Kingdom Hearts series//fanfic//Rantings of a Teenage Goof

Title: Rantings of a Teenage Goof
Fandom: Kingdom Hearts II -- spoilers all the way to the END CREDITS
Pairing/Characters: Max Goof, Goofy Goof
Rating: -G-



You put on your most serious face and pat me on the shoulder.

"Maxxie, there comes a time when a Goof's gotta do what a Goof's gotta do," you say, and I finally look up from the book I've been reading to impress Roxanne. Okay, so, I bite -- what DOES a Goof have to do, exactly?

You tell me about something called a Keyblade, and how you're off to save the world -- worlds, whatever. And while a part of me thinks that the King's confused you again, another part of me goes cold, because there's dangerous stuff out there and I don't know what I'll do if you get hurt.

"Dad, you can't just --" I begin, but I know that you'll never listen to an argument like that because you think you can do anything and sometimes I even think you really, really can. So I try again: "Let me come!"

Because really, if you the dorky dad goes out and saves the world, what does that say about me, the son? Obviously, I have to be cooler than you, my dad, and to do that I need to get out of this Castle and get a life. Even Huey, Dewey, and Louie get to go out and do their slightly weird store thing and they're just little kids.

"No, son, I think ya need to stay here an' hold down the fort," You say, all serious and fatherly like. Which is funny, because half the time I can't even tell who's the parent in this relationship, anyway. "You stay here and help th' Queen. She'll need a good, strong boy like you, Maxxie."

Boy. Great. Lovely. Cue seething and pouting and general fit throwing for a few weeks and lots of whining to Peej, right up until the time you leave. And then it's just silence and worrying and okay maybe a little more whining to (at?) Peej.

A year, more than a year. You're gone for a whole year, a year for me worrying and wandering around here and being semi-adopted by the Queen out of pity; and there's lots of pity, and Roxanne thinks I'm a pathetic loser now because I'm always moping because you had to run off and go on this crazy world-saving mission. The one time you do come back I'm gone on a field trip, of all things, with Professor Von Drake. So that's another few months I didn't get to see you until finally, finally you came home.

Of course, no one thought to tell me when the ship landed and everyone greeted the Queen, so I just about jumped out of my skin when you showed up in my room of all places, when I got back from skateboarding. I think they heard me screaming (with joy and frustration) clearly in other worlds.

But hey, maybe I shouldn't yell at you so much because I have my dad back now and that's gotta be good for something, right? I love you, too, Dad.

It's okay, really, the gang's all together again, and -- aww, man! You don't have to cry and -- that's not a tissue, that's my sweatshirt! Ew! Gross!

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There. Max-centric KH fic; now will the cast of Goof Troop/A Goofy Movie PLEASE STOP EATING MY BRAIN, as I believe it isn't very good for my health. I swear, during THE PART with Goofy during KHII, Max grabbed me and wouldn't go away. He's such a cool character, I wish he'd be included in KHIII. I doubt it, though; the only reason Donald's family is there is because Ducktales is such a cult success. Poor, underloved Goof Troop.