Disclaimer: I don't own the creative work of Square Enix or Capcom. Rated M for language, violence, blood, and gore. Sorry NOT a lemon.
THE MISSION
Chapter 3: The Truth Revealed
Roxas and Xion ended up on a dark empty ally and they both noticed that it was night. Roxas walked ahead while Xion followed him as they made their way to the streets of Raccoon City. Roxas looked behind the corner and saw a pack of zombies. "Fuck." sigh Roxas as he turned to Xion. "Theirs a shit load of our friendly friends."
"You're kidding, right?" asked Xion as she took a look for herself and saw that Roxas was right. "how the hell are we going to get pass them?"
Roxas thought for a moment as he paced back and forth and looked up. "Follow me." said Roxas as he took a step up between the narrow buildings while Xion did the same and finally reached the rooftop. Roxas took out the list that Saix gave him as he overlooked it. "There's only one item, just a syringe."
"That's it?" asked Xion as she looked down on the streets to see that every block was filled with the undead. While they were on the rooftops Roxas scanned the area looking for a red cross or a blue cross with a snake.
"Now I figure we can get the syringe at a hospital, but the only way through would be the sewers system." said Roxas while Xion looked at him confusedly.
"It seems like there is no other way." sighed Xion.
"To the sewers, then." said Roxas as he finally saw the hospital and looked over the edge and saw a sealed manhole that looked like it lead to the hospital. Roxas summoned his keyblade and threw it towards the manhole and created a large hole. "Lets go." said Roxas as he leap off the rooftop while catching his keyblade in midair and landed inside the sewers with Xion following behind. "Hurry and seal it."
Xion quickly froze the entrance to the sewers as Roxas tried his best to see in the dim lit tunnels. "Alright, one of these tunnels should take us to the hospital."
"How do we know where to go?" asked Xion as Roxas walked ahead.
"I think we should used our instance and head down this way." explain Roxas while Xion just rolled her eyes and continued to follow Roxas. They went deeper into the tunnels heading towards the hospital until Roxas found a hallow dead body. "Looks like someone was here before us." said Roxas while Xion carefully looked at the body and found bullet holes in the corpse. "Come on, lets get going." said Roxas as they continued walking through the tunnels, but then Roxas noticed that Xion had stop and turned to face her. "What's wrong?"
Xion had her head down, so that Roxas couldn't see her expression. She stayed quiet until Roxas lifted her head up. "I was just thinking." said Xion while Roxas stood still and waited for her to explain. "What if the virus did the same thing to our world? Would we survived or would it infect the lesser Nobodies?"
"Kind of hard to say for sure, but I've been thinking about it also and it makes me wonder, how did the virus spread?" said Roxas while Xion looked into his eyes until Roxas broke eye contact by patting Xion's head. "As long as we're careful, then things should be alright."
As Roxas continued down the tunnel, Xion notice that Roxas put his right hand into his pocket. She knew that Roxas placed Namine's charm in his right pocket as she continued to follow him. Roxas had found different tunnels that lead somewhere and sighs. "This is fucking great."
Xion had noticed that they came to a fork on a road. Inside a large room their were six tunnels passages, including the one they came through. "Which way should we go?" asked Xion, only to be interrupted by Roxas hushing her.
"You hear that?" asked Roxas as Xion listen carefully hearing water griping, hissing from the steam pipes, another hissing that was different coming from a tunnel to their left, and a low growl coming from the right tunnel.
"What is that?" said Xion as both hissing and growling got louder. They both stood back to back in the center of the room and looked down the tunnels. Roxas noticed a pair of sharp yellow eyes starring at him while Xion saw a scaly snout appear. "I think we have a huge fucking problem."
"I've got a huge snake, how about you?" asked Roxas as the snake slithered out of the tunnel and opened its big mouth revealing four pointy teeth while hissing at him.
"What's the difference between an alligator and a crocodile?" asked Xion as the large reptile slowly crawled out of the tunnel and snapped its jaws while making growling sounds.
