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In addition this chapter will be referencing another franchise but will not be included within the story.

Chapter 5: Reality of old and new

April: Wednesday 20*

Twilight Town Theme Plays

It's been 3 days since the battle of Radiant Garden and things got pretty quiet really quick for me once I came back to school. Mickey, Donald, and Goofy have been helping me with both my studies and my training as well as Cloud and Sora while still trapped inside my heart. Back at school however, I couldn't stop thinking about what could've happened if Maleficent was successful at beating me, and what might have happened to my family when the Organization beat them. I was starting to get a headache from thinking about it.

Spanish Teacher: "Senor Adcaelus!"

Me: "Si Senora!"

Spanish Teacher: "Sorry to break from the topic at hand everyone but, Scaelux, there's something... different about you."

Me: "What do you mean?"

Spanish Teacher: "You seem more tense than you usually are and you don't really seem to be paying attention, is there something wrong?"

Me: "No no not at all."

Spanish Teacher: "In that case could you please answer my question?"

Classroom question:

Spanish Teacher: "If the Spanish word for blessing is "bendicion," then what is the Spanish word for curse?"

Me: Good thing I didn't fall behind.

Me: "The answer is "Maledicion.""

Spanish Teacher: "Exactly! Blessings and curses are involved in many traditions and beliefs including The Day of the Dead in Mexico."

The room grew louder as the other students heard my answer.

Cloud: "Nice going!"

I turned to find Cloud over my shoulder and almost yelped!

Cloud: "Don't worry, only you can see and hear me like this."

I proceeded to write stuff down on my paper to communicate and to not draw too much attention.

Me: I thought we agreed not to speak when I'm in public!

Cloud: "I couldn't help but listen to your teacher's lecture. It gets uncomfortable being someone's heart and have nothing to do but watch."

Me: Yeah I could see that, I hope we don't have to deal with any more curses like what Maleficent did to Mickey.

Cloud: "Not to mention everyone else, we've got a huge advantage in this fight so we need to be ready for-"

Spanish Teacher: "Ok class please fill out the vocabulary sheet, I'm just gonna step out real quick. Scaelux come with me."

Me: "Si Senora."

Me: Looks like we'll have to save this for later.

Cloud: "Be ready for anything."

I followed my Spanish Teacher out the door wanting to have a talk with me.

Spanish Teacher: "I know this thing with your family going missing is tough but you really need to pull yourself together. I believe in your ability to learn but it can..."

Me: "Wait how did you know!?"

Spanish Teacher: "It was all over the news a while ago and your mother spoke to the staff about it."

Me: "I wasn't even aware that it even made the news."

Spanish Teacher: "Ok but I digress, I know this is hard for you but the staff has been worried sick about you, you're grades are high and could plummet with your family on your mind. We even thought it was best to send you home for a while to cope."

Me: "Cope!? I don't need to cope, I know that their still alive. I would be missing out on school if they were dead, but deep down, I know that all 5 of them are still alive and that I'll see them again!"

Spanish Teacher: "I'll make sure to tell the faculty office on what you think, in the mean time, just keep focusing on your studies."

Me: "Alright."

My last period of the day was a free period so I decided to take a small walk around the school. I had no tests to study for, no projects or homework to do so I decided to have a small time of mindfulness to myself. Then the bell rang and I was free to go but after going towards a corner, I bumped into someone! I was able to quickly regain my balance and so was the person I bumped into, or 2 persons! I looked up to see 2 familiar faces who weren't supposed to be here!

Me: "Roxas!? Yuffie!? What the heck are you doing here!?"

Yuffie: "Hehehe surprise!"

Roxas: "Master Yen Sid had us enroll into Erackis High so we can experience your world!"

Me: "Quiet! You don't want anyone to know about that stuff!"

The 3 of us kept quiet until we boarded the bus back home. Roxas was in his usual Twilight Town get up with a brown backpack. Yuffie was wearing a grey shirt, black leather jacket and black sweat pants in reference to her Advent Children appearance while carrying a black leather backpack. Even though they blended in well, some of the other students were captivated by them. The boys were eyeing Yuffie and the girls were captivated by Roxas, not in a "they look weird" way but a "oh no they're hot" kind of way.

Me: I swear one minute they're unseen, the next minute all the students go completely horny for them! Unbelievable!

I could even hear their comments.

Male Student: "Hey aren't those the transfer students from Japan hanging out with Scaelux!?"

Female Student: "Wow Adcaelus's friends are on fire! I wonder if I could get their numbers!"

Male Wrestling Student: "Damn, Adcaelus already made friends with them. Lucky dawg!"

Apparently they even attended all of my classes that I was in, under the names of Roxas Twilight and Yuffie Kisaragi, not a very subtle name for Roxas and I couldn't even handle the fact that Yuffie used her full real name. Speaking of whom, while Roxas was able to hide his keyblades in an instant, Ansem the Wise's apprentices engineered a special weapon for Yuffie. Her chakram was concealed inside a small circular charging battery which actually worked thanks to their new prototype mako shard ion battery, 50 times stronger than lithium ion batteries! With the press of a concealed button, her charger would unravel to reveal her chakram. I was impressed of what Ienzo and the gang did. When we arrived at our stop, Yuffie demonstrated it in action! As we kept from tree to tree, skated on power lines and kicked off tree trunks to get back home! We walked inside to find Donald, Goofy, and Mickey chilling out! We all greeted each other and decided to do some more training. The only issue was that it was raining outside, but the Disney trio had a solution! While working on Yuffie's hidden chakram, they also created special visors based off of Shinra technology, which couldn't have been accomplished without Cid's help. The visors not only emerged you in a virtual reality setting, but it also lifts you into the air with a force field surrounding you so you wouldn't be damaging your surroundings while using it. I had to admit, those guys really outdid themselves.

Mickey: "So what kind of challenge are you 3 up to today?"

Me: "Well let's try a wave battle difficulty level 6 of 10."

Yuffie: "6!? I'd say 4!"

Me: "Let's just compromise with 5. I really don't like to argue."

With everyone in agreement, we began our simulation.

Wave battle level 5!

Those Who Fight: Dissidia NT Plays!

1: Neo Shadow Heartless X5 Abzu Shoat X4

2: Large Body Heartless X3 Shinra Riot Trooper X3

3: Sweeper and Cutter

4: M.O.T.H. Unit X2

5: ?????

We braced ourselves for each wave, slicing down Neo Shadows and Abzu Shoats, turning Large Bodies into bowling balls, hijacking the Sweeper and Cutter into ramming into one another, and even making the 2 M.O.T.H. Units blast each other with their own electricity! Eventually we got to the boss, which turned out to be Ifrit!

