While Adam was scheming to claim the world as his own, his brother Eve was still locked away in the confinements of the laboratory in Ansem's castle. Ansem the Wise, Even and Ienzo worked tirelessly day and night to uncover the truths of Eve's own existence. Although they yielded little progress for the amount of work put in.
"He's a fascinating specimen, isn't he? A Nobody born from the body of a machine," Ienzo focused his microscope on a sample of Eve's skin. "Perhaps this skin is to imitate human-like qualities rather than serve a specific function."
"Ienzo, has it slipped your mind that we're under time constraints? We're not here to perform autopsies, but to stop Eve from awakening. Stay focused on the main objective," Master Ansem warned.
"I understand..."
Deep into the hours, the lights began flickering on and off until it finally powered out.
"How strange. I'll go fetch the castle guard, it's likely a power outage from our extensive work." Master Ansem left the laboratory, leaving Even and Ienzo in the darkness.
"Well, it's not like we have to stop working. I'll try and find the backup generator," Even said.
'Now that they're gone, this is the perfect opportunity.' Ienzo grabbed his scalpel from his workspace, then cast a temporary light spell over the examination table where Eve was strapped to in heavy chains. 'A slight incision along his anterior brachium shouldn't hurt.'
However, Eve's arm broke out of the chains and he snatched Ienzo's head.
"You're not my brother."
Guest (Apr 3): Really? So where were those androids when sh*t was going down?
Pallex: Hell yeah Accord will show up again
Guest (Mar 31): Kairi's got her man secured lol
Goldfaber: That's actually a very relevant quote huh
Tantei Ringo: Yeah, it completely slipped my mind that ffxv was Nomura's dream project, oof.
Mr. Awesome: "If A2 pushes forward and gets it on with Sora" GOD I love these comments. Kairi would absolutely murder A2 in cold blood if that happened, and maybe Sora?
Guest I (Mar 30): I don't see A2 ever explicitly confessing anything to Sora, I rather leave it ambiguous.
Bluzerker: Thanks for your feedback, I hope everything about the CEO fight got cleared up. This story's genuinely fun for me to write so no worries about me not finishing this. Unless...nah, jk.
Anon: You killed me at that "And why none of this makes sense!" and it was the biggest lipped alligator moment, you only get that meta in Yoko Taro games. I am aware of Jackass's research though, and it reminds me of that one meme, Drunk A2's like "What if we kissed...while fighting each other to the death?"
Keybladelight: You're right on the money with there's more to light that meets the eye
Wret[C]hed Weaponry
"...Kairi, you make me worried when you say stuff like that. Tell me you're okay at least," Sora said, squeezing the gummiphone in his hand.
"I'm fine, everyone's on their way to the town's bunker, but I'm not going to let the machines have their way, not anymore."
"Atta girl, kill thooose #$8&35% machines!" A2 yelled out in the background.
"Uh, is that A2? She sounds kind of..."
"Yeah, she had a little bit too much to drink."
"So much for tough and scary A2, well I hope she's not the flirtatious type or I might have some competition."
"Wha- no, no way, nothing to worry about here!"
"I'm just teasing, I know you're not that type of guy. Anyways ... I need to leave, but I love you sweetie~"
"Oh...I love you too! But please be safe for me Kairi, don't do anything reckless for me, okay?"
"No promises!"
Sora put his phone away. 'Kairi's never sounded so serious before. I wish I could do more for her, but we're worlds apart. Guess there's no use in me freaking out over it, I just need to help her by keeping the machines away from the other worlds.' He walked over to A2 and Devola who were talking amongst themselves. "A2, you've definitely had enough to drink, let's head out."
He helped A2 to her feet. "daaaaamn it ur such a mood killer!"
"Don't be strangers now you two, stop by more often!" Devola said.
"We'll be back before you know it!"
When they went out into the open, 2B was waiting with her arms crossed alongside 9S. "Don't tell me you drank right before a mission A2, this is just great..." She muttered.
A2 stumbled up to her. "Lissen here you hot piece of #46, I'm still a 9*8&77# machine killer!"
"Right, Sora keep an eye on her in case she passes out."
