This will end my 'Incident at F. W. C. C.' trilogy of chapters. Enjoy.
Chapter 14: Incident at the Foreign World Control Center: Part 3
In the Lab room...
It was so dark that Jacob couldn't see the hand in front of his face.
"Sora?" Jacob called. "Can you hear me?"
"Loud and clear..." Sora replied almost silently.
It was quiet enough that Jacob heard him. "Good. I'm coming down. Kairi come on, it's dark enough that you can't see Sora anymore."
"How am I supposed to get to you?" her voice came through the dark.
Jacob sighed. "I'll grope my way over to you, then." And that's what he did. Feeling carefully along the catwalk, afraid to fall off, Jacob slowly approached the hallway that was connected to the catwalk.
Some sparks from a computer briefly lit the room. Sora was still leaning against his Keyblade in the shattered status tube, Jacob was holding the AK-47 and slowly approaching Kairi, wearing her tank top and blue jeans, waiting patiently in the hall.
The darkness fell again, and Jacob continued to work his way towards Kairi, Sora continued to stand, and someone, in the shadows, continued to sneak...
Jacob bumped into Kairi.
"Ouch!" she cried. "You're standing on my foot!"
"So I am," Jacob said, gently stepping away.
"Okay, so how do we get down to Sora and-mumff!!!
Jacob felt something hard cuff him across the face and he fell painfully onto the catwalk. He didn't dare to shoot; he might hit Kairi.
"Your Majesty!" Jacob yelled. But no reply. "Your Majesty!!... Kairi!!!!"
Another shower of sparks lit the room.... and Jacob saw Kairi, a gag shoved into her mouth, and three soldiers in stark white uniforms with gaping black eye holes. At their head was another soldier, dressed similarly accept for orange stripes running up the center of his helmet, torso armor, and leg coverings...
Darkness fell again. "Get her out of here!!" Captain Sienex yelled. "Get her to the shuttle and kill anyone who gets in your way!"
Kairi's muffled screams could be heard as the Stormtroopers grabbed her and forced her away.
"NO!!!!!! FIRE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Suddenly a huge, white, almost liquid ball of fire lit up the room, blazing from the tip of Sora's Keyblade and tearing through the air right towards the Stormtrooper Captain.
Sienex flipped off the catwalk just as the ball of fire melted through it and disappeared. Darkness was absolute only for a moment before Sienex's jetpack ignited.
A large segment of the catwalk had melted, Jacob had just barely rolled out of the way, lest he would have been melted along with it. The catwalk seemed to detach and start to sway, and it most tilted until it was all Jacob could do to grip the railing and prevent himself from falling. His AK-47 fell from his grip and clattered to the ground below. He didn't really mind. Bullets would be useless against Sienex's armor. He had though he would be dealing with normal soldiers, not the terror that was a Stormtrooper...
"Forget all that," Jacob shook his head. "Kairi and Sora need help."
And it was then that Sienex made the foolish mistake of flying under Jacob to get a better shot. Jacob simply let go of the ruined catwalk and landed on Sienex's back. The two flew in jerky patterns around the room as Sienex tried to get the foolish interloper off...
Jacob and Sienex just barley few past the entrance to the hall in which Kairi had been standing a moment ago, and Jacob was able to reach the suitcase that was laying idly on the ground.
Still holding Sienex with one hand (now the two appeared like a cowboy riding a bull at a rodeo) he popped the suitcase open and threw something to Sora. "Catch!!" he yelled before he had to duck to avoid hitting the ceiling.
Sora snatched the Hi-Potion out of the air and quickly drank it down. Strength returning to him, he jumped over the shattered glass around his tube and towards the counter where his and Kairi's clothes lay.
It the half and constantly moving light of the jetpack, Sora dressed into the clothes the Three Good Fairies made for him a few months ago.
Jacob jumped off of Sienex's back and to the floor. Sienex dove at him and extended his light sword. Jacob dodged just in time to avoid being decapitated.
Sienex, now standing on the ground, charged at Jacob, slashing his blade through the air, each time barley missing Kairi's bodyguard.
"Sora!!" Jacob cried as he pulled a matrix to avoid one of Sienex's swipes. "Go and help Kairi! Hurry!"
Sora, now fully dressed, nodded and grabbed Kairi's clothes before jumping onto a heap of electronic equipment, up to what was left of the catwalk, and then down the hall.
Sienex tried to take off to go after the Keybearer, but suddenly a large computer monitor slammed into his head. He toppled over onto the ground.
Jacob proceeded to drop a computer onto Sienex's chest and kick him hard on the cheek plate, hoping to break the neck of the Captain.
But to no avail; Sienex shifted so that the computer fell off of him and jumped into the air with a spin kick that knocked Jacob off his feet and into a wall.
The only thing that had been illuminating the fight since Sienex turned off his jetpack was his light sword. Sienex seemed to realize this and with a devilish grin (which could not be seen under the helmet) and he deactivated it, plunging the room back into darkness.
"No," Jacob thought. "Darkness for me. His helmet must have night vision!!"
No sooner had the thought this than Sienex had taken his laser machine gun off his back and hit Jacob hard across the face with the stock. Jacob's glasses flew off somewhere into the dark, and he felt warm blood trickling down his cheek.