"alligators have shorter noses than a crocodile." said Roxas as he watched the snake move the rest of its body out of the tunnel. "I'll be right back."
"Where the fuck are you going?" panicked Xion when she heard Roxas walking again while paying attention to the crocodile as it snap its jaws again.
"I'm gonna make that thing into a belt." said Roxas as he step closer to the snake while the large reptile hunched in a defensive stance and swallowed Roxas whole leaving Xion by herself with the two reptiles.
"Fuck." said Xion as she summoned her keyblade and turned to the snake and back to the crocodile. She studied their every move and tried to think of a strategy. "Okay, the snake moves fast while the crocodile is a little slower."
Suddenly the snake began to expand until icicles ripped through its skin. Xion noticed something was different about the snake and turned her attention back to the crocodile. Xion charged the reptile as the croc opened its mouth and quickly wedged her keyblade to hold the reptiles strong jaws opened and cast firaga inside the croc's body until it exploded. "You luggage." said Xion.
The snake on the other hand was still hissing until a icicle pierced through its head. Xion turned and watch as the snake stopped moving and saw from the outside as a huge ball erupted inside the snake blowing its upper body and head off. When the slime settled, Roxas helped Xion to her feet and started to laugh at her. "What?" asked Xion while wiping slime off her face as Roxas continued laughing.
"You were so into the reptiles that you let them bukkake all over you?" smiled Roxas as he continued laughing at Xion's covered body. From head to toe Xion's whole body was covered in slime and she realized why Roxas was laughing.
"Fuck you." said Xion as she flick the slime from her arms towards Roxas while he kept laughing.
After things calmed down and when Roxas finally stopped laughing they continued on, heading towards the hospital. Before they left the large room, Roxas noticed that he dropped the star charm and found it in a pool of slime and picked it off the ground and wiped it clean with his jacket sleeve. "Namine would kill me if anything happen to her lucky charm." said Roxas while putting the charm back into his pocket.
"What was that?" asked Xion as she shook her jacket getting most of the slime off. "Did you say something about Namine?"
"No, just stepped in some slime." said Roxas as Xion used her hood as a towel to wiped the slime off her head and neck. While Xion was wiping the slime off she notice that Roxas had place the charm into his right pocket again.
"Did you get something off the ground?" asked Xion when she finished wiping her hair.
"What do you mean?" asked Roxas with a dumb expression.
"I just saw you put something into your pocket." said Xion as she notice Roxas was starting to get nervous.
"It's nothing." said Roxas as he pasted by Xion heading into the tunnel. "Come on, we need to hurry."
Xion just sigh and followed after Roxas. They found another manhole and Roxas climbed up the steel ladder and opened the lid to take a quick look outside. The streets were empty and nothing was in sight as Roxas opened the lid all the way and stepped out as Xion swiftly jump up to surface and sealed the manhole. Roxas looked around and saw an 'emergency' sign with a red cross. "This way." said Roxas as they both walked down the lonely streets following the streetlamps to the glowing red sign.
"So, Roxas can I asks you a question?" asked Xion when they were inside the lobby of the hospital.
"Yeah, sure." said Roxas thinking that it was strange for Xion to asks his permission to ask a question.
Xion held her breath and breathed out. "Are you and Namine like a thing?" when she asked, Roxas was quiet for a moment as he tried to think of a way to answer that question.
"We're Nobodies. What do you think?" said Roxas without looking at Xion as he overlooked a directory trying to find a supply room.
"That doesn't answer my question." stated Xion.
"It makes sense to me." said Roxas as he walked down a hall towards the west wing with Xion following him.
"Why are you avoiding my question?" asked Xion hoping Roxas would answer while getting frustrated.
"I'm not." said Roxas sounding annoyed as they came to a supply room.
"Well, Axel seems to think so." mumbled Xion as they entered the supply room without Roxas hearing her. Roxas checked the drawers and cupboards while Xion examined the tables until Roxas found a syringe that was still covered in plastic.
