ignored when Ryuko shoved him out of her way.

"Huh?" Sora questioned as he watched Ryuko walk towards the portal he used to enter. "Ryuko!" He called out.

"No, leave her be." The dark voice spoke in Sora's head.

"Huh? What?!" Sora questioned as he looked around for the source of the voice.

"She knows the truth now. There's no stopping her now." The voice said.

"Who are you?"

"...Darkness." The voice answered.

"Darkness? Vanitas?" Sora questioned as a pool of darkness opened up underneath him and blinded him as streams of darkness surrounded him. When the darkness faded away, Sora found himself in a familiar landscape in a desert with old, rusted keyblades in the ground and the cliffs around the area.

"The keyblade graveyard? How did I get back here?" Sora questioned as he looked in front of him to see the darkness gathering in the center of the clearing. When the dark energy faded away, it had formed into a heartless with yellow horns, a scarf and twins swords in each hand. The dark inferno X.

(Music: The consuming dark)

"Hey! Get out of my way!" Sora demanded as he summoned the starlight keyblade as he rushed towards the dark inferno and took a swing at it, only for to quickly dart backwards out of his range and then flew back at Sora and countered with several sword swings that Sora blocked until the heartless took a step back and broke through Sora's guard and knocked him back with a drilling charge attack.

"Ow! This one's smart!" Sora noted as the dark inferno charged up its swords in red energy and Sora's instincts had him jump into the air as the heartless created a wide horizontal attack while Sora countered with a downwards slash as he fell and caught the dark inferno after it finished its attack.

"How about this?" Sora said as he took a step and unleashed a powerful thrust with his keyblade that knocked the dark inferno back several feet. The heartless then sunk itself into a pool of darkness and disappeared into the ground. A moment later, multiple dark fireballs emerged from where the dark inferno vanished and flew at Sora. "Defend!" He called out as he surrounded himself with a reflera spell and the fireballs bounced off the shield and flew out in different directions and exploded on the ground and the dark inferno re emerged out of the ground and flew at Sora with its swords and took a couple swings at him which Sora countered and knocked it back.

"Agh! I don't have time for this!" Sora said as he jumped into the air and charged energy at the tip of his keyblade for union ragnarok and unleashed bolts of blueish white energy that flew at the heartless and overwhelmed it in an explosion of sparkling lights. After being pelted by Sora's attack, the dark inferno had wisps of darkness falling off it, as it dropped its swords and fell to the ground in defeat and disappeared into particles of darkness.

(Music ends)

"Whew. Hate to think that heartless could've been worse." Sora said as he dismissed his keyblade. A moment later, the image of the keyblade graveyard was slowly fading away back into the sea and sky of the final world. After making sure he was no longer in the graveyard, Sora looked around for any sign of Ryuko, only to see the portal he used to arrive. "What was wrong with Ryuko? I better head back and see she's awake in the real world." He said as he walked towards the portal until he heard a familiar chirping sound and looked up to see a small sphere of light that turned into Chirithy.

"Chirithy!" Sora said, happy to see the small creature.

"Back so soon?" The spirit asked while Sora looked down in sadness as a question about Kairi came to his mind. "What's wrong?"

"Well…" Sora stated as he began telling Chirithy everything that happened after the last time he visited the final world, including losing Kairi, and wanted to know how he could find her.

"Hmmmm. Even with the power of waking, you can't just bring someone back." Chirithy explained.

"But Kairi's heart hasn't been lost yet. She's still with us, right?" Sora asked with optimism.

"Maybe, but this time, I'm afraid the situation is a lot worse." Chirithy said.

"Well, I was brought to Honnouji because it has something to do with bringing Kairi back, right? I can use the power of waking to save her, can't I?" Sora asked.

"But that's not how it's supposed to work at all. The power of waking is meant to wake and restore sleeping hearts, not to restore them after they've completely faded from existence. Even if you find the pieces of Kairi's heart. The power of waking won't be enough." Chirithy explained.

"Pieces? What do you mean by that?" Sora asked.

"When Kairi was lost, the light in her heart protected her by splitting her heart apart, across many worlds it would seem."

"So that's why I ended up in honnouji." Sora said.

"But you won't just find it laying around, the pieces seem to have taken refuge in hearts similar to Kairi's across those worlds." Chirithy said.

