RADIANT GARDEN

A dark portal formed at the top of Ansem's castle and Adam stepped out into the light with his Knights beside him. "So this is where Eve ended up. What a beautiful place this is and it's full of so many humans, shame it'll end up in ruin soon." He walked around, enjoying the view of the radiant town under him.

"I'll perform a wide-scale experiment that far surpasses the confines of Earth. Tell me, how many machines have you collected by now?"

Enough to conquer this world my liege

"We'll need more than just enough to conquer this world, but enough to bring all worlds down to its knees. And then we'll see just how superior and evolved these humans are."


Goldfaber: I actually listened to Dark Hero while writing parts of this chapter, very hype song

Luna Attacker: I love that you said that lol

Guest (Mar 20): Wha- they would never engage in peer pressure like that

Pallex: Better to control the darkness then let them control you, even if you have to be norted in the process. The backroom didn't change btw, there's just a new edition

Anon: The funny thing is she already got taken over by the darkness during the earlier chapters, so she's just playing with fire. The voice A2 keeps hearing is just her own mind f*cking with her

Guest (Mar 17): Nothing that's gonna push this T rating, I keep that content unpublished( ͡ ͜ʖ ͡) Those weapons seem cool though, wish I knew about them in game, I didn't end up doing that many sidequests as you guys can tell. I hope the Designed to End's keyblade coming soon too.

Keybladelight: Sora's a good booy, he would never think any impure thoughts about Kairi! But yeah, can't wait to write that CEO vs everyone fight.

Guest (Mar 29): None of those games are out atm, maybe they will be by the time I actually start on riku's story

Sonicsolsnake: I don't think A2 wouldn't flat out beat Sora up like that, Kaine did what she did because violence was the only way to express her feelings


Gods Bound By Rul[E]s

"How do you know Sora, who the hell are you?!" A2 demanded.

"Meet me in the arena and you'll see." The metal gates opened up. "Oh- and if you try to escape, my heartless will end you." He disappeared back into the darkness.

000010101 "This is what you deserve A2." 1111111

A2 slammed her fist on the wall. "No...what did I get myself into?" She sunk to the ground. "He's right... Sora's gone. I'm just gonna die here and become a heartless."

Pod 713: Negative. This pod's sole purpose is for the protection of unit A2, therefore, this pod will not allow such an event to occur.

It transformed itself into a sniper for A2. "Huh, maybe you're not so useless after all."

Pod 713: This pod is appreciative of unit A2's regard

"Don't get used to it."

When she went out in the lobby, it was completely empty, not a resistance android in sight. Even the receptionist was gone, which she figured meant they were all waiting for her in the arena. 'Guess if this is it, might as well go out in a bang.' Armed and dangerous, A2 entered the arena floor where the mysterious android stood in anticipation.

"Here we are folks, the fight you never knew you wanted to see. The talented, machine-crushing newcomer versus the android who makes this coliseum all possible behind the scenes! Ladies and gentlemen, you will be the first to witness all the blood, the carnage, the VIOLENCE that's about to unfold on this arena floor aaaand I'm rambling again. Let's just get on with this match already!" The MC android screamed.

"So glad you could make it," The mysterious android said.

A2 took aim with her gun. "Not like you gave me much of a choice."

"Eh, comes with the territory. Hope you're ready to —" His head abruptly snapped back from the impact of getting shot in the head multiple times.

"You talk too much." Replacing her gun with Iron Will, A2 rushed down to the mysterious android and used the flesh-ravaging, bone-hewing cutting power of Iron Will's blade to slice his body in half. Now was the part where she expected a copious amount of blood to spill out and some sparks to fly. Instead, in an infinitely less satisfying way, an inky black substance spilled out his wires and circuitry that put the two halves of his body back together.

'This was the same thing that happened to me back in the Forest Kingdom.' "So the way you controlled the heartless was to become one yourself. Isn't that pathetic," A2 said.