Ifrit charged at us while engulfed in flames, while the 3 of us skillfully dodged it. Yuffie then casted Blizzara to quite literally put Ifrit on ice while Roxas followed up with Water. Before I could act, Ifrit recovered from our assault and started making fire plumes from the ground! In retaliation, I countered with Quake to interrupt the fire plumes which ended up turning the dirt from Quake into glass, turning the entire arena into a glass filled box! The 3 of decided to use this tower advantage and hide from the Ifrit. The glass also confused Ifrit since our reflections made it look like we were in several places at once, causing it to destroy the glass leaving shards on the ground, and when there was enough, we knocked Ifrit over from behind!

Yuffie Limit Break: Gauntlet!

Roxas Limit Break: Magic Hour!

My Ability: One-Winged Dragon, Octaslash!

We brutally blasted and then sliced Ifrit knocking it towards the glass shards thereby defeating it!

Final Fantasy 7 Remake Combat Simulator Victory Theme Plays!

While Yuffie was doing her classic victory pose, Roxas back flipped, threw Oblivion and Oathkeeper into the air and caught both of them when he landed while performed Cloud's blade spin victory pose!

Mickey: "Nice win everybody!"

Me: "We totally rocked the block with that one!"

Music stops.

We took off the visors and we all jumped for joy celebrating our new record. Then we heard a ringing coming from Mickey's Gummi Phone.

Mickey: "Sorry everyone but Donald, Goofy, and I are needed in Radiant Garden, Ienzo thinks he can locate Ansem the Wise and he'll need our help to find him!"

Me: "Don't worry your Excellency, we'll need all the help we can get to win this fight!"

Mickey: "Thanks for your understanding, and please, call me by my name, we're friends aren't we?"

Me: "Very well then, Mickey."

We hi-fived and we saw them off at the mysterious doorway to get them to Yen Sid's tower by having me use Water to create a magical umbrella to shield us from the rain. Coincidentally, that actually was good practice with Water magic!

Learned Watera!

Roxas: "I gotta tell you, for a guy who's only been a keyblade wielder for almost 2 weeks you sure are progressing really quickly."

Me: "Thanks, I tend to be quick at studying. Even if I despise some material."

Yuffie: "What do you mean?"

Me: "My world was plagued with so much conflict in every corner of the globe that so many people either lost their lives, or suffered severely. Whenever I study that kind of stuff, I could always feel my heart ache. You see, before I ever gained the R.S. Engine's power, I had a natural talent of being able to put my feet in others' shoes easily. The feelings that victims felt,'they were... heartbreaking. I even had a phase where I wanted nothing to do with the reality I was born in and wanted to go to a new one without conflict! I know that was pathetic of me but that happened."

I told them much about my world's history while they tried to comfort me. I felt tears running down my face as I did.

Roxas: "I don't know much about the history of your world, but I can sympathize. Everyone used to tell me, Axel, and Xion that we weren't worth anything without hearts, but then we figured out that was a lie."

Yuffie: "I can sympathize too. When Shinra tried to assimilate my nation of Wutai and we've been trying to fight them back ever since."

To think I was the one fitting in the shoes of others' while these 2 experienced severe conflict first hand. Roxas being treated like he was worth nothing and Yuffie enduring war against Shinra. Makes you think how much you could learn from these people.

After I calmed down I told them thank you.

Me: "Roxas, Yuffie, thank you for your understanding. None of our worlds may be perfect but we can't just take it from what it appears."

Roxas and Yuffie were staring outside.

Me: "To think I'd speaking to 2 people who experienced conflict like what you went through while I just put my feet in the shoes of others. We could probably inspire good change if we're to ever..."

Yuffie and Roxas: "UH SCAELUX, BEHIND YOU!!"

I turned around to see nothing but rain out the window.

Me: "What's up!?"

Yuffie: "The rain, it was just suspended in the air while you were talking."

Me: "For real!?"

It took me a second to think about it. I closed my eyes thinking about change for good, I raised my arms and then like they said, the rain stopped in midair!

Me: "What the heck! I'm doing this!?"

I waved my hands in several motions utilizing movements in Tai Chi. I knew very little Tai Chi mainly since I trained in the Northern Shaolin style of Kung Fu. All I did know about Tai Chi was that shortness of breath can be stronger than a ferocious roar, so I was able to control the water like an extension of my own body!

Yuffie: "Wow! You could do that!?"

Me: "I didn't know either!"

Yuffie: "This is like that Avatar cartoon!"

That caught my attention.

Me: "How do YOU know about that stuff!?"

Yuffie: "I ended up discovering your Netflix account and started using it and the last thing you ever used your account for was that!"

Me: "First of all, I put that on for my younger cousin a while a go. Second, no wonder why my parents were nagging me about using Netflix while I'm supposed to be in school. Third, actually that show was one of my inspirations on studying martial arts."

Then a thought crossed my mind.

Me: Hm if I could utilize this power to bend elements, I could in theory apply this to my prowess in weaponless Martial Arts. The Organization won't know what hit them!

Me: "If I could figure out how this power works I could use it to my advantage!"

Yuffie: "Well then let's start at square one. We know that our coming to this world involved the power of the R.S. Engine. Maybe that power brought that universe here?"

Me: "Yuffie if that were the case then wouldn't people randomly generate bending and go power mad."

Yuffie: "Oh."

Me: "Still, there's gotta be some sort of... wait, there's something familiar about this."

It took me a bit but then it hit me!!!

Flashback: Sunday

Endraxe moving vast amounts of Earth, Metal, Darkness, and Lava

Camonixe using mostly Fire attacks

The Mystery Girl controlling both Water and Light

Sojaxen bending Fire, Lightning, Ice and Water

Exbellisa bending Water, Ice, and Wind

Nieldaxe bending Darkness

Back to the present

Me: "My family. Before coming to Radiant Garden Master Yen Sid used his power to show a projection of the past and my cousins somehow had bending of their own!"

I told them what I observed.

Yuffie: "I guess where ever this power came from, it couldn't have been from that show."

Yuffie was right, a bender could only wield one element at a time with the only exception being the Avatar. Especially considering that their was no such thing as light or darkness bending.

I began to ponder for another source of power. Where could these abilities come from. Then it hit me!

Me: "Their summons."

Yuffie and Roxas: "Their summons?"

Me: "Yeah, the elements of each of their summons correspond with their respective bending abilities."

Roxas: "You're right but what does that say about you?"

Me: "Huh?"

Roxas: "Both of your summons are non element and so does your cousin Endraxe with Odin."