"So, those pieces could be in anyone's heart's." Sora said as he began thinking to himself. "Maybe the piece in Honnouji is in someone I already met."

"Maybe, but finding it still won't be easy. In order to gather pieces without misusing the power of waking again, you'll need to connect with the hearts of the guardians of light in order to get the pieces." Chirithy explained.

"So I have to meet up with my friends in order to get Kairi back? That's going to be hard, I can't get in touch with anyone." Sora said.

"Hopefully, your friends will find their way to all, you did once before."

"Before? Do you mean when Xehanort told me I made a butch of timelines when I restroed my friends hearts?" Sora asked.

"Yes, in another timeline, you went back in time again to connect with the guardians of light to find Kairi, against my advice. That's also why I don't suggest using the power of waking again, so you don't alter history again. It's a nature taboo!" Chirithy warned.

"I know. Xehanort told me that too. In every timeline I go looking for Kairi, something bad happens to me." Sora explained.

"But that's not stopping you, isn't it?"

"No way. Kairi needs me. So if I have to go searching every world I go to, I'll do it for her! It's the whole reason behind my journey." Sora vowed.

"You gotta be the craziest keyblade wielder ever. But, it's your choice. I can't really stop you. Especially if I couldn't before." Chirithy said, accepting Sora's choice.

"Thank you, Chirithy. Now I better go, another friend might need me." Sora said.

"You probably do need to go. I can sense something is upsetting your friend greatly. You should go before she does something drastic."

"Yeah, I should. But do you have any explanation how Ryuko ended up here? Her body is fine in the real world." Sora asked.

"I'm not sure. As far as I know, she didn't come here through the station of awakening like you did. The best I could explain, is that she's having an out of body experience." Chirithy explained.

"Well, okay. Thanks for the help." Sora said as he turned towards the portal, but stopped before he could as a thought crossed his mind. "Chirithy, do you wanna come with me?" He asked as Chirithy took a step back in surprise.

"Whaaaat..?" He said.

"That friend you told me about before. Take from me, it's not enough to wait for someone you care about. It's true hearts are connected wherever you are. If it's impossible to be together, then all you can do is wait. But, if it's possible to be together, then that's how it should be." Sora said.

"Sora…" Chirithy said, taken back by Sora's kind words.

"So come on with me. I'll take you to see your friend, Chirithy." Sora offered as Chirithy started crying and then nodded, which Sora smiled as he offered the spirit his hand. "Okay, let's go!"

(Nudist beach HQ: Med bay)

A bright light appeared in the middle of the room as Sora reappeared in front of Ryuko's bed, and then quickly covered his ears when he heard the alarm.

"Ahh. That's loud!" Sora complained as he turned around to look at Ryuko, who was still asleep. "That's weird, thought Ryuko would've woken up first before I got here. Must still be finding her way back." He guessed as a panicked looking Mako stuck her head into the room.

"Sora! Come quick! Big trouble!" Mako pleaded.

"What's wrong?" Sora asked.

"After you left, everything got loud, and everyone started panicking,and then, and then!" Mako tried finishing her sentence before Senketsu appeared.

"Maybe you should see for yourself." The kamui suggested.

"Okay. I'll go!" Sora said as he took one last look at the sleeping Ryuko. "Stay down here. Ryuko could wake up at any time!" He said to Senketsu and Mako as he ran out of the room. After a few minutes of running, Sora finally made it to the entrance to the base and climbed onto an elevator and pressed the up button and the elevator started ascending upwards. "Come on, come on! Hurry up!" Sora pleaded for the elevator to speed up. As soon as the elevator stopped and the doors opened, Sora stepped outside to see what the emergency was about, and shock came over his face.

"Oh no…" Sora said in despair as he looked up to see a giant sphere of darkness floating above the buildings of Osaka, just like the one that appeared the night the destiny islands vanished into darkness, only there seemed to be no storm this time. "I really hope this world isn't falling into darkness." He wished as he heard a noise that made Sora put his guard up and looked to the side to see Tsumugu carrying an injured Aikuro. "What happened?"

"We got suckered punched. That's what." Tsumugu answered.