"Ha ha ha..." The android threw his cloak off, unveiling the mystery of himself to A2 and the rest of the audience. Most of the skin off 42S's body and face was clawed off and without his most human defining feature intact, he looked like a walking android corpse. "Our existence is already meaningless!"

She swung at him, but her sword went straight through his body.

"We're androids that are inevitably disposable, but I can give you eternal purpose beyond what we were built for!"

"Pod, let's go with a bomb program!" She threw her sniper in the air and her pod transformed back in time to overwhelm 42S with explosives.

Even though the explosives mangled up 42S's body pretty well, it was nothing the darkness couldn't mend. "So be it, unfortunately, you don't have a choice in this matter." On his command, hundreds of heartless rose from the darkness to surface the arena. A2 knew she was powerless against the heartless in the end, but it didn't stop her from fighting because a purposeless action meant more than doing nothing at all.

So A2 chose to wager her own existence as a testament to her resolve. And even as the darkness inevitably swallowed her whole, she could at least die knowing she tried to defy her own fate.

Number 4...16...21...I spent so long wanting to be with you guys again...

Of course, the first time I actually wanted to live is when I finally have to die.

"A2!"

Something warm enveloped her body, saving her from fading away into nothingness. Only his light was bright enough to shine down in the deepest depths of her darkness.

"I'll take it from here."

"Dumbass...why'd you come back for me?"

"I said I'd promise to protect you A2, even if you're in the darkness, I'll always bring you back to the light." Sora's promise to her manifested into Oathkeeper and he stepped forward to 42S, barely able to contain his anger. "I won't let you hurt my friends anymore!"

"Must be my lucky day for you to just bring yourself to me."

"How do you know who I am?!"

"What? You don't recognize me? Maybe this will jog your memory!" He summoned his Type-4O lance to clash with Sora's Oathkeeper.

"...42S?! Why are you doing this?!"

"Just watch! I'm going to prove I don't need you to be strong, and I don't need you to save me! The heartless have given me all the strength I'll ever need and now you're going to become one next!" 42S brought forth creatures that appeared to be constructed out of nothing more than the trimmings of shadows. Sora's mind went to heartless at first, but a slice with his keyblade proved otherwise when blood spilled out and cried as if it were human.

"What the heck are these?!"

"Shades. Enemies from the old world your keyblade can't destroy," 42S answered.

"—Sora!" Maybe Sora's keyblade was made for fighting heartless, but A2's Iron Will was made to spill blood and it was hungry for whatever the Shades had to offer. She drove the giant blade into the chest of the Shade that was getting ready to attack Sora, then faced the other Shades. "Go fight that shitshow, these guys are mine!"

While Sora and 42S were locked in battle, A2 was up against the Shades. In a flippant disregard for her enemies, A2 lodged Iron Will into the ground, then leaned back on the blade with her arms crossed and an inviting look on her face. "Gonna show me a good time?"

A2's taunt did its job of provoking the Shades to attack her all at once. When they got close enough, A2 used her sword to jump up into the air where her pod dropped a barrage of bombs on them.

Based on the copious amount of blood splattered everywhere, A2 figured she'd killed them all, but a few outliers remained hidden and struck A2 in the back when she made the mistake of lowering her guard. "Damn it, you're gonna regret you did that!"

Sora briefly stopped fighting with 42S to see A2 suffered a flesh wound down her back. "That's it... YOU'RE DONE 42S!" His own darkness dwelling beneath the surface manifested into Oblivion. Together with his two keyblades born from the duality of light and dark, he powered up into Double Form, dual-wielding both blades.

Oathkeeper and Oblivion worked in perfect synchrony to demolish 42S. He didn't stand a chance against Sora, not while he was still an android. So he untethered himself from his last attachment to humanity, his own body, and fell into his shadows where the heartless he once commanded began tearing him apart limb from limb.

"I won't let you become a heartless either!" Sora destroyed the heartless that accumulated around him, then bent down to his level. "42S...I wish it didn't have to turn out like this, we really could've been good friends."

