Queen Minnie was sitting on the throne in the Audience Chamber. She was alone for the moment. Daisy had left to check on someone for Goofy. A door of darkness appeared a few feet in front of her. DiZ stepped through the portal, closing it behind him. He knelt down on one knee and lowered his head.
"Your Majesty. Excuse my intrusion.""Please. The pleasantries are unnecessary. After all, you're a King and a friend." Minnie said with a warm tone trying to reach the light in the heart of her husband's friend.
"A King who failed his people and home is no King." DiZ said softly, but still loud enough for her to hear.
"But yes, I've come to you as a friend. There's a young boy in Wonderland. He wields a keyblade and is protecting that world's Princess of Light. He'll need help. Where's Donald and Goofy?"It saddened Minnie to see her friend this way. His guilt. His darkness. She stood up from her throne and walked up to DiZ.
"Mickey sent them to Traverse Town to protect another wielder. A number of them seem to be popping up. My husband always theorized there was something special about Destiny Islands. It seems he was right. But Daisy's been secretly training in magic at my request and she's currently checking on Goofy's son, Max. He's developed into an excellent knight. A bit mischievous, but determined and always training to be the best. That's where he is now. The knights' training hall. I can walk you there.""Thank you." DiZ said, turning for the exit.
A young humanoid dog was rolling through the training hall on a strange looking board with wheels. He held his lance in his right arm and stabbed a training dummy as he skated past it. He did a quick and effortless u-turn to stab another training dummy. A wide platform was in front of him. It was used to train knights in balance. Earlier he had positioned two training dummies on opposing sides of the platform. He sped up before jumping off his board and spinning in the air with his lance to hit both training dummies knocking them down. He landed on his board on the other side and exclaimed,
"Yes!" with glee.
"I see you've even incorporated that board the King got you for your birthday in your training." A woman's voice said from the door.
"Huh?" The young knight asked, not realizing anyone was there watching him. He turned to see a white duck dressed in a purple dress. His footing slipped making him fall off the back of his board and on his butt. There was his cool factor by like a thousand. "Ow... Aunt Daisy?" He asked before standing up and brushing off his pants. "Yeah, I love this skateboard. I don't know what world he found it from, but it's amazing. I don't know how practical it'd be in real combat, but I've pretty much mastered it in training. Oh yeah, did you need something?"
"Your dad was sent away on a mission with Donald. He wanted me to check on you and let you know." Daisy responded.
"When's it going to be my turn? I'm ready. People need help out there and I'm just here playing knight.""As talented as you are, you're still only sixteen, Max. Your time will come.""It seems that time is now." Minnie called out from behind Daisy. She walked into the room with DiZ.
"My friend, DiZ here needs you to help a keyblade wielder your age in Wonderland. This world is strange and already dangerous on its own, but with the Heartless attacking worlds and the enemy after the Princesses and Prince of Heart it'll be even worse. I have faith in you. I've watched you grow into an exceptional young man, but you're my nephew and I care for you. Daisy, I want you to go with him. Both of you protect each other.""Minnie, what about you?" Daisy asked, not wanting to leave her friend.
Minnie walked up to her and held her hands.
"I'll be fine. I'm not a Queen that just sits on her throne. You two must hurry. PJ will have a Gummi Ship waiting for you."Max was ready to charge out of there when he realized that he didn't know what the keyblade wielder looked like. For all he knew he could look like anyone in Wonderland.
"What does he look like?"DiZ stepped forward and pulled out a picture that he stole from Destiny Islands just before it fell. It was taken on Alias's sixteenth birthday. His friends were in the picture as well. Hoshi, Lucian, and Levi. And in the corner of the picture was Morgan, still new to the island at the time and a bit more awkward and reserved.
"He's the one in the middle and these are his friends. He'll be focused a lot on finding them. Take this with you and let him know his father was saved. He'd want it and would be happy to know that."
Daisy and Max entered the Gummi Ship Hangar. Daisy was now wearing her mage outfit. She still wore her crown, but she was wearing an athletic outfit because she knew she'd have to move a lot. She wielded a staff with a purple bow split like wings with an orb above it that was used to absorb energy as well as concentrate her magic. Max was wearing a custom made back sheath his skateboard on his back. His Lance was able to be called out whenever he needed it to. The same was the case for Daisy and her staff, but she wanted to flex it a bit finally being able to use it.