"They came out of nowhere a little while after you went to wake Matoi up. At first things were going fine, then when that giant sphere showed up, things took a turn for the worst." Aikuro explained as he held his injured side.

"That giant orb properly powered up those monsters somehow. Ever seen any like this happen before?" Tsumugu asked.

"No, never. This is new." Sora answered as many neoshadows, flame and earth cores appeared.

(Music: Scala ad caelum battle)

"Their back!" Aikuro said while Sora summoned oathkeeper and got into his battle stance.

"Get out of here! I'll handle them!" Sora advised as Tsumugu carried Aikuro off to safety. A neoshadow took a swipe with its claws at Sora, only for him to step away from the attack and slash the heartless and then deflected a fireball from a fire core countered by shooting a blizzaga spell at and freezing it and then jumped at it to smash it into pieces of ice with his keyblade. An earth core turned itself around and jumped at Sora with a drilling attack to slash him with its spines, only for Sora to block the attack and uppercut it into the air before Sora unleashed a firaga spell to finish it off before he slashed a neoshadow that attempted to attack him and ducked under a claw swipe from another one and then knocked it away from his keyblade.

"They're definitely more angry than before! I gotta get past them and get rid of that sphere!" Sora said to himself as he twirled oathkeeper and turned into light form. When a few neoshadows surrounded Sora and leaped at him only for him to counter when he plunged his keyblade into the ground and released a burst of energy that knocked the heartless away and then he was being assaulted by fireballs from the fire cores and turned into a stream of light to avoid the attacks and once he stepped out of the fire core's range he sent forward pillars of light at the heartless and destroyed them. After destroying the fire cores, an earth core emerged out of the ground in its sand worm form, towering over Sora.

"Bring it on!" Sora challenged the earth core as it snapped at him with its jaws, only to miss when he jumped backwards and then spun his keyblade around his arm and shot out projectiles of light at the earth core and struck it all over its long body and made it fall apart into a pile of sand. "Alright, time to get going." Sora said as he looked upwards at the dark sphere and started making his ways down the ruined streets of Osaka, only to halt when a group of COVERS stood in his path.

"Hey! You guys can't even eat me like everyone else, so go back to the clearance aisle!" Sora said to the living suits, only to be ignored when the COVERS morphed their arms into harps with life fibers serving as strings. "Huh?" He questioned, wondering what the suits were up to as they began playing a loud melody that pierced Sora's ears. "Ahhh!" Sora screeched in pain as he covered ears to protect them from the horrible sound. After a moment of listening to the loud noise, Sora decided enough was enough.

"That's it! Show's over!" Sora said as he transformed into double form and summoned oblivion in his left hand and then threw both keyblades at the COVERS and sliced all of them in half, silencing their horrible melody as the keyblades returned to Sora's hand. "Man, that was loud. But what was the point of that? Wake up the whole city?" He questioned as more heartless appeared and Sora got ready to engage in battle again.

"Have room for more?" Uzu asked as he walked up and stood next to Sora with green knives that had multiple blades in both his hands, soon enough, Gamagori and Nonon joined in as well.

"Plenty of heartless for everyone here." Sora said as he held both his keyblade ready.

"Come on! Let's throw them back into the dark pit where they came from!" Gamagori shouted as he prepared the turbine weapon Iori just invented.

"Man, boys get way too excited when it comes to hitting things, but…" Nonon said as she suddenly pulled out a pair of rocket launchers from seemingly nowhere and started grinning. "I just like blowing them up instead!"

"Here goes!" Sora commanded as he was about to lead everyone into battle, until a loud explosion stopped him and turned around to see a pillar of fire emerging from the ground, right where the base of nudist beach was.

(Music stops)

"What could've done that?" Gamagori asked while Sora noticed a figure walking out of the fire, no doubt the one behind the explosion. When the figure got closer, everyone instantly recognized the figure as Ryuko, with her hair raised upwards and her face was full of anger and hate while wearing a grey cloak instead of Senketsu.

"Ryuko?" Sora asked while Ryuko ignored him and passed by him to face the heartless.

"I'm sick of looking at these ugly bastards!" Ryuko said as she took out her scissor blade and slammed it on the ground as an energy wave was sent out at the heartless and the whole group was wiped out in a red explosion.

"She got them all!" Nonon said in surprise and terror.