Roxas raised a very good point.

Me: "Well, I did feel darkness emanating from Endraxe's Odin so that may be where his power of darkness came from. I on the other hand, am able to control water. Maybe if I just."

I turned to the fireplace and readied myself by taking a deep breath and then punched with all my might!

Apparently non-elemental summons gave me all 6 elements Water, Earth, Fire, Air, Light, and Darkness to command.

Fire spewed from my fist lighting the fireplace but it wasn't as powerful as I imagined it to be. Only a small amount of embers came from my strike.

Me: "That should've been stronger!"

I then proceeded to try and blow out the fire using air. Still, the air was very minimal and I couldn't use water all that well for some odd reason. Even when I tried to Earth bend when the rain cleared away, the best I could do was just a small stone! Not even Light nor Darkness was at all effective, just tiny sparks and shadows that literally did NOTHING! I didn't understand any of it! My stances were strong and powerful, my emotional state matched the corresponding elements, what was I missing!?!?

Me: "This is starting to get on my nerves! My cousins could command the elements like gods but I could barely do much at all!!!"

Yuffie: "Calm down Scaelux, you can't let it get to you."

I took a deep breath.

Me: "You're right. It could simply be weak because I'm just starting to use it and since Mickey was the one who pulled me out of the Organization's clutches. I guess all I need right now is time."

We went back inside but as soon as I stepped through the doorway, Tifa was there!

Me, Roxas, and Yuffie: "TIFA!"

Tifa: "Looks like you've been busy."

Me: "Is something wrong?"

Tifa: "No I just wanted to let everyone know that since the neighborhood here knows about your power, they gave us a house not to far from here for FREE!"

Me: "Sweet, though it's easy to forget that everyone in the neighborhood knows about my abilities. Are you sure it's a good idea?"

Tifa: "Well we decided that it's best for Roxas and Yuffie since they'll be attending Erackis we thought it'd be best if we lived much closer."

Me: "You're right."

Yuffie: "Weeeeeeellll with that aside we should go out and do something!"

Me: "Yuffie, it's a school night we gotta prepare for tomorrow."

Everyone stared at me like I was crazy.

Me: "What... what am I missing?"

Mother: "Didn't you get an email about renovations? The school will be closed until they're complete."

Me: "Mom!"

My Mom just came through the garage door into the kitchen.

Mother: "Don't tell me you didn't check your emails. They're important you know!"

Me: *sighs* "You're right but with trying to balance student and keyblade wielder life, it's been a pain in my rear!"

Mother: "Just do your best to check your email sweetie. I know this is hard but just do your best."

I took out my phone and read the email out loud to everyone.

Me: "Attention students and parents. For the next 2 days, the school will be undergoing some renovations due to a decision made by the town board to use the excess money to better the appearance and services of our school. For those days, students will be picked at random to discuss with the head of the renovations Mr. Lawrence. With that said, students will have received take home work to do by Monday (Link in description below). Erackis High wishes all students, staff, and parents a lovely surprise break. Signed, Mr. Patrick, Principal. Sent Monday!"

Mother: "Oh Scaelux!"

Yuffie: "Well now that that's settled can we please go somewhere fun!?"

We turned to find a thunderstorm brewing above.

Me: "Crap, just when I was about to catch a breather."

Mother: "Why don't you 3 stay with us for the night? My daughter is staying with her friend so her room should be free."

Me: "I guess Roxas, Yuffie, and I will get our surprise break assignments done so we can kick back and relax later on."

Roxas: "Do you ever take a break?"

Me: "It's much better when you have nothing to work on later."

Yuffie: "Well I guess that logic makes sense, let's go!"

The 3 of us went to the living room, printed out our assignments from my parents' office, and got to work.

Our work consisted of a few History questions, Physics, Algebra, and English. With Jiminy still in my pocket, he and I worked together to guide Yuffie and Roxas through our work.

Roxas: "So Kinetic friction is less than Max static friction?"

Me: "Yeah, an object wants to keep on moving if it is currently moving and wants to stay still if it's not moving. In this case, you can push an object with a certain amount of force but you don't need as much to keep it moving."

Yuffie: "So Charles Lee had his position as a general taken by who?"

Jiminy: "That would be Marquis de Lafayette, a French immigrant who took the lead after Charles Lee was taken out of command during the battle of Monmouth."

Yuffie chuckled.

Yuffie: "Why would any promote a guy like that to be a general?"

Me: "Honestly, I have no idea."

It took us 2 hours to get the job done, but we finished just in time for dinner, Ravioli filled with cheese and covered in meat sauce along with a salad. That night felt really good spending time with everyone, and not in a fight. All in all I was set for a surprise break!

April: Thursday 20*

I woke up to a sunny day where Mickey was waiting in the living room for me.

Mickey: "Ah, you're awake."

Me: "Morning Mickey, I thought you were searching for Ansem the Wise?"

Mickey: "That's what I came to tell you about."

Me: "What's going on with Ansem?"

Mickey: "Well, we believe that he's hiding somewhere in this town."

Me: "You're kidding!!"

Mickey: "We received a dubious message which was sent to Ansem's computer. The message only had coordinates to a certain area and it turned out to be here! We were hoping to track him down but unfortunately it's not an easy task. Somehow and for some reason, he keeps on covering his tracks! I came here hoping that you may have an idea as to why he'd do such a thing."

This was very peculiar, why would he be close by but cover his tracks so no-one would find him?

Despite the peculiarity, it didn't take long for me to figure out a reason.

Me: "Mickey, this is only speculation, but if Ansem is nearby but making it difficult to track him, then we're not the only one's trying to find him!"

Mickey: "What do you mean!?"

Me: "Someone else is tracking him so he's trying to give them the slip."

Mickey: "I'll gather a search party and track him down then."

Me: "I'm coming too."

Mickey: "Well... Actually..."

Mickey seemed a bit nervous.

Me: "You want me to sit this one out do you?"

Mickey: "Gosh, it's that obvious is it? It was a decision made by everyone including your parents. We figured that you needed some down time with all of your hero work going on. No hard feelings Scaelux."

Knowing him he was a wise king and I didn't want to argue but I also didn't want to lose them too.

Me: "Ok, I'll take your word for it that you'll have this under control."

Mickey: "Thanks, we'll be careful out there."

Me: "Under one condition: If things start to get out of hand, you call me immediately, I'm not risking losing ANYONE since I lost my family."

Mickey: "Understandable, I'll have Chip and Dale contact you if such were to happen."

Me: "Alright then, it's a promise we'll both keep."

