Omega XVIII
Prologue
There are three parts necessary to every being in order to consider them cognitive. Three and only three. The first part is what all living beings have, a body, a very basic thing indeed. The second thing is something every creature capable of socialization has, a will. Finally the third item, which only the cognitive beings have, the heart.
This is not the literal heart, which is part of the body, this is the heart that grants emotion, what makes the being individual, and that is this heart. The heart makes the choices and guides the actions the being does. The will is the drive to complete the action, the effort and severity behind the actions. The body is what allows the actions the happen, the physical element doing them.
There are of course, the nonliving, the non existent, they are the exception to this rule, they are the heartless and the nobodies. It is quite apparent that the heartless crave the hearts, but what actually happens has only recently been brought to light. The heartless is the body of cognitive beings which has had its heart pulled out. The heartless forever searches onward for its lost heart, taking them from others, which is how more heartless are made.
These hearts the heartless takes are like food, they are stored inside it, and the more hearts it gets, the stronger it becomes. It had been determined that if the heartless finds its own heart, the one that belongs to its body, it will return to its original form. All the other hearts it had will leave it, they will enter the ether for other heartless to grab at and take as their own.
But what of the will, what happens to it when the heart is taken? If the will is weak it will stay with the heart, inside the heartless. If it is strong, however, it will become a nobody. Nobodies are nothing but pure will, they have no heart, and so no emotions, but with the will they can think and scheme. Some wills are strong enough to reform themselves, to not only form a body, as all nobodies do, but rather to from a body seemingly identical to the original body. There are some differences between the two, but it is said one is often mistaken for the other.
This then leaves us to wonder what would happen to the nobody if the body and heart were reunited. The weaker nobodies would vanish as the will is pulled to rejoin the body and heart. However, if the will is strong enough, or if the nobody has been destroyed, a new will is formed, one just as strong as the first, but one that is bound to the heart and body, splitting in two if the being becomes a heartless, so that another nobody is not formed.
In addition to all this, it is rumored that there is a hierarchy of heartless, that is, the more hearts a heartless has the stronger it gets, to the point of it changing forms, explaining the different kinds of heartless, and the difference in strength between them. This is only a rumor, a hypothesis that has not been tested on, though it would make sense to be true. And if it can be called true for the natural heartless, it can be assumed to be true for the false ones as well.
The preceding statements and knowledge stated in this report are gathered from the research and all the reports given by Ansem and Xehanort both the openly exposed reports, and the ones hidden from the public. All these discoveries are their own, and some conclusions have been made by taking in their results and reports and adding my own knowledge.
I feet the greatest of pity for those whom were the subjects on who the experiments were performed to learn all of this knowledge.
Signed Yen Sid
---X---
A city of darkness. A city that should not exist. They heartless swarm this city, they are the only thing with in it. At the center of the city is its tallest building, a building with a light front, and an open street before it. This building serves somewhat as a gateway, because instead of there being more of the city behind it, there is instead a large crater in the ground. Not even the heartless go with in this crater, which seems to have no bottom. Floating above the crater in no way physically connected to the city or crater is a castle. A castle built out of stone that is white, and at the same time, black, stone that has no color, and shows all color.
The Castle that Never Was. Somewhere deep in the depths of its basement a portal of darkness opened. Through the portal jumped a very short figure in a black cloak, shortly after came four others, of average height all also in black cloaks. The short figure led the way through the hallways of the castle and the group moved quickly and silently.
After a few minutes they reached a vast room. The ceiling was nearly out of sight, and it was nearly two hundred feet to the back wall. Along the two side walls were countless chambers. Each chamber was identical black with a glass plate on the top of the door to see what was inside. Each chamber had a name on it, and most had people in an unconscious state inside. Few had heartless inside, unable to escape.
"Dear god…" one of the cloaked figures said.
"We have to save 'em all, leave the heartless ones alone," the shortest said before the five beings spread through the room breaking open chambers and taking the person inside back to the portal.
On the other side of the portal a redheaded girl sat waiting, watching the portal, while a silver haired boy stood with his hand outstretched towards it, keeping it open. When the first cloaked figure returned the girl jumped up and helped him set the person down.
"Who's this?" the girl asked.
"No idea, there's thousands of them in their, but I haven't seen any I know," the man said before heading back through the portal.
"They're saving all of them… I wonder how long until we find someone we know, or until they find us," the boy said as more figure returned.
They continued on like this, saving all they could, time seemed to be irrelevant to them. Suddenly, as they worked, bolts of electricity shout out from a chamber. The figures stopped moving and looked at it, but no more bolts came. The short one slowly approached the chamber. It was higher up on the wall and the figure couldn't see the person inside, but he could just barely read the name "Vegeta."