"Roger that, 2B!"
"Moving on, Anemone sent the coordinates for our latest mission and it looks like we're heading to the Desert Zone for our first location. Hopefully we'll find the answers we need there."
Athough Sora tried to hide it, all he could think about was Kairi, his home, and he couldn't even be there to save either of them. 'Kairi, whatever's going to happen, I know you'll power through it.'
DESTINY ISLANDS
It was supposed to be another normal day at Destiny Islands. Another normal day where kids could play outside and families could enjoy the nice weather, not held up in emergency bunkers fearing for their lives. Another normal day where Kairi and Naminé could walk out of school after a long day and do whatever dumb stuff teenagers did, not have to witness their own home burn up in flames.
But it wasn't a normal day.
Machines from Earth were destroying the town in a blind rage and outright slaughtering people. The mayor of Destiny Islands ordered an immediate evacuation to the emergency bunkers and so there Kairi and Naminé were, sitting in class one minute, then running for their lives the next.
"I...I can't believe this is happening..." The shock hit Naminé the worst because she couldn't afford to lose her home after living without one for so long, but Kairi had all but emotionally withdrawn herself. And perhaps what scared Naminé the most was to look into the eyes of her best friend and see nothing in them.
Kairi gave Naminé's hand a tight squeeze. "We'll be okay, I promise, just stay inside for me."
"No, I want you to stay with me Kairi! It's scary when I'm alone without you, and...and you're not okay! Your dad said help will be here soon so why can't you just wait it out in the bunker with me?"
"I can't just do nothing while there are machines out there! They have to be destroyed or they'll destroy us first!"
Naminé put her hands on Kairi's shoulders. "Are you listening to yourself right now?! This isn't you Kairi, you don't let hatred consume you!"
Before Kairi even got the chance to answer, they were ambushed by vicious machines, but Kairi stood strong. Destiny's Embrace manifested in her hands and she destroyed the machines as fast as she could, but it wasn't fast enough to save Naminé who ended up getting a deep gash down her leg from a machine that escaped her radar.
"Naminé!" Kairi rushed over to her with a potion. "No...nonono, shit...Naminé I'm so sorry. Please ... can someone help us?!"
One of the townspeople in the area offered to help and scooped her into his arms. "I'll bring her to the bunker."
"...Kairi...don't do this," Naminé said.
"I have to...it's my turn to protect everyone now." That dark feeling she buried away for so long was now the only thing that pushed her forward into the hellscape that became her town.
Kairi's keyblade laid waste to the machines, reducing metal titans into scraps of metal. Her skills as a keyblade wielder improved dramatically and without fear to hold her back, every machine that dared to cross her path met its untimely end to her blade.
"AAAAHAAHH DIE! DIE DIE DIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIE!" An axe wielding machine screamed at her from behind.
"You need to do more than just get behind your opponent to catch them off guard." Raising her keyblade, she cast Mine Square and surrounded herself with explosive magical traps. Once the machine made the mistake of stepping on one, a fiery explosion annihilated it, leaving only blackened machine parts scattered across the town square.
Kairi watched on as the fire from the explosion sustained itself by burning up the machine oil. That putrid smell of burning machine oil brought her back to the Abandoned Factory and now she could finally put a name to that foreign sensation she felt. "...My heart feels so hollow...is this who I am now?" The screeching sound of mechanical screams snapped her back to reality. She dragged her keyblade to the wretched noise where she found several machines attempting to eat a group of machine children.
Carefully, Kairi destroyed the cannibalistic machines, leaving only the machine children left who were shaking and cowering in fear because they could only see the long shadow she cast over them.
"P-Please don't hurt us! Please! I-I'm so scared, I don't wanna die!" One of the machine children wailed.
"I justwannagohome, I-I donwannabescared!"
She squeezed the handle of her keyblade until her knuckles were white, then raised her blade into the air.
["You're a friend of ours, so we're going to help out each other the best we can!"]
["A...friend? We...are friends?"]
["Of course, you helped us out big time, Stubby."]
"..."
