Chapter Four: The Gangs All Here
Sora, Riku, and Naminé were running back to the courtyard of the school to find the rest of the unfortunates trapped in this world. Sora explained to Riku along the way that he could not summon his Keyblade, and Riku found he couldn't as well. As they ran they talked about what their next course of action should be.
"Ok guys, we need to find Kairi and Axel and free them from the mind control. Once we do that we can figure out who is brought us here and then defeat them." said Sora.
"Sounds like a plan, simple yet to the point." said Riku.
"I think we should free the Organization as well." said Naminé suddenly, causing Sora and Riku to skid to a halt.
"What! Why should we free them?" said Sora.
"Because we need all the help we can get. We have no idea who we are facing, how powerful they are, or even how many there are of them. Plus maybe they can use their weapons, which will help since you guys can't." said Naminé.
"But their evil, they tried to ruin all the worlds the last time we saw them." said Sora.
"I know that, and I hate to say that we need them, but we're all in the same boat here. They'll want to get out as much as we do and might help us. Plus unless we can find at least one person with a working weapon we'll never get out of here." said Naminé.
"She does make a point Sora, without the keyblades we're powerless. We may need their help if we ever hope to get home." said Riku.
"Oh ok, we can free them too, but I don't like it." said Sora.
"Ok then, lets see if we can find them." said Riku.
Sora, Riku, and Naminé did not have to look far because several of the people they were looking for were hanging out in the courtyard. Axel, Roxas, Zexion and Demyx were in one group waiting for Sora and Riku, while Kairi and Larxene were waiting for Naminé to return. None of the other Nobodies or the new girl seemed to be nearby.
"Ok, there's Kairi, Axel, and the others. Now we just need to lead them off somewhere where we can knock them out." said Riku.
"How do we do it?" said Naminé
"Here's how we do it, me and Sora will take care of Axel, Demyx and Roxas and Naminé will take care of Kairi and Larxene." said Riku.
"Sure, leave me with the lunatic." said Naminé.
"Don't worry, we'll keep her from hurting you." said Sora.
"Thanks Sora." said Naminé.
"Ok, lets get started." said Riku.
Sora and Riku walked over to Axel and the others, who were talking about how stupid Kairi was. As they approached they could hear what they were saying.
"That Kairi is such a bitch!" said Axel.
"Yeah, She is so stupid and ugly!" said Demyx.
"She said my poetry about the futility of life was stupid. I wish the earth would swallow her up." said Zexion.
"I know, and I thought that your poems were perfect, really dark and full of hopelessness. She should be blasted into the sun." said Roxas.
"Why doesn't she just go die in a ditch." said Axel.
"Sora." said Riku as they drew closer.
"Yeah Riku?" said Sora.
"I have an odd feeling that you may have to keep me from killing them when we knock them out." said Riku.
"I'll try Riku, I'll try." said Sora, having a few dark thoughts about hurting the Nobodies in front of them as well.
"Hey, Riku and Sora are back. Where were you guys?" said Axel, finally noticing them.
"Oh, we were just spending some time together." said Riku.
"Oh, I get you, say no more." said Axel, smiling and winking at them.
Riku really wanted to wipe that smirk off of his face, fortunately he would get to do that soon. He decided now was a good time to put the plan into action.
"Hey guys guess what, we found this really cool hangout behind the school, right Sora?" said Riku, hinting for Sora to go along.
"What? Oh yeah, we did, it's really cool." said Sora, playing along.
"Really?" said Roxas.
"Yeah, really." said Riku.
"Well then, lets go see this cool hangout." said Axel.
Riku and Sora led Axel, Demyx, Roxas and Zexion to the sports shed behind the school. When they got there the Nobodies looked around confused.
"Ok, what's so special about this place?" said Zexion.
"Oh, well it's over in that direction, you just have to look really hard." said Riku, pointing in the direction of the fields.
"Really?" said Axel, as he and the other Nobodies turned to look, and turned their backs on Riku and Sora.
"Thank goodness these guys are gullible." Thought Riku, then he and Sora entered the shed.
They emerged a few seconds later with two baseball bats in their hands. The four Nobodies had not noticed they were gone and were still staring out at the field.
"I still don't see it." said Axel.
"Oh, it's out there, just keep looking." said Riku, as he and Sora raised their bats.
Riku and Sora then attacked the Nobodies, and with the skill and speed of many battles they had quickly knocked them out.
"Well that went better then I expected." said Riku.
"Yeah, I was expecting it to a little harder then that." said Sora.
"Thank goodness that they seem to be dumb as rocks." said Riku.
"You said it." said Sora, it was then that the Nobodies began to wake up.
"Ow, what the heck just hit me?" said Roxas, who was the first to wake.
"Welcome back to the land of the sane." said Riku.
"Riku? What are you doing here? As a matter of fact what am I doing here?" said Roxas.
"I'm wondering that as well, and why do I have a splitting headache." said Zexion, it was then that they noticed Sora standing in front of them.