We shook hands as Mickey took an organization XIII cloak to go incognito from normal people and put it on. He took Vincent, Laguna, and Rinoa to back him up while he searched for Ansem.

Roxas, Yuffie, Tifa, Axel, and I went out for a morning brunch at a grill house in New Jersey that served phenomenal food from all over the globe! And I was the one who was driving. I was still a newbie since I only had my permit, but at least Tifa was able to act as my driving adult.

Front Desk Manager: "Hello, welcome to Max's grill-house, do you have a reservation?"

Me: "Table for 5 Scaelux Adcaelus."

Front Desk Manager: "As in Francia Adcaelus!?"

Me: "My sister."

Front Desk Manager: "Well welcome back and are these your gu..."

The Front Desk Manager started to stare at Axel.

Me: "Uuuhh yeah, this is Axel Twilight, Roxas Twilight, Yuffie Kisaragi, and Tifa Lockhart."

Front Desk Manager: "Oh- ok, interesting names... Oh, I'm sorry, please follow me."

The restaurant was PACKED and we were the center of attention towards staff and customers alike! Probably because of Axel's spiky red hair. Even when were seated at a VIP booth I could hear their gossip.

Businessman: "Who're those people? And that lady?"

Teenage Girl: "That redhead guy is so HOT!"

Waiter: "I heard the brown haired kid is a regular here. His family is very generous."

Me: "We should try to keep a low profile out here, even in casual clothing we somewhat stick out."

Tifa: "I don't think it's that bad as long as we act normal."

Yuffie: "Speak for yourselves. You and Axel seem to charm everyone wherever you go!"

Me: Facts!

Waiter: "Hello may I please take your orders please?"

Me: "Ok sure."

We were able to ignore the gossip and get on with brunch. We had an appetizer course of Sushi, a stew, main courses of fish and meat, and ended off with sorbet! In the end we took a group selfie! I never felt so free hanging out with others! Later on we went out shopping and unfortunately us guys had to be the luggage carriers! Seriously! Who makes weights that are 500 POUNDS!!! I even thought about metal bending the thing, but with my level of bending, it must've reduced only 50 POUNDS!

But when we got home, I got a call from the school.

Mr. Patrick: "Hello Scaelux how're you doing?"

Me: "Uh fine I guess, is this about my chat with my Spanish teacher?"

Mr. Patrick: "Though we appreciate your ability to continue your learning regardless of the circumstances, I'm not calling you for that."

Something felt off.

Mr. Patrick: "You've been personally invited to discuss about the renovations for the school by Mr. Lawrence himself! He asks for you to come to the main office as soon as possible. I don't mean to cut this call short but I have some paperwork to file. Hopefully I'll see you in the hallway Scaelux!"

From the tone of my Principal's voice, he seemed rather positive, though I still felt suspicious, so I decided to make a phone call.

Me: "Hey man, it's me Scaelux, I need a favor."

Later at school

I went their alone to find construction materials and forklifts everywhere. I really felt suspicious at that point so before going inside, I used what Earthbending power I had to try and feel what was inside one of the crates while no-one was looking, by feeing the seismic vibration emanating from the contents of the box.

Me: I guess watching those Avatar cartoons and learning Chinese martial arts really paid off!

Even though I could barely lift a small stone, I was able to feel the vibrations. Though, I felt large amounts of flat and string like objects. Seeing that I was near the technology building of the school, I assumed that they were circuit boards and wires, but still, I haven't heard of any issues with the school's tech!

Me: This is way too sus!

Construction Worker: "Is someone there!?"

Me: Shit!

I Flash Skipped right out of there avoiding anyone's attention due to the bright blue sky allowing me to hide the glow I emanated while using Flash Skip, and made my way to Mr. Lawrence.

Before I did though, I ran into Mr. Patrick in the hallway.

Mr. Patrick: "Ah Scaelux you're here!"

Me: "Good to see you Mr. Patrick. Humor me for a quick second, what kind of renovations are you doing?"

Mr. Patrick: "Well, Mr. Lawrence here is not only the head of construction here, but he's willing to test out some new method of learning through Virtual Reality."

Me: VR Learning? That's pretty bizarre!

Mr. Patrick: "I had to close down the school because we need to build a new facility for this new technology and the beginning stages may be dangerous if the students and faculty are present, if that at all helps you understand."

Me: "Understandable, I'll be on my way to Mr. Lawrence now. Have a good day!"

I bid him farewell as I walked to the main office.

Me: VR Learning, what kind of learning will that be like?

I made my way to the main office to see him and so I waited in the school conference room alone. There was no other soul in the room. I was getting creeped out by waiting there, until a door right behind me opened.

Mr. Lawrence?: "Ah there you are Mr. Adcaelus."

Organization XIV plays

The voice I heard sent a shiver down my spine, because of how familiarity sounded. I tried using my Waterbending to feel for his blood but I felt nothing, just darkness from my Darkbending. I tried to keep a straight face so I didn't panic but I almost lost my composure when I saw that his name wasn't Mr. Lawrence but the 11th darkness of the original organization, now the 7th darkness of the real organization, The Graceful Assassin himself, Marluxia!!!

Marluxia pulled a remote out of his business suit which "disabled" the security cameras.

Me: "Don't play dumb with me I know exactly who you are!"

Marluxia: "Oh, I'm not hiding anything from you."

Me: "Then what do you want with Erackis!?"

Marluxia: "We're trying to see how one's heart changes through their educational years, nothing... too extreme Scaelux."

Me: "Bullshit, those crates you have by the tech building are full of excess electronic components. What is it you're really doing here!?"

Marluxia chuckled.

Me: "Answer the question!"

Marluxia: "I don't know how you discovered that crate without a trace, but rather impressive. You truly do have the makings of an incredible wielder."

Xemnas must've warned him of my interrogation techniques, I had to be careful.

Marluxia: "I'm sure that you're aware of the darkness that plagues your world, vastly growing, quick to affect, heart-shattering I should say. The organization has entrusted me in gathering data about this world's history and of course how it affects your world today. No matter how hard anyone tries to alleviate it, it keeps on coming back! It's incredible!"

I scoffed.

Me: "Don't make me laugh, I know what it's like to feel in another person's shoes, I experience more pain from the lessons we're taught."

Marluxia: "And that's the problem."

Me: "Huh?"

Marluxia: "You learn about your world's past and take it to heart, others seem to take it for granted. But what if, per se, you could recreate that pain for those who choose to ignore it. The darkness of your world's many conflicts far surpasses how much darkness plagues your world today, with so many weak, yet persistent lights try to illuminate it. Allow them to experience the pain of the past first-hand, and we won't have to worry about darkness again. All that darkness will serve the Organization in many ways than one!"