"In one attack no less." Gamagori said while Sora had a bad feeling about Ryuko's change in behavior as Senketsu came hopping along.

"Ryuko! You're awake!" The kamui said in excitement while his wearer didn't even turn to face him.

"Get away from me!" Ryuko spat which shocked Senketsu and Sora. "I'm done with you. I'll never wear you again." She said staring threateningly at the kamui.

"Ryuko!"

"Just looking at you pisses me off. 'Cause I'm the same as you. I'm not human. I never was! I'm a goddamn life fiber monster!" Ryuko shouted in rage.

Hallelujah!

"What are you saying Ryuko?! Senketsu is your best friend in the whole world!" Mako said as she came out of nowhere. "The Ryuko I know would never say something so horrible! She wouldn't, she wouldn't, she wouldn't!" Mako calmed as she got close to Ryuko's face. "That's not the Ryuko I know!"

"Then you don't know me." Ryuko said as she pushed away Mako and turned away from her. "Everything about me was a big, fat lie. I ain't even human."

"Why does that matter?!" Sora shouted as he threw both his keyblades away and stuck them into the ground. "You're still Ryuko, and how were you born shouldn't change that at all!"

"And what?! Are you gonna say what's on the inside is what counts?! Well guess what?! Inside is the same thing as Ragyo! Blood, life fibers and all!" Ryuko argued.

"That shouldn't change a thing! It's you who decides what you are!" Sora shot back.

"Then I guess I did decide!"

"Aww. Someone's having a bad day today." A familiar mocking voice said as everyone turned to notice that the remnants of the destroyed COVERS formed into a bleached colored Nui.

"Nui Harime!" Ryuko growled.

"Don't you think you're getting grumbly-wumbly at the wrong person?"Nui asked in a mocking tone.

"Bite me!"

"Honestly, what happened to getting revenge for your daddy? Don't get mad at everyone else and ignore little old me." Nui said as her fake body coiled like a snake over to Ryuko. "I killed him, so come after me."

"Go bother someone else!" Sora said as he picked back up the oblivion keyblade and hacked the fake Nui into pieces, only for them to come back together and reformed into Ragyo.

"What nimble reflexes you have, child. But I'm here for my daughter dear, and you're still a major annoyance." Ragyo said.

"I ain't your daughter!" Ryuko angrily denied.

I understand your confusion, but it's not my fault. Blame it on Soichiro." Ragyo said as the Nui copy was reforming behind her and hopping around on her spring like body. "Oh, pardon me-Isshin. It was his idea to hide the truth from both of us, and you can see how foolish that plan was. But what's most despicable is he used you like a pawn. As your mother, I can sympathize with how angry you must be feeling right-" She said right as Ryuko sliced the top of her head off, only to easily reform.

"For the last time, you're not my mom!" Ryuko shouted as she slashed at the clone, only for it to regenerate with each attack.

Magnificent. Now, that's determination." Ragyo said as her image was cut in half, only to reform again. "Looking at you, my heart sings. More than it ever did for that failure of a sister of yours."

"You got no right to talk about Ryuko and Satsuki like you loved them! You threw them both away over a butch of alien threads!" Sora said as Ragyo got into his face.

"This a talk between a mother and her daughter, boy! So do kindly to step out of it or your suffering will be much worse if you speak that way to me!" Ragyo threatened while Sora remained unfazed.

"Do your worst!" Sora dared while Ragyo smiled in amusement before turning her attention back to Ryuko.

"You don't resent your mother, do you, dear? You don't really hate me." Ragyo asked while the anger on Ryuko's face deepened.

"All I want to do is kill you." Ryuko growled as Ragyo chuckled.

"If that's really what you want, come to honnouji academy, and we can put this little mother/ daughter feud to-" Ragyo nearly finished her message before a large fireball struck both her coby and Nui's in a large explosion and turned the clones into ash.

"Ryuko, you can't go! It's clearly what Ragyo wants!" Sora warned her.

"Would you get lost! I'm tired of you holding me back!" Ryuko spat.

"Ryuko! He's right!" Aikuro said as he was being carried by Tsumugu to the scene. "Cool down before you do something stupid!"

"Quit acting like you're still my teacher! This is all your fault from the start. You knew everything, but you played it cool! Sitting back, laughing at me, laughing at the freak!" Ryuko accused the spy.