"...All I could see was weakness in you when you left me, and I always thought it was because you were too weak to fight for this world, but even with all the powers of the darkness, I still couldn't beat you. Your humanity gives you strength, and I will never have that."

"Me being who I am has nothing to do with this, the darkness in your heart is why you lost! Don't lower yourself for me just because I'm human!"

"Easy for you to say when you're practically a God! I never got a chance to be anything more than an android and the darkness was the only way for me to have any sort of power over my fate! So if I can't even become a heartless, then at least I'll die on my own terms!" 42S grabbed the end of Sora's keyblade and pushed it into his chest.

"...42S?"

Sora backed away and he fell forward. "...No, no... this can't keep happening. I don't want to watch anyone else die anymore..." He ran over to A2, who was in the process of bandaging herself. "A2...please tell me you're okay at least!"

"I'm still in one piece somehow."

"Thank goodness, just...stay close to me."

"I can handle myself."

"I wasn't saying you couldn't, I'm just worried about you that's all. I like your new haircut by the way!"

"...thanks," She said quietly before turning away from him. "Look, I ...I'm not really good at these things, but I'm sorry for being an asshole to you. I was angry and confused at the time, but I shouldn't have taken it out on you. You already do so much for this world...I didn't want to believe that you being here was just some dumb mistake."

"It's okay, I never wanted to hurt you by not telling you everything about me. I just hope you can believe in me again, even if you don't think any of this real, my heart knows that it is!"

"I know all that crap I said to you, but if I'm being honest, I don't know where the code ends and where myself begins anymore. You make everything so confusing that the lines are blurred... and I start to wonder if I were a human, if this is what it would feel like. That's how I know this is real at least. It has to be. Nothing that's not meant to be real would ever make me lose my goddamn mind like this."

She scoffed. "Forget it, that sounded so stupid. I don't even know what I'm trying to say to you..."

Sora smiled at her. "That wasn't stupid at all, it was actually really nice and thoughtful for you to be open like that with me."

A2 scowled at him. "...Whatever." She was playing it off like she always did in attempt to offset her rising pulse rate. 'This kid pisses me the hell off.'

"—What an amazing performance." The voice belonged to a man they weren't sure if he were an android, machine, or even a human. "I'm surprised you've made it this far."

Sora jumped up. "What the- what're you talking about?! Who are you?!"

He approached Sora with his hands folded behind his back. "A boy like you infiltrating Earth, how absurd."

"Look if this is about the darkness or whatever, then let's just cut to the chase and get to the part where I mop the floor with you!"

"Ah ha ha! You do have an interesting character, but I agree. Allow me to introduce myself, I am ██████, the President and CEO of ██████. Let's see what you're made of, shall we?"

Before either the CEO or Sora could make a move, A2 shot an energy bullet straight through his skull.

The CEO cranked his head back to A2 who was already reloading for another shot. "...You dare defy your superior for someone who doesn't even belong here and has disgraced this world!"

"Last time I checked, you don't belong here either." She took another shot at him, but he dodged this time around.

"That's certainly unexpected, I see the damage this new foreign element has done. Looks like I'll have to remove Sora to keep world order myself."

"Good luck with that!" Sora fired a blizzard spell at the CEO, then came up from behind him and slashed his keyblade across his back.

A2 wasn't too far behind with her Engine Blade. "Sora, right behind you!"

He backflipped to quickly get out of the way so A2 could swing her sword at the CEO, but he used his own forearm to block the attack.

"How does it feel to look at your God dead in the eye?" The CEO asked.

"You're not exactly easy on the eyes." A2 pulled back, then her pod shot a laser beam straight through at the CEO's head.

Although it didn't blast the CEO's head off like she hoped it would, it did briefly stun him and cause him to stumble backwards, which left him wide open for a counterattack. Sora threw his keyblade at him, knocking him back again, but a follow-up attack didn't prove to be as successful as the CEO shielded himself with an energy barrier.

'He's getting ready for a desperation move.' "Sora, over here. Behind me," A2 said, switching her sword out for Iron Will.