Me: "And this concerns my school how!?"

Marluxia: "No need to worry, the students will be our first test-subjects. As soon as we're able to acquire the last piece in order for our plan to work, Ansem the Wise!"

I knew it, he was being hunted! Out of aggression I drew my Shooting Star keyblade.

Me: "Please, you'll never get to him, he's already under our protection."

I was lying.

Marluxia: "Is he now?!"

My phone was ringing.

Marluxia: "Go ahead."

I picked up the phone and answered.

Mickey: "SCAELUX, WE NEED HELP, WE'VE BEEN AMBUAAHHHH!!!"

Obnoxious Female: "Oh sorry king squeaker can't answer the phone right now!"

Me: "LARXENE!!"

Smooth-Talking Male: "It appears that you've played the wrong cards, I figured you'd be more of a challenge according to what Xemnas described you."

Me: "LUXORD!!"

Marluxia: "In truth we already had Ansem in our possession the entire time. You and your friends fell right into our trap!"

Me: "LIKE HELL I HAVE!"

I lunged towards Marluxia, Shooting Star in hand, but he immediately deflected my attack when he summoned his scythe! I was just about to go for another swing, until he summoned a blonde girl in a white dress being constricted by Marluxia's vines!

Me: "Namine!?!? What did you do to her!?!?"

Marluxia: "Hm, in order for the students to experience intense conflict. We needed someone to mess with their memories. And now with Namine's ability to alter memory along with Ansem's knowledge to amplify it, our experiment will go rather smoothly."

Me and Sora: "LEAVE INNOCENT PEOPLE OUT OF THIS!!"

I flinched after finishing my sentence.

Marluxia: "Sora, so you have slipped away into his heart."

Me: "What do you want!?"

Marluxia: "If you want the safety of your entire school and your friends, you'll relinquish the keyblades you have. You have until nightfall beneath the Tapanzee Bridge."

With that, Marluxia made Namine and his scythe disappear.

Me: "Wait, how do I know you have Ansem?"

Marluxia showed Ansem tied up with Mickey, Vincent, Rinoa, and Laguna on live video.

Marluxia: "Remember, if you want all of them safe, then your keyblades will be mine."

Music stops

I was escorted out of the school and then I came back home to tell everyone what happened! Everyone was worried.

Father: "This guy would go that far just for your power!? You can't trust him!"

Mother: "Who knows what'll happen to them if he doesn't do something!?"

Me: "GUYS! I know this is terrifying but we need to figure this out, it'll be nightfall in a few hours!"

Father: "Unacceptable, for all we know he'll double cross you."

Me: "Dad! I have to at least try!"

Father: "I doubt it, for all we know, letting them and the school go could just be a red herring!"

Me: "But he'll do that anyways if I don't... wait, THAT'S IT!!!"

I tried to calm both of them down before asking Ansem's apprentices to help me make fake keyblades to trade in. It was difficult but we were finally able to make seemingly real replicas. Then nightfall came, and it was time for an exchange.

Beneath Tapanzee Bridge: Nightfall

Organization XIV plays

I flew to the bottom of the bridge so no-one could detect me as the sky grew dark especially consider that it was very far, it took me like 90 minutes to get there in a car and it was even harder if you're flying and trying not to get caught! Marluxia, Larxene, and Luxord were standing there with Ansem, Namine, Mickey, Rinoa, Laguna, and Vincent in their custody. Just the sheer sight of Larxene made me want to puke, especially after what she did to Exbellisa!

Marluxia: "So you have arrived."

I was very uncomfortable looking at these three when I was all alone.

Luxord: "Don't feel disgraceful, not all of us can win the game right away."

Me: "Don't you sweet talk to me like that. Now are we doing this or not?"

Larxene: "Oh, so the newbie is playing tough now are we? First give us your keyblades."

Me: "No, if this is an exchange, it'll be simultaneous."

With the 4 of us in agreement, Larxene began to cut the rope that binded their captives as I dropped the fake keyblades in front of them. Though I knew they had another trick up their sleeves!

Marluxia: "You realize that as long as you're worthy, the keyblades will be bound to you correct?"

Me: "So?"

Marluxia: "If you think you could just trick us with phonies, then you're sorely mistaken, DO IT!!"

Before I knew what was up, I was caught in a dark purple energy field similar to R.S. Syphon, and I say that because I could feel my Keyblades, Enfierna, and my claws (which I decided to call Dragon's Wrath) leaving my body as they were absorbed into the devices that they were carrying, which then gave my keyblades to Luxord, Dragon's Wrath to Larxene, and Enfierna to Marluxia!!

As the field disappeared, I could no longer feel or hear the presence of neither Cloud nor Sora, they were drained out of me TOO!

Me: "What the hell did you do to me!?!?!?"

Larxene: "Oh we just stripped you of your weapons and hearts and made them ours, none of them can hear you!"

Marluxia then conjured vines to re-constrict the captives!

Me: "We had a deal! Give them back!!"

Larxene: "Oh, now the hero is a baby now, didn't mommy ever tell you to say please?"

I was pissed at them for double crossing me like that, so I lunged towards them! Larxene countered me with Thundaga though!! Then, Marluxia conjured the same vines to constrict me! I struggled to break free but I couldn't do it without my power!

Marluxia: "Save your strength, we still have a need for you. With your power given to Xehanort, as well as you joining your cousins, we will remake all worlds into new perfect worlds. Don't you see what Xehanort is trying to do? All worlds, all perfect. Why do you resist?"

Me: "Like I'd... ever... help you!"

Marluxia: "Still you resist, aren't you tired of such a conflicted world, one that may never seem to heal itself from the scars of the PAST!?!?"

Those words echoed in my head for a bit.

Me: A new world made to be perfect? I used to think the same, but, this is the only world I ever knew, and within all the chaos, there is always that one light that wants to heal rather than hurt.

I closed my eyes and cleared my mind.

Me: If I'm ever going to continue I need to accept the world I live in, and keep moving forward.

Quickly yet silently I felt a surge of energy flowing through me! I could feel the air blowing around me, The waves of the river crashing into the shore, the Earth rumbling beneath me, the fire heating up from within me, the darkness of everyone's pain and despair, and the light that chases it all away!

Me: I love a good table-turning!

Marluxia: "Are you finally ready to submit, Scaelux Adcaelus?"

Me: "I have a few things to say first. Honestly, I saw things the way things you 3 do now, I even wanted to live in a different reality, but then I realized, beyond all that pain and despair, lies the good stuff of reality, and if you go to another one, you'll never experience the good things of your own reality ever again."

