Kari watched in amazement as the big machinery within the Gummi Ship hangar was preparing the three enormous vessels for takeoff. It was hard to imagine that all of those gadgets were actually controlled by just two little chipmunks in engineer's clothes.
And what a sight those ships were: The Highwind, the Ragnarok and the Hilda Garde. All of them ready for a flight into the unknown...
"Why would Ansem create eight keychains that represent the aspects of the Digital World?" Kairi pondered, as she stood next to her new friend Kairi. "What for?"
"Oh, didn't I tell you?" the king asked sheepishly, as he turned around from his conversation with Sora and Riku. "Those are what he needed to create Heartmon in the first place."
He counted the eight crests on his fingers. "Courage, Love, Friendship, Knowledge, Reliability, Sincerity, Hope and Light. Those are the components of every digital heart, so he told me. Fused with a special component, with the correct procedure, they will create a heart."
"Wow!" Gatomon shouted in awe. She looked down at her own body. "So, that means my heart is composed of those things as well?"
"I think so," the king nodded. "But I still wonder why the keychain of light would choose a wielder... it's not a weapon, like a Keyblade."
"Well, we just have to find out, have we?" Sora said confidently.
Riku shook his head. "I wish I had your confidence..." he chuckled. "By the way, where's our dopey duo?"
"Hey, Donald and Goofy are not dopey," Sora shouted.
"Well, they can be pretty silly sometimes," Kairi giggled. "I believe they already went aboard the Ragnarok, to check the instruments."
"The Ragnarok?" Riku groaned. "What are they doing there? They were supposed to take the Highwind. The Ragnarok was supposed to be the ship for the search party consisting of me, Sora and Kairi."
"Well, we probably should go get them," Mickey said. "The Ragnarok's ready for takeoff. You should go on board soon, anyway."
"Never mind..." Riku sighed. "I'll go get them myself..."
Kairi giggled as she watched Riku walk over the gangway and into the black- and red-colored Gummi Ship. "Those two really make Riku mad sometimes, you know? I suppose someone as cool and collected as him can't really understand why the two of them never take anything seriously."
"Oh, they take everything they do very seriously," Mickey proclaimed. "It's just that their ways of reaching their goals are different from the ways Riku is used to."
"Well, then I guess it's a good idea that we didn't put the three of them into the same search party," Kari snickered.
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"What does this button do?"
"Don't touch it, Goofy! That's the start button."
"Garwsh, sorry 'bout that, Donald! I was just curious, ya know?"
"Hey, what are you two doing?" Riku asked as he entered the cockpit.
"We were just checking if everything is all right," Goofy told him.
"But this isn't the ship you're taking," Riku groaned.
"It isn't?" Goofy asked, puzzled.
"It isn't?" Donald echoed. "Uh, I mean... Of course it isn't!" He gave his tall, lanky companion a shove. "See, I told you this was the wrong ship. Can't you do anything right?"
"But Donald," Goofy protested. "I thought you were the one who told me that this would be..."
"Don't interrupt me!" the royal court magician quacked. "I'm not finished!" Angrily, he slammed his fist down on the console next to him.
Suddenly, red lights began flashing all around them.
Donald gulped. "Uh-oh..." he said, as he lifted his fist from the button he just pressed: The start button!
"What did you do?" Riku yelled.
"This can't be good," Goofy murmured.
"I-I-I... I didn't mean to..." Donald protested.
But it was too late: On the screen, the message 'Initiating Launch! Please fasten your seat belts!' appeared.
Goofy and Donald looked at each other.
"Oh no..."
----
Sora, Mickey and Kairi gasped in surprise, when suddenly, the lights all around the Ragnarok sprung to life and the entrance door got closed.
"What happened?" Kari asked.
"Oh dear..." the king sighed. "They must have pressed the start button."
"Can't we stop them in time?" Kairi asked.
All of a sudden, the circular hatch below the Ragnarok opened, and a bright, flashing arrow pointed downwards.
"WHAAAAAAAHOOHOOHOHOOOOOOH!" Goofy's yell echoed through the entire hangar, accompanied by Donald's insane quacking, as the whole ship plummeted down.
Gatomon blinked. "Um, what just happened?"
Mickey shrugged. "They just left the world. Oh well! Looks like the formations of the search parties will be slightly different from what we planned..."
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"Oh boy oh boy oh boy!" Heartmon shouted in excitement as he bounced up and down on his seat. "I can't wait to come home again! Hey, are we there yet?"
Cid, who was sitting at the controls of the Shera, smirked. "Not yet, kid! We still have some way to go."
"Oh... okay!" Heartmon sat back down and happily hummed to himself.
Aerith looked over to Leon in worry. They still hadn't brought themselves to tell Heartmon about what happened to his 'father'. They were so glad to see their childhood friend again, and they didn't want to make him sad.
Still, they knew they had to tell him some time, so Leon swore to himself he would tell Heartmon right after they reached Radiant Garden.
"Poor little guy..." he muttered to himself. "Too young to understand the misery of life, and he already has lost the one person that has been the most important figure in his life..."
"Huh? Did you say something, Squall?" Heartmon asked.
'Squall' sighed. "No, it's nothing... and please, call me 'Leon', okay?"
Heartmon smiled. "Okay, Squall!"
Leon groaned.
Heartmon hopped around the cockpit happily.
"Hey, are we there yet?" he asked Cid.
"No!"
"And now?"
"No!"
"And now?"
"No!"
"What about now?"
Cid gritted his teeth. "Listen, we won't be there as long as you continue to bother me!"
"Whaaaah!" Heartmon cried as he dove into Aerith's arms. "Cid's being a meanie..."
Aerith chuckled as she stroked Heartmon's head to calm him down. "Cid, you really aren't good with children, are you?"
"Ain't that the truth..." the pilot grumbled.
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