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Obligatory: I do not own Kingdom Hearts and I do not own Boku no Hero Academia/My Hero Academia

The city was blanked by the dark, late winter night sky and illuminated by the city lights. In the more rundown part of the city, three people in black coats were gathered on the roof of an abandoned warehouse and talking.

Never the one with idle hands, Luxord was flipping cards between his fingers as he greeted Lauriam's question with a small smile from under his hood.

"It seems fate has deigned to bring us together yet again." he answered, one card appearing in his left hand.

"You mean you also woke up in this world unable to leave?" Lauriam guessed.

The card in Luxords hands disappeared to appear as three cards.

"Precisely."

Lauriam wanted to roll his eyes at the man's antics but didn't. Honestly, he felt more at ease that Luxord's tricks and playful demeanor were genuine now than when he was a Nobody.

"If I may inquire." Luxord asked them. "Do you know why you came here?"

Lauriam shrugged.

"I followed a bright light in the darkness, and ended up here." he answered.

"Well, I followed your dumb ass." Elrena answered, gesturing to Lauriam.

"I presume that it was the two of you that I followed here then. Lauriam, did you not recognize the light you followed?" Luxord asked.

Lauriam frowned.

"No, I did not. I took it for this world's light."

"Are you certain?"

Lauriam crossed his arms and closed his eyes, taking a moment to remember. The light had been bright and warm, like it usually is. And familiar. He realized the light hadn't been as bright as the light of a world would be. A person? It had not been like how Rapunzel's heart had shined and this light had been calling on him specifically. But, who was calling for him?

"Well?" Elrena asked.

He shook his head.

"I am uncertain. I no longer believe that the light I followed was this world's light, but is a person's light."

"Could it have been another union leader?" she asked, crossing her arms in thought.

He shook his head.

"This isn't reminiscent of any of them."

"A Princess of Heart?"

He shook his head again and she shrugged her shoulders. Luxord made one of his three cards disappear and left two.

"This would mean we're looking for not only what is preventing us from leaving, but also who you pursued here." Luxord continued, overlapping the two cards in his hand. "If they happen to be the same thing, the better."

"Agreed." Lauriam said.

"Ugh. This is like looking for the new Princesses of Heart and that box all over again. Only now it isn't a girl filled with sunshine, sugar, spice and everything nice. And this 'box' is something we don't even have a general shape of." Elrena complained.

"Come now, don't you have a sense of adventure?" Luxord teased. "Especially now that Xehanort and Xemnas aren't riding roughshod over us."

"Anything is better without that old geezer and Xemnas." Elrena said their old superior's name with enough, or more, disgust than she had in the Keyblade Graveyard. Which reminded him about something they had been told back then.

"Luxord. Do you remember your past?" he asked.

"I do, but I've not been able to summon my keyblade." he frowned at that. "Elrena informed me you two are having the same issue."

"Figures." Lauriam sighed and looked up at the stars. Worlds that were far out of their reach.

"What even is your story, Luxord?" Elrena asked. "How do you even have a keyblade?"

"How about a wage-"

"No."

Lauriam looked back down to his companions, amused to see Elrena with arms on her hips and making a sour face at Luxord who gave her a disgruntled look.

"Did you find anything else? Besides Luxord." Lauriam asked her.

"Oh yeah!" she said, turning towards him. "I found something good. It has exactly what we need for a long stay."

"Perfect."

"Before I cast my lot with you, exactly what will you two do when we are able to leave this world?" Luxord asked.

"I will go find the guardians of light. There are things that need to be amended for." Lauriam answered without hesitation.

"Yeah, same honestly. Castle Oblivion and Arendelle have not been my best moments." Elrena agreed.

"Then we are of the same intention, yes? For atonement." Luxord concluded, making the two overlapping cards disappear.

"Yes. I assume that means you will stay together with us then?" Lauriam asked.

"I will."

Lauriam nodded and turned back to Elrena.

"Show the way."

