Ii Kimochi(prologue)

A note- I am going to try a different type of writing for this fanfic, consisting partly of a script like a play and partly normal writing. All together, what I mean is, the setting, time, and view of the scene will be said before the actual story begins, allowing for flashbacks, location changes, and time skips. I imagine this as a musical, with a narrator. I hate the drama that comes with having to add in words like 'said' and 'yelled' I believe that should be able to be portrayed through context clues.

EDIT- in all of the following chapters, problems from this scene are fixed. As in the whole 'Riku Replia prototype thing'

DISCLAIMER-everything but Experiment 27(aka Rika)= NOT MINE

Curtain opens. The scene shows a room in castle oblivion, Vexen stands next to capsule with a person inside it. Opposite him is a pile of bodies, all with some sort of deformation. One is still moving.

It has been only a few days since it was decided that that a replica would be needed of Riku to further test Sora's ability. Vexen has worked many hours on prototypes, all of varying gender, appearance, power, and error. His most recent mistake may yet still live.

Failed Experiment: How am I a failure? I speak, I move, I posses information. Why must I be left to die?

Vexen: You cannot walk. The only thing you may even be slightly good for is finding out what went wrong. It is time. She comes.

The capsule began to split open, pale smoke and steam rising from within it. A girl falls out, and remains on the floor. It is unknown if she is alive. Her hair is white all but a burst of blue from the back right side of her head. Vexen crouches beside her

V: Can you speak? Can you breathe?

He checked her pulse.

V: Another heatless, this one may have the same problem as you.

The Failed Experiment's eyes widened as the new heartless began to prop herself up with her hands. Globs of sticky goo from the capsule still dripped from her body. Vexen crouched by her, waiting. The heartless brushed hair out of her eyes, revealing them to be liquid purple-black in color. She cocked her head to one side, and spoke.

Experiment: What is this place?

V: This is my lab. I created you.

The experiment flushed, and hurried to arrange her body, which was she was still getting the hang of, into a bow.

E: Master…

V: Vexen. You may call me Vexen. Stay here for a moment.

Vexen rose and walked out of the room for a moment. The two experiments were left alone.

FE: He'll keep you.

E: What?

FE: Your legs work. You've already done more than I could right after I was born. I'll end up just like the other failures.

The Failed Experiment gestured to the bodies around her.

E: What's wrong with you? You seem fine to me.

FE: My legs do not work. I cannot walk. Master Vexen also said my emotions are too unstable for me to be able to be around nobodies without losing my mind.

Vexen returned into the room with a clipboard. He pulled a chair over to where the experiment was sitting.

V: answer the questions the best you can. Where are you?

E: Castle Oblivion.

V: Do you have a name?

E: Experiment Number 27.

V: What is a nobody?

E: A shell left behind by a person whose heart has been lost to a heartless.

V: What is a heartless?

E: A physical manifestation of the darkness in a person's heart.

V: What is Kingdom Hearts?

E: The Heart of all-

FE: How do you know all of that, you were born 10 minutes ago!

V: Silence. You were all designed to absorb information while you were still forming.

E: Kingdom Hearts is the heart of all worlds.

V: Why do we seek Kingdom Hearts?

The Experiment thought for a moment.

E: Because… with its power we can be whole?

V: Very good. I do believe you are the best prototype so far. We shall begin further experiments soon. Now then, as your first assignment, get rid of that failed experiment. Kill it.

FE: …. I knew it.

Vexen turned to leave, thinking his orders would be followed without hesitation.

E: M-Master Vexen! Is there no way we can keep her alive?

Vexen turned around. He felt a disturbance from where his heart would have been.

Vexen: That is a failed experiment. Completely worthless. I have no reason to keep it alive.

E: But even so, could we not keep her? As a companion for me…

Vexen stared. He was confused. He couldn't just hear the fear that the other experiment would die, he felt it. This worried him. There is was again. Worry. He wasn't supposed to be able to feel anything, but when the Experiment looked at him, he could feel. This called for further experimentation.

V:…. Very well. We will keep the abomination.

He felt it again as the Experiment recoiled at the word.

V: Get it up and come with me. I will show you to your room.

The experiment sighed in relief and went about lifting the failed experiment off the ground. Now that she was moving around and the goo from the capsule had all fallen off, he could see her more clearly. Her hair was cream-white with one clump of baby blue growing from the back right side of her head. She was about 5'4, shorter than Zexion. Then Vexen felt another emotion, embarrassment. It hadn't bothered him before, when he couldn't feel, but now the fact that it was improper for him to be in a room alone with naked girls hit him. He turned away and didn't look back.

V: I'll be back in a moment.

He turned and left the room. He knew there was a wardrobe in the experiment's room that was full of many clothes of different shapes and sizes, but for now he just grabbed 2 spare coats from his room. He tossed them into the lab and stood by the door.

V: Put those on and then come out.

Vexen stood outside the door and waited. He could feel his face was still flushed red. After a moment, the experiments emerged, wearing the coats. The failed experiment was on experiment 27 piggyback. Vexen nodded and led them down the hall, showing them to their room.