Just as A2 anticipated, the CEO blasted out Emil head projectiles in a violent fit of rage, but they were big enough for A2 to easily knock away with Iron Will and send it right back to him.

"Whoa, guess those Emil heads must be popular," Sora said.

"Stay focused, we're not done yet," A2 said.

"Not bad you two," The CEO cracked his knuckles. "But you're not the only ones with the power of friendship. Sora, I believe it's time you meet an old colleague of mine."

"—Actually he won't be joining you this fight, so I've decided to step in his place." Another man, this time with a slightly younger appearance floated down beside the CEO. "Hello, I'm ██████, the video game director for ██████. I have to say, I was quite surprised when my boss told me you ended up here. Anything's possible I suppose."

"This is starting to get weird!" Sora pointed his keyblade at the newcomer. "Whoever you are, you're no match against me and A2!"

"Always so bright and positive, Sora. Come on, you're telling me this world didn't break you yet?"

"Shit, if you guys are our Gods, no wonder this world is so fucked up," A2 said.

"Yeah, what she said, but with less curse words!"

"You're so high and mighty with that keyblade, but you know that wasn't even my original design." The video game director snapped his fingers and Sora's keyblade turned into a chainsaw sword instead.

"Agh, whatever, I can still fight you!"

"Not if all your attacks were relegated to cards instead."

A deck of cards appeared in Sora's hand and he couldn't even swing his chainsaw sword without it getting dictated by card mechanics.

"That's it, I'll take them on!" A2 went for the video game director first and he blocked her incoming attack with his own keyblade.

"Nice, right? Everyone's got one of them these days." He broke through her defense, then grabbed her by the arm and threw her up in the air where he slammed her back down on the ground. "Time to send you back into pre-production."

"A2! I'm coming!" After finally figuring out the cards he was dealt with, Sora tried to attack the video game director with a sleight, but his move was immediately canceled out with a 0 card that left Sora defenseless.

"Now have a taste of your own medicine!" The video game director flung his keyblade at Sora, sending him crashing into the arena floor. Just to relish in his own triumph over him, he walked over to Sora while he was in the middle of trying to get back up. "Just accept your fate. This is what happens when you stray off the path your creators intended for you."

"Who even are you?! Why are you doing this?!"

"What do you mean? I am you Sora and I know you better than anyone. This world will destroy your heart before you even get a chance to save it."

"...Then I guess you don't know me as well as you think you do." Sora raised his head. "I'm tired of everyone telling what I can or can't do, I don't care if you're a God or whoever you say you are, I'm the one who'll decide my own future!" He may not have had his keyblade, but they could never take away his courage that defined who he was. Balling his hand into a fist, he punched the video game director flat in the jaw.

Finally, Sora's true keyblade returned to him and he froze the video game director with a Blizzara spell. He decided to run back to A2, not expecting to be shot at by the CEO's machine gun. "Aah, this is insane!" Covering himself with Protega, he dove on the ground in front of A2 to make sure she wouldn't get riddled with bullet holes.

"A2!" Sora shook her body until she stirred awake. "A2, how are you feeling?"

"... I can keep fighting." A2 turned her pod back to its original form. "Sora, the president's mine, you handle the other one."

With Sora taking on the video game director and A2 using her pod's gatling function to fire back at the CEO, it wasn't long before they both elevated themselves above the arena floor to mark the end of their battle.

"Hm. I think that's about enough for today," The CEO said. "Allow us to give you a parting gift before we leave though."

With his final words, they unleashed a cyclone of Emil heads onto the arena floor.

"Shit, we're just gonna have to keep running, let's go kid!" A2 pulled Sora by the arm, dodging the hundreds of Emil heads herself until the CEO and the video game director flat out exploded, leaving machine debris in their destruction.

A2 let go of Sora. "What the hell just happened? Those were some fucked up machines if you can even call them that..."

"Not sure, but I got new keyblades out of it!" Sora put his hands behind his head. "You sure got yourself into a lot of trouble without me, huh?"