She summoned a dark corridor that brought them to a well maintained lobby of a small hotel. The doors they had bypassed were of thick metal and were locked from the inside. Through a small window he could make out that they were still in the rundown part of the town.

"I honestly couldn't believe my luck when I found this place." she said, lowering her hood as she walked over to a counter that had a little bell on it.

"How so?" Luxord asked, both him and Lauriam following suit with pulling their hoods down as well as she pressed the little bell, making a loud little ding noise.

Almost immediately, footsteps sounded from behind the door behind the desk and the door opened. There was no one there but the door closed and both of the men glanced at each other in question. Then a moogle floated up from behind the counter and stood on the stool behind it.

"Oh hello, kupo! Back again and with your friends! How nice! Are you two also interested in the apartment, kupo?" they said excitedly.

Elrena looked extremely smugly at her companions and a laugh burst out from the two of them.

"A moogle! That is really lucky." Lauriam said and turned to the moogle. "I apologize for laughing. I was just not expecting one of you."

"No worries, kupo! I was as surprised as you when I met Miss Elrena. You three are the first travellers to come here in years! Decades even, kupo!" the moogle exclaimed. "Oh, and you can call me Bisk. Welcome to Moogle's Rental Apartments!"

"I am Lauriam."

"You can call me Luxord."

"Pleased to meet you, Mr Lauriam and Mr Luxord, kupo!"

"When you say decades, do you mean to say that this barrier that is preventing us from leaving has not always been here?" Lauriam asked.

"That's right, kupo! We used to have the occasional visitor, but one day they just stopped coming."

"If I may ask, how did you get here?" Luxord said.

"Well, we did have a gummi ship, kupo. But a few of us went on a trip to resupply and they never came back." Bisk frowned. "I really hope they are alright, kupo."

"Wait, aren't gummi ships supposed to let you travel to any world?" Elrena asked, confused.

"Not necessarily." Lauriam began. "Gummi ships are built of the material that the walls separating the worlds are made from, making it possible to enter other worlds. But if you haven't unlocked a way to that world you can not enter it, even with a gummi ship."

"Yes, it's why Sora and his friends couldn't just waltz into other worlds before finding a way to unlock the road to them." Luxord agreed.

"Yeah, finding a world you can actually get to can be a real chore, kupo. And if this means that they got locked out, it's gonna take forever for them to find a way back!" Bisk deflated and hung his head at that.

"Don't lose hope." Lauriam told Bisk. "I'm sure your friends will find their way back."

"Hmm, I really hope so too, kupo." he hung his head again.

Before anyone could make an effort to continue to comfort him he suddenly straightened up and clapped his little hands, startling them a little.

"Nevermind that, kupo! Do you want to see the apartment?"

"That would be lovely." Luxord agreed.

"Follow me then, kupo!" Bisk said and jumped down from the stool and floated towards the stairs.

They all followed after to the 3rd floor where Bisk rummaged around his person until he produced a key and unlocked a door. The door opened up to a medium-sized one room apartment with a window across from the door and another door to the left that led to a bathroom. There was a small kitchenette in the right corner with a stove, fridge, counter, a sink and three cupboards.

"This is the base room, kupo! If you want furniture or more rooms I will add it for a fee. Whatever your means of payment is, munny or yen, is fine! If you have synthesis items I will fix something up too, kupo!"

The moogle beamed at them and Lauriam was so blown away with how lucky they had been that Elrena found this, that any other possible base he had found paled in comparison.

"This is better than perfect." He said with a laugh.

"Told you so!" Elrena said, with a big smile on her face.

"What do you say to some additions to this base?" Luxord suggested.

"No objections to that!" Elrena said and Lauriam nodded.

Their combined munny allowed them to add three more rooms to the base room and another, smaller bathroom. With their collected synthesis items Bisk could synthesize three beds for their small rooms and a dinner table with four chairs.

"That works, for now." Elrena said.

"We will just need to get the munny or items needed if we want more." Lauriam told her.