"Oh crud, it's that Keyblade kid!" said Demyx, he then tried to summon his weapon but could not.
"What? I can't summon my sitar." said Demyx.
"I can't summon my book either." said Zexion.
"Settle down guys, he's not going to hurt us, in fact he's as powerless as we are right now." said Axel.
"What do you mean, traitor?" said Zexion.
"I mean we're all in the same boat here." said Axel, he then turned to Roxas.
Roxas was in a confused daze, having both seen Axel again and being outside of Sora as his own person.
"Hey Roxas buddy, you in there?" asked Axel.
"Huh? Axel? What are you doing here, and what the heck is going on?" said Roxas.
"I'll explain later, but first I want you to summon your weapons." said Axel.
"Um, ok I guess." Said Roxas, he then tried to summon his Keyblades.
But the familiar feel of the handle of the Keyblades to not appear in his hands. Roxas was confused and looked down to see nothing in his hands. He tried again and again to summon his Keyblades but to no avail.
"I can't summon them." said Roxas.
"Hmm, so none of us can summon any of our weapons. I guess that means we can only hope the other members can." said Axel.
"What, the rest of the Organization is here too?" said Demyx.
"Yeah, they are and we need to find them quick." said Axel.
"Ok number VIII, I want to know what is going on right now." said Zexion, looking very impatient.
"Don't worry, once everyone is together everything will be explained." said Axel.
"Ok fine, but it better be good." said Zexion.
"Uh guys, I love this little chart we're having, but we sort of need to find Naminé before Larxene kills her." said Riku.
"You left Naminé alone with Larxene!" yelled Axel.
"Yeah, we sort of did." said Sora, they then heard a young girls shriek of terror.
"We better find them quickly." said Axel, and they all ran off in the direction of the scream.
Meanwhile across the school yard Naminé was finding out how angry Larxene could be. Naminé had taken her and Kairi to the construction area for a new part of the school, and using a two by four had knocked them out. When Larxene had come too she was not in a very good mood, due to the painful bump on her head. She felt like breaking something, and Naminé and Kairi happened to be right in front of her. Enraged that one of them had hit her she had chased the two girls, who screamed the entire way. As they ran she threatened them with a metal pipe she had found. Finally she had them cornered between some construction equipment.
"Ok, one of you hit me in the head, which means one of you is a dead girl." said Larxene.
"But I had to do it, you were under the control of some sort of evil force." said Naminé.
"I was? Well I guess I can't kill you then…" said Larxene, and Kairi and Naminé relaxed, but then Larxene spoke again.
"I guess I'll just have to settle for beating you up savagely." said Larxene.
Larxene raised the metal pipe and Naminé and Kairi screamed. But before she could swing the pipe someone grabbed her arms and restrained them behind her back.
"Now Larxene, didn't your mother ever teach you its wrong to assault people with plumbing?" said the person in a familiar voice.
Larxene looked over her shoulder and saw that Axel was the one who had grabbed her.
"Axel, what the hell are you doing here? Let go of me traitor." said Larxene, as she struggled to let.
"I'll let you go if you promise not to kill me if I do." said Axel.
"Fine, I won't kill you." said Larxene, and Axel let her go.
"Ok then, now tell me, what the hell is going on here?" said Larxene.
"Short version is we're in deep trouble, if you want the longer version you'll have to wait till we find the rest of the Organization." said Axel.
"Grr, fine, but it better be good or your ass is mine." said Larxene.
"Don't worry, you won't have to wait long. Now you guys, did you happen to see any of the others?" said Axel, turning to Sora, Riku, and Kairi, who were in the middle of celebrating being back together again.
"No, we didn't." said Sora.
"Darn, then will have to look for them. Most of them have probably gone home by now." said Axel.
"This isn't exactly a small town from what I've seen, it could take hours to find all of them." said Naminé.
"That won't work, we have to find them quickly before something goes wrong." said Riku.
"I don't see how, its not like they'll just walk up to us." said Zexion.
"Duh, could you kids help me?" said someone behind them.
They all turned around and saw a tall, broad shouldered man standing behind them. The Organization members were shocked to see who it was.
"Lexeaus?" said Zexion.
"Duh, that's me name, now could you tell me where trash cans be, me forget where they is." said Lexeaus, dressed in a janitor jumpsuit.
"Uh, we don't know where they are." said Demyx.
"Oh, me go look for them." said Lexeaus and he left.
As he walked away Zexion summed up what everyone was thinking.
"What in the name of darkness did they do to him?" said Zexion.
"I don't know, but I found our first target." said Axel as he took the pipe Larxene had dropped.
Axel ran up behind Lexeaus and before he could even notice him Axel had swung the pipe and hit Lexeaus in the head. The big man began to stager back and forth and finally fell to the ground, out cold. After a minute or so he got back up again and rubbed the large bump on his head.
"Uh, what hit me? Oh its you." said Lexeaus, looking darkly at Axel.
