Prologue: Collect the Keys
The worlds were at peace, or at least the ones within the World Defense System, or WDS', reach anyway. Mickey knew that there were many more worlds out there, many more. More than what could be gone to in any single person's lifetime. With the WDS though, maybe they could bring peace to all worlds and be rid of the Heartless once and for all. The mouse king, who seemed a bit older than he was back when Sora was still around, was sitting upon his throne, having a conversation with Queen Minnie. Suddenly though, to break the silence and serenity of this day a familiar voice suddenly broke out from the entrance of the throne room.
"Your Majesty, your Majesty, something is wrong!" shouted out the boisterous court mage, Donald Duck. He could be very loud, to the point where he was able to be heard from the entrance of the expansive throne room, the keen mouse's hearing of Mickey making it even easier to pick up Donald's words. Sensing his pal's urgency, with a quick hop he got up from his throne and moved towards Donald with haste, the mage breathing a bit to catch his breath, hands on his knees as he stopped running when Mickey got to him.
"What's wrong Donald?"
"Its the WDS, your Majesty. It picked up something strange". Donald's voice, while urgent, seemed to possess a hint of confusion in its tone as if he really had no idea what it picked up.
"Was it some new form of Heartless? Or perhaps Nobodies?"
To this question, the mage shook his head. "No, which is what's strange. Its some type of signature we have never seen before".
Mickey let out a 'hmmm' in contemplation as he held his chin in a contemplative way. The WDS usually sent signatures when they were potentially threatening. Really meant for detecting Heartless and Nobodies who were threats, to send a signature that was neither was a strange situation indeed. "Perhaps its time to summon the newest Keybladers who were detected by the WDS".
Another of the system's functions was that it could pick up on the presence of Keybladers and give their locations as long as they were within its reach. It was quite useful, in case they needed to borrow the power of the Keyblade. Not that they needed it much anymore, but Mickey figured it would be good experience giving them this mission for when an emergency did appear. Plus, the World Defense Committee was actually very busy with other matters at the moment.
"Your Majesty, are you sure we should be sending them on such a mysterious mission with such little experience?"
Another voice spoke now. Into the throne room had walked a young woman, who got a bit closer to the pair before speaking. She appeared to be about in her mid twenties, bearing black, short purplish red hair and sky blue eyes. Her face had a few familiar features to it. She wore a rather familiar outfit, which looked a bit re purposed to suit her with the large, baggy shorts being a skirt instead.
"Ah, Sorami. Good timing, I assume you heard?"
Sorami was Sora's and Kairi's descendant, and a Keyblader herself in fact. Despite being quite the distant descendant, as it has been a couple hundred years, Sorami looked surprisingly similar to both Sora and Kairi. She was a member of the World Defense Committee who's main responsibility was to go explore worlds outside of the WDS' reach in order to help further expand its reach by placing its systems upon the worlds.
"Yes. Ami also picked up the strange signature and, since I was on my way to my own next mission, sent me to pass along the message. According to her, the signature is rather small and its signal is weak, but the fact that it is something we have never seen before is the main problem. Which is why I must ask if you're sure sending in the new Keybladers for this mission is such a good idea".
Mickey just gave a nod, a small smile appearing on his face. "Sure they are a bit inexperienced, but I believe in them. Plus..." the smile on Mickey's face seemed to grow a bit in the moment in a somewhat tender way. "I will be sending a dear old friend of mine to assist them".
Sorami just scratched the back of her head, giving a small giggle. "Well, its impossible to win against that answer your Majesty. If you'd like, I will go to Rune Factory for you and bring the Keybladers there".
"I appreciate that Sorami. If that's the case... Donald, I want you to go to Wonderland. Ill send Goofy to that more recently touched world", a Touched World being used as a term to identify worlds within the reach of the WDS, "and I... will go to see my old friend".
Donald and Sorami both nodded, both of them running out of the room. Mickey walked over to Minnie, who looked at him with a bit of concern. "How are you feeling?" She could tell that Mickey was a bit anxious about all of this.
The King just lightly averted his eyes before heaving a sigh. "To be honest, I don't know. I am hoping that this signature is a small glitch or something docile, since it truly is nothing we have seen before... plus... I am a bit worried about Oz".
"It has been a long time. I am sure though that it'll be alright, I have faith in your bond".
The King had been comforted by his Queen's words, smiling at her and giving a small nod. "Thanks Minnie. You always know exactly what to say to cheer me up". With that, he took out his Keyblade and pointed it at the throne, a beam of light shooting from the blade as it unlocked the lock beneath his throne. They had much better security since the last time Maleficent attacked the castle, including a lock for the way to the Hall of the Cornerstone that had no key, other than a Keyblade.
Renovations have also been done since then, a maze pretty much being down there now that lead to several secure locations in the castle. With the help of Merlin's magic, an ever changing maze was created. Luckily those who knew its secret could progress it easily, that information only being known to few. Soon enough, Mickey had made it to his destination. A room containing a capsule similar to the ones that Sora was asleep in, only it looked a bit older. There was a green light on it, indicating that whoever inside was ready to awaken.
"Its time to get up... old friend". Without any further hesitation, Mickey pressed the green lit button, the capsule opening with a small hiss as its occupant was awakened.
A bit later after that, a beam of light would drop Sorami onto the outskirts of Joshua's and Amaya's village far away from prying eyes. After that she entered the village, admiring how peaceful it was. No Heartless in sight for now, as what Heartless did appear were quickly dealt with by the WDS. Arriving at the house of those she was looking for, she gave a knock on the door and waited for now. She had been to this world before, as not but a couple years ago she managed to install a WDS system secretly in this world so that the WDS could expand its reach here.
In Wonderland entered a Duck who had once traversed this strange world before. So he knew his way around. Donald was in a hurry, wanting to find the two Keybladers here as quickly as possible, so he was moving probably even faster than the rabbit with the watch did. If Ace or his guard happened to be near the entrance of the palace, they would hear a strange voice arguing with some of the card soldiers to let him inside to see the prince, but naturally doing their jobs, they weren't having any of it and it appeared as though a fight would break out if something wasn't done.