Luxord: "Interesting that you'd think that way but what exactly are you saying?!"

13th Struggle (Infinite Rivals Music) plays! (Another fan remix)

With a smug grin on my face, I bent the water within Marluxia's vines as they unraveled leaving the 3 organization members surprised!

Me: "I'm saying this. If you shun the reality you live in only because of the things you can see, you blind yourself from the possibility of it being remade anew!!"

With that I turned the vines against them catching them off guard!

Marluxia: "HOW!?"

Me: "It's called acceptance, read about it!"

I followed up with stomping my foot on the ground causing boulders to form as I roundhoused them towards the 3 Nobodies, followed by a series of quick punches that summoned flames and repetitive kicks conjuring up large gusts of wind!

Despite my efforts they dodged and blocked my strikes using my own abilities against me! Luxord then proceeded to channel my keyblades' power to summon thousands of playing cards that surrounded us!

Luxord: "Now let's make things more interesting! Let us see how much of keyblade wielder you are without your keyblade."

Me: "What!?"

Luxord: "The rules are simple, all you need to do to win is find us among these cards and strike us down!"

With a snap of his fingers, a bright flash was created and the 3 nobodies vanished, only leaving me with an irritating field of cards while Gambler Nobodies were summoned!

Me: "No need to worry, I've got a few tricks up my sleeve as well!"

I used my Airbending to mess up Luxord's placement of his cards, but while I was doing so, Marluxia approached from behind spinning like a top with his scythe and Enfierna held out! In response I side stepped him and countered with a fierce fire blast to his face!!! Marluxia was stunned as I followed up with some lightning by letting go of all feelings of shame to generate electricity and thrust it forward! As soon as the lightning was about to land however, Larxene deflected it making it hit the underside of the BRIDGE!! I felt the rumbling knowing that I needed to fix that hole somehow!

Me: Not on my watch!

I used the metal from the fake keyblades in order to form a temporary filling between the metal girders to stabilize the bridge! Gambler Nobodies then proceeded to attack with some cards, but with my fluid movement, I caught each and every one of those cards and threw them back at them, not only defeating the Nobodies, but halos removing several of Luxord's cards on the field! Larxene then charged up with electricity and charged at me in an attempt to strike me with Dragon's Wrath! I quickly evaded her attack and used water to coat her, thereby shocking her with her own electricity! It didn't take long for her to recuperate as she lunged at me with a series of punches and kicks, which I skillfully parried, blocked, and dodged until I could counter with a blast of wind, knocking her into the concrete wall. Marluxia then approached from behind to deliver another spinning attack which I leapt backwards to avoid, and at the peak of his attack, I made the ground that he was standing on turn 180 degrees to make him dizzy, then followed up with some shards of ice to his back! Larxene then retaliated by diving towards me covered in electricity, and to angry to notice my trap!

I gathered as much sand as I could get, and thrusted it all towards Larxene, thereby encasing her in GLASS!!! With only her head and her hands sticking out, she couldn't move a muscle (assuming Nobodies have muscles at all)!

Larxene: "What did you do to me!?"

Me: "This is what I like to call pay back for what you did to Exbellisa, chica!"

With a snap of my fingers right in front of her, I caused a burst of light to flash, blinding her.

Me: Revenge has never tasted sweeter HAH!

I then took back what rightfully mine!

Ability: R.S. Syphon!

I encased Larxene using R.S. Syphon, back-flipped, and punched the energy field!

Reclaimed: Dragon's Wrath!

Learned: Thundaga!

As soon as I did the deed, not only I left Larxene unconscious, but I reclaimed one third of my lost power!

Luxord: "The game isn't over yet Scaelux!"

Luxord appeared from a card and tried to mince me with them! I guarded using Dragon's Wrath, dug both hands into the ground, and doing a fierce tearing motion, created plumes of lava coming straight towards Luxord! The lava itself burned several of Luxord's cards that he set on the field leaving him with less moves to make and fewer cards to hide behind!

I could hear and feel Luxord's movement amongst the cards, so I needed a new approach. I closed my eyes and stomped my right foot on the ground to sense his movements. He was well aware of what I was up to, since he made those card come after me and burst into flames! Despite this, I reacted and dodged each of them while searching for Luxord, and then!

Me: Gotcha!

Ability: One-Winged Dragon!

I flew towards Luxord, grabbed his hood, and delivered a fierce beat down with Fire, Air, and Darkness before finishing him!

Ability: R.S. Syphon!

I took back what he took from me!

Reclaimed: Keyblades!

Learned: Stopra!

Luxord was down! Only one more to go!

Marluxia recovered from my ice barrage ready to retaliate!

Marluxia: "So you're able to take back your power."

Me: "You can't bring me down no matter what you do!"

Marluxia: "Really then what do you say to THIS!?!?"

Marluxia lunged at me with both his scythe and Enfierna, so I switched to Flarialite and Ultiforce to guard his attack, and counter with Dual Smasher creating a shockwave of light and dark energy to blast Marluxia back and follow up with several casts of Thundaga to really pour on the pain since I blasted him into the water! As soon as I finished casting Thundaga, Marluxia was completely exhausted, or so I thought!

Marluxia: "I'm not done YET!"

Marluxia used a dark corridor to try and strike me from behind, but failed to do so thanks to my seismic sense as I guarded and countered. From their I got serious!

Me: "You're not the only one who can use Darkness!"

I put away Flarialite, threw Ultiforce up, and caught it, giving me a new form change!

Formchange: Dark Dragon Form!

This formchange is the same yet opposite of Light Dragon Form, my outfit changes to the inverse color scheme that Light Dragon Form would have and the Kanji of Light would be replaced with the Kanji of Darkness. And also like Light Dragon Form, I gain a new attack!

Gained Shadow Flare!

While Marluxia was still stunned from my reprisal, I ended the fight with my Upward Slash, Fencing Thrust, and 360 Sweep combo, followed by Zantetsuken, Finishing Leap, and ending with Dark Break!

Marluxia looked he was about to drop.

Me: "You're finished Marluxia, surrender!"

Marluxia: "DON'T MOCK ME!!!"

Marluxia used the same device he used to take Enfierna from me, but I quickly reacted!

Ability: R.S. Syphon!

Marluxia and I were using our own abilities to syphon together locked us in a clash! Whatever Marluxia was using, it had the same exact effect as R.S. Syphon. It was powerful, but mine directly yielded to my own will, allowing me to overpower Marluxia's device and taking back Enfierna while taking his power!

Reclaimed: Enfierna!

Learned: Magnera, Gravira, Zero Gravira, Cura, Esuna, and Doom!