Lexeaus tried to summon his tomahawk to beat Axel over the head with, but found that he could not.
"Glad to see you're back to normal." said Axel.
As the Silent Hero stood there wondering where his weapon was, Zexion walked over to the two.
"I'm afraid that your weapon will not work Number V." said Zexion.
"Number VI? What the hell is going on here? The last thing I remember was fighting the Keybearer's friend, and now I'm here." said Lexeaus.
"I would like to know that, but our good Number VIII won't tell us until we find the rest of our members." said Zexion.
"You mean the rest of the Organization is here too?" said Lexeaus.
"Yes, and we need to find them and defeat whatever brought us here." said Axel.
"One problems guys, we still don't know where they are or how to find them." said Demyx.
"Wow, Demyx actually made a valid point." said Zexion.
"Will wonders never cease?" said Larxene
"Hey, that's not funny." said Demyx.
"Uh, I may have a idea." said Kairi.
"What is it Kairi?" said Sora.
"Well this is a school right?" said Kairi.
"Right." said Sora.
"Well maybe they have a record of where the missing Nobodies live." said Kairi.
"That makes sense, since the other Organization members are teachers, it only goes to figure they would have to know how to find them." said Axel.
"So where would they keep this record?" said Zexion.
"Most likely they would keep it in the main office of the school. So all we have to do is go I there and get it." said Axel.
"Axel, there's one problem with that. We're all considered students of the school, and I don't think they let student's wander around the main office." said Naminé.
"Your right, but not all of us are considered students, right Lexeaus my friend?" said Axel as he slapped the larger man on the back.
"Um, right you are." said Lexeaus, not liking where this was heading.
A few minutes later Lexeaus was outside the main office of the school. Axel, Roxas, and Sora had tagged along to make sure everything went alright.
"You got the plan Lexeaus?" said Axel.
"Yes, I infiltrate the office and search for the list with our comrades addresses on it, once I have found it I am to leave quickly." said Lexeaus
"And don't forget, if you run into someone act dumb, really, really dumb." said Axel.
"Do I really have too?" said Lexeaus.
"If you want to get out without anyone suspecting you then yes, you have to." said Axel.
"Good luck Number V." said Roxas.
"Thank you Number XIII." said Lexeaus, he then went into the office.
Lexeaus looked around the office, which looked like a typical high school office. After making sure the coast was clear he began to look around for where the list with his comrade's addresses on it was. He did not have to look for long because sitting right on the secretaries desk, with big, bold letters, was the list he was looking for.
"What luck, it seems this will be easy." thought Lexeaus.
But just as he was about to grab the list someone entered the room. Lexeaus pulled his hand back and turned around, coming face to face with Ansem the Wise.
"Lexeaus, what are you doing here?" said Ansem.
"Uh…" was all Lexeaus could say, so shocked he was to run into his former teacher.
"Don't tell me you forgot what your doing again? You can't seem to do anything right." said Ansem.
Lexeaus ignored this condescending remark and began to think of a way out of the situation. He then noticed that there was s full waste basket next to the desk, and he remembered who the beings of this world thought he was.
"Hmm, if he thinks I am a janitor, then I might as well act like one." thought Lexeaus, already regretting what he would have to do next.
"Duh, I was just going to take out the trash, duh." said Lexeaus, trying to act dumb.
"Ok, well I'll leave you to your work, just don't dump it in the school cafeteria like last time." said Ansem, who then turned his back to him.
Lexeaus grabbed the waste basket and while Ansem was not looking stuffed the list it the basket. Lexeaus then quickly made his exit from the scene and returned to the others in the hall.
"Did you get it?" said Axel.
"Yes, I got it." said Lexeaus.
"Good, lets go back to the others and we can figure out what to do next." said Roxas, and they ran off.
Soon they were back with the rest of the group and they sat down to come up with a plan.
"Ok, so we got the list, what the heck do we do now?" said Demyx.
"We need to find these places on the list, I think we need to split up. We can cover more ground that way." said Sora.
"Who died and made you the Superior?" said Larxene.
"Like you have a better plan." said Axel.
"Fine, listen to the little key brat." said Larxene.
"Ok, we should split up into two groups, me Axel, Kairi, Riku, Roxas and Naminé, the rest of you can be the second team." said Sora.
"You know, if I didn't know any better I would say he doesn't trust us." said Demyx.
"Yeah, he should totally trust the people who tried to kill him multiple times." said Kairi.
"Will you stop it, we don't have time for this, lets just find the rest of the Organization, ok?" said Axel.
"Fine." everyone said, and they all split up.
So our heroes went their separate ways, but little did they know they were being watched. From in a dark room in the tower across town two figures watched them on a bank of monitors.
"Superior, don't you think we should stop them?" said a mysterious figure.
"Not yet, wait for the right moment." said the Superior.
"But…" said the other person.
"No buts, do as I command." said the Superior.
"As you wish." said the person, and then the left.
The Superior turned back towards the monitors and watched our heroes.
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