"...You know that's not true."

"There's no way he could've known Ryuko! Your father properly didn't tell him anything because maybe he wanted to tell you himself. Maybe he wanted to know so you could meet your sister!" Sora said before he was suddenly punched in the face and sent back a couple feet.

(Music: Tears of light)

"Don't talk about my dad like you know him! And stop trying to make something good come out of this!" Ryuko yelled as she pointed the scissor blade at him.

"Looks like humans and clothing can't get along after all." Tsumugu said as he loaded his needle rifle and pointed at Ryuko.

"Don't you dare!" Sora yelled as he pointed his keyblade at Tsumugu and then turned his attention back to Ryuko. "It's true I didn't know your dad, but he saved you from Ragyo so you wouldn't turn into her puppet!"

"Shut up!" Ryuko shouted as she tackled Sora and knocked him down a small hill that the two tumbled down as Ryuko grabbed the front of Sora's shirt. "You gotta be the dumbest, most dense person I know! It's no wonder you couldn't save your damn girlfriend!" She said as a look of rage and anger, more intense then Ryuko's own came over Sora's face.

"Take...That...back, now!" Sora growled.

"Why should I?!" Ryuko said as Sora suddenly headbutted her and forced her to let go of him and then had the oblivion pointed at her forehead. "...What are you waiting for? Do it!"

"Do what?!" Sora questioned as Ryuko grabbed the blade of the keyblade and redirected the tip at her heart.

"You hunt monsters, right? So put me down if you think you have to! It's what you do!" Ryuko shouted as Sora pulled the keyblade away.

"You know I won't do it..." Sora said as the anger faded away from him while Ryuko became more frustrated.

"You're such an idiot. You think you can save everyone, but it's already too late for me."

"It's not!" Sora argued.

"Why not?!" Ryuko shouted.

"BECAUSE IT ALMOST HAPPENED TO ME!" Sora shouted in a dark voice as his eyes became bright red for a moment before the light died down which made Ryuko take a step back. "Back in hollow bastion, I turned into a heartless. But I managed to come back. Riku and my other friends also came back from the darkness when they were nearly lost to it. And I'm not letting the same happen to you!" He said while Ryuko stared at him silently.

"...Goodbye Sora." Ryuko said as she turned away and started walking off.

"Ryuko! Come back!" Sora shouted as he tried chasing after her, only to be cut off when a dark laser from above made him jump back.

(Music: Kh 1.5 Destai- darkside battle)

"Huh?" He questioned as he looked up to see they were right underneath the dark orb floating above the city, and a pool of darkness opened up in front of him as a darkside emerged out of the pool and gave out a loud roar

"Stay out of my way!" Sora demanded as he called oathkeeper back to his right hand and dodged a punch from the large heartless when it smashed its fist at him and opened up a pool of darkness that spawn several shadows as the fist was lifted away only for Sora to easily cut down the small heartless with swipes of his keyblades. When the darkside propped itself on its knees, dark energy swirled in its heart shaped hole and shot out dark homing shots out at Sora witch he deflected back at the darkside's head and hands while simply got off its knees and plunged it hand into the ground and pulled out a dark sphere and launched it skywards as smaller orbs fell from the sky while Sora simply dodged the orbs and jumped into the air above the darkside's head performed a spinning attack that struck the head hard as the darkside buckled at the attack.

"Hey, spikes!' Nonon's voice called out for Sora as he looked over to see a dozen darksides emerging everywhere in the surrounding area and cornering the others. "That thing has friends! And they don't look happy!"

"We can't hold them back!" Tsumugu shouted as he unloaded a whole clip from his needle rifle, which proved ineffective as the rounds bounced off the darkside he was shooting at. All the darksides started generating orbs into their hands and released them into the air and were absorbed by the giant sphere, becoming larger and glowing brighter.

"That doesn't look good." Sora said as the darkside he was fighting gave out a loud roar that knocked Sora back and lasers rained down from the sphere and sweeped around the area that forced Sora to jump around the deadly attacks. After gaining a bit of distance from the lasers, Sora noticed that they were sweeping outwards and were chasing the others who were trying to fight the heartless, with expectation of Mako, who was cornered by a rock while a laser came closer to her.

