Chp 3
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Started: 4/17/15
Finished: 9/26/15
Sora's POV
The Gummi Ship was still holding up even after the bumpy ride. A window or two was cracked but it made it in as one piece. I'm still disheartened (Pardon the pun) that Ansem was the only person I could turn to about Darkness. Maybe I could try Master Xehanort but I had enough of that guy for a lifetime.
I could have gone to Riku but I don't think he'd be over our little spat.
I reach the building and see Leon and the rest. "Guys, can I borrow this?" I gestured to the computer. They seemed fine with it when they started walking out of the room.
Let's see if I can look it up. I think and I got too many results. I begin to read but half the things I could understand. It was like a book series: I'd have to read everything in order. I swear, it was like it would take maybe months to get a life's work of studies read when I only had weeks, maybe days or shorter. I walk out of the room, after logging off, and travel back to the World That Never Was.
Already half of the world was gone when I got there. Save for the castle. I rush in, remembering a computer room. The room was breaking down and I was forced into stealing at least a laptop, several USBs, and a few Stem cells, now having another idea. It was going to be a weird one but it was the second to best thing.
I turn the laptop on and it loads with the same password format as the one in Hollow Bastion. I throw in the same passwords, and it worked, much to my expectations. I looked around for the USB ports and found a few, which I found very convenient. I started plugging in few by few, tossing any that didn't apply to me until I found what I needed: Replicas. I hear Roxas's voice chime in every now and them about this 'Xion' girl. He'd sometimes go on and on about disbelief that his friend wasn't exactly human or nobody.
I read a few reports and I still had some hope! I think before I hear a crash behind me. I turn and there was glass everywhere. I cast a swift shield spell and watch the glass bounce off the barrier inched from where I stood. The lab was disappearing. "No, no, oh Gosh, no!" I scream as I run towards the broken room. Its stone was cracked, the glass of test tubes and Stem cells were gone beyond repair. Ok, don't panic, there are 26 other letters in the alphabet. I just need to think of Plan B. Maybe C. I think and I end up blank. "Gah!" I nearly give up until I hear something else behind me. Is that—? I nick myself on the hand trying to get a better look of the person now behind me.
Just my luck.
"Wait, it's that Time Travel guy!" I say, in realization. I run towards him, and as I get closer, I see him trying to adjust something. Looked like a clock. Wait, is that a Keyblade? I think until I get close enough to him. He seemed oblivious to me at first until he looks my way, and sees me. "Hey, I kinda need your help, here!" I say, a little out of breath. He looks at me incredulously. He goes back to fixing his clock-keyblade-thingy before raising it and it flashes. "Wait!" I say and grab a hold on him. "Hey," He yelps and tries to pry me off. Too late, the both of us were flashed into the past. When I was still trying to defeat Xemnas for the umpteenth time (The second time I had to fight him, not the first time) He sighs and says, "Stay here and don't move or do ANYTHING." His keyblade dissipates.
I watch him talk to Past!Me and he walks over again and summons his weapon. "What do you need?" He asks impatiently. He was giddy to use that thing on me, from the way his fingers seemed to fidget around the handle. "I need you to take me back at least back when the castle's lab was still intact," I say. He looks confused at first until I show him. "All right," he agrees after a little bit of silence, which I took as thinking.
He sets it to a specific date and We're both in another point of Time. I didn't know exactly when. "Be careful and it'll wear off in a few days. Take the time wisely; once you're back to your own time, you'll forget everything here and outside your era," he says. Before going back to the Era where he seemed to have needed to be, I grabbed his arm.
"Wait, if I find you again in this era, and I travel back to my own tie will I forget everything?"
"Consider yourself lucky if you do," he says and disappears in a teal flash.
"All right, a bit of time, I can do this!" I say to myself and walk in. Uh-oh. Looks like this was when the Organization was still alive. Let's see if I can do this. I take a running start and jump onto the building. I've done this before and I think I can do it again. To the lab!
I see a Vexen, there. He seemed to be growing stem cells before he attached what he was creating over a guy's ear. Looked like he was growing an ear in the first place. The guy on the counter, Demyx, had bandages around his head. Vexen was muttering profanities, as he sewed on the ear.
Come on! I hope the both of them leave soon,
Demyx went, leaving a 'thank you', but the Blonde man stayed. I snuck on into the window, accidentally knocking over some tubes full of a green substance. "Who's there?!" he demands, wheeling around. Before he could see me, I hid behind an island counter. He heard his feet shuffle to my left and I scoot towards the right and into a cabinet.
It was big enough, but I had to be in a fetal position. A position, I must add, that was fairly the verge of being uncomfortable and made me have to bend and twist in certain ways that I never have before. I hear him coming towards me and I just pause my breathing, hoping he won't check here. I hear him sigh and he begins to put back what he had on the counter.
I peak through the door and unfortunately, he catches me. "Gotcha!" He shouts and grabs hold of me.
I yelp and try to get out but, he casts something on me and I'm frozen on the spot in a position showing I'm trying to escape.