Music Stops

I had beaten Marluxia and took the devices from the 3 Nobodies.

Me: "Not so tough anymore are you!?"

Marluxia: "Please, today we were only using a mere fraction of our strength, after all, as I promised your school is at the Organization's mercy, or did you already forget!?"

Me: "I didn't forget, you still lost."

Marluxia: "What!?"

Flashback: Earlier at the school

Me: "Before I came to the school I had my friend Cid hack into the security cameras allowing our "private" conversation to be recorded without any strings attached. Right now the principal should've gotten the footage already, thereby shutting down your operation of darkness farming!"

Back to the present!

Marluxia: "You could've easily have gotten away by stealing our captives with a diversion then, why did you play along?"

Me: "I just wanted to see the look on your face. Besides, I needed this opportunity to trigger more of my abilities. I get more powerful with each experience!"

Marluxia: "You've surprised me, I wouldn't have expected you to have a total win. However, the next time we meet, I won't hold back!"

Marluxia and his unconscious allies disappeared through dark corridors.

Me: "And I'll be ready"

Me: "Cloud, Sora, are you guys ok?"

I didn't hear them.

Me: "GUYS!"

Cloud: "We're here don't worry about us!"

Sora: "That was something I don't want to happen again."

Me: "FACTS!"

I walked over to Mickey, Vincent, Rinoa, Laguna, Ansem, and Namine who were still lying unconscious even during the racket of the battle. Then, I looked up to the bridge, the metal I used seemed to held all on its own but to make sure that it did, I blended rocks into lava, flew up to the filled area, and applied a small coat to solidify the structure. Then everyone woke up and I flew down to greet them.

Me: "Is everyone alright?"

Mickey: Scaelux, you're ok, where's Marluxia and the other 2? Wait... you didn't..."

Me: "They did but I took it all back and I got even more!"

I showed everyone my bending and they were amazed.

Ansem The Wise: "Hm, your power seems to grow all the time there young wielder."

Me: "Ansem The Wise, it's a pleasure to meet you."

Ansem The Wise: "It's a pleasure to officially meet you as well Scaelux."

Namine: "So you're Scaelux!"

Me: "And you must be Namine!"

We were going to talk further but then we heard a siren go off far in the distance! Mickey climbed the supports of the bridge to get a good look of where it came from!

Mickey: "Uh oh, it's the police!!"

Me: "Crap we need to get out of here!"

I got rid of the pumice stones from the lava by covering it with sand and scraped off some rust from the bridge and applied it to the girders to make them look old, but then came the part where we had to get away undetected. But then Ansem showed me a new ability that I could use with the R.S. Engine!

Learned R.S. Warp!

To warp, I needed to keep a calm mind and picture the location where I wanted to go to. I relaxed myself, pictured the location, and created a portal that we all escaped through!

Master Yen Sid's Tower

Mother: "Where did they go!?"

Mom and Dad were looking at a projection of what was transpiring beneath the Tapanzee bridge with the help of Master Yen Sid.

Then the 7 of us appeared from the portal and fell into the office! And I was at the bottom of the pile!

We all regained our composure as my parents gave me an enormous bear hug knowing that I was ok!

Father: "We were so worried! You could've been killed!"

Me: "I know but I couldn't let them mess with my school or anyone else."

Yen Sid: "Indeed, if you didn't persuade your principal to dismiss Marluxia there could've been even worse consequences to all of this."

I stood up to talk to Master Yen Sid.

Me: "What do you mean?"

Yen Sid: "I was going to tell you the rest of what is bound to happen the day Radiant Garden was attacked. It's about our worlds' fate that is bound to happen."

Me: "What fate?"

Yen Sid: "The reason why Radiant Garden appeared in your world was merely an omen that our worlds are slowly becoming one!"

Me: "Is that bad?"

Yen Sid: "I cannot say for sure, furthermore I don't see any way to stop it from happening. All I do know is that it involves the R.S. Engine's power, which the Organization seemed to have harnessed and used against you tonight!"

I showed Yen Sid the devices that Marluxia, Larxene, and Luxord used to take my weapons away from me and he and Ansem The Wise examined them.

Ansem The Wise: "Hm, I believe this can work in our favor."

Me: "How?"

Ansem The Wise: "When I was brought into this world, I was in Japan, where the source of the Convergence took place. From there I was able to gather data on it, power unlike anything I've ever seen before. It could modify and or edit matter to it's user's liking. Which is how I was able to teach you how to warp, and now with the Engine's power within these devices, it's potential in you can increase!"

Me: "How do I do that?"

Ansem The Wise: "By syphoning the energy within them."

And I did just that.

Ability: R.S. Syphon

By syphoning the R.S. Engine's energy, I was able to not only strengthen my ability to Syphon, but gain new power!

Learned R.S. Disable, R.S. Protection, and R.S. Barrier! (R.S. Disable allowed me to disable any ability from my opponent, but I can only disable one ability per opponent at a time. R.S. Protection prevents me from having any of my power stolen from me. R.S. Barrier allows me to create a colossal barrier about the size of an entire city block that is almost impenetrable, nothing could get in and nothing can get out!)

Master Yen Sid and Ansem The Wise were impressed at how far I've gone in such a short time and for the rest of that night they taught me more uses of my power especially if it came down to fighting in public where collateral damage could occur.

Learned Aerial Dive, Combo , Air Combo , Speed Slash, Truth Seeker, and Reverga! (Reverga may have been the technique that Yen Sid used to show the past, but it could also be used to revert an area to its original state, meaning I could fix collateral damage in a matter of seconds, however, it takes lots of energy to use on a large area! Truth Seeker is a keyblade specific ability that compels my target to always tell the truth to whatever question I ask, and they wouldn't even remember that they spilled the beans to me!)

I was glad that everything turned out alright, even if I almost lost my strength. After that long day of eating, luggage lifting, mystery solving, and ass-kicking, I took a long shower and then went to bed. And then morning came.

April: Friday 20*

I got another call early in the morning from the school, Mr. Patrick wanted to see me.

I drove there with Tifa acting as my driving adult again in case anything dicey happened and had my meeting with the principal in regards to the footage Cid sent him.

Mr. Patrick: "Scaelux, I know how good of a student you are, and as your principal, I want a clean and truthful answer. What is going on and how did you know that Mr. Lawrence, or whatever his name is, was plotting something?"

Me: "Mr. Patrick, this'll be hard to explain in words. We'll be in for a long meeting."

I chose to reveal my abilities and what I've had to face for the past couple of weeks. Honestly, I wouldn't have done so if I had no way of proving them all to my principal, and I wasn't really into the whole "secret identity" thing after all.

