Two days after Vexen died the entire group of Organization members who was sent to castle Oblivion where either killed by Sora or Riku and therefore more of the strange orbs were filled with dark mist but instead of a white shield emblem the orbs had other emblems such as knives or a scythe.
The man was currently in a big white room with a giant capsule in the middle. The capsule opened and revealed Sora sleeping in it. "You are truly amazing young Keyblade wielder. You got rid off Marluxia for me and I will make sure that you will even be of much more use to me in the future"
Nearly a year later
"I need more rage. I need more hearts" "Xemnas there is more to a heart than anger or hate. A heart is full of all kind of feelings. Don't you remember?" asked Sora "Unfortunately... I don't" Xemnas replied before disappearing.
Sora, Riku, Kairi, Donald, Goofy and King Mickey all celebrated their victory over the organization 13. The ghost of Namine appeared and opened a dark corridor since Riku wasn't be able to do it anymore. Sora and Riku intended to go through the dark corridor just behind Kairi but a small earthquake caught them off guard and the dark corridor closed itself behind Kairi. Kairi tried to get back to them but wasn't able to.
Kairi left the dark corridor on th other side and found herself in Radiant Garden „Kairi where are Sora and Riku" asked King Mickey. "They are still in the castle that never was" "What? WHY?" asked the king "I don't know there was suddenly an earthquake and the dark corridor closed itself"
"I can tell you what happened" said a voice behind Donald and Goofy. The group turned around and saw a man in a cloak that the Organization wore. "Who are you" asked Kairi "Who am I you asked. Funny and I though the cloak was a dead giveaway" "But that's impossible only members of the Organization 13 wore those cloaks and we killed Xemnas the last member only minutes ago" said Mickey confused.
The man just laughed "No you fool Xemnas isn't dead and neither is he the last member" "What are you saying" asked Goofy "Simple Xemnas lives and is currently fighting your two friends" "Even so Xemnas is still the last member. Last year Axel killed Vexen and Sora, Donald and Goofy killed Larxene and Marluxia while Riku killed Lexaeus and defeated Zexion who was later killed by a Replica of Riku under Axel's order and in the last few days they killed Demyx, Xaldin, Xigbar, Luxord and Saix. Axel sacrificed himself to save Sora and just recently Roxas reunited with Sora again and as you just said Sora and Riku are currently fighting Xemnas so there are no members left" said Mickey.
"Yeah you are right at least in the majority of your little speech. There is just a tiny little piece you don't know. Axel just assumed that I am dead but what he failed to realize was that I intended to fake my dead and that fool Axel happily helped me without even realizing" replied the person amused "So that means you are either Vexen or Zexion" concluded Donald "oh please as if that idiot Vexen has actually the brain to fake his death and stayed hidden and wait for the right moment to resurface" "So you are Zexion then" "Indeed" he said and revealed his face.
Zexion had bright aqua-coloured eyes though only his left eye was visible. His right eye was covered by his long layered bangs of his steel-blue hair. "I don't understand it. Why did you fake your dead. Why didn't you help Xemnas and the others by telling of Axel's betrayal" "That's easy little mouse because I am a traitor to the Organization myself to be precise I am a triple traitor and I use the word traitor loosely since I was never loyal to the Organization to begin with"
"What do you mean you was never loyal to begin with" "I am glad you asked because this is such a nice story to tell"
"It all started many years ago with a small orphaned boy. This little boy had no one and had to steal from other people to survive. The little boy had no hope of a better future but one day everything changed for the better. He successfully stole some money from a tall blond man or so he thought. The man found the boy in his hideout. That little boy was terrified since he clearly remembered the last time he was found. The man introduced himself as Ansem the wise and simply asked why that boy had stolen from him. But the boy was too scared to answer. Ansem quickly concluded that the boy had no one and decided to adopt that boy. The boy weighed his options he wasn't sure if he should trust that man but since the man hadn't hurt him until now he decided to take his chance and accepted. Ansem took the boy to his castle and since that boy had no name he decided to name him Ienzo"
The eyes of Mickey and the others widened at that. Zexion smirked "Yes I was that boy. At the castle I met Xehanort, Braig, Dilan, Even and Aeleus. Three weeks passed and Ansem realized that I was incredibly smart. He started to teach me everything he knows and allowed me to help him with his experiments. After three years Xehanort asked me for a little help in one of his experiments and this was the day where everything changes for me yet again" "The experiment on hearts where you changed into a nobody" Mickey guessed "Precisely"