"I wasn't exactly asking for any of this to happen!"

"Man, wish you were a keyblade wielder so I wouldn't have to worry about you all the time."

"A keyblade? Who needs a lame toy like that when I got a gun now."

"I mean, that's cool I guess, but my Shooting Star keyblade can turn into two guns!" He did finger guns just to rub it in which pissed A2 off. "Speaking of, how'd you even get a pod, this little guy's awesome!"

"The coliseum gave it to me because I'm a liability apparently. Best thing I got from this shitty place and it's barely functional."

Pod 713: This pod will take unit A2's comment as appreciation.

Sora chuckled, then gave the pod a long overdue pat on the head. "Your pod definitely fits you, so it sounds like you got other stuff too. Can I see it?"

"It's just a bunch of useless junk... but I do have something you might like." Smirking, she tossed him the revealing outfit from her database. "Maybe your girlfriend would find use out of that."

"Hm, what is this?" Sora held the outfit in front of him, his face quickly turning a deep shade of red when he realized what he was holding. "I-I'm not giving this to her!"

"I'm sure you're already thinking about how she looks in it~" She teased.

"Shut up, am not A2!" Sora attempted to lunge at her, forgetting she was at least three times his weight and ended up with a small lump on his forehead.

"Nice try, let's go back to the receptionist to see if we'll get anything decent this time."

When they left the arena, they were met with a crowd of excited resistance androids from the audience. Although most of the praise was directed to Sora so A2 could slip past the crowd and head straight to the receptionist who warmly greeted her. "That was amazing watching you guys fight at peak performance, especially that human kid. But I guess we'll have to close shop down here for a while or we'll get eaten alive by the heartless again."

"Sorry to hear that."

"Eh, it's for the best. I always thought this place brings out the worst in us androids. Well, that's enough from me, here's your prize for winning the fight and before you get grumpy, I slipped in a little something extra for ya. Don't forget about us, okay?"

A2 received more cosmetic items ranging from masks to pod bullets she definitely didn't want, but the fine bottle of liquor more than made up for it. "This is for me? Are you serious?!"

"Yeah, take it, you earned it."

"This place isn't half bad!"

"—A2, look at all the stuff I got from the androids!" Sora came up to her with weapons, plug-in chips, she even saw some money in there—useful stuff she sure as hell never got from putting her ass on the line at the coliseum. "Oh, what's that in your hand?" He asked.

"A good time." She uploaded the booze to her database, then started taking things out of Sora's hands. "I'll just hold onto that stuff for you, kid. We're getting out of here so we can have some real fun."

"Before you two go, I'd check out the area to the right of the Pit, I'm sure a machine killing fanatic like you would love it," The receptionist said.

"No, thanks. Last time I went back somewhere I almost got turned into a heartless."

"Wait, what?! I need to see this!" He ran down to the back of the hall where several pitiful looking machines were locked behind a cell, shaking out of fear.

"Help me...Help me!" One of the machines cried when it saw Sora. "Please...kill me, save me from this place."

The android standing by the cell kicked the bars as hard as he could. "Shut up! You should be lucky I haven't fed you lot to the heartless by now!"

"Why would you do something so messed up like this to them?!"

"Don't you dare get all sanctimonious on me, these little bastards killed 8 of my subordinates!" He snatched Sora up by the collar. "You don't understand what it's like to have loved ones cut to pieces or get eaten alive!"

"Put him down right now or I swear to god you're gonna wish you were one of those machines!" A2 yelled.

The android threw Sora on the ground. "Tch, guess having a human to protect you at all times made you lose your edge."

"That's it you mother-" Before A2 could beat the lights out of him, she felt a tug at her arm.

"You don't have to do that A2, I'm okay. Let's just get out of here."

"I was just about to leave." But when they were outside the coliseum, A2 was still fuming. "What an asshole, I LOST my edge?! I should've just !#4&8 and then 99&%$#!&!"