The figure was about to speak when more bolts shot form the chamber, shouting outward towards the figure as well as into other chambers.
"We better get out of here," one figure said.
"Yes, they'll hear this, we should go," the short figure said starting back to the others.
Suddenly the chamber exploded taking several of the ones around it out as well.
"Run!" one figure yelled.
On his word all the figures ran, taking the last three they could save with them. Once they were all through the portal once figure yelled for the boy to close it, which he did immediately.
"What happened?" the boy asked.
One of the chambers exploded, we can't go back, they would've heard that, they'll know we were there," the short one said.
"Buy your majesty," the girl said taking a step towards him.
"I'm sorry Kairi, but we can't risk going back," the short figure said.
"Mickey's right, we have to do it a different way now, especially since there are so many to save," the boy said.
"Riku! You can't just run in there and take them out! They took Sora, and he had the keyblade! These people are too strong for you!" Kairi shouted.
"Instead of shouting, you could just ask for help," a voice called out into the tense silence.
Everyone turned to see who had spoken only to find several of the people they had just saved were awake and sitting or standing up.
---X---
"One of the chambers blew… and it seems it scared away a rat," said a man in white robes similar to what Organization once wore. He had short brown hair and bright green eyes with an x scar over his right eye, though the eye was still functional.
"And the machine was broken in the process, unless one of these last few is a technician, we can't make anymore," said another male in identical robes. He had yellow eyes and somewhat long, unkempt black hair.
"Nirxa won't be happy," the scared man said.
"I've never seen her happy," the yellow eyed man said.
"I heard that Ruxn," called a piercing voice. The two men turned to see a woman in the same cloak walking towards them. Her eyes were brown and her hair was shoulder length and a silvery sky-blue.
"Well, the chambers outside the blast aria are undamaged, and all the ones inside are destroyed, as well as their captive," the scarred man said.
"So it's either destroyed or unharmed then," Ruxn said.
"I heard the machine was damaged, can we fix it?" Nirxa asked.
"No, but on the plus side, none of the destroyed chambers housed heartless," the scarred man said.
"Xeut, how is that a plus side?" Ruxn asked.
"Do you want a heartless running around the castle?" Xeut asked.
"How many do we have then?" Nirxa asked.
"We got five before it blew. Xext is currently stepping them through everything," Ruxn said.
"Good, Ruxn I want you to step un our defenses, if we're not making the portal, I don't want it to reach the castle, we already lost enough to that," Nirxa said and Ruxn nodded before walking away, "and I want a full report on this, including who was lost and which one blew," she said to Xeut who nodded, she then turned and walked away leaving him to his work.
---X---
The four cloaked figures as well as Kairi, Riku and Mickey stood at one side of the room while a group of fifteen stood at the other side. All of them were awake now, and looking around at the unfamiliar surroundings.
"What exactly happened?" one asked.
"You all come from different worlds. And all your worlds are independent of each other. Some group of people, we don't know their true motives, or what they call themselves, kidnapped all of you," one of the four cloaked figures said.
"They wish to make an army of high powered nobodies. They seemed to be able to tell who would have a strong enough will to help them. But beyond the army, like what they're going to do with it, I have no way of knowing," Mickey said.
"What's a nobody?" one of the fifteen asked.
"It's part of you. It's you strong will that's been pulled out. The stronger ones look like their original forms, I have no doubt all of you have that kind of will," Riku said.
There was silence for a great while, until one of the fifteen finally spoke, "how would we get home?"
"We have a ship, we should be able to get you there without letting the heartless in," one cloaked figure said.
"Heartless?" another of the fifteen asked.
"Little black things with glowing yellow eyes, they're a major problem," Riku said.
"Maybe we should have a round of introductions," one of the cloaked figures said looking at Mickey.
"Oh gosh, I forgot about that, yes, why don't you start," Mickey said.
The figure nodded, "I'm Tak,"
"Coe," said the female figure beside him.
"Lee," said the figure beside her.
"Kain," said the fourth figure.
"Riku," said Riku.
"Kairi," said Kairi.
"And I'm Mickey," said Mickey.
"How 'bout you guys, what are you're names?" Lee asked.
"Yasutora Sado, but my friends call me Chad."
"Dante."
"Tien."
"Krillin."
"Aarkan."
"Briar Rose."
"Ed Elric."
"Kratos."
"Albert."
"Haschel."
"Lavitz."
"Naruto Uzumaki."
"Kakashi Hatake."
"Gai Maito."