"I found it." said Roxas happily while handing the needle to Xion as she placed it into her pocket. There was suddenly a loud siren that echoed throughout the city from every street and country side. Roxas noticed that this siren was different than most while Xion covered her ears.
"What is that noise?" asked Xion in a loud voice.
"We have to get back to the Corridor!" yelled Roxas as he grabbed Xion by the hand and lead her out of the hospital until the siren died down and they were both running as fast as they could. Xion still didn't understand what was going on or why they were running.
"What was that noise for?" asked Xion hoping to get an answer this time from Roxas, who seem like the only one, who understand what the siren meant.
"That siren was a warning of a nuclear strike." explain Roxas as they round the corner and saw the ally that they came from. "We need to get out of here."
"Okay, I understand, now. When we get back will you tell me about your relationship with Namine?" asked Xion as she and Roxas both drew their keyblades.
"Now is not the time to discuss this." said Roxas as he threw his keyblade like a boomerang creating a pathway for them to get clear of the thousands of zombies that were in their way. They constantly fought against the zombies as they both slashed and cut down the nearest zombie closed to them until they stood back to back completely surrounded.
"Firestorm?" asked Xion as she noticed that the zombies had surround them and were getting closer to them.
"I guess we have no choice." said Roxas as he griped the handle of his keyblade and stood as if he was going to swing at a baseball as a gust of wind whirled into a tornado creating a large funnel of wind. "Ready, Xion?"
Xion nodded as Roxas swung his keyblade releasing the funnel as it moved to the center of the zombies sucking them like a vacuum. "Ready…and here…we…go." Xion then cast a large ball of fire at the funnel and it suddenly erupt into flames creating a large flaming funnel and finally burst sending burning body parts everywhere. The flames died down and there was no sign of any zombies nearby, but then Roxas heard a whooshing sound like a jet engine past over them.
"We need to hurry." said Roxas as he took Xion by the hand and they started running towards the Corridor. When they got to the ally Xion ran ahead and opened the Corridor as Roxas saw a missile fly by. "XION! GET IN!"
Xion went in first, but turned around to see a huge explosion swallow Roxas and pushed him with enough force that he collided into Xion and they were back at headquarters.
The World That Never Was
The Corridor was close once they were back. Xion slowly opened her eyes to see the members surround her and Roxas and looked down upon them. Xion sat up and place her hand on her head as everything was blurry and could hear distant voices coming from each member.
"What happen?" demand Saix as he looked down at Xion. To Xion, Saix's voice was distant as she tried to clear her head. "What the fuck happen?"
"There was an explosion." said Xion in a shakily voice. "Raccoon City was destroyed."
"Did Roxas complete the mission?" asked Saix as Xion nodded and pulled out the syringe from her pocket. It was still in its perfect condition, but Xion couldn't believe that Saix was concern about their mission as she handed him the syringe. "Well done. Now, get Roxas to his room."
Xion watched as Lexaeus walked over to Roxas and sling him over his shoulders. Xion slowly stood up and left the lounge and followed after Lexaeus as he walked towards Roxas' room.
Meanwhile
"The Puppet has reported that Raccoon City was destroyed and Roxas was unconscious." said Saix while seated in his usual chair.
"Did they get what we needed?" asked Xemnas without looking towards Saix while staring out into space with his gold brown eyes.
"Yes." said Saix. "I gave the device to Vexen and he created the tG-virus, he just needs the Puppet's help to test it."
Xemnas sat quietly still staring out into space, "Give the Puppet more time to with 'it's' friends as for Roxas; have Namine deal with him."
Elsewhere
Xion quietly sat next to Roxas until she heard his door open and close. Namine stood next to Xion with a worried look on her face that Xion noticed as they both didn't speak. For one minute, Namine wanted to know what had happen. "I came as soon as I heard that he was hurt."
"I feel as if I'm responsible." said Xion as Namine moved a chair to Roxas bedside and gently placed her hands on his.
"Why?" asked Namine while stroking Roxas' hand.