'She's completely terrifying.' "A2...I think I'm starting to realize how important I am to you guys, I'm so much more than just a human."

"Huh? You're just now starting to realize this?"

"Well, now I really get it because of everything that happened in the coliseum. Androids see hope in me and when I'm gone, they think it's gone too."

*ring-ring

"It's 9S..." He took out his gummiphone and answered the call.

"Sora, things are really bad here at the factory, we can't hold these Nobodies back any- [call ended]"

"Oh no, A2, we need to go to the Abandoned Factory, hurry!"

A2 could tell Sora was on the verge of going into panic mode so she didn't pry any further and simply went along with it. The Flooded City wasn't too far away from the Abandoned Factory so their trip was relatively short, but when they arrived, they were already too late.

Not only were Pascal and the machine children nowhere to be found, but 2B and 9S suffered heavy damage in vain so they could protect the machines. Sora destroyed every last Nobody in the factory with Oblivion's shotlock, then immediately ran over to them with a Curaga spell.

"...This is all my fault. I shouldn't have left you guys alone for so long," Sora said.

"Don't worry about us, our job was to protect Pascal and the machine children...and we failed," 2B said.

"There were just so many of them and they kept regenerating, we couldn't keep up," 9S said.

"No, I'm the one with the keyblade, it's all on me. I can at least help you guys get out of here."

"That's not necessary. Whatever you did expedited my recovery, I can walk on my own," 2B said.

"Well I wouldn't mind getting a little help," 9S said.

"Sure." Sora put his arm over his back. "To the camp, right?"

"Yeah, I just need to rest up a little."

For once when the four of them returned to the Resistance Camp, none of them were in desperate need of medical attention. Although that could very well change with the dirty looks A2 kept getting sent her way from the Resistance Androids when she came in.

"Back so soon," Anemone said, walking up to them. "Hopefully there won't be any more drama from you."

"Tell that to your androids," A2 said.

"You brought that on yourself. By the way, can anyone explain to me why machine sightings have gone down by over 50% because 'white creatures' keep taking them away? It's a recent eyewitness report I got, I'd say that's a good thing, but nothing fortunate comes without consequences."

"Those are Nobodies... they took Pascal and his entire village of machines away too," Sora said.

"The village machines, huh? First it's heartless and now this, I'm sure this is in preparation for some kind of attack."

"...The Nobodies are controlled by Adam."

"Didn't we kill that guy," A2 said.

"Someone whose heart is tied to the darkness never goes away easily."

"Ah, then this definitely sounds like he's building an army. Suppose we'll have to start war preparations for the worst. Thanks for letting me know, I'll send some androids out on the lookout for more of these so-called 'Nobodies', unless you'd be interested."

"Yes, I would actually, I don't want the Nobodies to start taking away androids too if they run out of machines!"

Anemone ruffled his hair out of affection. "Glad to know you're looking out for us. I'll send over the location of the areas with high machine activity we believe are suspect for another attack."

"Thanks-" He turned back to the androids. "Sorry, I didn't even ask if it was okay with you guys."

"You're our main objective Sora, of course. And it doesn't seem like that tower is of any concern at the moment," 2B said. "Not when there's an active enemy on our hands."

"Tower? Do you mean that big white thing we passed by?"

"Yes, but right now it's locked by a mechanism of sorts."

"No problem, leave that mechanism to me! So I guess we'll set out whenever you guys are ready."

"9S is in the back room right now, I'll retrieve him after I stock up on more supplies." 2B headed to the weapon supply trader, leaving Sora and A2 to fill in the gap of time.

"Now it's just me and you A2! Wanna help me cook some food for myself so I don't die of starvation?"

"That doesn't sound boring at all..." She stepped away from him. "I'll see you in about 20 minutes Sora, don't catch yourself on fire." A2 left Sora to walk over to Devola and Popola's weapon shop.

"Ugh, you're here A2, " Devola said with disdain.

Popola elbowed Devola. "What she means to say is that it's great to see you and Sora are back on good terms!"

