The Mission that should not have been
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Chapter 4: Not all prisons are visible
Axel woke up. "What-where am I?" "Why does my head hurt so much?" He was in a dark room with the only light coming from the floor. Struggling to move he found his arms and legs shackled to the floor. With much work, he managed to sit up and from there decided to work on his immediate confinement. "Burn baby!" He watched as flames expanded from his body and saw the chains grow hotter and hotter until they started to glow a bright red.
But the chains would not melt. "Focus, Axel, focus. The chains won't melt... Perhaps I could call for... No that's too obvious. I should have paid more attention in escaping 101." Looking down Axel saw a series of locks connecting the chains holding him to the floor. "Where's a Keyblade when you need one... But, why a Keyblade when I could just..." Aiming a thin jet of the hottest flames he could muster Axel pointed a finger at the nearest lock and watched as it quickly lit up and started to melt before his eyes. "Ha, ha, ha always invest in a quality lock! Got it memorized?" Freeing his right wrist, Axel began working on the next lock and moved from there until he was free and standing.
Looking around he saw more of his surroundings. Below him was the sigil of the heartless. Around him was darkness as far as his eyes could see. Summoning a series of fireballs, he threw them out in various directions trying to see if anything could be visible.
The figure stood by watching as his first prisoner escaped from his confinement only to find himself stuck in an even greater cage. Letting his voice echo through the chamber ominously, the figure said (in a disguised variation of his voice) "You did well against my unbreakable chains. Let us see if you still can stand against the onslaught of my growing army of heartless.
Xigbar opened his eye. "Well done, whoever it is. You think you got me? As If!" Looking around he saw that he was in an oddly shaped glass cage (wider, curved at the front, slimmer, and more rigid near the back) beyond that endless darkness. The only light came from beneath his prison. "Glass? Like that's gonna hold me..." Teleporting Xigbar found that in the same instant the cage moved with him. "Nice trick. But what about this?" Going upside down, left, and right, the cage followed every one of Xigbar's movements preventing his escape.
After several minutes of repeated and simultaneous teleportation, Xigbar sat down and started to think. "If it moves to my new position... What if I were in two places at once?" Smiling he began to teleport his arms and into opposite sides of the cage before teleporting his feet to just outside the front and back walls, then his arms outside the left and right walls. The cage struggling to move to encompass its prisoner shattered and collapsed around Xigbar. Pulling his self-together, Xigbar teleported up where he saw to his almost-shock the emblem of the Heartless. With that revelation a pair of Shadow's sprung up and prepared to duel the freeshooter.
Roxas turned around, and felt like he was falling.
A voice much like the superior said, "Behold the endless abyss! Within lies the heart of all worlds: Kingdom Hearts!" Looking down to his hands Roxas saw fingerless white gloves on his hands and even further large yellow shoes instead of his usual black sneakers. Another voice started talking: "Roxas! Roxas you have to wake up! Roxas!"
Opening his eyes Roxas looked up to see Demyx over him. "Sir, he's waking up." Roxas then saw a man standing over by the shore. "We made it!" But the as the man began to talk the voice was not Xigbar's. "Hello Roxas. It is good to see you." Gesturing to Demyx he said "Leave us for a moment." Demyx bowed "Who is this?"
The man spoke "I have been to see him. Turning his head the man continued, "He looks a lot like you."
Deciding to voice his questions Roxas walked forward and asked, "Who are you?"
"I am what's left or maybe I am all there ever was..."
"I meant your name."
"My name is of no importance. What about you? Do you remember your true name?"
"My true name is..." Struggling to remember, the world spun into blackness as the figure walked forward, reached out and grabbed the boy before he fell down. Placing a band around Roxas's left arm Xemnas lifted his head letting the hood fall back. "What is that?" Demyx asked walking towards the pair. "Something that will help keep him awake..."
Saix looked at the two remaining members. Luxord and Xaldin were playing poker for munny. Nearby the moogle was watching on deciding whether to try his hand at the game. Having read their mission reports already, Saix instead walked through the castle with a purpose until he reached its basement. Vexen's lab a nearby sign read. Saix walked through the incoherent mess of tables and half-finished or failed experiments looking in a strange awe as each experiment seemed to come to life at his mere presence their own unique wish for second chance. Getting into the very back of the lab Saix found a black tome with white lettering it said, Project Replica: Full Volume of Experiments, Modifications and Test Subjects. Turning to a page, Saix began to read.
Axel defeated another Invisible. "297, Got it memorized?" Behind him three more Invisibles attacked. Throwing his weapons, and firing multiple firaga's Axel turned around and yelled to his captor "An even 300, can you do any better than this?" The voice responded "No, but let us see if you can help your friend..." With that a dark portal appeared under Axel and dragged him into its maw.
Xigbar fought Shadow after Shadow stopping only to reload for the past few hours. Now it seemed as if the Shadow's had given up and taken flight. Hearing the familiar sound of a Corridor of Darkness Xigbar spun around and saw "Axel?!"