"Exactly, kupo!" Brisk exclaimed, happily counting the munny he had just gotten. "Getting munny or items is easy! If you know how to fight, that is, kupo."

"What do you mean?" Lauriam asked, all three turning to Bisk.

"Well, you know how nothing can leave or enter this world, kupo? That is true for the Heartless too!"

They looked surprised at him.

"There are Heartless here?" Lauriam questioned. "I haven't run into any. Have you?" he asked the other two. They shook their heads.

"Well, you are lucky then, kupo! They usually go after the heroes and villains of this world. You know, the light and the dark wish-wash and all that. Anyway, you can find Heartless all over the place if you look hard enough, but most of them can be found near where villains and heroes appear, kupo!"

There it was again. Heroes and villains. They really needed to know the basics of this place.

"Bisk. Could you explain how this world works? Both me and Elrena have run into heroes in this world and I was even asked what hero I was." Lauriam asked.

"Of course, kupo! You see, in this world almost everyone has a power called a quirk. What quirk anyone has is different from person to person. They didn't always have quirks so the world went all kinds of crazy, kupo! Many people with quirks did bad things but some did good too. From that chaos heroes as a profession were born to combat villains and rescue people in danger, kupo."

"Profession? As in, they get paid doing it?" Lauriam wondered.

"Yeah, exactly, kupo! But, to control the chaos, using your quirk without a hero licence is illegal. So be careful not to use any of your magic and abilities without those hoods on. If they catch you, you will be sent to jail for vigilantism, kupo!"

"If you aren't supposed to use your powers here, how do you become a hero? I mean, becoming a villain here isn't harder from anywhere else." Elrena asked.

"There must be a school or education for it, yes?" Luxord guessed.

"Spot on, kupo! Young people who want to become a hero go to one of many hero schools to learn. Although you can also get a hero licence without going to a school, but that isn't exactly viable for travellers like you. Not being from this world and all that, kupo."

"And people who do not have a hero licence but still fight against villains, they are vigilantes then." Lauriam summarized and Bisk nodded.

"Exactly, kupo."

"Then we will just be that then while out and about. Vigilantes. What do you two think?" he asked Elrena and Luxord.

"Hey, why not. Nothing bad about starting the redemption train here." Elrena laughed.

"Agreed. If nothing else, it is what Sora and his friends would have done." Luxord said with a small smile.

"Absolutely." Lauriam spoke, remembering how stubborn the boy had been about saving Naminé, even if she had altered his memories. On his orders. It stabbed him with guilt to remember his actions in Castle Oblivion.

"Okay, good to know, kupo. Do you know what vigilante names you want, kupo?" Bisk asked and brought Lauriam out of his guilt ridden thoughts.

"Vigilante names?" Luxord questioned.

"Any good vigilante, hero or villain has an alias that others know them as, kupo!"

The three of them looked at eachother, not really sure how to go from there. The only alias they had had were the names and titles given to them by Xemnas.

"Well, we did have titles in the organisation. But I do not wish to use it as a vigilante name." Lauriam added.

"You mean the titles we were given don't scream heroics?" Elrena joked and Lauriam chuckled.

The Gambler of Fate, The Graceful Assassin and The Savage Nymph weren't exactly "heroic" names to help people with. Plus, all three of them were somewhat of a mouthful to say.

"I have to agree with Lauriam. I'd rather not use my old moniker." Luxord said.

"I'll help you out then, kupo! A name can be really anything, but most heroes reference their quirk in some way or the image they want to portrait. Like how Hawks have wings or how All Might is a mighty force you can count on. It could also just be something about how you look, kupo!" Bisk told them.

The three of them took a moment to think about it. What would Lauriam want to be recognized as by strangers when out and about? He couldn't really come up with anything, but he did have a few ideas for the others.

"If we are basing it on our magic and how we fight, I think Lightning or Blitz would fit you, Elrena." Lauriam suggested to her.

"Oooh, I like that! I thought about Paralysis and Stun, since that can be a side effect of my attacks." she explained.

