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[ Sora is feeling pretty good - despite how the market area looks. Kyokyomon rests on his head and Renamon is hovering over a shoulder. ]

Kinda glad that everyone is back to normal. It was starting to get kinda rough, you know? But hey... It's all over and we definitely kicked butt! I got my crest too and I'm pretty sure lots of us did. So the next time something happens, we're gonna be even stronger.

[ well. Sora thinks so anyway! just look at that face and try to disagree. he takes a moment to look over to Renamon with a grin. ]

And we get to make new friends. More help never hurt, right?

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That means two.

[It's followed by a slight smack to You's head. Sorry, You, but Wheeljack thought you deserved that one a bit.]

Yeah. Not too shabby with a blaster or a few grenades either. Blades take top.

[He notices Sora's enthusiasm, though, smirking to himself as he scoops up some ice cream from his little cup.]

What about you? What's this key...thing?

[ Sora snickers, hand over his mouth to stop from snorting out ice cream or something. Ryudamon, on the other hand, grumbles. all he had wanted is like a demonstration...

Vixie? she's humming to herself and having a good ol time. 8| ]

Keyblade. It's a sword in the shape of a key. Only special people can wield one and it's the weapon that the Heartless fear the most. With it I can do magic and unlock pretty much anything I want.

[Don't worry Ryudamon, the Lopmon feels your pain, and goes over to pat him on the back. They're difficult, she knows.]

Sounds like an all in one, if ya ask me. Magic, though, I'd hafta see in person. Ya got me a bit skeptical.

[You've got no room to talk, giant robot that turns into a car.]

And...Heartless?

If we get the chance to have that stuff back? 'Course I'll show ya.

[ totally is an all in one. Sora takes a bite or two of ice cream before answering the next question. he talks about it so very naturally. which, well. Heartless are pretty easy now, as far as enemies go. ]

Heartless are the darkness of peoples' hearts. They're monsters that just look for other hearts to take. Well they're called hearts to us, anyway. I think someone mentioned that it sounds like a soul. So I guess it could be that too.

[It's almost amusing how Sora speaks about this as if he were talking about the weather. It's gotten a small smirk out of the old war hero.]

'was gonna say. Not all of us got hearts. Not like you humans do.

...

Sparks. That's what we call 'em.

If it's what makes you, you... Then really it's kinda all the same. At least that's what I'm finding out.

[ hmm... ]

But why spark? I've never heard of that one.

Heh, ya sound like my Commander. Usually said inspirin' scrap like that.

[The question intrigues him, as if he's never really been asked that.]

Guess it's like askin' why ya got a heart. It's just...always been there.

Your commander is probably a great guy then and you should listen to him more.

[ sticks out his tongue! ]

And you know... I've never asked what your home's like.

[Oh, playing that game, are we? Have a tongue stuck out back!

...He didn't even know he could do that. Thanks, kid. But after that, he stirs his ice cream, looking up at the ceiling of the shop.]

Home? You wouldn't wanna see it now. Nothin' but rubble and scrap metal. But in it's hay-day...

The whole planet, kid...Lit up. This place don't even compare to the darkest parts of it.

Lit up? Like... A Christmas tree?

[ sorry WJ... that is on his mind at the moment. you will just have to deal. ]

...

[Small lean over to You.]

A lit up tree for winter.

...Oh. Sure, let's go with that. Just like that. Only the size of a planet.

[Someone's new to Christmas, Sora.]

...You're so gonna help me decorate a tree. You haven't really lived until you've experienced Christmas.

[ but anyway. Sora's shoving his empty bowl aside. ]

So what happened to it?

I keep hearin' about this but...what, some kinda human holiday?

It's SUPER important!

...Huh.

[Moving on.]

...War, kid. Millenia of it. Say we've pegged in a couple hundred thousand years fightin' over the planet. Cept when the dust cleared...not much left of it to save.

...But can't you like rebuild it or something?

Not that simple, kid.

[He reaches up, rubbing the back of his neck. How to explain this...he's not too up on the technical aspect of his planet, but he'll try.]

See, planets got this...life force. And when that dies, the planet dies. Can't bring that back no matter how much ya rebuild.

[ see this face, WJ? this is the exact, sad little face that you are seeing right now. because AH HA HA. WORLDS. LIFE FORCE. GOING OUT FOREVER.

THAT'S REALLY, SUPER SAD. ]

I lost my world like that once. Where I come from? Even worlds have hearts. If the heart of a world is lost to darkness, everyone and everything in it will also be lost.

Maybe you can't rebuild it... But the light? The light is never completely gone.

[So this kid lost his world too...maybe not from civil war, but from...something. Dark forces and whatnot weren't something Wheeljack put too much of his faith in, but he never knocked it out as a theory. His gaze casts away for a moment, towards a little bottle of sprinkles. Taking it, he tosses it between his hands idly.]

Sounds like you and I are in the same boat.

[He opens the container, putting some of the sprinkles in his hand.]

Planet got dark, so most of us high-tailed it out of there. War wasn't over--isn't over--but now we're just...

[He flicks the sprinkles in his hand across the counter.]

Scattered.

...Only light we got to go on is the Commander. Say he was blessed by the planet itself. Guess it depends on how much stock ya put into that, though.

[ you are going to make him sad. Sounds a. Lot like Leon's tale. And even Sora can remember the feeling of being somewhere new. Without his friends. They had been scattered for a long time. Even after finding each other! ]

When I woke up in Traverse Town, I couldn't find my best friends. That's how I got started visiting other worlds. I found them, eventually. And I found out that it doesn't matter if you're scattered.

[ now he grins. ]

You're always connected. No matter how far apart you are. And our worlds started coming back from the darkness. So yours could too. It's not impossible, I think. And who knows? Maybe the heart of it all IS with your commander. That's not impossible either.

[ Sora rubs at his nose with a little laugh. ]

I've heard of it before. Hearts sleeping in other hearts.

[It's hundreds of thousands of years of heartbreak, Sora. At least he's giving you the drive by version.]

Bounced from rock to rock, huh. 's what I did.

[But his eyes flick up at Sora, flicking a few sprinkles his way. It's not like the ice cream shop's going to be used for awhile anyway, right?]

C'mon, you believe all that heart scrap?

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Yeah, I do believe all that stuff. Bouncing from rock to rock, like you say, I got to see a lot of that "heart scrap."

The guy that we have to stop? He possesses people by putting placing some of himself in them. [ Sora rubs his neck, shrugging. ]

If it wasn't for my friends... You probably would be looking at another Xehanort and I would have been sleeping in darkness forever.

[Who taught you how to robot cuss you're a Disney character--oh right, he did.]

...

Like...controllin' your body?

[There's a lot he has to substitute, but he gets the message. And it sounds like this kid's seen way too much for...well, how young he is.]

[ all your fault WJ. All your fault. ]

Kinda, yeah. Only I think I would have BECOME him too.

...

Glad ya didn't.

[Not that he cares or anything.]

Nothin' worse than someone takin' your place.

[It's said darkly, almost a growl as he tosses the sprinkle bottle back and forth.]

[ um.... eyes are on that bottle. had he, uh... had he said something wrong? ]

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