A/N: Okay, sorry for horrible delay but here it is. Hopefully I can get the next chpa up later tonight, sicne I'm going to see the new Disney movie in a few minutes.

Disclaimer: As always I could never own Kingdom Hearts. Despite my dreams of raking in all that money Nomura has to be making from this series. ;)


The auditorium was more like an ancient Greek theatre. Riku noted how …different it was. It had the stage set in the center, but what spooked him about the whole thing was the giant screens semi-surrounding the stage instead of the usual seats one would find in a place like this. The screen was crackling with static, the noise echoing around them as they walked to the center of the stage.

"What is this?" Sora whispered to his friend as they came to a stop in the center.

"It's the auditorium, of course." Zidane (since I feel to lazy to give him a proper name for a clone he will be just Zidane) said as he un-cuffed his charges.

"You know, the Zidane we know is a serious flirt. How come you don't act like him if you're his clone?" Sora asked. He remembered his time with Repliku, the name he'd given to Riku's doppelganger counter part. Repliku had acted so much like his best friend he never saw any irregularities or anything weird about his behavior. Then again…he had been in Castle Oblivion.

"It's 'cause he was never exposed to him long enough. It's another complicated matter I don't feel like explaining that is a common occurrence in fan fiction." Risu answered for Zidane.

"Anyway, the boss wants Sora and Riku to perform first." Zidane said adjusting Sora's collar a bit more securely.

"The scene you guys play out is where Riku is about to kill Kairi, Act 3 Scene 6, because her "pure" heart has been corrupted by the darkness that was brought on by her jealousy at you two."

Riku shrugged. He didn't really particularly care for Kairi anyway. She had a habit of being useless and in the way. He regretted giving her that keyblade even to this day. While it was great she could use it, it meant he couldn't just ditch her or Sora and go on another quest. He'd been feeling restless lately…

"Riku!" Sora snapped his fingers in front of his face. Startled he blinked owlishly up at the brunette.

'GOD, WHY!?' he thought still mourning over the sudden height difference between them. This was all just so wrong!

"You had that dark, spacey look on your face just now. You better not be thinking of going on another adventure. WITHOUT me." Sora said pointedly. Clearly Riku being allowed to be anywhere by himself was no longer possible.

"I'm not five. I think I can go wherever I want anyway. I'm 18. You're 17. I believe I'm the one that's legal."

"Hey! Shut up! The screen is on." Risu pointed out. Both boys turned to face the many screens surrounding them. Chills ran down their spines as they saw nothing but Big Brown eyes staring at them from every angle of the room.

"What…the hell?" Sora shivered as the many eyes around the room focused on him. He had always been somewhat self-conscious, and could you blame him? Standing next to Riku before The Change he had been scrawny and horribly short in comparison. The older boy could have used him as a foot stool if he wanted too.

"Hmm, It'll do for now." said an automated voice coming from…somewhere.

"Actors prepare to read the script!" Zidane ordered. The two boys stood in the middle of the stage alone as Risu and Zidane left to sit in two randomly placed chairs close to the doors they had entered through.

"Remember to read it word for word!" Risu reminded them from her seat giving them an overly enthusiastic thumbs up.

"O-okay." they answered completely unnerved by the eyes staring at them from every way possible.

"Begin!" The voice ordered, and the boys immediately began to work.


Forty-five minutes later found Zidane and Risu wincing as they endured the reading of the script. It was horrible. Though both were aware just how bad one of these rehearsals could be, they just ended up getting worse and worse. Riku and Sora weren't faring very well either. Both boys looked sick. Worse than Vexen on a good day. For once Risu felt it in her to be empathetic towards them for this was no easy task to bear on your own.

"Riku! Why!? Why did you do this?" Sora said, no even bothering to act out the scene anymore. Not when…it all sounded so bad. Riku twitched as his turn came around again.

" 'cause, she wuld avhe killed us both, Sora. Shebeen tainted by thee darcnes." Riku winced at the words he was forced to read. How old was this author woman anyway? The spelling mistakes alone made up the entire script!

"We culd have saved her! I know we could have! The light she's a princess it wasn't possible." Zidane and Risu were impressed that Sora had even managed to get a tear to fall at all. Then again, it could be from the dialouge he was reading. How many times had they cried on that same stage? Too many.

"Iie! The light can't safe everyone. Esp. not h3r-why is there a 3 in her? ARGHH!!"

Zidane winced as Riku writhed around on the ground as volts of electricity once again shocked him. He was so glad to not be wearing the collar anymore. Hopefully, it would never get to the point where the whips came out too.

"Just read, it as best as you can!" Risu yelled from the sidelines.

