Disclaimer: I don't own Final Fantasy or Devil May Cry or Kingdom Hearts anymore than I rule the world. (Give me two weeks and some candy and I can change that.)

A/N: "This could all end badly… very badly," as Shigure Sohma once said. Back in January at the end of my Hojo killing saga I asked if any wanted a sequel to Death 99, "One Failed Hero." Several people said yes, so here I am working on Legacy of Failure for your reading pleasure. This is strictly humor and adventure, nothing overly serious (I would die if I became too serious). Rather than giving everyone screen time like the first one I will be telling this from my POV. There are several crossover/references in this so please don't take this too gravely as far as whether or not this is canon (it broke from canon ages ago). Also slight shojoai warning and a warning of OOC moments.

I yawned, the phone rang breaking my concentration, "Devil May Cry, how can I help you?" I answered the phone. It was two weeks after my vacation with Melinda and three months after we threw Hojo off the Shin-Ra building and I had opened my new business, named for the same business that Dante opened in his game. Hell the purpose was the same; I made my money killing Hojo Spore Monsters.

"Yes I'd like to speak to my daughter please," my mom, the current President of Shin-Ra answered.

"Geez Mom could you not tie up the business line?" I groaned running my hand through my dyed blue hair.

"I'm sorry sweetie but in all seriousness I need you to come check something out in the Shin-Ra building," she replied.

I sighed, "It'd better be important."

"Yes, now be here in twenty minutes," she replied hanging up.

I stood up scratching my head as I pulled on my black jacket and kicking open the door, I walked down the street blinking through the rain. Goddamnit did she have to call me in the rain? Either way I plodded my way towards the Shin-Ra building, these last few months had been insane, apparently when my friends pushed Hojo off the roof there had been some serious complications. Hojo's cells had infected a small animal, and from there it bit a larger one. I like to think of it like one of those parasites that takes over a snail's brain and makes their eyes get all weird and turns them all suicidal. But basically once infected there was a very small chance that a person could overcome the infection of Hojo in their system. It was my fault we'd gotten stuck here in the first place, but hopefully I could put things right by destroying these monsters and restoring peace to the world. "Hey Kam!" I grunted getting tackled from behind; Ariella Hewley sat on top of my back.

"Ari get off of her," Angeal Hewley sighed as his daughter climbed off of me, "how are you doing?" He asked helping me up.

"I feel better now, but I wanna get out of this rain," I grinned shaking my hair out of my eyes.

"You've dyed your hair I see," he commented as we walked away towards the Shin-Ra building, "why blue though?"

"Cause silver seemed to be a little too problematic," I laughed, I'd gotten it as a nice solid wave of blue all the way around, it helped straighten it along with a few spiky locks here and there. "That and several people were annoyed by it therefore I decided to keep it."

"I see," he laughed holding open the door, "so your friends are doing well, most have been asking about you."

I shrugged, "well I guess I needed some time to think about what happened after Hojo died…"

"Ah yes you did destroy that machine," Angeal laughed as he watched Ariella shake herself dry, "Ari don't get the floor too wet."

She looked up at him, I grinned, "aww lay off Angeal. So Ari, how's Adarna?"

"Fine," Ariella replied climbing up on my shoulders.

"Wallace," Angeal addressed seriously, "we do seem to have a situation, and those monsters have started a convergence on Nibelheim."

"Ah Nibelheim, still standing last time I checked," I laughed as the doors opened on the SOLDIER floor, "speak of the General," as Sephiroth entered the car with us.

"Hewley, Wallace," Sephiroth greeted.

"So Boss what's up?" I asked. "Not often I get to see you around."

"Likewise Wallace, I take it we have a serious situation if the President called you in," Sephiroth replied, mako green eyes meeting mine.

I sighed, "I just wish she'd stop tying up my business line, I have to make a living and if she's holding up my phone I can't get anything done."

"Just be glad you have a mother…" Sephiroth muttered.

"Hey Seph… you okay?" I asked, being brashly arrogant to call the legendary General Sephiroth 'Seph'.

Angeal sighed, "Seph… you're worrying me…" he muttered as the door opened into the lobby of the President's office.

