On the other side of the door, Romio and a purple haired woman are at a hastily cleared part of the room. The purple haired woman has a B.C. Rich 'Warlock' guitar connected to a Peavey amp while Romio is sitting as an electric keyboard. They are playing some fast paced song, with the guitar sounding downright discordant compared to the unremarkable but serviceable drum line through the keyboard. Romio abruptly stops playing, earning the ire of the purple-haired woman.
"Why did you stop?" she asks, indignant.
"You're off-rhythm," Romio starts, "You do okay at the start with the eighth notes, but even those short sixteenth note sections throw you off rhythm. Then we get to the second part of the opening and you just go into arrhythmic discord."
"I was doing fine," the purple haired woman lies, a bit incensed at the implication that she wasn't completely awesome.
"Maybe 'Fury of the Storm' is a bit out of the league of a three week guitar player," Romio says, giving a thoughtful look, "You should practice with something simpler such as 'Crazy Train'."
"Anything that Herman Li punk can do, I can do better," the purple haired woman responds, arrogantly, "Come on, again. I'll get it this time."
"Sure," Romio sighs, irritated by the insistence at this pointless activity. At that opportune moment, the door behind them opens with Riku and Sora walking inside. Romio and the purple haired woman turn around to their guests.
"Sora is okay, Rom..." Riku starts, trailing off as he recognizes the purple haired woman. She gives a look that can be best described as seething, unholy rage at them.
"I'd like you to meet my protege..." Romio starts, just then noticing the tension between them, "...I guess you've already met," she says, giving a weak laugh to try to dispel the mood.
"Ami..." Riku says under his breath. At that moment, Ami effortlessly tears the guitar off and throws it to the side, with it randomly detonating for no reason. Riku makes a mad dash to the side as she pulls a wand out from where nobody was looking and throws a spell at Sora. Sora barely registers what was coming at her and jumps to the side, narrowly evading the red bolt of energy. She quickly gets back up on her feet and starts running to the side, barely dodging all the red bolts that stream by and leave dents in the wall. Ami keeps walking closer, tossing spell after spell, finally hitting Sora.
With Sora reeling on the ground, Ami instinctively draws her keyblade and parries a plasma burst from behind her. She spins around to see Riku standing near the open weapons locker, holding a large plasma rifle with both of his hands. Ami chuckles and walks towards Riku, effortlessly parrying the plasma bursts to the side as they randomly detonate all over the room. Once she is within ten meters, she makes a dash at Riku. Halfway to him, she spasms and trips, sliding on the floor towards Riku. As Riku started to adjust his aim, a gravity beam envelops him and drags him very quickly to a side, abruptly stopping. The rifle flies out of his hands at the sudden stop, disarming him. Riku looks towards the source of the beam, finding it is coming from a silver gauntlet on Romio's hand. With her other hand, she is holding some type of plastic black and grey glove with rows of small buttons on its wrist.
"There will be no fighting in my house," Romio starts, looking downright livid at the chaos that had just happened, "Are we clear?"
"She's a monster," Riku starts, futilely trying to break free from the gravity beam.
"He started it," Ami fibs as her arms and legs painfully contort behind her back against her will.
"Enough of this childish bickering," Romio says sternly, "Whatever happened in the past is irrelevant."
"She tried to kill Sora," Riku responds.
"And she won't try again," Romio answers, turning to face Ami, "Will you?"
"I make no promises," Ami says, then spasming back really hard, "Okay, fine, I won't try to kill Sora."
"That's better," Romio says, smiling, "Are we all cool?"
"Not really," Riku starts, "But I'll refrain from taking any action."
"Thank you," Romio says, pressing a button on the plastic glove and gently putting Riku on the ground before deactivating the gravity beam. Sora starts to rise from the blow of the red beam, grasping her stomach in pain. No permanent damage, though. Romio sits down at a nearby table, gesturing for everybody else to join her. Everybody reluctantly takes a position at the table as Romio picks up a folder that now has a large hole through it.
"Good thing I memorized the whole file, huh?" Romio says, smiling, as she tosses it aside, "Anyway, this is my magical girl champion Love-Me Lizzy."
"Ami!" Ami shouts, "You're not allowed to call me Lizzy!"
"I made you what you are now," Romio says, smiling widely as she takes a sip from a nearby cup of water, "I can call you whatever I want."
"What do you mean by 'champion'?" Riku asks, looking back and forth between Romio and Ami.
"Just what I mean," Romio answers, "She's my protege. Not a very good one, but I forgive her."
"Hey," Ami responds, indignant, "That's not true."
"We wouldn't be in this mess now if you had stuck with the plan back in Juraihelm instead of chasing after Ginji Kawai," Romio says, chuckling.
"I told you, Washu attacked me," Ami says, unconvincingly.
"Washu was fighting my robots," Romio says, "In front of me. You weren't anywhere near her."
"Maybe if your plan didn't suck, we'd have won," Ami says, looking hostile.
"Enough about the past," Romio says, still smiling, "I also forgive you for sending all of one space ship my way."
"That's a lie," Ami says, "I've tracked down and infected dozens of ships. I even favored the UID like you requested."
"Every UID ship I came across was torn apart by Heartless," Romio says, "You're trying to kill those, so you obviously didn't touch those ships. You wouldn't decide to command the Heartless now, would you?"
"I'm telling the truth," Ami continues, "I disable the shields, go in through the hangar, infect the computer..." she trails off as she starts to see a connection she hadn't made before.
"You need to stop being so careless," Romio starts, taking a sip from her glass of water, "If you're telling the truth, you kill a lot of people doing this."
