Riku walked into the cave and looked around.

"Hello?" he called.

Nobody answered.

"There's gotta be something here." Riku said to himself, walking even further into the cave. He thought it was an ordinary cave, but little did he know, he was about to find out where his friends were. He walked into a room and found...

"Sora!" Riku exclaimed. "Ryo!"

He ran over to them, but found them lifeless.

"No," he said to himself. "Don't tell me Rep killed them!"

"No, I didn't." he heard himself say. "They're just asleep."

Riku turned around and saw Rep, standing in the doorway.

"Rep!" cried Riku. "Why the hell are you doing this?"

Rep walked over to Riku. He was silent.

"You want to mess around with me and my friends, huh?" asked Riku. "In some kind of a sick, twisted game. I know what you did to Sora, and I wont let you get away with it!"

Rep turned to Riku. "I'm doing this cause you found out about my dirty little secret. That I attempted to kill Sora. And you."

This made Riku stop in his tracks. "Me?" he asked. "How did you attempt to kill me?"

"Easy." said Rep. "Remember that one night, when you got a call from your friend that a test result revealed that the blood on my car was Sora's? Well, after you asked me to give you a soda, I put a special little pill in it to make you catch an extreme cold. But my plan was thwarted when your little Ryo friend stepped in to help you get better. So, I kidnapped her to prevent you from ever getting well again!"

"You're sick, Rep!" cried Riku. Then, he realized something. "Wait a minute, what did you do with Kairi, Hurky, and Alexa?"

Rep let out a little laugh. "Oh, I took good care of them." he replied cooly.

"You killed them, didn't you?" cried Riku angrily. "Or did you hurt them?"

"Nope." said Rep. "I just sent them on a scavenger hunt to keep them busy from all the commotion among us."

Meanwhile, Hurky, Alexa, and Kairi stood on Hurky's lawn, staring at a paper in Kairi's hands.

"Says here to find a blue onion." said Kairi, pulling a few strands of her long hair behind her ear.

"Where are we going to find a blue onion?" asked Alexa.

Hurky shrugged her shoulders. "Beats me." she said.

Kairi looked up from the paper. "Okay, here's my plan: I'll go to Mr. Baker's house and ask to get a good look at his prize winning vegetable garden, Alexa, you look in the store, and Hurky, you go to the farmer's market by the beach, okay?" she instructed.

Hurky and Alexa nodded.

"Okay, let's go!" said Kairi.

She, Hurky, and Alexa split up and ran off.

Back over at the cave, Riku and his twin continued to talk.

"Riku, why must you always stand in my way of dominating the worlds?" asked Rep.

"Because!" said Riku. "Because, uh, hello? You're my evil twin brother, and the good twin brother's supposed to stop you?"

"Right." said Rep. "And-hey, wait a minute! Why are we asking a bunch of stupid questions?"

"How the hell should I know?" asked Riku. "The main reason why I'm stopping you is because I want you to stop hurting me and my friends! Who knows who you will hurt after you finish me and my friends off? Mom and Dad?"

"I have no intention of ever hurting Mom and Dad." said Rep. "I can't hurt the people who gave us life."

"I think Mom and Dad were better off having one kid than a set of twins." Riku muttered under his breath, thinking of Vexen's plan. He did want a set of twins to mentally contaminate. If Riku's parents had only one kid, Vexen wouldn't even had bothered making him/her evil.

"No they weren't!" yelled Rep, hearing what Riku said. "If Mom and Dad had only one kid, then none of us would exist!"

"I would rather be nonexistent than to be born and have a twin who intentionally hurts people out of pure evil." said Riku.

"Then I'll make you nonexistent!" said Rep, grabbing his Soul Eater and began to run towards Riku.

Riku turned and saw Rep charging at him with his weapon and pulled out his own Soul Eater. Rep swung at Riku, but he blocked the attack. Riku then used Dark Aura, but Rep also blocked the attack. They began to sword fight with their Soul Eaters ferociously, as if it were a fight to the death. Riku only wanted to hurt Rep, but Rep wanted to kill Riku.

"Why do you want to kill me so bad, huh, Rep?" grunted Riku as the weapons clanged against each other.

"A lot of reasons!" said Rep. "One is because you're so popular!"

"What are you talking about?" asked Riku. "I'm not popular! I've only got 5 real friends that I hang out with!"

"But all the girls chase you!" said Rep. "Yet you end up with someone as pitiful as Ryo!"

"You leave Ryo out of this!" said Riku, ducking down from the Soul Eater the swung at his head. "She's a lot better than most of the girls that chase me around! Besides, why do you care if girls don't chase you around?"

Rep didn't answer that question. He just moved onto another reason. "And another reason is that Mom and Dad like you better!" he said angrily.

"WHAT?" cried Riku as he and Rep stopped fighting. "I think Mom and Dad like you better! How do you think Mom and Dad like me better?"

"Because they listen to you." explained Rep. "You tell them what exactly what you think and they listen. If you're sad or happy, they'll listen. Even on your opinions. I know you're an opinionated guy and everything, but they listen to your views on everything. If I open my mouth, they just tell me that I'm saying nonsense and then tell me to go do whatever us smart kids do."

This made Riku think about the potion. He didn't want to tell Rep about it, but he knew he had to. He looked down at the ground and stared at his feet.

"Rep, I-" he said until he heard a slashing sound and saw a few drops of blood fall to the floor, barely missing his shoes. He felt a painful sting in his right arm and turned to Rep, who was triumphantly standing next to Riku with his Soul Eater in his hands, with blood dripping off of it. "You son of a-"

"Riku!" cried a familiar voice.

Riku turned around and saw that Ryo was awake.

"Riku, you're hurt!" said Ryo.

"I know!" said Riku. He smiled. "But what's one measly cut going to do to me?"

"A lot." spoke up Rep. "I put poison on my weapon. You'll be dead in about five to ten minutes! Ha ha ha ha ha!"

Riku's jaw dropped open while Ryo stared at Riku and then at Rep with tears in her eyes.

"You...killed my Riku?" she quivered.

Riku fell to the ground on his hands as knees, as his energy depleted and with his blood gushing from his wound. Rep put his weapon away.

"I'll leave you two to say goodbye." he said. Then, he walked off.

Riku crawled over to Ryo with all his strength and used his Soul Eater to cut the ropes, setting Ryo free. She got up from the chair and knelt down to Riku, with tears now streaming down her face. She held Riku up and stared into his eyes, which were glassy.

"Riku, I-" she said.

"Shh. Ryo, everything will be okay." said Riku. "Just tell Sora to watch over you, Hurky, Alexa, and Kairi."

Ryo didn't say anything. She fished around in her pockets for some kind of antidote. Nothing. She hugged Riku tightly, until she saw something green and liquidy hanging from Riku's belt. She reached over to touch the liquid and saw that it was a potion.

"Of course!" said Ryo, taking the potion and opening it. She held it to Riku's lips, as she had done when he was sick. "Drink this! It might get rid of the poison!"

Riku, without saying anything, drank the potion. He smiled and his breathing became a little easier. Then, he stood up.

"I will..." he said. "I will get Rep if it's the last thing I do!"

Ryo threw her arms around Riku. "Yay, it worked!" she squealed.

Riku looked down at Ryo and grinned at her...