"But I was a unique case" "What do you mean why were you a unique case" "I was a unique case because nobodies aren't supposed to have any kind of feelings since they have no heart" "Wait that means you have a heart despite being a nobody" asked Kairi "Not exactly. I am a nobody therefore I have no heart but I still felt emotions. I felt anger for what Xehanort did. I felt shame since I trusted Xehanort despite Ansem's warning to be careful around him. I followed Xehanort or as he insisted Xemnas to wait for a perfect opportunity to strike and kill him"
"Xemnas collected more member until we were thirteen and soon enough he send some members to castle oblivion. You all know what happened so I skip the most part. Xemnas suspected that Marluxia plotted to betray him so he tasked him and me to choose some members for the mission. Xemnas trusted me completely so he tasked me with spying for him on Marluxia. What Xemnas failed to realized was that I too plotted against him just far more subtle than that idiot Marluxia. In castle oblivion I told Marluxia of Xemnas suspicion and offer him to work with him against Xemnas. While working with Marluxia I simultaneously work with Axel to eliminate all the betrayers. So you see I betrayed Xemnas to Marluxia, Marluxia to Axel and I betrayed Axel as I just used him as a tool for my own gain and the best part is no one ever suspected anything about that despite knowing my title -The Cloaked Schemer-. All what is left to do is the elimination of Xemnas and your Keyblade wielders are just about doing that for me"
"I understand that you wanted to kill Xemnas and the other founding members but why did you wanted to kill the other members" asked Kairi "That is simple. I wanted their powers" "Their powers?" "Yes every member of the Organization has a special power. For example Xigbar's power was the power over the room, Xaldin controlled the wind and I well my power are illusions. So I searched for a way to obtain their powers and I found one. I created eleven orbs out of the essence of the heartless from them. The hardest part was getting the essence from Xemnas heartless since he was extremely powerful but thankfully Sora helped me yet again by fighting against him on Destiny Island where I was able to get some of his essence. The annoying part was to obtain the essence of the others since their heartless were ordinary shadows and there are trillions of them. These orbs I created were basically beacons for the life force of the nobodies. When a powerful nobody dies they usually dissolve into dark mist and just vanish but my orbs literally pulled that mist to them which then allowed me to absorbed the orbs and gained their powers"
"Unfortunately Sora's heartless died far too quickly for me to find and get some of it's essence so I couldn't create a orb from that but since Roxas never actually died bur rather rejoined into Sora the orb would be useless anyway. It's a real pity I really would have liked the ability to use the keyblade but I can't have everything now can I? I already absorbed the orbs of the dead members and when Xemnas died I will get his power over nothing I other words the supreme power over every single lesser nobody"
"You are pathetic you let other people do the dirty work while you just sit back and steal the power of others" "Oh really? While I could have killed everyone myself it would have took me many years to do so since I don't want to arise suspicion beside why should I dirty my own hands to do so when I have such useful pawns who did it for me and doing it this way enabled me much faster to work to my goal"
"What is your goal. What is it you desire you never mentioned that" asked Mickey tensed."You are right. I guess there is no harm in telling you and since I didn't get the keyblades power I actually need you all for my goal" "You need us? You want to recreate Kingdom Hearts" concluded Kairi but was confused as Zexion just scoffed.
"Why would I need that. Have you forgotten the day I became a nobody I only lost my heart not my feelings. I can still feel all the emotions so getting a heart would weaken me since a heart is a preferred target to kill your enemy" "Then what do you need us for"
"Imagine you are a near immortal being no disease can affect you and you can only die when someone kill you. Such a being has a lot of time to live what would you do if you had such a great amount of time to spent. I myself decided to play with mortals so I will appear in a world and start to conquer it or just randomly start to kill people for fun. And while killing people is fun it is even funnier when I have worthy opponents who try to stop me and that is the part where you all come into play. You are not only there as my opponents but as a beacon for heartless who in return will turn many inhabitants of the world into heartless and creating more nobodies"
"You are deranged" spat Mickey "You are" he stopped speaking as he saw black mist travelling towards them "Perfect timing it seems Sora and Riku managed to kill Xemnas" Zexion said as he took the last orb out off his cloak and watched as the mist was absorbed into it. When the mist was completely absorbed he himself absorbed the orb.
"I really want to continue our little chat but I must go now. Don't worry I will leave you some of my servants to play with. Hope to see you soon" Zexion said and summoned some dusks before he disappeared via dark corridor.