"I can't do it." Her keyblade was stuck in the ground beside the machine children and she fell down to her knees in tears. "After everything...I'm still so weak..."
"—Because your heart is full of light, Kairi." Riku picked her up and embraced her. "You're too strong to ever give in to your weaknesses."
She buried her head into his chest so he wouldn't see the tears flowing down her face. "I...I don't know who I am anymore... I just wanted to be strong like you and Sora so I could protect the people I love!"
"Kairi, you've always been strong to me because your light shines the brightest out of all of us and I will always be there for you to make sure you never lose that light. I promise Kairi, I promise..."
"Riku ...thank you. I'm glad you came when you did... I don't know what I'd do without you."
"You can thank Naminé for that. She's the one who called and told me you'd be out here." He faced the machine children, then bent down to their level. "Now, I believe there's someone looking for you little guys, come on, follow me."
"O- Okay mister! Just keep us away from that scary lady!"
Kairi smiled to herself. 'Naminé's a good friend and Riku's surprisingly good with kids.' "I guess even machine kids would miss their parents... so where are you taking them?"
"Back to the gummiship, what's going at Destiny Islands is happening to all worlds."
"Wait- what?!"
"We'll talk more on the ship."
"No way... you're actually inviting me to come along?!"
"I wouldn't have it any other way. Besides, I don't want you going off on the deep end again, seems like you took after A2 when it comes to machines."
"Aah, really?" Kairi rubbed the back of her head. "Yeah, she has rubbed off on me a little bit..." She looked back at the machine children who were gathering around Riku's feet. 'I wonder if this is why A2 never wanted me to fight the machines. She didn't want me to become like her.'
Inside the gummiship was King Mickey at the helm and a machine Kairi recognized; Pascal. The machine children left Riku's legs to jump all over his legs instead. "He's here..." Kairi said.
"He's an ally we found lost in the darkness and I know you're not exactly on good terms with machines, but he's actually one of Sora's friends."
"...Maybe he's not so bad if Sora likes him." She hesitantly walked towards him, and by hesitantly, Riku practically had to drag her the entire way.
"Oh, Kairi, it's so good to see you again. I can't express how grateful I am for all of you helping return the children to me. They're all that I have left of my village."
"Uh, yeah, no problem." She rubbed her arm. "...And thank you for being Sora's friend. I know he's going through a rough time."
"Heavens yes, that poor boy is so determined to save everyone he can and while I deeply admire that, I do worry he's putting too much on himself. Last I saw him he had his heart set on finding A2."
"Does the conversation always have to come back to her?"
"My apologies, I wasn't aware you harbored negative feelings towards her. Not that I can blame you."
"Someone sounds jealous," Riku said.
"What- am not! You should be on my side with this, you don't even like her!"
"Whoa, I'm just calling it how I see it."
"Ugh, whatever, I don't even know why we're talking about this. Riku, what were you going to tell me?"
"Machines have invaded multiple other worlds, not just Destiny Islands, the other guardians of light are fighting them off, but Radiant Garden got hit the worst so it's very likely that Adam's in that world. We'll have to defeat him and his brother, even if it means they go back to Earth."
"I thought we were trying to prevent that from happening?"
"We don't have a choice now, we weren't expecting a wide-scale machine attack like this."
"Maybe we can use Eve as leverage to get them to just stop all of this, they're Nobodies but I'm sure Adam still cares about his brother, right?"
"I wouldn't think too highly of Adam and Eve. They're hateful, revengeful machines who have complete disregard for everything around them, I don't think Adam would risk losing the position he's in right now, not even for his brother," Pascal said.
"Then we can at least try going back to Earth again so Sora doesn't have to face them by himself."
Riku put his hand on Kairi's shoulder. "We'll have to wait and see what happens first. Right now, I just want you to focus on preparing for battle. Based on the data we received from Sora, we're in for a tough fight." With that, he walked over to the front of the ship to check on King Mickey.
Meanwhile, Kairi decided to call Sora to check up on him. "Hey Sora, you okay sweetie? I just wanted to see how you're doing."
"I'm okay, we're at this coliseum in the desert looking for Nobodies. How are things on your side, wait- you're in a gummiship? How'd you end up there, I thought you were at Destiny Islands."