In the end, I wasn't met with hostility nor suspicion, but praise.

Mr. Patrick: "Scaelux I may not be able to understand everything that you've just told me. But I can tell you that a person like you, are worthy of this power. And above all else, you used that same power to protect the school from this Organization. You have my thanks Scaelux. Your secret is safe with me."

Me: "Thank you Mr. Patrick, I didn't think you'd actually believe me, but thank you."

Mr. Patrick: "I wouldn't have if you didn't send me this video or showed me your powers."

Me: "Ok, I'm glad we were able to talk about this."

I headed for the door but then he stopped me.

Mr. Patrick: "WAIT."

I turned to him.

Mr. Patrick: "I'm sorry, it's just... I feel like I'm in your debt."

Me: "No worries, I was just doing what I had to do."

Mr. Patrick: "Still, as a student, you're already a positive influence to others, and your grades are phenomenal."

Me: "I'm flattered, really but keeping my identity secret for now, I mean I plan on showing my face to the public so everyone could know my existence and..."

Mr. Patrick: "Wait, you're planning on letting the world know who you are?!"

Me: "My enemies know who I am and I've got a whole lot of friends backing me up. Nothing's gonna hurt anyone I love as long as I'm still standing!"

Mr. Patrick: "Well how's this?"

I took a seat as he explained to me his offer.

Mr. Patrick: "Revealing your face to the public is gonna be an issue politically. So you'll need to know how to show everyone what kind of hero you are."

Me: "Where is this going?"

Mr. Patrick: "I can be your teacher in public speaking, to be persuasive while also staying true to yourself. You've seen me present myself in every assembly we've had so why not try this?"

He was right, in order to sell myself to the public, I need to know how to approach the people, and knowing Mr. Patrick, this may be a great opportunity for me. Without a second thought, I agreed to his proposal.

Me: "It's a deal!"

Mr. Patrick: "Thank you Scaelux, I'm sure you'll be a positive influence to the whole world!"

Me: Or all worlds!

I bid him farewell as I made my way back to the parking lot where Tifa was waiting. I just made my way through the front door. But then...

Bang!

A large amount of static rang in my ears as a creepy, slow-talking feminine voice spoke to me!!

?????: "F-fool, Magician, Hierophant, Chariot, Hermit, Fortune, Temperance, Sun, Counselor!!!!!!"

Those same words rang in my ears 4-5 times and by the end, I was still outside as if nothing happened!

Tifa: "Scaelux! Are you ok!?"

Tifa yelled from my car.

Me: "I'm ok just some light in my eye!"

I got into the car and we drove back home with that message still on my mind!

Me: What the hell was that!? Was that a weird day dream? Some kind of warning? Whatever that was I bet I'll find out soon enough.

Meanwhile in an unknown location

The Voice Someone Calls (Persona 3) Plays!

Man in a lab coat: "Sir-Sir!!!"

Man in beige suit: "What is it?"

Man in a lab coat: "Sir, Marluxia and his allies were defeated! The R.S. Engine user remains undefeated!!"

Man in beige suit: "I figured this would happen and they didn't listen to me! What good is it sidings with a dead-beat Organization anyways when they can't just take care of one little BRAT!"

Man in a lab coat: "Sir, the user seems to be able to control elements through various movements and that's how he was able to defeat them and reclaim his power!"

Man in beige suit: "To think I had to deal with brats that weren't as difficult as him! I don't see why we can't attempt to fight this warrior ourselves!"

?????: "Because the first toy you made for us was a disappointment!"

The 2 of them turned to the mysterious voice.

Man in a lab coat: "Y-Young Xehanort sir!!"

Young Xehanort: "The technology and vessels we had offered you had better not fail a 3rd time! First you let the black haired girl escape without controlling, the next one failed to subdue him, at this rate we may as well have you punished."

Man in beige suit: "You're one to talk boy! 3 of your own associates couldn't even handle him while they were power boosted and while he was weakened!"

Young Xehanort: "How very true. As of now we are trying to create countermeasures to deal with our R.S. problem. I suggest you do the same before he sweeps you from under the rug."

Young Xehanort left using a corridor of darkness.

Man in a lab coat: "What do we do sir?"

Man in beige suit: "...How is project marionette doing?"

The 2 men walked to a room with 30 test subject pods in it.

Man in a lab coat: "Despite our setbacks the technology from another world is remarkable, the sheer science behind turning organic tissue into synthetic material is amazing!"

The Man in the beige suit smiled wickedly.

Man in beige suit: "Awaken them."

Man in a lab coat: "Sir we still need to strengthen their systems before sending them after the R.S. User."

Man in beige suit: "I want to see them in action! Now DO IT!"

Another man at a viewing booth was given a signal, and with the flip of a lever dry ice emitted from the pods, as 30 beings emerged from them, they weren't by any means flesh, but cold hard steel, each of them moving mechanically and in sync with one another until all of them have left their pods! And when they did, 27 of them had human-like appearances almost representing teenagers while the remaining 3 were animal-like.

Man in beige suit: "Now my puppets who do you serve?"

"Puppets": "We are at your service... Master."

All 30 machines spoke together in unison and mechanically!

Man in beige suit: "Very good, now show me what your capable of!"

One third of the puppets manifested revolver like objects right out of their hands as they put the barrels against their heads. Another third put their hands out in front of them with their palms faced upwards, from there, mysterious blue-glowing cards appeared right in their hands, and the last third who were all wearing masks, placed their hands on those same masks. And all in unison, they pulled the triggers, crushed the cards, and ripped the masks off their faces creating a blinding blue light engulfing the entire room!

Man in beige suit: "Perfect, just Perfect. Prepare a strike team and make sure they are ready to mobilize as soon as I give the order, if the Organization is examining his capabilities, then we should be doing the same."

Man in a lab coat: "Yessir!"

That man rushed out of the room to give the order.

Man in beige suit: "Listen everyone, as of now you are not fit to fight this warrior, for now you will examine and study his movements, and strategies, and when the time comes when you do fight him, show any sign of hesitation, any weakness at all, you will be subjected to immediate reprogramming! Do I make myself clear!?"

"Puppets": "Understood... Master Ikutsuki!"

Ikutsuki: "Master? Hm, I like that!"

End of Chapter 5

If anyone's curious as to how magic and bending would work out, magic will only be usable for blades weapons and can attack from afar, whereas bending is only usable when equipped with Claws or just barehanded and mostly focuses on close combat attacks.

Also if you knew the references and that name, you'll know what's about to go down

STAY TUNED!!!