"Superior! Number 13 is playing in my Cabinets, again!" He shouts. Xemnas walks into the lab and gives a look between disappointment and disapproval before shooting me with a few lasers to break the ice. A few hit me and my hidden reflex of screaming and running at the sudden fire touching my butt. My clothes catch on fire and I prod it down. I summon my keyblade and charge at the both of them. Here, being in the past, I expected them to be a smidge easier, but it seemed to stay the same. Vexen was still a pushover. Xemnas, however, grabbed me by the neck and hauled me into a tube. "Finally," he said and had Vexen fill the tube with something. I was frozen completely, but I could still see and think. I waited until they both left the lab and I summoned my keyblade, which shattered the glass. The ice around me thawed and I could move again. I broke out and jumped from the shards. Vexen burst back in. I shot at Vexen a fire spell, which caught on his coat. I cast a freezing charm and he was frozen on the spot. I nudged him into the back of the room to the window and snuck back out.
All right, I just have to be a little more cautious, I think. I go through a few reports to figure out how to program this thing. I begin to experiment after reading some warning. A few mutilations and disproportionate creatures but nothing too bad.
Finally, I create something decent.
It just stood, like a statue. Then it tries to try and rip me in half. He grabs a tube full of chemicals and he throws it at me. I summon any Keyblade and swing at it like it was a baseball. He repeats throwing several chemicals and acids and I either duck, swing at them or just run.
Another one is hurled at my head and I sink by the counter then try to get him out of the room, swinging the door open and look around and run out. He chases after me through several hallways until I run into another room. Probably made worse case scenario, considering I didn't look where I was and there was no number indicating which room it even was.
I nearly have a heart attack, seeing Saïx sitting at a desk. I make an attempt to get out of there as quietly as I can, but he turns around. He facepalms then summons his claymore and charges at me. "Roxas!" He shouts and brings it down. I jumped back from two strikes at once and the claymore pierced the floor.
I run out the door and down another hallway where I bump into Xemnas. Again. He seemed to have a look of sheer Annoyance and walks past me and grabs Saïx by the hood. "Number Seven!"
He takes him into another room. I sigh in relief and search for the Ansem Replica. I guess the Heartless should have been a SURE sign of him being near because when I walking to another room, I was immediately pinned and had something held up to my neck. "Wait!" I shout. He looks at me with slight curiosity and impatience. "I need you!" I start off. This doesn't seem to do anything. "Where I come from, I need a little bit of more Darkness!"
He lowers whatever he's holding up at me, which reveals to be a replica Soul Eater. "Interesting," he says.
"I'm assured you know that Light and Darkness need each other to balance, right?"
"Of course."
"Which is why I need you."
He contemplates about what he's hearing. Then, he takes me up by the neck and begins to squeeze. I squirm, summoning the Kingdom Key and take a swing. He catches it and throws it aside. He carries me to the other side of the room and slams my head down onto a table and grabs the first thing in reach: a hardcover book and begins to smash my head in.
He pushes my neck further down, and my struggle grows weaker. Finally, I pass out.
My eyes open. Feeling irritation, I close them. I blindly squirm around and hit a hard smooth surface. I was in some liquid. I was losing energy and consciousness again, I continued to struggle. I was lowered and realized a tube in me was placed. The liquid drained and I rub my eyes, gaining sight. I see Vexen. And I realize I'm in my birthday suit and a shade of red plasters itself over my cheeks. "Where are my clothes?!" I demanded. He reaches over to an operation table, opens the capsule and tosses the clothes at me. He walks out and brings Xemnas in. Ok, now's the chance, I think.
I get out, fully clothed and ready. "Hey, you're familiar with how that the balance between Light and Darkness can throw off life as we know it, right?" I started off. Maybe I spoke too quickly because he started at me for another few minutes. He seemed out of his trance when he responded with a, "Yes, I believe I can recall a few old reports that fall under the topic." I celebrated! Yes, there's still hope! I take his wrist and tried to drag him along with me. "Come on! I need you and Darkness needs you!" I try to take him with me. He yanks his hand away causing me to stumble into the wall. "What is the meaning of this?" He asks.
I took a deep breath and began explaining. "In the time I'm from, Light is overpowering Darkness and I need you to help me out with the problem. Considering I've only fought for Light, I need help on fighting for Darkness." He stared at me and whispered in Vexen's ear. Something about this situation being interesting and that he's never seen anything like it before.
"Fine, I'll help!"
He ran back to the hallway and, presumably his office and came back out with a notepad. "What year?" He flipped through that. "Ehh, 2004," I say. He flipped to a certain page and grabs my hand. "Wait, Don't you need a Xehanort of any sort?" I ask. Already, we are whisked away back to my time. "How'd—?" I was speechless. I mean I remember everything. Xemnas pointed to Young Xehanort. "Whaaa...?" I take a look at the notepad, places, times and all. "I may have forgotten it all, but I was lucky enough to realize this come in use one day." "You were wise as a teen," I say, beginning to look around for anymore. I could have sworn Xemnas shot me a confused look. Some emerged from the sand, I had no choice but to hit them with the keyblade. "Don't you think we should've gotten that Ansem clone?" I scratched the back of my neck slightly. Young Xehanort appeared next to me as Xemnas went back briefly and came with it, over his shoulder. "We got in a bit of quarrel," he explained quickly and set him down. Young Xehanort and Xemnas gave each other a small gesture of goodbye before Young Xehanort disappeared.
"While he's our main hope, I only know so much of the Negative Aspect. He'll teach most of what you're going to need to know. I'll teach you the basics."
"So, I'll have to experience this sort of stuff," I assume.
"Yes, the first question for you will regard in emotions. Negativity."
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