"As a team we look out for each other, but this wouldn't have happen to Roxas…if only there was something that I could've done to help than open the Corridor." said Xion feeling regret while watching Namine comfort Roxas by wiping his face.
"It could've been a lot worst if you didn't." said Namine as she stood up and walked over to Xion. She placed a hand on Xion's shoulders while padded her gently with her free hand. "I'm grateful that you did what you could for Roxas and brought him back safety."
"Thanks, but…" Xion paused as she tried to find the right words to say. "When I heard that siren, I didn't think twice. Roxas knew what it meant and we started running trying our best to get back to the Corridor while taking out the nearest zombie close to us. We defeated all of them and I ran ahead to the Corridor and next thing I knew, I turn around to see Roxas caught in an explosion, then thrown like a doll into me. It was terrible, everything was destroyed. I've never been so afraid." Xion felt like crying, but she held it back.
Namine smiled while still comforting Xion until they heard a familiar voice, "Hey, Roxas! Get up you bum, I got us some ice cream!" said Axel as he took a seat into the chair that Namine placed by the bed.
"Axel." said Xion as she and Namine broke apart; stopping him from placing a pop icicle on Roxas' neck. "He's unconscious."
"Oh." said Axel while placing the pop icicle on the nightstand. "Well, from looking at these burn marks on his coat and hair. He must've been playing with fire. So what happen?" Xion began to tell Axel about what happen to Raccoon City and how Roxas was caught in the explosion while Namine quietly sat in the chair beside the bed. "So that why he's unconscious?"
"Yeah." said Xion sadly.
"It's a good thing you told me this, Namine get a wet rag." instructed Axel as Namine went into the bathroom and quickly returned with a wash pan that was fill with water with the rag in her other hand. "Set it down on the table and help Xion take off his coat and gloves."
Xion and Namine did as Axel instructed them. When they were finish taking off Roxas' jacket and gloves; Axel handed Namine the wet rag that was damp and instructed her to lightly pad Roxas' neck and face. When Namine was finish, she handed the rag to Xion while Axel leaned against wall eating his ice cream. "How long will it be until he wakes up?" asked Namine taking a seat beside Roxas on his bed.
"Maybe a day or a couple of hours." said Axel as he took a bite of his ice cream. "Don't worry he's a strong kid."
"How do you know so much about treatment for a burn victim?" asked Xion taking Roxas ice cream from the nightstand and stood next to Axel.
"Lets just say that I've been playing with fire." smiled Axel as he took another bite. "It's important to know how to treat different types of wounds, that's how I knew it would be best if Roxas' body was kept hydrated and the ice cream would've help. Got it memorized?"
Xion couldn't help, but smile at Axel and simply nodded in understanding. Namine smiled also knowing that Roxas would be okay, thanks to Axels understanding on how fire works.
'I could hear voices that sounded like Namine, Xion, and Axel. I couldn't remember what happened after Raccoon City was destroyed, just this weird burning feeling and seeing Xion with a frighten expression. Even though I couldn't remember what happened, the sound of laughter sounded nice as I began to open my eyes.'
"Hey, look he starting to wake up." said Axel as Xion and Namine turned to see Roxas open his eyes. Roxas looked up at the ceiling and noticed that he was back at the castle. He slowly sat up and put a hand to his forehead. Namine rushed back to his side while Xion and Axel stood next to the bed. Roxas looked around and saw that he was in his room with Namine, Xion, and Axel.
"Glad to see you awake." smiled Namine as Roxas smiled back at her getting lost in her blue eyes.
"I'm sorry to have worried you." said Roxas while placing his left hand on Namine's cheek while she placed her hand over Roxas' hand. "I'll never be careless again."
Roxas leaned in for a kiss completely forgetting about Axel and Xion that stood in his room while he and Namine kissed each other passionately. Xion reacted to Roxas action that Axel noticed as he placed a hand on Xion's shoulder and leaned into her right ear. "Just accept it." whispered Axel as he back away and cleared his throat.
