They're your partners, Riku! You don't treat your partners like that!

[Sora's into it before he even turns to Riku fully, waving a hand at the band of dispirited pokemon before stomping over and jabbing the other in the chest.]

Would you make me keep fighting like that? What about Kairi?

[He doesn't even need Riku to answer that. The answer for the former is yes, even if Riku doesn't know it.]