"Those are all really good, kupo!"

"You got some for me too?" Luxord asked.

"Father Time?" Lauriam joked. Elrena snickered, while Luxord looked slightly miffed and Bisk was just looking lost.

"Very humorous of you. Do you have a proper suggestion or just jokes?" Luxord said, giving him a drool look.

"I'm sorry. I couldn't resist." Lauriam defended with an amused look back at him. "I think Trick, since you are tricky to fight, or Joker since you fight with cards." he offered.

Luxord switched to giving him an approving look while considering his name suggestions.

"What about you then?" Elrena asked Lauriam. "Got a good name for yourself?"

"The only thing that comes to mind is that I look a lot like a grim reaper in this coat and with my weapon, but I do not think Reaper is a very good vigilante alias."

"Yeah, Reaper is a very villainous sounding moniker, kupo." Bisk agreed.

"Perhaps you could go with The Red Rose, since you scatter rose petals everywhere you go." Luxord suggested.

Lauriam chuckled at the jabb.

"That is true. Anything else?"

"Well, if we go back to the grim reaper suggestion." Elrena said. "If Reaper is too villainous, we scrap that but stick to the angel theme?" she suggested.

Lauriam thought about that. His magic was very doom and death oriented so if not a grim reaper, another kind of angel would work as a name.

"That could work, but what angel?" Lauriam thought out loud.

"I would suggest not using Cherubim or Archangel." Luxord offered. "Cherubim sounds a bit too much like a naked baby with wings and Archangel is too strict."

"Hmm." Lauriam thought. An image of him standing at the base of a giant angel hit him. An angelic Nobody with four wings.

"Seraphim. I think I will go with Seraphim." he answered.

"That is a great name, kupo!" Bisk agreed and he turned to Luxord.

"Have you decided, kupo?"

"I will go by Trick." he answered and Bisk nodded and finally turned to Elrena.

"I'll pick Lightning." she said with a grin.

"Perfect, kupo! Those three names will all work nicely as vigilante names. Is there anything else you need, kupo?"

"No, we are fine for now." Lauriam answered.

"Great, kupo! Don't hesitate to talk to me if you need anything! Good night, kupo!" Bisk finished and left, closing the door after him.

"First goal done. We have a base. What's next?" Elrena asked the two others.

"We did briefly touch upon hunting Heartless for munny and items." Luxord pointed out.

"That is a good path to take. While looking for Heartless we can also look for any clues that can help us with our predicament." Lauriam said.

"We can also use them. If anything here has a strong light, they are bound to search it out." Elrena figured. "As long as no one gets hurt, that is." she added.

"I am of the same mind." Luxord agreed.

"Then we have a plan. We look for Heartless and clues in the morning." Lauriam concluded.

Elrena and Luxord noded.

"Now, if you two don't mind, I'll go and acquaint myself with my room." Luxord told them and walked off into his room.

"We should do the same." Lauriam said to Elrena.

"Can I ask you something, Lauriam? About the light that led you here?" she said.

"What about it?"

Lauriam noticed that Elrena visibly hesitated before voicing her next thought.

"Is it possible that it could be Strelitzia?" she said quietly.

He made a sorrowful face at her and held his hand over his heart.

"Of all hearts, her's I would recognize immediately."

I really like writing Elrena. Her way of talking is really sassy and fun. On the other hand, I find writing Luxord way of talking really hard. I don't know how many times I have looked through video compilations of his scenes and I have even written down some of his dialog in my scribbles file for this fic, just so I can grasp how he talks.

I decided that I wouldn't make up info or past about Luxord, since we don't really know anything about it.

I hope the explanation of about gummiships make sense. Had to read through a lot of info on the Wiki's about it to make it make the explanation.

Luxord's suggestion of calling Lauriam The Red Rose is a bit of a reference to the Swedish dub name for Tuxedo Mask in Sailor Moon and I thought it a little funny.

I decided I would also post the third chapter today. It will be up a little after this one.