"It's collateral damage," Ami says, coldly, "They're too heavily guarded for me to sneak on. You're still getting your equipment, right?"
"I don't care about equipment," Romio says, "I want people. And tampering with GLaDOS to force it to kill Riku and Sora wasn't helpful, either."
"Maybe if you had actually tested GLaDOS," Ami starts, "You'd have seen that it was rampant to begin with. Why do you think Aperture Science went bankrupt? I had to hire someone to fix it for me, but I kept backups of the old one for people like these two baka yaro."
"Well, I'm sorry for not going over two hundred million lines of code," Romio answers, chuckling, "Not everybody can be perfect like you seem to think you are."
"Um..." Riku says, relaxing his headlock on Sora and taking his hand off of her mouth, "I've been listening quietly and making sure that Sora does as well, but this makes little sense. What's this 'plan' you mentioned earlier?"
"I tried to depolarize Juraihelm so it would collide with Earth," Romio explains, "But Ami, rather than setting up the machines on the south pole, just went off to do her own thing. I couldn't hold the line and they ended up banishing me for this."
"Wait..." Riku says, staring at Romio, "You tried to kill two planets' worth of people?"
"They're very bad people," Romio says, looking sort of agitated, "I told you this."
"You told me that they rejected you as a hero," Riku responds.
"They did," Romio starts, "I just decided not to tell you about all my failed attempts at killing them all. I thought you'd might judge me harshly."
"I guess it's fine if it's all in the past now," Riku responds, uncertain.
"Besides, I have a new plan now," Romio starts, with a wide smile and her eyes closed, "I harvested your symbiont and modified its structure. With my newly completed Jericho Cubed missile system and the newly finished propagation powder, I'll definitely kill them all this time."
"...no," Riku says, staring at her.
"What do you mean?" Romio says, "These are horrible people. They pollute, corrupt, and destroy everything they touch. They don't deserve to live."
"I can't idly sit by as you kill billions of people," Riku says, "That would make you no better than the Heartless."
"They're worse than the Heartless," Romio responds, "At least the Heartless have the excuse of being mindless. These people are fully aware of what they're doing."
"That doesn't give you the right to assume they're all bad," Riku counters, "There are always good people in any civilization."
"Lofty words from somebody that endorses a genocide of all the Heartless," Romio counters.
"The Heartless are different," Riku starts, "They really don't have anything else going on in those pathetically small brains of their's. They are born entirely from negative emotions, after all. I can't believe you're doing something like this."
"What did you think I was collecting so much of your blood for?" Romio asks.
"To find a cure," Riku answers.
"I only needed maybe a quart total in my search for a cure," Romio answers, "But how could you ignore that I had all of the infected blood in the same lab as all those rocket parts?"
"I don't know," Riku says, "I thought you were multi-tasking while you created asteroid mining... stuff... whatever, I can't let you do this."
"Come on," Romio says, "I've been everything I can be for you. You can't deny that."
"I won't deny that I... love you," Riku says, looking embarrassed to say that in front of Sora and Ami, "But this is madness. I can't live with myself if I allow billions of people to be killed." With that, Riku pushes himself away from the table and starts to walk towards the door.
"Where are you going?" Romio asks, "We're on a space ship."
"I'm going to destroy the missiles," Riku responds, "Before you do something we'll all regret."
"Forgive me," Romio says, putting on the silver gauntlet and using the gravity beam on Riku again. She drags him into the air, holding him.
"Let him go!" Sora shouts, finally getting enough nerve to speak up. She pushes herself onto her feet on the chair and jumps onto the table. Romio drops Riku and uses the gravity beam to shove Sora away, sending her flying towards Riku's descent path. Just before Sora hits Riku at the ground, Romio readjusts the beam to hold both of them in place. As all this unfolds, Ami just watches, cackling to herself.
"See, I told you!" she says, taking her wand out from somewhere nobody was looking, "I'll finish off these baka yaros for you." Ami throws a yellow sphere of energy towards Sora and Riku, forcing Romio to drag them out of its path as it leaves a black crater in the wall. She mashes a button on the plastic glove, spasming Ami's right arm and forcing her to drop the wand.
"No!" Romio shouts at Ami.
"Why not?" Ami asks, grabbing her arm to try and stop it from the painful spasming, "They were going to stop your plan. I was right about them."
"They're misguided," Romio says, "They just need some time to realize that this is necessary."
"We won't ever sign off on the deaths of billions," Riku says.
"I can't just let you ruin my plan, though," Romio starts, looking sad, "I'm sorry, but it pains me to tell you that I'm going to have to lock you up for the time being."
"You don't have to do this," Riku starts, "Search within your heart. You can find forgiveness for them."
"They're monsters and I can't let them spread to different worlds," she counters, pressing a button on the plastic glove and facing Ami, "Bind them. No funny business or I start pressing random buttons."
"Yes, ma'am," Ami responds, rolling her eyes and flicking her wrist to summon forth a large mass of ropes. They slither around Sora and Riku, tying them down at every joint. Once they are fully wrapped, Romio gently puts them on the ground and deactivates the beam. She walks towards them, carrying the plastic glove in her other hand and keeping her peripheral vision on Ami. Ami just looks indignant that they're being kept alive but doesn't seem like she's going to make any moves.
"You don't have to do this," Riku says as Romio walks to them.
"Don't worry," Romio responds, smiling warmly at Riku, "I love you all the same and I'm sure once we've destroyed Juraihelm, you'll come to realize it was a necessary course of action. For now, I'm going to have to keep you in the lab. I'll try to make sure your incarceration as pleasant as possible."