Roxas soon broke the kiss and finally noticed Axel and Xion, slightly embarrassed that they saw him kiss Namine. "Uh…hi, guys." said Roxas nervously while scratching the back of his head as Namine giggled feeling embarrassed that Roxas kiss her. "I guess I have some explaining to do, mostly to you, Xion."
Roxas started to explain his story to Xion about how he felt about Namine and was sorry that he avoided her questions. Xion expression started to calm down as Roxas continued his story on how he fell in love with Namine, during their first kiss, to they're first date in Twilight Town, and how he had explained everything to Axel. "I was hoping Axel would at least tell you." said Roxas as he looked towards Axel.
"He already told me straight forward." said Xion. "I knew ever since our second visit to Raccoon City. I was just trying to have you admit it."
"You told her?" said Roxas while seeing Axel sneaking towards the door.
"I didn't know it was a secret." said Axel turning around facing Roxas. "Besides, I don't like getting caught in the middle of other people's affairs."
"But you've always been helpful about most things." said Namine looking towards Axel.
"Yeah, she right." agreed Roxas while Xion nodded in agreement also. "So, I've been laying in bed for awhile now. Shall we head to the tower?"
"Sure, why not." stated Xion while walking over to the wardrobe getting Roxas another jacket and gloves as Namine help Roxas out of bed. Once Roxas had on his jacket and glove, they all stepped out into the hallways.
"Glad to see you walking around." said Saix in his calm deep voice as he stood in front of the group. "Where you headed?"
"We're just taking Roxas for a walk." said Axel before Roxas could answered Saix. "Could be good for the kid to walk off the nerves of almost getting killed in Raccoon City."
Everyone stared at Saix nervously hoping that he would believe Axel's statement. "I guess it's fine, but Xion, Xemnas would like to have a word with you."
"Oh, a…okay." said Xion kind of confused. "I'll catch up with you guys later."
"Yeah, we'll be waiting." said Roxas giving Xion a slight wave.
"See you later." said Namine.
"Later." said Axel plainly as the small group headed towards the lounge, leaving Xion and Saix alone in the hallway.
"Let's get going." said Saix as he and Xion teleported themselves to the spiral chair room. Saix ended up in his own seat while Xion stood in the center of the chairs as she looked up and saw the rest of the members all sitting around her as she drew her attention towards Xemnas.
"Take a seat." said Xemnas as he gestured towards Roxas' chair. With a single leap, Xion was sitting in Roxas' chair that had a folder on the armrest. She noticed the folder and wondered why it was there. "Don't open it just yet."
"Do you mind telling me what this is about?" asked Xion while studying Xemnas face that had no emotion at all.
"Do you know what are true mission is?" asked Xemnas while placing a right finger on his temple and rubbed his head. Xion thought for a moment as she finally answered.
"Is it to be human again?" said Xion as she realized that she never knew the true meaning of the missions.
"Why do you think our organization never changed it's name to 'Organization Fourteen'?" asked Saix while looking at Xion with his cold piercing eyes that seemed as if it could poke holes through anything.
Xion thought again, "I don't know." said Xion sadly while Larxene silently giggled as Xion stared at her. "What's so funny?"
"You honestly don't know anything. Do you, sweetie?" flirted Larxene as she winked at Xion.
"Our true mission is to explore the mysteries of the heart." said Xemnas as each member drew their attention back to him along with Xion while Xemnas stared upon her. "Each of us used to have a heart, but as of now we no longer remember what it was like to have a heart. As for Roxas and Namine they seemed to be special, since they don't remember having a heart of their own, but we've all noticed that they appear as empty shells with hearts of their own and they act upon it without the understanding of how a heart works."
Twilight Town
Roxas and Namine sat together hand in hand as Axel came back with three Sea-Salt pop icicles ice cream. After he had passed one out to each of his friends he took a seat on the ledge as he started to look at the sunset. Namine took a bite of her ice cream and watched the sunset also, but noticed that Roxas was deep in thought. She lean over to him and lightly kissed his cheek and brought him out of his thought. "Is something the matter?" asked Namine looking at Roxas with concern.