"A lot of stuff happened... don't freak out with what I'm about to say, but I'm on my way to fighting Adam in Radiant Garden."
"Oh my gosh, Kairi! Why wouldn't I freak out over that?! He was bad enough and now you're gonna take him out on your own?!"
"Not on my own, Riku and the King's with me. This might be our only way to get rid of the machines so we have to take a chance."
"...I wish I could be there with you. I feel like I'm powerless in all of this."
"Don't be, we're keyblade wielders too, we can overcome anything!"
"Yeah...you're right. You guys'll come out on top no problem!"
"So tell me more about this whole coliseum thing you're doing. Sounds kinda cool."
"Ehhh, I think it's cooler when you can actually be a part of it. The machines would only let one person enter the matches because of some dumb rule so we're watching A2 duke it out in the stands."
"Ah, that is right up her alley...Well, it looks like we're almost at Radiant Garden right now. I'll call you back when we beat Adam to the ground!"
"I'm counting on it. Stay safe Kairi, love you."
"...love you too." Kairi joined Riku at the helm of the ship. "Riku...we'll be okay right? Eve's still, you know, zombified so we'll only have to worry about Adam."
"Not anymore. Just got a call from Dilan, Eve's escaped the castle...and left casualties, but Squall and his friends are strong, they'll pull through."
"So now what do we do?"
"The situation's changed and it looks like you were right. We'll need Eve, but only to draw Adam out of hiding. Kairi, we're going to need your light now more than ever."
"I won't let you down. That's a promise."
"Alright, you guys ready? I'm flyin' down to Radiant Garden now," King Mickey said.
RADIANT GARDEN
When they arrived at the radiant town, it was silent.
No one was there to fill in the empty streets with the joy and laughter that gave the town its namesake, even the heartless remained in the shadows. Riku, Kairi, and King Mickey ventured further, walking into the castle town where they witnessed the sheer damage the machines caused. There was not a building left intact or a street corner that didn't have a machine corpse lying around.
"Hope everyone's okay, this is unsettling," Kairi said.
"The machines had a pre-emptive strike... and I wasn't there to stop it," Riku said.
"Don't beat yourself up Riku, we had important matters to discuss with Master Yen Sid. No one could've predicted something like this would happen, what counts is that we're here now," King Mickey said.
Suddenly, one of the walls blew out, scattering debris everywhere, and Eve jumped through. "BROTHER...BROTHER!" He charged for Riku with arms stretched out and he readied his keyblade, but another blade reached Eve first.
"GET BACK HERE! YOU'RE MINE!" Following the destruction of Radiant Garden, the sleeping lion inside Squall awakened and he relentlessly pursued Eve all throughout the town so he could give back to him a semblance of the pain he felt. Now that Squall had Eve right when he wanted, the cutting edge of his gunblade ripped straight through the synthetic flesh that held Eve together.
It was that wet stinging sensation of blood on his back that finally completed Eve and more of his defining memories came rushing back to him, just as the blood rushed out his body. His craving for battle was unparalleled and when Squall's blade came at him again, Eve blocked the attack with an exact replica of his gunblade.
"You're NOT my brother!" They clashed swords with each other, gunblade to gunblade, then Eve broke away to run up along the side of one of the cobblestone walls to reach the Bailey, dodging the trail of bullets in pursuit of him from Squall's gunblade.
"Oh my god, Riku we should-"
Riku held his arm out in front of Kairi. "Not yet."
"Brother...where is my BROTHER?!"
"Like we'd ever tell you! Time for my super secret special move!" Yuffie appeared behind Eve in a cloud of smoke, when she slammed her fist on the ground it created a massive earthquake right under Eve's feet that landscaped the encompassing area. Eve flew off the Bailey and came crashing into a house on the lower ground.
"Yuffie! Look at all this damage, this is why I told you not to do large scale attacks," Squall said.
"Wow, aren't you ungrateful! I think you meant to say the Great Ninja Yuffie saved the day once again thanks to her awesome powers!"