"Oh come on! I didn't do anything! I'm just running for my life here!" Mako cried as she watched the laser come closer to her as Sora hopped in front of and deflected the laser with both his keyblades and redirected it at a darkside and destroyed it. "Thanks Sora!" Mako said while still shaking a bit from fear.

"Go find some cover. I'm ending this!" Sora said as he rushed back over to the lead darkside under the orb and tried smashing the keyblade wielder with its fist, only for Sora to easily evade the attack and jumped above the darkside's head. "Light!" He called out as he raised both keyblades at the sky and pillars of light rained down on the darkside and assaulted it with attacks until the large heartless finally disintegrated into dark particles while Sora returned to normal form.

(Music ends)

"Hah!" Sora gave out a battle cry and jumped high into the air to slice the dark sphere above. After it was attacked, the sphere started going wild and started sucking up rubble, including the army of darksides.

"Go find cover! That thing is gonna blow!" Uzu warned everyone else while they ran for safety and the giant sphere condensed and finally exploded in a dark burst of energy that enveloped the whole area. Once the dark mist faded away, everyone emerged from their covers to find each darkside had vanished, the only remnants of them were dark particles floating throughout the air and Sora standing over the spot where he defeated the lead heartless, staring sadly at the ground.

"I should've stopped her when I had the chance." Sora said blaming himself for not stopping Ryuko from chasing after Ragyo and Nui, properly right now she was halfway to Honnouji academy now, thanks to the darkside interrupting him.

"Hey, cheer up. We're not done yet." Aikuro said as he walked up behind Sora.

"We might as well be. When I was at the school saving Satsuki, I saw that Ragyo was building something there. She properly needs Ryuko for it to work." Sora explained.

"Then we still have time. Listen kid, we got one last play at beating Ragyo and need you to pull it off. In fact I'm already having it put into play right now." Aikuro said.

"You don't mean S.S naked sol, do you?" Tsumugu asked with surprise, to Sora it sounded like this was a secret weapon nudist beach was holding on to.

"What are you guys talking about?"

"We're talking, about that." Aikuro said as he pointed out towards the direction of the ocean while the ground started rumbling.

"What's going on?!" Sora questioned while trying to keep his balance. A moment later, something massive was slowly rising out of the bay. A large black and red ship in the shape of a dagger. "What is that?" He asked as the ship completely emerged from the water.

"That's the S.S naked sol, the whole base underground was that ship. We're gonna use it for one last assault on honnouji academy." Aikuro explained as the top of the ship opened up to become the large vessel's deck. "But if we're gonna pull this off, we still need you, kid. And with Matoi gone, you and Satsuki are our last hope. Can you give us a hand one last time?" He asked as Sora closed his eyes for a moment.

"Of course, to the end!"

(honnouji academy:Courtyard)

In the giant courtyard of the academy, the COVERS and the heartless were silently contrucing the large, unknown device in the middle. But the silence was soon interrupted by one of the student gondolas flying over the school walls and crashing into the courtyard, crushing any COVERS and heartless as it rolled along the ground. A moment later, the gondola was surrounded by the minions of darkness and the living suits, with one COVER close to the gondola door, ready to attack whoever was inside. Only for it to get its face to get obliterated by a spinning tire of a purple motorcycle, driven by none other than Ryuko who drove the motorcycle closer to the center of the courtyard, where Nui Harime was waiting and clapping.

"Bravo, Ryuko! Nice entrance! I'm giving that a ten out of ten." Nui said as she pulled a giant card with the number ten on it. Ryuko didn't bother responding to Nui's statement as she revved up the bike's engine in response. "Aw, don't anything to say? I thought you had some words in mind."

"I only got one thing on my mind right now. You and Ragyo, six feet under!" Ryuko said, ready to charge at Nui, but before she could rush at Nui, a dark corridor appeared in between Ryuko and the grand couturier, revealing Vanitas emerging out of it.

(Music: Kh3 enter the darkness)

"Welcome home!" Sora's dark double said with a grin as surprise came across Ryuko's face.

"Shit!" She cursed as Vanitas shot a dark firaga at her and destroyed the motorcycle in a black explosion. A moment later, Ryuko jumped out of the explosion unharmed as she brought down her scissor blade on Vanitas, only for him to block her with his keyblade and continued to counter each attack from Ryuko. "I will admit, you got a little better since last time."

