Eighteenth Key

[optimistickey]

[Sora is looking over the changes for this week...huh, it looks like he's in black and white. He shakes his arm, and it wobbles like a rubber hose.]

Hey...this is kinda familiar!

Did we go back in time this week, and without the time machine? Except the rest of the Satellite looks about normal...either way, it's kinda weird!

Comments

[guardiano_perduto]

You never know! Usually we just get changed into something else, but this is really different.

Why the heck are my ears so big.

[optimistickey]

Yeah. I wonder if everyone else got slightly different looks too?

Well...they've always been kinda big!

[guardiano_perduto]

Oh, ha ha. You're not much of a looker yourself!

[optimistickey]

Hey, I never said big ears were a bad thing! King Mickey's got big ears, and he's awesome all around.

[guardiano_perduto]

Aaaand King Mickey would be...?

[optimistickey]

He's the king of Disney Castle! He's a good friend of ours.

[guardiano_perduto]

Wow, what planet did you live on? I've never even heard of kings and castles outside of holo-games!

That and the board games Clank drags me into.

[optimistickey]

Well, my home world didn't have a king or a castle, either! But that doesn't mean that other worlds don't have them.

[guardiano_perduto]

As far as I know, we're pretty dang advanced where I'm from. Well, except for Florana, but let's not get into that whole spiel.

[He's still trying to shake the images of a monkey!Qwark, thank you.]

But you've still got space ships and stuff, right?

[optimistickey]

I guess some worlds have more technology stuff than others do!

Not on the Islands, no, we never had any space ships. I didn't see any until I got to a new world.

[guardiano_perduto]

Whoa-wait, so I'm not the only one who was trapped on a rock?

[optimistickey]

[That sounds like the kind of thing Riku used to say, and Sora doesn't really like it being put like that...]

Well...I dunno if I'd say 'trapped'. Because...

But yeah, we weren't able to leave for a long time. That's why we started to try and build a raft to see other places.

[guardiano_perduto]

How would a raft help? I mean, wouldn't a ship make more sense, if you wanted to see other worlds? That's what I did.

...mind if I ask a personal question, though?

[optimistickey]

We were just trying to get across the ocean! It was just me and Riku and Kairi making the raft, and we could only use stuff on the island.

Uh, sure. What is it?

[guardiano_perduto]

I, uh...

Did you... live there all your life? I mean, do you know you were born there?

[optimistickey]

[That's a bit of an odd question...and after what's happened before, Sora really doesn't like questioning whether what he knows is real or not.]

Uhh, yeah, as far as I know. I've lived there with my parents and my friends ever since I could remember.

[guardiano_perduto]

You're pretty lucky then, huh?

[Even in this new, cartoony form, the Lombax's smile appears a little... sad. Even before Clank up and poofed on him, he had to learn the hard way that everything he'd known since childhood had been completely flip-flopped.]

[optimistickey]

I guess so. I do really miss home.

[He pauses.] Why? Were you away from home a lot when you were little?

[guardiano_perduto]

Actually, uh...

My real home was destroyed when I was just a little kid. I couldn't remember anything before Veldin, so I just always assumed I grew up there. In a way, it is still my home.

[optimistickey]

Ohh, I'm sorry...

Wait, what was it destroyed by? [Because if it was by darkness, then he should have fixed that...]

[guardiano_perduto]

You wouldn't believe me even if I told you.

[optimistickey]

Try me.

[guardiano_perduto]

Goldfish. In mechs.

[optimistickey]

[Is that maybe a kind of Heartless he hasn't heard of yet?...]

Um...how exactly did they do it?

[guardiano_perduto]

Explosions. And a lot of good people getting hurt when they didn't even do anything wrong.