"Whatever, just slow down on the Limit Breaks is all I'm asking. We can't have the whole town turn to rubble."
The ground began rumbling a second time around. "Yuffie, what did I just say!"
"It's not me this time, but it's still my move ... uh oh, if we stay here, it's not gonna end well for us!"
They leapt off the Bailey as the ground ruptured and fell apart, then Eve approached them with his fists clenched. He reeled his arm back, ready to punch the ground for another Landscaper, but he had to relent to dodge another incoming attack.
Switching initiatives, Eve used his forearm to intercept Riku's keyblade. "Pathetic...you think this is enough to stop ME?!"
King Mickey and Kairi held their keyblades to Eve's head
"You lost the moment you challenged us," Riku said.
"—Oh, but this encounter is just getting started." It was Adam. He stepped out from the darkness with his hands clasped together and a devilish smirk permeating his face. "It's been quite entertaining to watch you all struggle."
"Brother! I...I finally found you!" Eve broke away from the keyblade wielders to run to Adam, and for the moment he let his guard down, Squall seized the opportunity to shoot Eve in the back of the head.
"Squall, that wasn't apart of the plan," Yuffie said.
"Yeah well, that plan changed when he decided to destroy our home!"
Adam chuckled to himself while watching his own brother sink into the darkness. "Isn't it ironic that you humans engage in such gruesome acts of violence, but justify it out of an act of love?"
"SHUT UP!" Squall's hand was shaking now. "Or I will end you right here and now."
"And what's stopping you? You already murdered my one and only brother in front of me like an animal. Clearly not all life is precious to you, especially the lives of those who aren't human. Now, I wonder about the lives of all the machines you just mercilessly killed..."
"You brought this on us! We were only doing what we had to in order to protect the people we care about!"
"You say that as if the machines weren't doing the same. They also have something like friends and family...not that I care, I'm the one without emotions after all."
Kairi lowered her keyblade. "No...all those machines I destroyed...I took that away from them."
"Don't let him get under your skin," Riku said, he faced Adam. "I don't know what the hell you're doing this for, but you're going to return every single machine back to Earth. Right now."
"Or what? You'll kill me now instead of later? I'm well versed enough about you humans to already figure out where this leads so you can save the formalities and skip to the ending where I dissect your corpses, hm?"
"That's it!" Squall charged at Adam, which was just the type of response he was looking for so he could blindside Squall with an underhanded attack from his Nobodies. Fortunately, Riku saw it coming a mile away and destroyed the Knight before it could inflict a fatal wound.
"Squall, let us handle Adam. You've done enough, we'll take over."
"Fine...I'll leave it to you."
Riku whipped his head back. "Kairi, Mickey, let's go!"
However before Kairi and Mickey could even reach Adam, they had to go through his army of Knights. "Uh, we'll catch up to ya Riku!" King Mickey called out.
"No problem. His fate's already sealed."
"Confident, aren't you, boy?" Adam used his own arm to clash with his keyblade, opting to forego weapons. "I for one welcome it, no good fight is without its bloodlust."
"I'm not going to let you twist this around in my head!" He pressed his keyblade down harder.
"I suppose it won't be so easy for me to toy with you, but that girl, on the other hand, is just asking to be broken."
"You're not going to hurt Kairi!"
Another smirk on his face. He backed away into the darkness and his Knights surrounded Riku, then he re-appeared in front of Kairi. He would've knocked her over too just like that if she weren't quick with her keyblade.
"Why are you doing this?! All of this senseless fighting and pain ... and FOR WHAT?! " Kairi yelled.
"Is this environment not at home to you? Is causing war and death not what it means to be human because I already feel a step closer to humanity myself."
"So this is your sick way of becoming human or whatever you want when you're not even close to understanding humanity?! There's as much light in a person as there is darkness, and if you can't understand that, then you wasted your time!"
"Aah, I remember now, those are the same words that wretched Sora boy repeated to me." He swung his leg at Kairi after a series of swift jabs and punches and finally brought her down. "Yes, that's it, the way you look at me with utter HATRED that's exactly what I want!"
