Chapter 9
"alright I think I under stand what's going on," said Irvine, "I get it but what I don't get is how it's been eight years since all this happened," Said Rinoa. "what's so hard to believe about that," asked Tama, "well for one thing in that picture of Squall he looked the same age as he was when we last saw him," Said Irvine. "Hmm. . . ." Hikari walked over to the computer and brought up some pictures of Cloud, Tifa, Yuffie, Cid and Squall. "I think Squall is about seventeen here," Hikari pointed out. "What about Cloud and the others," Hikari asked looking at Vincent, "they're only about three years older then they are in the pictures," Answered Vincent. "I'll ask Shinra once he gets back but he'll probably have a different time as well," "so what's all that mean" asked Tama, "well let's see," Hikari thought about it for a minute. "Well, while eight years have passed in our world only about a year seems to have passed in Irvine and Rinoa's, and it seems to have been about two or three years in Vincent's world. So time seems to pass differently in each world."
Hikari closed the pictures and brought up files on organization XIII. "I have one more question," said Rinoa, "go ahead," answered Hikari not looking away from the computer. "How come Squall and Vincent's friends don't remember this place?" "Well it's. . ." ". . .because they were needed some where else," Vincent had cut in and finished her sentence. "Uh. . . right," said Hikari looking at Vincent, "they were needed on your worlds for one reason or another. . ." ". . .the worlds they were needed on erased their memories of this world and replaced them with new ones to fit there new world." Vincent said interrupting Hikari again. "Why?" asked Irvine, "because. . ." "If they. . ." Hikari covered his mouth, "quit interrupting me," she said annoyed, "if they had memories of another world it might interfere with their destiny's on their new world." She took her hand off of Vincent's mouth and smiled at him, "sorry, but you kept interrupting me." Vincent just stared at the ground as Hikari went back to the computer, "oh I get it now," said Irvine, "yeah so do I," said Rinoa, "good because I have no idea what they were talking about maybe one of you could explain it," Said Tama confused. "come on," Reise grabbed Tama's arm and pulled him into Ansem's study, "I'll try to explain it in the simplest way possible." "I'm gonna check on that little guy," said Irvine heading through the other door to the heartless machine "I'll come too," said Rinoa.
"You know a lot for a kid," said Vincent, "not really," said Hikari opening the file on Roxas, "I just pieced everything together." "That was still pretty impressive," said Vincent, he walked over and looked at the data. "Roxas? He's a nobody?" he asked, Hikari nodded. "Can I ask you something?" Hikari said she stopped typing and looked at him, Vincent nodded. "How come you know so much about other worlds, and nobody's and heartless?" Vincent looked back at the screen, "you don't have to answer I was just wondering." Hikari started to read through Roxas's data, "it was years ago," said Vincent, "I was working as a Turk when a man named Ansem came to our world he started to work in the science division at the Shinra Company, he was working with a man named Hojo. Ansem told Hojo about the heartless and other worlds and they started to do experiments on people." "So how do you fit in?" Hikari asked. "I guarded the facility they were experimenting in; I wanted to know what they were doing so I looked through their reports and found out about everything. Ansem left our world soon enough and Hojo quit his experiments after Ansem left." "I see," Hikari brought up two pictures one was of Ansem the other was of Xemnas. "Which one was the one that came to your world," Hikari asked, Vincent looked at the pictures, "it was him," He pointed to the picture of Xemnas. "Interesting, but that's not Ansem," she brought up their profiles. "That is Xemnas, and this is Ansem. Xemnas was probably just pretending to be Ansem," she closed the files and went back to Roxas's file. "Why would he do that," Vincent asked, Hikari shrugged, "he does it a lot so it's not that surprising." "Hay!" said Irvine running in, "the little guy found some thing let's go see," he ran off to the study to get Reise and Tama. "Let's go have a look," Hikari and Vincent headed for the heartless machine.
"It's a ship," said Rinoa, as Hikari and Vincent walked over. There was a ship sitting right in the middle of the heartless machine. "I can't figure out how it works though," said Shinra jumping down from the cockpit. "It's a Gummie ship," said Hikari she walked over and looked at it amazed. "Cid must of left it here," Hikari climbed into the cockpit, "I think I can get it to work." Vincent jumped in as Reise, Tama, and Irvine came in, "whoa! Cool ship!" said Tama amazed. "Can it fly," asked Reise, "I'm trying to figure that out," said Hikari she pushed a button and the ship started. "Yes!" said Hikari excitedly, the cockpit closed and the engine started to roar, "No! No! this is bad!" she said as the ship launched itself Hikari was thrown back and knocked out, while Vincent frantically hit buttons to try to stop the ship. "do you think they'll be alright?" Reise asked trying to accept what had just happened. Irvine looked at her skeptically, "want the truth?"