"A worthy fight, boy," Sienex chuckled as he cocked his rifle. "But not good enough."
Sparks. The gun was pointed right at him. Sienex was looming overhead.
He would have to find his glasses later.
One jumping spin kick in the light of the sparks sent the rife flying from Sienex's hands. Jacob saw vaguely where it fell before darkness came upon them again.
Jacob threw himself at the spot where the rife had fallen just as Captain Sienex did the same. They both grabbed it at the exact same time, but Jacob knew that he wouldn't be able to hold on; Sienex was stronger that he was, and he could see what to grip.
And then Sienex's armor clad leg slammed into Jacob's crotch with the force of a mule. Jacob crumpled to the ground with no chance of getting back up in time to stop the shots that suddenly blazed out of the barrel of Sienex's rifle...
In the halls...
Sora moved as fast has he could through the darkness. He continually bumped into walls and shouted Kairi's name, but he couldn't catch up to her and the Stormtroopers. He prayed that the lights would come on so that he could speed up, and that Kairi would put up a fight....
Suddenly, emergency red lights flickered to life. Eerie and dim as it was, Sora could see. He took off down the hall, hoping he was not too late.
A few halls ahead of Sora...
Kairi was manhandled along through the halls, having tripped several times in the dark and received violent beatings as a reward. Large bruises were already popping up all over her body.
And that was when the emergency lights turned on.
"Crap," one of the Stormtroopers said. "Do you think he really wants us to...?"
"Hold on," another one replied. "It'll flicker twice."
And it did.
"Alright men, you remember our orders," the last one said. "Shoot her!"
Back down the halls...
Sora heard the sound of blaster fire up ahead of him.
"Not Kairi," he muttered. "Not Kairi, too. Riku was enough..."
The world seemed to blur around him. All that mattered was getting to Kairi and making sure that she was okay.
What was he saying? She would be okay. She would be. She had to be.
Down the halls. More shots and a blood curling scream from the now presumably un-gaged Kairi.
She'll be alright. Just get to her. She'll be fine. She and you and Riku are all going to go back to Destiny Islands together after this is over...
More shots. This time no scream.
She has to be alright. There's no way they can kill her. She's a Princess of Heart.
"Ah," a nasty little voice said in the back of his head. "But Alice died, didn't she?"
She'll be okay. She'd pull through. Soon they would be back on the Shera asking Jacob questions about what the heck was going on here...
The shots stopped abrubtly. The noise of a body crumpling to the ground was heard.
No. She can't be dead. It isn't possible. Not. Possible.
He arrived. And what he saw shocked him.
All three of the Stormtroopers were lying dead, two of their heads bloodily severed from their bodies, the last one stabbed through the chest.
And Sora saw Kairi, collapsed against the wall, her eyes filled with terror and shock, and her right hand grasping a bloodstained Keyblade with floral designs at the top.
Kairi didn't seem to recognize his presence. Sora slowly walked over and knelt down beside her.
She continued to stare forward at the dead bodies before muttering, "Well, my Keyblade is finally here..." and fainting dead away into Sora's arms.
Her blood-riden Keyblade vanished, but Kairi's hands and face were still covered with human blood.
Sora gently lifted her into the air, cradling her with both arms, and walked past the strange scene and down another hall, hoping that Jacob would catch up soon and show him the way out.
Ten minutes later...
Well, Jacob hadn't caught up to them. Sora was tempted to go back and check on him, but quickly realized that he didn't even know how to get back. He had completely lost himself inside the confusing maze that was the basement of the large building.
But as he realized these things, as if triggered by his thoughts, a door to his right that he was sure hadn't been there before swung open. Sora stepped through into the white hallways that he remembered from earlier.
"At least I'm back on the surface," Sora sighed out loud. Now all he had to do was find his way out of the building.
After another very long search-and-don't-find session...
Sora finally found the exit of the large dome. He stepped out into the town and was shocked at the sight of burning houses and bodies of the strange gray-skinned creatures that inhabited the world.
Sora stood, Kairi still in his arms, gazing down at the town for a moment... before the dome blew up.
Sora was hurled into the air, barley keeping his grip on the Princess of Heart, and crashed at the bottom of the stairs, his head slamming into the ground.
The last thing he saw before his vision tunneled out was three slowly lowering knife shaped ships, and one large airship streaking towards town...
Yes, I know that this chapter was EXTREMELY short. I sincerely apologize, but I needed to get on with the story, and the plot was starting to become to convoluted and slow.
However, I have something important to tell you: I have examined what I want to happen with this story, and it looks like this one is going to be something of a predecessor to two other, longer stories. This one is really just setting the scene. It will still be very important to the over all story though, so keep reading! (Oh, and tell your friends about me, please. I'm getting depressed with so few readers.)
I'll do another chapter of Star Wars: Episode One next, since I've put that off so long. Then, we'll get back to the action with Sora and the gang.
Oh, and about Jacob... You know, with possibly getting shot and the building blowing up... What do you think?
Let me say this before you answer: EXPECT THE UNEXPECTED!!!!!
Heck, Kairi actually getting her Keyblade at this point was unexpected... I wanted to wait until later, but she's kinda just getting in my way when I write fight scenes. You know, I have to figure out something for her to do while the others go and kick butt without her... it was just getting too hard.