KINGDOM HEARTS III:
CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN: MECHANICAL VIOLATOR HAKAIDER
(I only own Kenji)
It's been a day since they left Radiant Garden for the third time to search for Saburo, the King, Sora and Riku. Kenji, Trinxty, and Matt continue their journey and also hope to save Matt's world once more. "Kenji?" asked Trinxty walking up to the main cockpit. "My head hurts."
Kenji looked to Trinxty, but he was driving so he couldn't talk to her for long. "Really?" asked Kenji.
"This all happened after I met that person at your home." she said.
"Who did you meet?" he asked. He was fighting the whole time so he didn't get a chance to see what she was doing during that time.
"A man with a sword like a key." she said looking down and holding her head with one hand.
"Xero…?" Kenji whispered. Kenji didn't know where Xero came from, nor whose Nobody he was. He just knew he was dangerous.
"Hey, guys."
Kenji looked to the stairs and saw Roxas come in. "Hey, man."
"I'll take over now." he said. Kenji got out of the seat and Roxas took his place for the rest of the time. "You should help Trinxty out now."
"Sure." said Kenji. He took Trinxty by her hand and took her below deck. Matt was there lying on his bed sleeping. "Did any of your memories come back to you while we where on Radiant Garden?"
Trinxty faintly shook her head. "No, but this pain…it won't go away…"
"Lay down, I'll get you some medicine." he said sitting her on her bed. When she closed her eyes he walked to a shelf and opened the second to the top self that contained the medicine. He took a bottle and gave two pills to Trinxty before heading back onto the deck. "We need some where to land."
"Traverse Town is the closest world to our location." said Roxas looking at the radar screen on the controls. "We can dock there to rest and refuel."
"Okay." said Kenji. He walked over and leaned next to Roxas. "Trinxty's headache started after she met the Nobody, Xero; I think he has something to do with this."
"You think he's causing the pain?" asked Roxas. "It could be possible that the pain is her memories returning to her."
"Possibly…" said Kenji. He looked out the window and saw Traverse Town in view. "Get ready to land."
Roxas took the gummi ship in nice and slowly to the gummi hanger. Almost all worlds had them. The hanger in Traverse Town was right outside the main entrance of the town. After securing the ship, Roxas turned it off and got out of his seat. "Alright, let's go."
Kenji woke Matt up and got Trinxty out of bed. They all exited the hanger as the mechanics came to work on the ship. They pushed open the doors to the town and walked in. "This was always a nice town to take a vacation to see." said Kenji.
Trinxty looked around and the town started to look like a town she once saw, that she once been to, then the pain returned. Trinxty held her head from the pain. "Ah!" She started to ignore the déjà vu that went through her head and the pain left. "Is this pain…preventing me from…remembering…?" she said to herself. "Am I…not suppose to…remember?" She looked down at her hands thinking about it.
Kenji looked to Trinxty and her expression. "What's wrong?"
She looked back up and at Kenji. "N-no, I'm fine."
"Do you think the Heartless will attack us here in the town?" asked Matt.
"Not in the First District." said Roxas. "Let's get a place to stay at the inn, shall we?"
"Sure." said Kenji. He grabbed Trinxty's hand. "Come on, we're going to find a place to stay." Trinxty followed him to the doors that lead to the second district. Once there they saw many shops all around and a court yard with a fountain in it. Kenji looked around at the scene. "Nice place."
"Hey, you think we should get Trinxty some new clothes?" asked Roxas. "She's been wearing the same ones for a while."
Trinxty looked at her clothes. "But I like my clothes."
"Roxas is actually right, they need to be washed someday, and we'll need to get you a new set to wear." said Matt. He pointed to a clothing store. "You think we can find something in there?"
"Sure." said Kenji. He and the others headed for the store not knowing that they where being watched.
"Hmm, so, she's a Nobody?" said the stalker as he watched them enter the store. And he's the one with the keyblade." He put his hand on his chin and started thinking. "I saw that girl's powers in Radiant Garden, if she can get the Keyblade…heh, I think I've got a plan."
Roxas looked through an assortment of shirts for her. "Does she look better in black or white?"
"Well, she's always worn white, let's try black this time." said Kenji. Trinxty looked through the clothing choices as well. "Find anything you like?"
"Um, I don't know." she said. Then she saw a hat. It was black with a white front that hat a weird symbol on it that looked like an umbrella with three white triangles and three red ones in the center of it. Then she had a faint memory come to her. She pulled her hair back into a puny tail behind her. Then she found a rubber band and tied her hair with it. After that she took the hat and put the tail in through the back and put it on her head. "Kenji, how does this look?"