"Shut it!" Ryuko shouted in anger as she tried to break through Vanitas' guard and then jumped back and used her cloak to trap Vanitas' hands, unable to use his keyblade.

"Oh no. Whatever shall I do?" Vanitas said mockingly as he dismissed his keyblade, much to Ryuko's confusion as he opened up the palms of his hands and two rusty keyblades fell from the sky to cut Vanitas' bindings as he called back his keyblade. "You really didn't think that could work, did you?"

"Would you just shut the hell up already?!" Ryuko shouted as she switched her scissor blade to decapitation mode and brought it down on Vanitas, only to miss when he fazed away and reappeared to kick her in the back and knock her down while dropping her scissor blade. As Ryuko recovered she tried reaching for her scissor blade, only for Vanitas to grab her wrist.

"Ahhh!" Ryuko shouted in pain as Vanitas threatened to crush her arm.

"I could just break your arm and make you stop squirming. But it will just heal and we'll be here all day." Vanitas said.

"Stick it up your ass!"

"Don't be like that. We're only trying to give you a gift." Vanitas said with a dark smile.

(Music stops)

"What?" Ryuko questioned as a whitish blue light shined behind her and looked to see Satsuki's former kamui, Junkestu floating in the air. "Junketsu?!" She said in surprise as Vanitas dropped her. Before Ryuko could go for her scissor blade again, her body suddenly froze stiff.

"The grand couturier has tailored you a special gift. Just for you my dear." Ragyo said as she appeared.

"Ragyo...you bitch!" Ryuko cursed as her cloak was removed by invisible force. "What'd you do... to...me?"

"Actually, I took your measurements all the other times we were fighting and then shot you full of tacking needles while you were getting a beat down." Nui explained.

(Music: Key of darkness)

"You are my darling daughter after all. Wearing a half-finished rag like Senketsu simply won't do. Your clothes must simply be first rate." Ragyo said while Ryuko struggled.

"Stop it!" Ryuko said, trying to resist.

"In my option. Kamui Junkestu is more your style." Ragyo said as Junketsu split into multiple pieces and then reassembled onto Ryuko's body. "Don't fight. Open your heart to Junketsu."

"Get it off!" Ryuko shouted as she tried to fight the kamui.

"Looks like she's too stubborn to let this thing on her." Vanitas said as he approached Ryuko. "Don't worry, I have a little something extra to make your mother's gift more tempting." He said as he brought his hand closer to Ryuko's face.

"Get back! I'm warning you-" Ryuko said as Vanitas put his hand over Ryuko's face, silencing her.

"Now truly open your heart!" Vanitas said as a stream of darkness flowed from his arm and over Ryuko's body as the darkness engulfed her.

(The S.S naked sol)

After the giant flagship of nudist beach set sail away from Osaka, with Honnouji academy as its destination, it traveled for a little while before Aikuro decided they should stop and prepare for the upcoming battle. While everyone else prepared for combat, Sora stepped away outside to stay out of everyone's way. Right now he was walking upwards towards the crows nest that overlooked the main deck and the ocean so he could think to himself to the sounds of the sea like he was back home. As soon as he walked to the top of the crows nest, someone else had already beaten Sora there.

"Wasn't expecting you here." A familiar voice called for Sora's attention as he turned to see Satsuki, wearing a robe and sitting in a beach chair while Soroi severed her tea.

"Satsuki? You just got treated, shouldn't you be resting?" Sora asked.

"If we're heading towards the final battle, I want to be there for it. Kamui or no, I will not just stand by." Satsuki responded.

"I shall leave the two of you alone, ma'am. You both clearly need the room to talk." Soroi said.

"Thank you, Soroi." Satsuki said as Soroi stepped away and left her and Sora alone. "I heard Ryuko has left us."

"Yeah, she went after Ragyo and Nui. I'm sorry I couldn't stop her. I let you and her down." Sora apologized.

"Don't be. If anything, it seems stubbornness runs in our family."

"But Ryuko didn't ask for this."

"I didn't ask to be part of this family either. If I was her, I would've reacted the same way. I can see why our father didn't tell her a thing." Satsuki said. "If anything, I'm envious of Ryuko for getting the chance to grow outside of our family."

