Tension is rising within the Organization! X3 i'm glad everyone likes the fanfiction. love the reviews!

Never will own Kingdom hearts or their characters. But I still own Dixorim and Yoxri.

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Chapter VIII: Worked to Breaking Point

In the basement levels of the Castle was a large lab. Notes filled every desk, scatered about the rooms in heaps. There was enough to overlap the tables several times over. None of it was organized, but the two in the lab didn't care. They could find it fairly easily. Those two were Vexen and Zexion, the Organization's best and only genius scientists.

Zexion sighed, running a hand through his bangs. "We hit yet another flaw, Vexen. This is the eigth time!" He hissed in annoyence, wanting so badly to throw his hands across the table and throw the notes off it's surface. But he did no such thing. He sighed again. "How many times? How many mistakes are there before it will actually work?" He looked at Vexen who sat across the room working. "Vexen?" He walked over to him, looking over his shoulder to see what he was working on. "Is that a Heartless?"

Vexen was working on another Heartless experiment. "I'm sorry, I wasn't paying attention. What were you saying?" He said in a monotone voice. He put down what was working on and turned to face Zexion.

He sighed. "I found another flaw in the research on Hearts." He watched him, then pulled up a chair and say down beside him. "I don't think there is a way we can make an artifical heart...its just not going to work."

"How can you be sure about that? Are you wanting to give up or something?" He stretched back in his chair and yawned. He sat back up and looked over at Zexion.

"No. I don't want to give up. We spent six years on this! But...the chemical equations...they don't add up right." He put a hand on his forehead. He was beginning to get a headache from lack of eatting, which happened often. "I've added them up time and time again but they never add up!"

Vexen sighed. "I know, I know." He got up and bean to make a pot of coffee. He walked to the other side of the room and made a bag of popcorn. "Its not much, but you need to eat. Here, take this." He handed him some medicine for his headache. "So what do we plan to do?"

"Keep working I guess. Xemnas won't have to use a Keyblade Master to open Kingdom Hearts...if we find a way." He took the medicine and sat back down to eat the popcorn Vexen made for him. "Thanks, Vexen..."

"Don't worry about it. You need your strength...how much longer? How much longer do we need to work, Zexion?" He turned his chair around and fliddled around with his work. He let out a deep sigh as he started to work again.

"He told us to keep working until we finally made it...we've been working nonstop." He sighed. "I don't think we can work like this much longer without eatting or sleeping."

"Then how come we're still doing this? If you haven't noticed already, its slowly killing us. And Xemnas could care less. All he wants is answers. He doesn't care who dies as long as he gets what he wants." Vexen looked back at Zexion.

Zexion was silent for a long time. "Perhaps...we could use that Heartless for our own experiments. Xemnas wants to use Sora, let us make someone to stop him. Someone that affects Sora more than anyone?" He looked at him. "We have enough research to do that."

"Hmmm...that may work. We'd need help though. We can't do this on our own. But we definately have more than enough research." He stood up and began looking through all his research, trying to find something to help with their plan.

Zexion stood up. "I'll go look around. I can try and get one of the new members to join. Even Axel." He left.

A afew hours went by when Zexion had talked with Dixorim and Larxene about it. Dixorim in turn convinced Marluxia into joining them. And later on Zexion had got Axel into it. Now they had himself, Vexen, Marlixua, Larxene, Axel and Dixorim into it. Zexion came back into the lab and smiled. "Vexen, who else should we get? Lexaeus?" He sat down. "Xemnas has no idea our plan changed. He's still convinced that we're using a dusk to see if the artifical heart is suitable for it." He smirked. "This plan will work. We have almost half the Organization on our side!"

"We have to be sure that we can trust them though. Trust that they won't go telling Xemnas our true motives. What about that other new guy? Yoxri? Is he on Xemnas' side? I haven't heard much about him. And Dixorim...are you sure he won't be a...'problem'? He looks suspicious. I know he's capable of doing great things..." He sat down. "Should we have a meeting?"

"I already set a meeting up for an area and time. There is an area within our world where a Castle is. We'll all act from there - our of Zemnas' range. Zemnas himself said we can conduct research there, so everything is fine. He thinks we'll use the Heartless there since there are so few here. Dixorim said he would like to help us. He doesn't like Zemnas very well, either." He leaned against the wall. "Shall we go, then?"

"Mmm...yeah, I guess. I'm still going to keep an eye out on everyone. This plan is something serious, and i'm not going to let someone fool us and screw up everything." He stood up again and said with a serious look on his face, "Let's go."

Zexion nodded and followed him.

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Plot is now within Chain of Memories! woo!