"I think that's asking a bit too much." Zidane pointed out as this time Sora was randomly shocked into submission as well for trying to help Riku get back up.

"Subjects will not deviate from the script. Please continue reading or be subjected to higher voltage." the computer voice spoke again from…somewhere.

"This is insane! I can't READ this anymore!" Sora cried. Riku, now standing again, quickly grabbed his script and none to kindly ripped it to pieces.

"This is garbage! I don't understand what we're saying!" The many brown eyes narrowed dangerously on screen.

"Cease this rebelling or suffer."

"We ARE suffering! How about YOU read this!?" Sora yelled back, waving his own copy in front of the closest screen to him.

"Look, further in this thing it's nothing but a bunch of numbers and random letters like this one," Sora cleared his throat and squinted as he brought the packet closer to his face and read.

"Riku, n3v3r ph34r t3h d4r7n322. It i2 ur gr34t32t w34p0n." Sora paused in his reading. "Do you see how I'm reading this? I'm literally spelling everything I'm supposed to be SPEAKING. Now I didn't suffer through crash courses in Advanced English classes in literally 3 hours just to get involved in your crap ass story with more grammar and spelling mistakes than in my own damn video game! At least the subtitles at the bottom actually help me remember my lines because-you know why?-THEY ARE SPELLED IN CORRECT ENGLISH!! There are no numbers in words like, I think the fifth word in that little dialogue there, darkness. It's spelled D-A-R-K-fucking-N-E-S-S!"

Silence filled the auditorium at Sora's surprisingly vehement outburst.

"Oooo! You talked back to the screeeen!" Risu said and quickly ran for the doors, Zidane not to far behind her.

"Where are you going?! What's wrong!?" Riku panicked. Why did they just high tail it out of the room so fast? What had Sora done? The many eyes on the screen bled from brown to red and Riku realized just what Sora had done.

"Oh fu-"


An hour later, Riku and Sora were escorted back into their cell with Risu. She watched as the boys walked back in, hair singed and up every which way, and smoke trailing behind them as they moved closer to her.

"I told you to just read it." Risu reminded them in that irritating I-told-you-so kind of voice.

"You didn't say anything, you totally ditched us to get set on fire and electrocuted at the same time!" Riku snapped, left eye twitching as Sora coughed out black soot and continued to try and carefully dust off the ash from his severely damaged clothing.

"Pfft! Like I was gonna stay in there for that, besides you accomplished getting through the scene in the end though didn't you?"

"Yeah, after we were electrocuted 20 more times. It's a good thing we're fictional characters, we could have seriously died just now." Sora pointed out, and Riku had to agree. They were quite lucky in that sense, and had they been anything else he'd be in a coffin a long time ago.

"Mm, well, you're fine now, and all we have to do is wait."

"Why?" Sora asked.

"She's gonna," here she paused to make air qoutes, "proofread it some more and then post it online. Since this was the first chapter she's gonna post it to see the reviews. This determines whether or not the story is gonna continue or not."

"Wait! How can you post what we just rehearsed as the first chapter?!" Riku exclaimed, more than confused. That scene was like fifty pages into the scipt they had been given!

"Don't know, don't care. It might be an emotional prolouge or something now I really don't know." Risu shrugged.

"Hey, Lights out guys." Zidane ordered as he banged on the cell door with a nightstick. "Tomorrow, is a big day and the boss lady just sent the order for us all to be well rested and ready to go by 8:30 a.m. sharp."

"Night Zi!" Risu said laying down in her corner of soft hay.

"Night Risu," Zidane replied. "G'night to you too boys. There's some cots all ready set up in the other side of the cell."

With that Zidane locked the door to the cell and walked on to fulfill his other duties for the night before turning in himself.

"…Sora?" Riku asked as he settled down in a cot closer to the cell doors

"Yeah, Riku?" Sora answered back, flopping tiredly onto his own cot by the toilet.

"That door had been open that whole time?"

"Looks like it."

"…why didn't we escape?"

"You wouldn't have gotten far. Trust me." Risu said and clapped her hands and the lights went out.

"...I want go home." Riku whimpered before settling to sleep. Dreams filled with nightmares of what could possibly happen next.


A/N: Meh, sorry about the delay. Been very busy but now it's X-mas break for me :D That means I can put more work into this thing. I'm not too all together pleased with this one, but the next chapter will totally make up for this one. I couldn't bring myself to put in all of the grammar and spelling mistakes that i had originally wanted. The red lines screaming at me in every line irritated the heck out of me so bad, i had to just shorten it and redo it. ^^; Next chapter we get a lovely glimpse of Reviews if you hadn't picked up on that, and we'll see how successful the crap plot was ;)