"Maybe if your dad explained things to Ryuko as she was growing up. She might've had a better sense of things. Although, she properly would've gone after Ragyo anyway. It couldn't be helped." Sora said as Chirithy appeared next to him in a puff of smoke.

"None of us can help where we come from. All we can do is decide what we do with-WHOA!" Chirithy yelped in surprise as Satsuki drew bakuzan and pointed it at the spirit's face.

"Apparently, the heartless are learning to talk." Satsuki said as Sora grabbed her arm to stop her.

"Hold on, Satsuki! Chirithy isn't a heartless! I brought him here to help find a friend of his!" Sora pleaded as surprise came over Satsuki's face.

"Did you say Chirithy?"

"Yeah? Why?"

"In ancient times. The keyblade wielders of the old age had spiritual assistants called by the same name as this plush toy here." Satsuki explained as Chirithy looked annoyed.

"Hey! Who are you calling a plush toy?" The spirit said.

"Satsuki. How do you know about all this? About the keyblade, and about Chirithy?" Sora asked as Satsuki decided to tell him.

"There is this book. A book my father had read to me in my childhood before he faked his death. A book about the age of fairy tales." Satsuki explained.

"So that's how you know so much, I didn't know there was a book. Chirithy, did you?" Sora asked as the spirit shook its head. "Guess that's how your dad knew about the black box."

"If we are successful in defeating Ragyo, I will give you the book. It's properly better off with you anyway."

"The book is the least of the things to worry about. I'm more concerned about your sister. I can promise you. I am gonna save her if Ragyo has her." Sora vowed as Satsuki smiled in response.

"Do you normally make promises like that?" Satsuki asked with amusement.

"Yup. He meets ya, and thinks your friends already." Chirithy noted.

"Lady Satsuki!"

"Uh oh!" Chirithy said as he vanished in a puff of smoke, not wanting to be mistaken for a heartless again as the elite four climbed up to the crow's nest.

"What's the matter?" Satsuki asked.

"There a bogey headed straight for us. And it's coming in fast!" Inumuta warned.

"We think Ragyo is already on to us!" Gamagori noted.

"Look! Here it comes!" Nonon said as she redirected everyone's attention to the sky, where a blue orb was flying at high speed towards the ship and crashed into the main deck below.

"Whatever it is. It's alive down there. I don't need to see to tell." Uzu said.

"I'll check it out!" Sora volunteered as he hopped off the crow's nest and down onto the deck. As he walked towards the impact site while Aikuro and Tsumugu followed behind him in their respective DTRs. "Whoa hold on guys. You should hang back for this."

"Are you sure, kid?" Aikuro asked.

"If it's Ragyo, Nui, or worse, Vanitas. I don't want you guys getting hurt. I'm properly the only one left to take them on." Sora said as Aikuro and Tsumugu looked at each other with an agreeing look.

"Okay fine. But we're going in if shit hits the fan." Tsumugu said.

"Don't worry about that right now." Sora said as he approached the cater and immediately got a bad feeling when he saw the eyes of Junketsu staring at him out of the smoke as he summoned kingdom key for battle. "Looks like Ragyo decided to take care of things herself."

"Now that I got your attention…" A familiar voice that shocked Sora as the smoke cleared away to reveal the one that was wearing Junkestu was not Ragyo, but Ryuko instead. "It's time to bust some heads!"

Journal update

Darkness: A mysterious presence that appeared to both Sora and Ryuko in the final world. It reminded Ryuko of her origins to place thoughts of anger in her heart, and then took on the form of a powerful heartless to block Sora's path. Just what is this thing or person?

COVERS: Being created by the primordial life fiber to serve its will. These living suits seek out human beings to absorb to be used as living batteries, but if they are cut off from their source of power, they are nothing more than rags.

Heartless

Black COVERS: The heartless copies of the COVERS that were made when Nui Harime exposed the heartless to the primordial life fiber. It behaves the same as its original counterpart, but is much more aggressive.

Iron Giant: A behemoth made of iron that is nothing to take lightly. This mecha menace uses its size and weapons to overwhelm their opponents, but if that's not enough it will use gravity magic to incapacitate its foes.