Kenji looked up from the clothes and looked at her. He was shocked at what he saw as if he's seen that some where. Trinxty had her hair tied up in a pony tail behind her and going out the back of a hat that was pulled over her face slightly. "You…look…like…Trinity…" he whispered. Then a small tear came from his eye.
Roxas heard a bit of what he said. "What did you say?"
Kenji came out of the trance and whipped his sleeve over his face. "Huh? I didn't say anything."
"Yeah, you said that Trinxty looked like someone." said Roxas.
"But, I didn't say anything." said Kenji. He looked back at Trinxty. "You…look great."
"You guys are strange." said Matt.
Kenji remembered an image of a girl that had her hat on like Trinxty and the outfit she wore. Kenji all of the sudden started looking for the clothes for that outfit. He grabbed a black sleeveless shirt and a gray skirt. "Here Trinxty, put these on."
Trinxty looked at the clothes. "O-okay." She was taken to the dressing room to try them on.
"You already found clothes for her?" asked Roxas.
"Yeah." said Kenji. "I was kinda in a rush, so I think the clothes I picked might not look good on her." The curtain over the dressing room was pulled back and Trinxty walked out fully dressed.
"How does it look?" she asked.
Matt looked up and down her body. "I don't know, she looks pretty damn good to me."
The Inn…
They got four rooms so that everyone could have some privacy. Kenji gave Trinxty the red room, which seemed the nicest and he got the one to the left of that room so her could be near her if she has another headache. Roxas and Kenji sat with each other in Kenji's room. "Who's Trinity?" asked Roxas.
"Who?" asked Kenji.
"You said Trinxty looked like Trinity." said Roxas. "Their names sound so much alike, but if you spell out Trinxty's name it's T-r-i-n-x-t...y…wait…"
"What's wrong?" asked Kenji.
"Do you have a pen and one of those useless recipes?" asked Roxas. Kenji took out a pen and a recipe from his wallet. Roxas took them and sat down at the table. "Okay, you see my name is R-o-x-a-s?"
"Yeah." said Kenji.
"Take out the x and move the letters around and you get S-o-r-a." said Roxas. "My name is an anagram of Sora because I'm his nobody."
"I see. But, what does this have to do with Trinxty?" asked Kenji.
"It's spelt T-r-i-n-x-t-y." said Roxas. "And it's common that Nobodies have x's in their name." Roxas wrote down Trinity right next to it. "Look, it's Trinity without the other i and replaced with an x."
"…so…you're saying that Trinxty is a Nobody, of this Trinity…" said Kenji.
"Yeah, that explains why she had that power you told me about." said Roxas. "Trinxty's a Nobody, and a very powerful one."
"So if the organization finds out about this…" said Kenji as thought went through her head. "Roxas, let's keep this between us for the time being, then we'll find out a way to get around this…"
"Sure…" said Roxas.
Trinxty looked at her outfit in the mirror and it felt familiar to her. "Who am I…really?" she said looking at the girl in the mirror before her in the same outfit as her. "Am I a reflection…of someone?" She looked away and stopped thinking about it. She walked to a window and opened it up. Then she jumped into it and stood on the bottom of the frame. She looked up and grabbed the roof above her with both hands and pushed her self out of the window frame, she used both her legs and her arms to propel herself op into a hand stand on the edge of the roof and tumbled onto the roof onto her feet. She looked on at the town all around her. "Traverse…Twilight…Town…" Then the pain in her head came back. She stopped thinking about the town and it slowly faded.
Matt was in his room practicing his sword technique. Then he heard something on the roof. He looked up at the ceiling and it stopped. "Big ass birds."
Trinxty looked over at the side of the roof at the ground. "The pain won't let me remember…" she said crying. "Am I not supposed to remember?" She stared at the ground and how far it was from her position. "If I fall head first…" she whipped her tears. "If I can't have my memories, what's the point living this life?"
"Having memory problems?"
Trinxty spun around and saw a man in all black clothes and sun glasses standing behind her. He approached her slowly with his hands in his pockets. "Are you here to kill yourself too?"
"I have no reason to leave this life." he said. "I'm actually enjoying it."
"Good for you." she said looking at the ground again.
"Hold on there, Trinxty." he said.
She stopped and looked to him. "How do you know my name?!"
"I've been watching you for a while, and I can relate to having to be a 'mirror image' of the real thing."
"W-what?"
"You might not know it, but you and I are very much alike." he said. "We are both mimics of humans. Nobodies and androids are both considered humans that 'don't really exist'." he said giving a sly grin. "So you see; we are both copies of the real thing, so I can relate to your pain of having no memories of my own when I was brought into this world."
