"There's no way out." Hikari pointed out,
"You don't say." Spike replied, the look of worry on his face increasing.
"Hey, can't we just blow it up?" Pedro asked.
They looked around at each other, thinking about the idea for a moment. Hikari's eyes met with Spike's as he gave his Heartless friend a nod. Hikari picked up the missile launcher at his feet as the rest of the army and the girls moved to the other side of the giant room, he put it on his shoulders and aimed at the wall of darkness in the part of the wall they had blown through to make their escape. He hit the button.
"I wonder, do they really think that will work?" The Hooded Man said to Jirak,
"If they do, they are stupider than I had thought." Jirak replied as they watch the explosion from Hikari's blast at the wall. The smoke cleared and the wall of darkness was still there, as intact as it was before.
"Or maybe they're a little too hopeful." The Hooded Man said.
"Dammit" Spike yelled as he saw the wall of darkness was still there, "We're trapped"
"He's right, man." Pedro said to Hikari, "There's no way out"
"Why don't we send the Heartless through? It won't have an effect on him, right?" One of the troops said, the Heartless he spoke about meaning Hikari.
Hikari looked over at Spike, "That might work, shall we try?" Hikari asked,
"No," Spike replied firmly, "It might get rid of the light inside you, I don't wanna take that chance"
Hikari looked at Spike questioningly, as if asking why it would matter if he went evil as Spike could just kill him.
"You've been with me since the beginning, I'm not losing anyone for no good reason." Spike said to Hikari, confirming his confidence in him.
Hikari was taken back by Spike's comment, but gradually understood. "Alright then." Hikari said.
The troops began to talk among themselves, getting rowdy…
"What do we do now"
"Where do we go"
"There's gotta be a way"
"Let's try this"
"That won't work"
"That's too dangerous"
Spike watched as the troops argued over which was the best course of action, then noticed Hiroshima standing still with his eyes closed and his hands in front of him.
"What are you doing Hiroshima?" Spike asked.
No answer.
"Hiroshima? What's going on?" Spike asked.
"Move." Hiroshima shouted to everyone, "Get out of my way"
Hiroshima's body began to glow, starting at his heart and spreading throughout his body with immense light. The troops ran out of the way of Hiroshima quickly, fearful that he had gone insane. All but Spike.
"Are you okay?" Spike asked, "Hiroshima"
"I can't come. I end here." Hiroshima replied.
"What do you mean?" Spike asked looking worried.
"I won't be able to come with you from here." Hiroshima added, "But don't worry, you're strong enough now. You have Hikari too"
"What do you mean?" Spike asked.
"You'll know shortly." Hiroshima replied.
The light from Hiroshima was blinding, the troops had to close their eyes. He moved his hands up slightly and formed a square with them, light poured from his heart into the square he had made with his hands.
"What is that?" Spike asked, more to himself than to Hiroshima.
Hiroshima smiled at Spike as the light shot from the square and pushing Spike back, the light went through the wall of darkness and pushed Spike out through the other side.
"What are you doing?" Hikari shouted at Hiroshima.
"Step in to the light if you want to make it out of here." Hiroshima said.
The troops and the girls were sucked in to the light, it pushed them through the wall of darkness and to the other side where they joined Spike.
"Spike… are you okay?" Hikari asked.
"I'm fine." Spike answered.
Hiroshima stopped pushing the light through, it used a lot of energy from him to do so, so much that he fell to the floor.
"I hadn't counted on that old man to be so… resourceful." Jirak said coldly.
"Look's like you underestimated them." The hooded man said.
Jirak lifted his hand and extended his finger, pointing to the image of Hiroshima. A burst of darkness appeared at the tip of his finger and flew away quickly.
"I don't like that old man" Jirak said.
Hiroshima stood up slowly, still out of energy. He looked up to the roof of the room, realising this would be his home for a while.
"Could be worse." Hiroshima said to himself.
The walls began to crack quickly, parts of it falling off. It all disintegrated so quickly that Hiroshima didn't have time to realise what was going on. The walls fell down revealing a giant blanket of darkness. Heartless began to form from the darkness and crept down towards Hiroshima as he made two blades made of light appear in his hands, ready to fight off this army of Heartless.
"What do you think will happen to him?" Hikari asked, "Will he get out somehow"
"I think it's too late for that." Spike answered, "All we can do now is make his sacrifice mean something"
"Hey, wouldn't this be a good time to get out of here?" Pedro asked, pointing at the girls they had just saved.
"Yeah, let's go" Spike said and began to run down the large corridor.
Heartless began to appear from the walls, the troops tried to kill them while protecting the girls.
"I'm not sure we can do this." said Pedro.
"Sure we can." Spike replied, "I have a plan, just keep running"
"Good plan." Pedro replied.
The troops ran, taking out Heartless as they went. Several troops were taken by the Heartless and had to be disposed of.
"We're here." Spike said, "The last trap."
"He knows?" Jirak yelled.
Spike took a missile launcher from Hikari and shot down the corridor, a blanket of darkness came from the walls and it disappeared.
"NO! He knew!" Jirak shouted, "That was the last trap"
The hooded man chuckled.
"Come on." Spike said, "Let's go"
The troops made it out of the castle with all the girls, they ran back to the airship led by Spike.
"Pedro, come here." Spike said and whispered something into his ear.
"You sure?" Well… okay." Pedro said, "I'm flying troops"
Spike helped everyone on to the airship quickly, as if expecting an attack.
"Is there anybody left?" Spike asked.
"Nope, we got everybody on that made it." Hikari replied.
"Good, now get on." Spike said.
Hikari jumped on to the airship quickly and held out his hand to Spike.
"Come on bro." Hikari said.
Spike put his hand out to Hikari, as the airship began to take flight.
He waved goodbye.