"Yo PJ! Where are you?" Max called out.
"Down here!" PJ called back. He was working on the Gummi Ship they were taking. It was pretty large with seven seats, including the pilot's. It was his personal ship and the first one he crafted himself. He learned how to be a mechanic from his dad and trained to be a Gummi Ship pilot under Chip and Dale.
"And done." He came up from under the Gummi Ship and cleaned his hands with a rag as the duo approached him.
"She's a beaut, isn't she?""She's lovely." Daisy said.
"It's a bit big isn't it? And where's the pilot?" Max asked.
"Thank you, Lady Daisy. I figured you'd need some extra seats for passengers. Her Majesty told me about the royalty you needed to protect and this is currently the biggest we have available and the one I pilot the best.""Wait, you're our pilot? The best day just got even better." Max said going for a high five with PJ doing the same. The two yelled out,
"Let's do it, to it!" slapping each other's hand, psyched for the adventure ahead of them.
Daisy simply smiled before walking onto the ship.
Back in Wonderland Alice was following the White Rabbit and Alias was following Alias. They came to the end of the hall where they'd hear a door shut. Alice and Alias walked towards the door guessing that's where the White Rabbit went. Alice opened the door and saw that a smaller door was inside. She opened that door and did this until the fifth one. She crawled through the entrance and Alias sighed before following after. This place was already starting to annoy him.
They exited on the other side to a large seemingly empty room.
"Curiouser and curiouser." Alice said, mostly to herself.
"We were right behind that rabbit. How'd he get out of here so fast?" Alias asked. He couldn't believe he was actually going along with this. He noticed a small curtain at the end of the room and started walking towards it. Alice on the other hand ran towards it and opened it up revealing a very strange door with even smaller than the one they came through. She twisted the doorknob causing it to yell out in pain. Wait, a doorknob yelled out in pain? Alice jumped back, startled.
"Oh, I beg your pardon.""It's quite alright, but you did give me quite a turn.""Oh, great. Dad jokes." Alias said, approaching with an eye roll.
"Please, sir." Alice pleaded.
"A good turn deserves another. What can I do for you?" The door knob asked.
"I'm looking for a white rabbit, so if you don't mind." Alice said leaning towards the door to look inside his mouth hole.
"There he is. I must simply get through."The doorknob leaned away when Alice tried to reach for it.
"Sorry. You're much too big. Simply impassable.""Impassible?" Alias asked?
"You mean impossible." Alice corrected.
"No, impassable. Nothing's impossible. Try the bottle on the table.""Table?" Alias and Alice asked in unison not remembering anything at all when they entered the room, let alone a table. They turned to see one floating out of the air into nothingness and landing behind them with a bottle on the table. They ran up to it and read the tag on the bottle. It said, "Drink Me".
Alice picked it up.
"Better look first, for if one drinks much from a bottle marked 'Poison', it's almost certain to disagree with one sooner or later."Beg your pardon?" The doorknob asked confused.
"Just giving myself some advice." Alice said before lifting to take a sip. Alias took it out of her hand to take it for himself first. If it was poison he couldn't very well let the girl he was supposed to protect drink it. It tasted sweet. He started to feel closer to the ground and before he became too small Alice took the bottle out of his hand and took some for herself.
"Ooh. Cherry tart." She too began to shrink and headed for the door with Alias. The two were the right size!
"Sorry, I forgot to tell you, I'm locked. But of course you've got the key." The doorknob said.
"Key?" Alias asked thinking of his keyblade. He was going to draw it out when two small shadow heartless appeared from the ground behind them. Then suddenly three red floating heartless with pointy orange hats appeared surrounding Alias and Alice.
"Alice, get behind me! I'll stop them."Alice ran behind Alias and noticed the wooden sword on his side.
"What are they and I hope you don't plan on fighting them with that toy sword?""They're called Heartless and I had something else in mind." For the first time outside his heart Alias was able to call on his keyblade at will. This time the keyblade didn't feel draining. It felt like it was made for him. That he was always meant to wield this.
"Oh, so you do have the key!" Alice exclaimed, but there was something strange about this key. It radiated both power and light. She didn't doubt for a second that he'd be able to fight these monsters.
"That's not my key, but good luck." The doorknob said, glad that these shadows wouldn't be able to enter his door.
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