"You're wrong! My love for Sora is stronger than the hatred I have for you!" Kairi pointed Destiny's Embrace at Adam and showed him exactly how strong her resolve was with her 'Heart of a Princess' shotlock. Spheres of light manifested in the sky, then rained down like a meteor shower. While Adam could dodge the initial light show, he didn't anticipate for debris to collapse on him when the light crashed into the surrounding buildings.
"Don't mess with a princess." She lit him ablaze with Firaga that became a Firaza with King Mickey's help.
But based on the Knights that were quickly accumulating, Adam was still going strong. He used the blazing fire as cover to punch King Mickey in the face, an act that wouldn't go unpunished, but when Kairi tried to retaliate, she was forced to fight his Knights instead.
Adam picked up King Mickey by his ear. "You're certainly an interesting specimen. Never thought I'd encounter a talking animal..."
"Get your hands off of him!"
With how preoccupied Adam was by Kairi and King Mickey, he nearly forgot about Riku. Going off on the darkness swirling around him, even he was starting to lose his cool.
"Well well, I knew you'd come around, I could sense your darkness dwelling just beneath the surface," Adam said.
Riku didn't answer, letting his actions speak for him instead. In the blink of an eye, Riku slashed Adam across the chest, then he slashed him again and again, multi-rushing Adam. For his final move, he threw Adam in the air just so he could slam him back into the ground with his keyblade.
"Kairi, why don't we use our light together," King Mickey said, raising his keyblade.
"You got it!" She joined her keyblade with his, casting a Holy spell that flooded the town of Radiant Garden in a blinding light, destroying all of Adam's Knights.
By the time Adam managed to pick himself up, three keyblades impaled his body and he fell down again. "How...how could this happen again a second time…I only wanted...to learn more about humans."
"Then you lost sight of your goal a long time ago when you wasted your time chasing darkness and hatred," Riku said.
"...Far from it. It seems that only those closest to the light ... cast the greatest shadow..." In those parting words, the darkness claimed him.
"At ...At least they're both gone now," Kairi said.
"Hopefully the machines are too. Let's just head back to the ship," Riku said.
"—Riku, wait up!" Squall along with the rest of the restoration committee came running up to them. "Thank you, all of you..."
"It was a group effort."
"Well it was a group effort that saved our town," Aerith said.
"Damn right it was, there were so many of them machines, the town's defense couldn't even keep up! This place woulda been handed to hell in a handbasket if it weren't for you lot," Cid said.
"And that's not something Cid admits to easily," Yuffie said.
"Tch, always gotta put in yer goddamn two cents..."
"Riku, so this is the type of hell you were talking about...I didn't know how bad it was until I witnessed it for myself," Squall said.
"I know, it's no joke how messed up that place is."
"I'd keep a closer eye on Sora. When this becomes your reality, it changes people, for better or worse. Even if you end up saving him, he may not be the same person he was when he left."
.
.
.
I wanted to argue with Squall, but...I'm not the same girl I used to be since I left Earth either. I feel that emptiness inside me every day, I can't even sleep with the lights off anymore because of what I went through. So I can only imagine how you feel Sora.
You always put on a brave face so you don't worry us, but I know your heart must be feeling the strain of having to witness all of that death and destruction on a daily basis... and even worse...I'm afraid you'll get used to it.
I don't know when we'll see each other in person again, I just hope it's soon. I don't want you to think I'm the jealous girlfriend type, but it's so obvious to everyone except you that you are literally the world to A2. Maybe she's the one who kept your sanity throughout all of this and why you're still you ... which is selfish to think about, I know. I just wish it were me who could've been there for you like you always have for me. Not the alcoholic PSYCHO who I'm apparently taking after! (ノಠдಠ)ノ︵┻━┻
┬─┬ノ(ಠ_ಠノ) Ugh, well, you DO have that effect on people so I'm probably just looking way too into things since that's my brain. Know that I only want the best for you Sora and one day we'll be in each other's arms again.
Thinking of you, Wherever you are,
Kairi ღゝ◡╹)ノ
—
"As per the stipulations of Rule 65,123, I declare you victorious over the final trial!"