"It's strange really." began Roxas as Axel stopped eating his ice cream and look at Roxas. "Saix never called Xion by her name. It's always 'puppet' or 'it', but he never did call her by her real name."
"I've noticed that also." said Axel as he continued to take a bite of his ice cream. "Maybe the boss will let her join our little club."
"Something doesn't seem right." said Namine as she started to think. "But it couldn't be bad, right?"
The World That Never Was
"What do you know about your existence?" asked Saix as Xion started thinking again.
"I don't know anything about my former life or how I got my powers." admitted Xion sadly as if she was going to cry. "Everyday I question my own existence."
"To find is to lose. To lose is to find." said Marluxia as Xion looked towards him.
"Open the folder." order Xemnas calmly as Xion quickly opened it and saw a recipe that made no since to her as she scanned through it.
"What is this?" asked Xion while looking upon Xemnas for answers.
"35 liters of water, 20 kilograms of carbon, 4 liters of ammonia, 1 ½ kilograms of lime, 800 grams of phosphorus, 250 grams of salt, 100 grams of nitre, 80 grams of sulphur, 7 ½ grams of fluorine, 5 grams of iron, 3 grams of silicon, 100 grams of saltpeter, and 15 other trace elements." explain Vexen as Xion looked at the paper and over read the list. Vexen had named each ingredient that was on the paper, but it still made no since to her. "These are the ingredients that were used during the replica program at Castle Oblivion."
Xion felt her head hurting as if someone had hit her with a sledgehammer on her head, "It can't be." said Xion as she could feel the tears build up in her eyes.
"Your just a Puppet." said Xemnas without pity. "I made you, but you were just an empty shell."
"With these items we created a puppet that we could control, but they were lifeless." said Saix while he placed a hand under his chin. "We soon realized that the puppets we created didn't have a mind of their own."
"Namine proved to be useful." said Xemnas.
"With Namine's ability to manipulate any memory she can control anybody. Xemnas had ordered Namine to create false memories for the last puppet to make it appear to be human." explain Vexen. "In result you became self-aware. Can you imaging a living, breathing puppet that can think, feel, gets hungry, and sleeps. Having the same human emotions and habits."
Xion could feel as if she was going to burst. She jumped off Roxas' chair and stared up at Xemnas. "NO! THAT'S IMPOSSIBLE! I DON'T BELIEVE YOU!" shouted Xion as her tears flowed down her cheeks. "I know I'm real."
"You're nothing more than a Puppet." said Saix.
"You'll be more useful to my next experiment." said Vexen as he suddenly appeared behind Xion and jabbed the syringe into her neck and ejecting her with the tG-virus. Xion quickly jump back, away from Vexen and drew her keyblade. She circled around the room while she kept her guard up. No one moved as they all stared down at her and Vexen. "Time to scream."
Xion suddenly felt a sharp pain hit her as she collapsed to the floor while still griping her keyblade. She then stood on her knees and let out a horrible scream in agony. "I'm outta here." said Larxene as she left the room.
"Me, too." said Demyx as he disappear behind Larxene, leaving the rest of the members to watch as Xion started to scratch at her face while still screaming. The bottom half of her face was completely gone along with her nose missing as she collapsed to the floor again and started to moan in pain as the blood from her face flowed to the floor creating a small pool of blood.
"It's seems as if this experiment was a failure." said Vexen as he step closer to Xion. "What a pity."
"Yeah." said Xion as she stood behind Vexen and knock him to his knees with her keyblade. "For you." she didn't give Vexen the time to react as she snap his neck and tore off his head. The members watched in horror, except Xemnas as Xion bit Vexen's ear off and cast his head aside as Vexen's body started to disappear. She turned her attention back to Xemnas and glared at him with hatred. "Fuck this organization and fuck you."
To Be Continued…
(A/N: so that's it for this chapter. Reviews and comments are always welcome, but no flames. Next chapter "Xion's Revenge")
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