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!

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[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.

[optimistickey]

Oh... [That doesn't sound much like darkness to Sora, so this must be something else.]

I'm really sorry...my world was destroyed too, but just for a little while.

[guardiano_perduto]

You guys were able to rebuild, huh.

[optimistickey]

I don't know if you'd call it rebuild. We just brought it back from the darkness.

[guardiano_perduto]

From the 'darkness'? Wait, part of yours was in another dimension, too?!

[optimistickey]

Um...I don't know about any other dimensions. It just got broken up and fell into darkness, and then my friends and I restored it.

[guardiano_perduto]

But how'd you do it? I didn't know there was a way to reverse it!

[optimistickey]

Well, it's kinda hard to explain. My friends and I closed the door to Kingdom Hearts, and that stopped the Heartless and restored all the worlds that had been lost.

[guardiano_perduto]

...I didn't follow a word of what you just said.

[optimistickey]

Uhh...it's okay! I guess I'm technically not supposed to be sharing that stuff anyway.

The point is, it did work.