"Android?" she said. "And Nobodies."
"Androids are artificial humans." he explained. "Nobodies." he said. "Are the mean people that attack your dear Kenji."
Matt climbed on to the side of the roof to see if he can get the 'big ass birds' off of the roof, but he saw Trinxty and the man on the roof and hid from them. "What? Who is Trinxty talking to?"
"No, I'm not like them!" she said.
"You don't have to, but weather you like it or not, you and I are androids of real humans, and they have created prejudice ideas against our existence." He said. "That's one reason why Kenji Ishikawa and his brother created the Heart Defenders: to destroy the Nobodies."
"I…don't believe what I'm hearing…" she said.
"Humans and other people create this prejudice because we don't have hearts." he said. "And having a heart makes a big difference in the worlds all others live on."
"But I do have a heart." said Trinxty beginning to cry again. "…do i…?"
"Mirror images don't have hearts, only the ones that they are images of." he said. "It is complicated to understand, I know." He walked closer to her. "I am Hakaider. But you can call me by the human name of Ryu."
"Hakaider?" she repeated.
"The japanese word hakai means destroy." He said. "The humans made me for the soul purpose of destroying things for them that they feel shouldn't exist; even though I myself don't really exist. But I have created my own destiny: I help those who, like me, 'don't exist'."
"So, you're here to help me?" she said. "How? How can you help me?"
"I can get your memories back." he said. "The memories you once had as an existing human."
The sound of that answer shocked her and she jumped to her feet. "What? You can!?"
"Yes, but it requires the power of a magical weapon that few people have obtained." Ryu said taking his hands out of his pockets. "The Keyblade."
"The Keyblade? The thing Kenji has?" she asked.
"That's right." said Ryu. "I need you to get it from me, if Kenji sees me getting it, or even with it in my possession, he'll surely kill me."
"He would?" she asked. "So, you want me to get it?"
"That's right." he nodded.
"Don't listen to him, Trinxty!" Ryu and Trinxty turned their heads to the direction of the voice.
Trinxty looked to her left and saw Matt. "Matt!"
"Get away from her!" he said pointing his sword at her. "Chaos Control!" Matt swung his sword at Ryu and a blade of light flew from it at Ryu.
Ryu jumped it with ease. He was farther from Trinxty now. "Matt, why do you attack me? If it's weren't for me, Kenji would have never defeated Eggman."
"Lies!" he shot another blade at him, the shot hit Ryu right in his shin.
Ryu looked down at his shin to see the damage. His pant leg was torn and burned, so was the skin underneath. It was burned away to reveal a shiny black plate of metal underneath. "Ah, Ryu!" said Trinxty.
"Stay away from him, Trinxty!" said Matt pointing his sword at him. "That's not his true form!"
Ryu grinned and yellow lines appeared under his eyes that lead down his face to his jaw. Then his skin, clothes, and all of the items on his body shattered and vanished to reveal a figure covered in light. Matt and Trinxty covered their eyes until the light faded away. Matt looked back and was shocked at what he saw. "What the?!"
Trinxty readjusted her eyes to the light levels around her again and looked back at where Ryu stood. Instead of a biker looking person, a black, metal creature stood in his place with glowing red eyes. "…Ryu…an android…Hakaider…"
"You want to keep going Matt?" asked Hakaider. "Now that you know my true form?"
Matt swung his sword and sent another light blade at him. Hakaider didn't jump over it; instead a large knife came out of the outside of his thigh. He grabbed it and threw it at Matt just before the blade hit the roof and caused an explosion. The knife flew at Matt he moved out of the way, but it grazed his shoulder. "Ah! Dammit!"
Trinxty ran over to him and helped him. "Matt, you're hurt…"
"It's just a scratch. What happened to that monster?" he asked holding his bleeding shoulder. He looked back at where he was last, but he was gone, no trace of him. "He got away."
"Matt, we should help you." she said then something caught her eye. The knife that was thrown was in the corner of the roof. She walked over to it and took it out of the roof. She examined the large blade with some blood on it. She put the blade through her skirt to clean it and put the knife in her boot before getting Matt down and into the inn.
After bandaging his shoulder everyone came to a meeting. "Hakaider?" asked Kenji.
"Yeah, he called himself Hakaider, and he attacked Matt." said Trinxty.
"Matt, what happened?" asked Roxas.
"I found Hakaider talking to Trinxty, and I attacked him." said Matt.
"What did you talk about?" asked Kenji to Trinxty.
"Nothing." She answered.
"Nothing?" asked Roxas.
