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Kingdom Hearts: Anomaly

Anomaly – (noun) a factor that is peculiar, irregular, abnormal or difficult to classify; A deviation from average or norm. In math, something that causes an equation to create an irregular solution.

SPACE PARANOID

Chapter 1

Viral Entity

Sora stepped into the dimly lit chamber. Goofy and Donald flanked his sides. He ran the past events through his mind over and over again. Leon and the gang had summoned him to the Hollow Bastion Computer Terminal. Tron had discovered something in a corrupted file, stored deep under quarantine and he was trying to salvage as much of it as he could.

"He thinks your Keyblade will be able to recover some corrupted data from the file," Leon had told him. He looked around, and saw the I/O Tower in the distance. Standing in front of it was Tron, and slung under his arm was a peculiar looking box. It glowed, like everything else, except it seemed different in color. Sora, Donald and Goofy ran to meet him.

"Hello Sora, Donald, Goofy," Tron said lazily.

"Hey Tron. What's that?" Sora pointed to the box in his hand. Tron held it level with their eyes. A black pulse emanated from it.

"What?" Donald said, his staff appearing in his hand. Tron simply laughed at him.

"Don't worry. This it the file I recovered. It's proved impossible to restore. My guess is that the MCP destroyed this poor program and locked it in deep quarantine."

Sora looked at it. Another black pulse emanated from the box. Sora took a step back and summoned the Keyblade into his hand.

"Sora, your Keyblade may be able to restore the file," Tron said. Sora looked at his Keyblade, the Oathkeeper, somewhat worried.

"Okay, here goes," he pointed his Keyblade at the box. The box shook violently and released itself from Tron's grasp. It floated in the air and started to glow a very bright red. Tron smiled.

"It's launched a self-restore program!" he said excitedly. The box opened, and a metallic silver orb fell out of it. It floated a few feet off the ground. The gang moved in for a closer look, watching the orb. It bobbed up and down, emanating a black pulse.

"Is that it?" Sora asked. Tron looked worried. He reached slowly for the metallic orb.

"It seems that it's still missing some files," Tron grabbed the orb and held it in his hand. He held up to the light, before he stopped moving for a moment, only a moment. Sora flinched.

"Tron?" Goofy asked reaching for Tron. The orb suddenly expanded itself over all of Tron's body, until he was completely within the orb. Then the orb shrunk back in size, Tron nowhere in sight. Goofy, Donald and Sora looked around for a sign of Tron. Then, every light in the area started to glow red. A feminine voice called from nowhere.

"Accessing main CPU," it said coolly, "Hostile users detected! Attempting file removal."

Sora felt queasy for all of a second. In the next second; he, Donald, and Goofy were flying backwards, until they hit the computer terminal behind them.

HOLLOW BASTION

The first thing Sora saw were Leon and Yuffie looking at him. Sora rubbed the back of his head. Leon extended his hand, and Sora grabbed it. He pulled him up and looked around him. There were in the computer room.

"What happened?" Leon asked, "Everything in the room is glowing red!"

"I don't know. One second we're taking to Tron, the next second we're flying backwards."

"Gawrsh! That really hurt," Goofy said behind him, "What do ya suppose happened to Tron?"

"I don't know," Donald answered the confused looking dog thing. Ansem was typing furiously on the terminal, Merlin and Cid occasionally looking over his shoulders. After several moments, Ansem sighed and shook his head.

"The computer's all broken. Nothing's responding."

"Attempting data materialization," the feminine voice from before said.

"What's that?" Leon asked, his blade appearing in his hand. The machines that normally sent Donald, Goofy and Sora inside the terminal turned themselves on and started building something; the metallic orb from before.

"Hey! What's that?" Yuffie asked. Several shurikens appeared in her hands. As soon as the orb was finished, the machines turned themselves off. Leon swung his sword at the orb, but had difficulty pulling the sword out.

"Hey! Let go!" he struggled, until the orb completely consumed the sword. Leon let go of his sword, and the orb did to the sword what it did to Tron. As soon as the sword was gone, several orbs of equal-size fell from the orb and hit the ground. Each one fell with a plop, turning into a metallic goop beneath them. With each moment the goop expanded in size, until the floor was consumed. Yuffie had been forced to hang on the wall, while everyone else ran back into Ansem's study.

"I should have thought that it was that," he said remorsefully.

"What do you mean?" Leon said, as Yuffie ran into the room.

"Don't leave me behind again!" she said panting.

"That file was a virus that found its way into my computer ages ago. I managed to delete it before it destroyed all of my research. Unfortunately, a small amount of it survived so I had to place in a quarantine zone."

Sora looked from Ansem to Leon. Leon nodded.

"We have to warn the town!" he said as he ran out. Cid and Ansem followed him.

"I think I can seal it in that room for a while," Merlin said as his wand began to make complicated movements. After several motions, and what sounded like muttering, a barrier of light blocked the doorway.

"Let's go then," he said. With a wave of his wand; he, Sora, Donald, Goofy and Yuffie vanished in a cloud of smoke. Meanwhile, a metallic orb moved through the wall and began to drop orbs similar to itself on the ground. Each one hit the ground, and turned into a goop that expanded. The orb moved around the room, consuming everything that came near it.