"Vash."
"I have a question, how many others were there, when you saved us?" Kakashi asked.
"Countless. Hundreds, maybe even thousands," Coe said.
"But, if we're here…" Naruto started.
"Some of our friends are probable still there," Kakashi said nodding.
There was silence for a while before Naruto spoke again, "I'm helping."
"What? What do you mean, we don't even know what we're doing," Riku said.
"I can fight, if that's what you do. I just want to help get my friends back," Naruto said.
"We don't even know if they were taken," Kakashi said with a sigh.
Naruto spun around, "That doesn't matter! Even if we were the only ones taken, we still have to save all he others," Naruto said.
Kakashi sighed again, "I'll tell Tsunade for you," he said in a slightly defeated tone.
"Yes, the fires of youth burn brightly in you Naruto!" Gai said in his usual loud voice.
"Before we get to anything else, we need to take you all home," Lee said.
"I'm staying too, my friends might need my help," Chad said.
"I just can't leave knowing you need help," Vash said.
"You all have good luck with that," Dante said before sitting on a table.
"Can you take me home now?" Kratos asked.
"Yeah, those who want to go home, follow us," Coe said walking away motioning for others to follow, Tak at her side.
"My lord, we should go," Lavitz said looking at Albert.
"But they may need my aid," Albert said.
"The country needs your aid," Lavitz said.
Albert sighed and followed Lavitz out of the room.
"Are you staying Tien?" Krillin asked.
"No, if we were all taken, I should go back incase something happens," Tien said.
Krillin startled a bit at this, "yeah, then I'll help them, never know when I'll come in handy," Krillin said, Tien nodded and walked out of the room.
"How 'bout you hero? You coming home or you gunna help?" Briar Rose asked.
"Well, I don't have any of my stuff, so I'll go home to get everything and come back," Aarkan said.
"They gunna let you do that?" Briar Rose asked with a raised eyebrow.
Aarkan reached into a pocked and pulled out a small blue device with a golden face and white crystal set in it in an unique design.
"Ah, teleporter, smart," Briar Rose said with a grin as she pulled one out too.
"Hey, Riku, I'll be right back, I need to get some things," Aarkan said before he and Briar Rose disappeared in a white light.
"We're going back Naruto, good luck," Kakashi said before he and Gai left.
All that remained in the room now were Naruto, Vash, Krillin, Chad and Ed from the original fifteen. Naruto was in matching orange and black pants and jacket, his jacket zipped up. He had black sandals and a brown headband with a metal plate on it. His eyes were bright blue and his hair was and untamed mess of blond, he also had three whisker marks on each cheek.
Vash was in a large red overcoat that was buttoned up. A black glove on his right hand with pointer and ring finger exposed and his entire left arm was in a black glove like cloth. His hair was blond and spiky but the back and sides were black. He had an unusual pair of sunglasses covering his eyes.
Krillin was in an orange fighting gi with a blue sleeveless under shirt, and blue wrist bands. His head was shaved and had six dots on his head, the mark of a monk.
Chad was in blue denim pants and a black long sleeve shirt, his eyes were brown and hair a mess of black. Ed was in black slacks and a black sleeveless shirt. He had a red overcoat kept open and white gloves. His eyes were yellow and his blond hair was braided to his shoulder blades.
Before anything else was said Aarkan reappeared in the same brown boots, blue denim pants and white short sleeved shirt he previously had. His eyes were bright blue and hair was a somewhat long black. He had a small brown back in his left hand.
"Sorry, had to go get my stuff," Aarkan said gesturing to the bag.
"How'd you do that?" Vash asked.
"I'm from the Heroes Guild, we all have little teleporters that can go to marked places, or recall to the last place you used it from," Aarkan said.
"So you recalled here," Ed said and Aarkan nodded.
"Well, let's bring you all up to speed then," Riku said sitting on a table.
---X---
A/N: alright, here's who's from what:
Yasutora Sado "Chad"- Bleach
Dante- Devil May Cry
Tien, Krillin, Vegeta- Dragonball Z
Aarkan, Briar Rose- Fable
Ed Elric- Fullmetal Alchemist
Kratos- God of War
Albert, Haschel, Lavitz- Legend of Dragoon
Naruto Uzumaki, Kakashi Hatake, Gai Maito- Naruto
Vash- Trigun
The rest are Kingdom Hearts or original, and those four who helped Mickey do the rescues, don't expect them to show up again. Chad, Krillin, Aarkan, Ed, Naruto and Vash are the ones still there. And if you're wondering who Aarkan is, it's who you play as, it's the most likely possibility for his actual name.