Disclaimer: I suppose I should slip one of these in here huh? Well then, since I do not currently possess the rights to Kingdom Hearts or anything else that might pop up in future writing, I think it can be safely concluded that I own nothing.

It was quite a well known fact in school that Cloud hated science. In fact, the only person who might have come close to his capacity to absolutely loathe the subject would be Leon. However, we are not talking about him right now. Rest assured there will undoubtedly be much more on him later but for now though, we're sticking with Cloud. As stated previously Cloud positively abhorred the subject science. And what made it even more unbearable for the blond was the teacher.

You see, Vexen (Cloud outright refused to address him with the proper "Mr." because he didn't believe the older man worthy of even that small respect) was, simply put, boring as all hell. He was well known for going off on tangents pertaining to his own "independent studies" whether it related to the material they were currently covering or not. While this was a fine way to stall for time when a quiz was about to be inflicted upon the class, some had made the mistake of appearing a little too interested and been offered extra credit in exchange for assisting their loony teacher with his experiments.

Luckily, this wasn't the case with Cloud. No, he spent Vexen's lectures catching up on some much needed sleep. His family had always been cursed with a mild case of insomnia and so he didn't get much rest at home and did his best to make up for it in class. Though, this behavior was probably to blame for the F he'd gotten on that one quiz. In hindsight, maybe he should've filled his notebook with actual notes instead of doodles of fluffy, yellow birds and shopping lists for the week…a bit too late to realize that now however because he was already stuck in a classroom, after school, three blocks away from his house and the weekend imminent, yet unable to leave.

All because of a retarded make-up/extra credit session! Yes, apparently Vexen was kind enough (not stupid enough to ignore the principal's "advice") to hold these kinds of things in order to help out the many, many students failing his class. Oh, Cloud supposed it couldn't be all bad; at least there were some people he knew stuck in torture with him. Leon, also in his science class and being forced to make up for the failed test as well, was sitting next to him at the table directly in front of Vexen's desk. Why? Because Vexen assumed anyone bold enough to sit in front of him knew what they were doing and so never paid attention to the people sitting there.

Then there were Roxas and Sora, sophomores he knew through his gym class. Sora was there because he'd been absent from class one day and needed to make up the missed points. But Roxas sucked just as badly with Biology as Cloud and Leon did and so was there for the same reasons as them. Most people often mistook the three of them-Cloud, Sora, and Roxas-for siblings when they were together but none of them were actually related. It was kind of freaky honestly-and somewhat suspicious. Cloud had to wonder if his parents weren't telling him something.

Possible shady family secrets aside, Cloud had to admit he rather liked the little brats. Roxas was nice and quiet and understood that little thing called the beauty of silence while Sora was able to make him smile even more than Zack could. The only time they really acted like a couple of annoying kids was when they were around their friends really. Sadly, this was one of those occasions.

Axel, a friend of Roxas and someone Cloud vaguely acknowledged as loud and thus irritating, was probably there to make up for a class he skipped-most likely not of his own choice but Cloud would leave himself out of that. If Axel wanted to be dragged around after his blond friend, then Cloud would leave him to it.

Whereas, Riku-Sora's friend and someone Cloud was also not too fond of- was probably the only one there for actual extra credit. Bastard.

Currently all four of the sophomores were at the next table over chatting with each other about their days. Roxas and Sora were sitting down while Axel and Riku were standing as they'd have to move over to their own table near the back of the room once Vexen came in. Speaking of the man, he soon entered.

Striding to the front of the room and letting the door swing shut behind him, Vexen didn't even pause before he started speaking. "Alright people, let's get this over with! It's Friday and we all want to get out of this monument to stupidity and compulsory torment so just finish the lab," He gestured to the board where the instructions were written in green, "and we can all leave."

There was a small murmur of agreement as Axel and Riku headed back to their table and Sora and Roxas pulled out their copies of the procedures. Cloud, meanwhile, glanced at Leon who did the same to him. The silent question was asked and subsequently passed around like the burning mass of responsibility it was. Who was going to set up the equipment? And more importantly, take charge of the experiment? Throughout this phase of their clashing wills, Vexen merely grumbled to himself at his desk. He so didn't want to be stuck here with such imbeciles. But hey, if he had no choice he might as well get a good rant out of it. And so, he began composing one for the teacher's lounge later.

In fact, he became so immersed that he didn't even notice Riku and Axel start to mess around with the beakers they shouldn't even have been touching.

This, dear audience, is where all the real fun starts.

It was a rather small explosion. Surprisingly small in fact. Knowing Axel and Riku, Vexen should have expected something more along the lines of blow-a-hole-in-the-wall-and-melt-the-floor but unexpectedly, the only property damage done seemed to be a charred table and quite a lot of smoke. He supposed he should be grateful for that.

He wasn't.

Not that he was mad either. Shocked senseless was more like it. After all, in the space of four minutes and twenty seven seconds, during a lab that hadn't even involved chemicals, Axel and Riku seemed to have managed to discover what various healthcare and beauty product companies for women had been attempting to do for years. The two of them had found a way to reverse aging. This was made apparent by the stares of six toddlers Vexen felt upon his now very much eleven year old body.

Silence, as they all blinked at each other. Finally, Vexen was the one to break it. "How the hell is this even possible!"

Somewhere down the hall, a door slammed

Now, Leon hated school in general but one of the worst parts was science. He hated the subject. Not as much as Cloud maybe, but he was proud to say he shared a healthy dislike for it. So you can understand why being stuck in the science room with the science teacher doing a lab to improve his science grade was not his idea of fun. Not even the presence of others that would hopefully alleviate his boredom could cheer him up. Rather, the fact that people were there just made his desire to leave even stronger. Especially people by the name of Riku and Axel. Those two had just succeeded in becoming the sole reason Leon was currently on the brink of a metal breakdown due to the trauma of suddenly finding himself shorter than the stool he'd been sitting on and swimming in clothes that were now way too big for him.

Yep, this was definitely one to tell the therapist he was convinced he'd need once he got older.

Zexion prided himself on being quite the intelligent individual. There was no situation he couldn't escape from with a healthy dose of logic and maybe one of his biting remarks, or so it seemed. That's why when a disturbingly loud explosion could be heard from the biology lab he didn't panic like Demyx or drop his textbook like Kairi. He didn't even flinch like Namine. Instead he very calmly set out to find what all the fuss was about.

The sight that greeted him as he opened the door was one that promptly sent any logic he might have once possessed straight out the window.

What looked like a mine Vexen stood in front of the class in shock while four toddlers rampaged in front of him. What looked like a mini Riku and Sora were currently trying to break up a rather one sided fight between a similar sized Roxas and Axel. Zexion would have described the fight as one sided simply because Roxas was really the only one yelling while Axel just smiled happily, enjoying the blonde's attention. To one side were Cloud and Leon, both reticent as ever. But from their stiff positions it seemed their silence was due to shock more than anything else.

"What's wrong?" Demyx asked appearing behind his suddenly motionless friend. Zexion turned slowly, lips pursed and eyes narrowed in thought.

"Demyx…" he said slowly, "I believe it would be best if we were to run. Run right now and don't look back before we're dragged into this mess and the demon spawn in that room screw us over in ways unimaginable and most likely painful as well." Zexion deadpanned.

"Huh?"

AN: Well, it seems like you've reached the bottom of this without running away in disgust. So for that, congratulations and thank you. And thank you for reviewing! Because those things are great. Almost as great as the people who write them, in my humble opinion.