"Yeah, woo hoo!" Sora stood up from his seat, then ran down to the lobby to greet the new champion of the Trials of Sand. "A2! You were crazy out there, especially when you had to fight without getting hit and you were like bang-bang kapow with your sword and one shot that machine, it was so awesome!"
"Machines can't touch me." She crossed her arms, starting to look pissed. "Oh, and I don't need you cheering for me every five seconds!"
"What? I was just trying to show my support for team A2. 2B and 9S definitely had their doubts about you."
"—Seems like you proved us wrong," 2B said, walking up to them. "Still, it's strange that none of those Nobodies showed up."
"Guess this wasn't as much of a hot spot as Anemone said it was. Let's go to the next area and hope we'll have better luck."
"Wouldn't exactly call finding Nobodies good luck," 9S said.
"Shut up." She went over to the receptionist to receive her final prize. "What do you got for me?"
"As demanded by Rule 28, I hereby declare you to be the True Masked One! First, let me bestow upon you the sand mask...and as a little extra, I shall also grant you these clothes! It is said these clothes were worn by the man who destroyed the world. However, as you can see, the world still exists so blah blah blah blah..."
A2 tuned out the masked machine's long speech at the word 'clothes' and was already imagining what her new outfit would look like. 'Whatever these clothes are, it better not be another revealing outfit.' Once the masked machine was finished talking, she received the 'Destroyer Outfit', along with a couple of other items, then she went to the back to change.
Much to her surprise, the Destroyer Outfit was not a disappointment. There was something about the way the all-black coat and over the knee heels fit her that made the whole coliseum thing not a complete pain in the ass. 'It's been a while since I had something nice to wear.' When she returned to Sora and the androids, of course, Sora made a big deal out of it despite her not wanting him to.
"Whoa, you look so cool, A2!"
"I just needed something to wear," She muttered.
"It's a lot better than the half-naked Ex-YoRHa look," 9S said.
"Look who's making unnecessary comments again."
"So are we done here?" 2B asked. "I checked the next location and it looks like we're going to the Forest Kingdom for its resource recovery unit."
"Back there, huh? Oh, then can we make one more stop since we're going in that direction?" Sora asked.
"And where would that be?"
Somehow, 2B didn't expect Sora's answer to involve her chasing down whatever an 'Emil' was and shooting him on the spot, but Sora seemed to be excited with the results so she didn't question his motives.
"Emil, what's up?" Sora ran over to help him up.
"Sora, long time no see, looking to buy something from my shop?"
"Not today, I was wondering if you could upgrade my keyblade again." He summoned Weight of the World. "I have a feeling something big's coming up."
"Well you're not wrong, so sure, I'd love to upgrade your keyblade! I just need a modest amount of 10,000 G and a small list of 50 of these very specific items."
"What are you serious?!"
"Don't worry Sora, I got this handled," A2 went up to Emil. "How about I don't blow your head off right now and you get all this junk from the coliseum?"
"You got yourself a deal!"
"Huh, do you always use intimidation to get what you want?" 9S asked.
"Keep talking to me and you'll find out."
Sora rejoined the androids with his new and improved keyblade. "Alright, I'm ready to set off."
"Hold on, before you leave Sora, you are right about that feeling you have. I'd be careful going into the Forest Kingdom," Emil said.
NieR: [O]blivion
The Death of Sanctuary
Weight of the World
Lv. 3
Strength: 8
Magic: 5
Weapon story 3:
A Sound Soul
Even when we're together, we're apart,
When you went towards the light, I chased the dark.
The longer I walk on this path of dawn,
The more changes my heart has undergone.
In the depths of darkness, you're in my heart,
We're together, even when we're apart.
A/N: Guys, guys why tf am I writing these long-ass chapters? It's killing me, anyways, I know Squall's gunblade isn't an actual gun, but I couldn't help myself to drama!
I'm in this same darkness again...
At least I have my thoughts to keep me company in this oblivion.
?-?-?: The work you've done in discovering the location of those worlds is immeasurable. However, we still require your assistance for the development of the Creation Box.
Is that so? Seems I won't be put to rest just yet.
"Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin;
and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned."
Romans 5:12