"I would've said that if I meant it. So are you looking to buy some weapons for once or..."

A2 waved the bottle of liquor in front of her.

Devola jumped to her feet. "I'm so glad you're here A2! Popola, run the shop for me while I'm gone."

"I got it, just keep that stuff away from me."

They went to the back of the camp so they'd be out of Anemone's constant watch, which made Sora curious for whatever they were planning to do so he followed them. 'This can't be good if A2 and Devola are this excited.' He found the table they claimed where A2 was in the middle of pouring out drinks.

"What're you guys doing?" He asked.

"Just about to have a small drink," A2 said. "I wasn't about to offer you any so you can get that look off your face now."

"...Are you sure it's a good idea to drink right before a mission? I know you guys are androids, but there's probably some bad side effects."

A2 and Devola already downed a few shots while Sora was talking which pretty much sealed their fate. "So much for self-control you two, well I'm going to check on Nines to see how he's doing." He turned to walk away, but before he could leave, A2 grabbed his arm.

"Awwwwww, coME On, don't leave Sora ur no fun!"

"You don't look okay A2, your face is all flushed and stuff."

"WHAaaat? No, I'm PERFectly fine." A2 dragged Sora back over to the table. "Sora, ya know, you remind me a lot of old me before I got super 7%#544 up. I used to be haaappy n rly dumb, then alllllllllll of my friends died cause it turns out we were just data fodder for YoRHa, isn't that funny?! Hahahahaha!"

"That's sooo sad A2, pour another drink n it'll all be better," Devola said.

"No it's okay, 'cuz now Sora's my friend even though he's a %$#$99^ alien isn't that right? Ur like my bestest friend ever who's still alive and everything."

"You're really not acting like yourself, so I'm gonna leave if that's-"

"Stay with me Sora, I'm just drunk, stupid. I'm not gonna hurt you or anything." She leaned forward and caressed his cheek. "hahaha , ur like a drug to me Sora, I don't really need to drink when I'm around you."

"Ya know what that's called? Co-fucking-dependence meeeeow," Devola said.

"Shut up! No one asked you Popola!" Her hand moved down to Sora's collar and she pulled him close. "You wanna know what I want to do with you right now?"

His heart was ready to beat out of his chest with how freaked out he was. "I- I don't know if I want the answer..."

"Aw, he's so cute when he's terrified," Devola said.

"He should be." A2 summoned her sword. "S0RA, I wanna see you in action right now! Let's fight!"

He breathed a sigh of relief since this was something he could easily get out of. "Yeah, no thanks, you've had way too much to drink."

"Whaaaat? No way! Less have some fun Sora, I wanna ffffffffffight you! That'll teach those stupid androids i haven't lost my edge!"

"I'm good, I think we've done enough fighting for today." He slowly backed away.

"Don't play hard to get Sora~~~~less cut each other open!"

*ring-ring

"OOooh, who's dat Sora?"

"...It's Kairi!" He answered the call. "Hey, what's up, sorry I haven't called in a while, a lot's been happening which I know isn't an excuse not to call you, but I-"

"Aw it's okay, I've been pretty busy too so I haven't had a chance to call myself, but there's kind of a ...situation going on at Destiny Islands."

"What kind of situation?"

"...Bloodthirsty machines from Earth are wreaking havoc all over town. I'm not sure how they got here, but they won't be a problem for long... I'm going to destroy every last one of them."

NieR: [O]blivion

The Death of Disconnection


A/N: Hope you guys are staying safe during this pandemic and thank you so much for 200 reviews, I appreciate each and every word so thank you for taking the time to review my weird story!

Anyways, happy 18th year anniversary to Kingdom Hearts 1 release, even though I'm a day late! I actually drew some fanart pieces of this fic so if you wanna check it out it's on my Ao3.

Edit: I got some feedback and I decided to change a few elements of the CEO boss fight so it isn't as immersion breaking, but still retains all the action scenes, as I originally intended. Nothing major, just some dialogue edits.