Standing around in there I saw a few Turks, including, "oh Mindy-chan!" I shouted running over to her and catching her from behind in a bear hug.

"Eep! Kamui!" She shouted in surprise as I glomped her.

"Mmm… lavender," I muttered pondering the smell of the shampoo wondering if she had just gotten out of the shower.

"What are you doing here?" She asked turning around hugging me.

I grinned, "got a call from Mutti. She said she wanted me to come and investigate something but it would seem there's nothing here."

"I see," she smiled.

The second of the Turks in the room glared at me, "for the love of Bahamut would you try and act your age. You're an embarrassment to heroes everywhere."

"Oh like your one to talk," I snapped at her, well technically Kamui Valentine was genderless but we had agreed on her gender pronoun at the start of her story a while back.

"You wanna start something?"

"Maybe I do."

"Bring it on you little wimpy excuse for a hero."

"I can take you any time any place."

"Here and now, I'm gonna beat your ass to hell and back."

"That's enough you two." Angeal commented coolly as he jabbed us harshly in the ribs. I sank to the ground, Melinda catching me as I did so.

"Are you okay?" She asked.

I closed my eyes, "I… I need…"

"What?" She asked leaning in closer.

I snapped forward grabbing Kamui pulling her over, "to do that! Revenge is mine!"

"Oh you," Melinda laughed helping me up. "I like your hair though, it's… interesting."

"Hell I can't wait to see my mom's reaction," I laughed standing up running a hand through the cascade of cerulean. "Besides I wanted to announce something very important in front of a lot of people."

Our group entered the office upstairs; I waved over at the two people standing near the President's desk, "yo big bro! Director!"

Rufus, who had somehow become my older brother after my mother took over the company, merely flicked his hair out of his face. Lazard, the cravat-sporting commander of SOLDIER waved back, "good to see you Kamui."

We shook hands, "long time no see brother," I grinned.

"Agreed, now I believe the President would like to explain the situation," he smiled pushing his glasses up his nose.

My mom swiveled the chair around, "what the hell did you do to your hair young lady?! And that piercing in your left ear!"

I winced, but what did I expect? "Hey Mom."

"Urg… you are in trouble when you get back from this," she grumbled glaring disapprovingly at my hair and the Cerberus piercing in my left ear. "Anyway onto business." A projector dropped from the ceiling accompanied by a screen. A picture of Nibelheim flashed on screen. "This is a picture taken three months ago," the screen changed, the city seemed to be swamped in darkness, "and this is where it stands today. That swarm of darkness seems to be a collective of HSMs."

"Looks more like a swarm of Heartless to me…" I muttered sarcastically to Kamui.

She snickered quietly.

"Reports say they're gathering in Nibelheim by the hundreds if not thousands. The infected have begun breeding with one another to create a larger army. We obtained an audio recording from them."

"Find Je… no… va… sum…on Omega… destroy… DESTROY!!" could be heard as a chant through the static of the recording.

"We've assembled an elite team to go to Nibelheim, I believe you are all familiar with the strange powers of the Keyblades?"

A collective murmur of agreement echoed from the group.

"We believe that the day that Hojo ripped open the dimensional gate between our worlds he also opened a rift between several other worlds."

I nodded, "so that's why they all look like Heartless, because they gained the powers of the Heartless from another dimension!"

"Exactly, we need the Keyblade masters to go to Nibelheim find the way the worlds are mixing and seal it off, once we do that then we should be able to locate any other dimensional gates and go home."

I saw Melinda's eyes light up at the prospect of going home, my face fell, and back home I was a nobody. Here I was a goof up, like back there, but here I could at least live out my destiny. But if she wanted to go home then I would do everything in my power to help her, "alright then, I assume I will be getting paid for aiding in this mission?"

"Certainly." My mom nodded, "now you are dismissed to gather the rest of the team."

I grinned and saluted, "cheers then guys," I turned around to gaze at the group, Sephiroth, Melinda, Kamui, Angeal, and Ariella stood there, a good group of six, but the best teams always worked in groups of nine. We still needed three more members to round out the party, "alright then, Autobots roll out!"