"Nothing." said Matt. "He was threatening her."
"I see. It's late, let's get some sleep." said Kenji going to his room. Roxas nodded and went to his room. Trinxty stood up from sitting on Matt's bed with him on it and left to her room. Matt started to become suspicious.
Kenji sat in his room and pulled out the Picture that Suika gave to him. He had forgotten all about it until now. He studied it and saw Trinity, she looked exactly like Trinxty. "So she is a Nobody…" Then he saw the boy in the picture. He looked just like Kenji. He put it away once he heard someone knock on his door. "Come in."
Trinxty opened the door and walked in. "Hi…did I wake you?"
"No, Trinxty." He said getting up from his bed and looking at her. "What do you need?"
"I…ah…I'm so sorry…" she said looking down.
"Huh?" he said. He saw her bring her leg up and pull out the knife. "Trinxty?!"
She pointed it at him. "Give me the Keyblade."
Kenji jumped up. "You can't be serious?!"
"I am, do it or I'll kill you…" she said.
Kenji looked at the knife that was pointed at him. "Hakaider…he told you to do this…" He summoned the Keyblade into his hand. "Trinxty, I can't let you do this…" She stood silent. Kenji laid the Keyblade out in front of him. "Go ahead…"
Roxas walked over to the opened door and saw what was going on. "Kenji!" Trinxty saw him. Roxas dove for her legs.
Trinxty jumped over him and made a backwards flip in the air. Kenji kicked the keyblade from the ground with his foot to his hand. Trinxty threw the knife at him, he barely dodged it; and while he was distracted she kicked the keyblade out of his hand. She grabbed it while it was still flying out of his hand. Then she jumped out the window with it. "Damn, she got the Keyblade!"
"And I'll bet she's going to take it to Hakaider." said Matt entering the room. "In exchange for her memories."
"What?!" said Kenji.
"So that's what this is all about…" said Roxas.
Kenji held out his hand. "I'll call it back." Nothing happened. "What, how could…could Trinxty?!"
"Trinxty must be legible to use the Keyblade." said Matt. "We need to find her…"
Kenji walked up to the dagger in the wall and took it. "I'll have to use this." He put it in his sleeve and walked over to the others. "Let's go."
Trinxty ran into the Third District with the keyblade and slashed through all of the Heartless in her path with abilities she never knew she had. She stopped at the center of it to catch her breath. Then she ran to another entrance to the Second District, she was now on of the bell building. "Very good, Trinxty." She turned around to see Ryu walk up to her in his human form from inside the building.
"Ryu, I have the keyblade, now tell me how I can get my memories back." She said.
"Not yet." said Ryu turning his back.
"What? You said…"
"I said I would do so, I'll keep my promise if you do one more thing for me." he said walking back to her. "Destroy the Kikaiders…"
"Kikaider?" she asked.
"They are androids that still side with the humans, and you have the power to get rid of them." said Ryu.
"Get rid of them, you mean kill?" she asked.
"That's right." he said.
Trinxty looked down at these orders. Thinking of what might happen. Then she remembered what Kenji said. He said that he'd help her. Ryu might tell her to kill Kenji, she got her answer. "No."
"What?" asked Ryu. "You decline? Don't you want your memories?"
"I do, but what you're telling me to do is wrong!" she said.
"Is it?" asked Ryu. "Kenji kills nobodies all of the time."
"But I'm not like them." she said. "I'm not evil like the ones that kill others."
"Kenji might kill you too." He said.
"I care about Kenji, and he cares about me!" she points the Keyblade at him. Ryu just stared at her from behind his sunglasses and laughed. "What's so funny?!"
"You can't win, Trinxty!" he said. "Think of your memories as good as gone!" His body shattered again and he became Hakaider. "Die, Trinxty!" He threw another knife at her She stood as the knife flew at her face, but it stopped right in front of her and was thrown into another direction. "Impressive, girl."
Kenji ran to the scene and the dagger slid out of his sleeve. "Trinxty!" he threw it at Hakaider. He quickly saw it coming and quick grabbed it. "Damn!"
"Thanks, Ishikawa. Now watch as I kill her right in front of you!" He flipped it in his hand and grabbed the handle, and with his incredible strength, he shoved it into Trinxty's side causing blood to fly out like crazy.
"TRINXTY!!!" he cried out as he watched her fall off the side of the building. He ran over to the side and looked down, she didn't hit the ground, nor was she there at all. "T-Trinxty…" He looked around to see that Hakaider was gone. Matt and Roxas arrived too late. "I'll find you, I won't lose you again…Trinity…"
TO BE CONTINUED…
