Second Chance Universe(Series): Behind the Scenes.
Author's Note: Good news and bad news; Riku is confirmed to be playable and the name for the final world "Scala ad caelum" (Translation: Stairway to Heaven) is revealed.
But sadly the final battle trailer basically confirms that the real KH3 will not have a happy ending due to *SPOILERS* pretty much everyone except Sora will die. Hence to why I thought it's best to reveal it here, which will be added into "Kingdom Hearts III: Second War" because now the real game will be much like Infinity War(my greatest fear).
Please remember that none of these will be in order.
I don't own anything here.
Back-Scene 4-The Tragic Vision: This takes place after Chapter 51 of "Kingdom Hearts III: Second War"...
It was unlike anything Sora had ever seen. He knew that the ruins of Daybreak Town would be hard, but he never expected it to be in the same world as the Keyblade Graveyard. It was worse than in his nightmares that Vanitas had shown him. The builds were like made of dust and cracked, and unrecognisable. He could hear the faint gasps of shock and horror from Kairi, Aqua, Xion, and Skuld and he couldn't blame them. Even Riku, Donald, Goofy, Mickey, Lea, Isa, Myde, Roxas, Terra, Ven, Myde, Ephemer and Strelitzia gasped in shock and horror as they looke around.
"This is...this is what's left of Daybreak Town?" Strelitzia asked, horrified beyond belief and her heart aching at the devastation.
Myde let out a low whistle. "Man, the Keyblade War really did a number on this place, didn't it?"
"This is so awful. I knew it was bad but...this is...so terrible." Mickey muttered, shakily. If this is what the first Keyblade War had caused, he was scared to think of what would've happened if Xehanort had still been alive and gotten the War that he wanted.
"I didn't think...it would be this bad. I just hope we'll be able to stop Chaos and Bhunivelze before everything gets worse than it is here." Sora muttered, shaking his head, and he could've sworn his heart was shaking up.
"It was like this when the first war ended. But it's much worse now than it was all those years ago." Ephemer muttered, shaking his head in dismay. "How could've all this happen!?"
Skuld and Ven both gazed at their former fellow Dandelion Leader with sympathized looks and feelings of understanding. They knew what he was saying, but at the same time, it hurt them that their friend was blaming himself for what had happened in the past.
"It wasn't anyone but the Master of Master's fault." Kairi pointed out gently to him. "He knew it would happen and he just let it happen instead of making a difference like Sora did."
"Yeah, that guy sure messed up, and we were all used for whatever he wanted, much like how Xehanort almost killed us to get what he wanted." Lea nodded in agreement. Something about this place made his heart beat wildly in the intense fear and his stomach dropping at the very thought; had he not been revived a lot sooner, then things would've been different.
"Well, the important thing now is that we gotta find and stop Aced and save Master Yen Sid, Angeal and Genesis. Cloud and the others shouldn't be too far from us." Sora reminded firmly. He knew that they couldn't stand around to gaze at the horrific scenary. Right now, a crazed Keyblade Master needs to be stopped, and Mickey and Zack's Mentors and Genesis need to be saved before Lauriam, Arlene, Blaine, Ardyn, Caius and Chaos attacked, and before Bhunivelze awakens from his sleep.
But as Sora took a step, he suddenly felt a painful and powerful jolt that not only hit him in his mind, but also seizing his heart that made him cry out in agony. It was making him disorintated and dizzy, his vision becoming blurry.
"Wh-what's happening to me?" Sora grunted, feeling like he's about to pass out.
Apparently he wasn't the only one, because just as Kairi and the others were about to approach him when they saw this happen, she, Riku, Mickey, Donald, Goofy, Myde, Lea, Isa, Roxas, Xion, Terra, Ven and Aqua were all feeling the effects as well as they all held onto their heads, their eyes shut and they were unable to handle the agony. Not only that, Sora and those who were suffering this could hear faints of ringing in their ears, the sounds of weapons clashing, the faints of a familiar evil laughter, screams and agony.
Then a new image filled their senses and when they looked up, Skuld, Ephemer and Strelitzia had vanished, but what they saw filled their hearts with pure horror.
They saw themselves, but with Sora, Riku, Kairi and Mickey wearing different clothes, Lea still wearing Axel's Organization Coat, as were Demyx and Isa who, seeing himself as his Nobody with the golden amber eyes and pointy ears and scar, Terra still as Terranort, and even Aqua and Xion saw themselves having been possessed by Master Xehanort. Mickey was wielding Eraqus's Keyblade while Aqua had been wielding that Keyblade she saw in her vision more times than she can count.
Ven was absent, and Roxas, also wearing his coat and double-wielding two Keyblades, had his hood up.
Sora, Donald, Goofy, Riku, Mickey, Kairi and Lea were fighting against a never-ending horde of Heartless, Nobodies and Unversed, before facing the true Organization XIII themselves, but it seemed that all was completely lost:
One by one, the Guardians side had fallen. Donald went first, much to the real Donald's horror. Next was Goofy who died in Sora's arms.
"GARWSH!" The real Goofy screamed out, horrified.
Lea was next, and Kairi was screaming in agonized sorrow which had both the real Kairi and the real Lea struck in pure horror. Riku and Mickey soon followed with their Keyblades dropping. Finally, Kairi in attempting to defend Sora, fell and died in Sora's arms as well. Finally Terra and Aqua and Xion and Saix and Myde had fallen, being replaced by more vessels of Xehanort.
The Sora in the vision was angsted as he screamed in pure sorrow and agony before everything flashed in light, and the real Sora and his friends had to shield their eyes at the bright light. When it faded, both Soras and the real Sora's friends looked up all around them, was a huge fortress like City with a clear blue sky and white clouds. It reminded Terra, Ven and Aqua of their homeworld the Land of Departure.
The Sora in the vision was then confronted by Master Xehanort and his Organization XIII in thrones of the place, gazing down evilly at him, looking very victorious for having achieved his goal, having defeated the fools and gotten what he wanted and was pleased that Sora is the only survior left and he is left with nothing.
"This is where my other selves and I will become one...here, where the power of the Keyblade Wielders used to sit." Master Xehanort was saying.
Sora then found himself surrounded by all of Xehanort's copies and, despite the tears of having lost everything and everyone he loved, he held a tight grip on his Keyblade, ready to make the final stand.
As soon as it started, the vision had ended, and the real Sora and his friends, including those he had managed to save with the help of everyone else, felt the pain of the vision end, but it left them panting, shaken, horrified and traumatized. Each of them were panting as the pain began to dull.
"Was that...was that the other dimension that's happening right now?" Sora asked, more to himself than to anyone else. This was about the Foretellers in his dreams were telling him; that what could have happened was happening in one of the many alternate timelines that was going on at this moment. What he'd just seen, and he was certain the others had seen it too...
That was the other reality; the tragic reality.
"What did we...just see?" Myde asked in horrified disbelief. He'd come to belief that alternate universes were impossible, but what he just saw horrified him, more than anything.
"It's...the other reality that is happening. One of the time-lines split ever since Sora and Xehanort traveled through time." Aqua muttered in horror and dismay. She placed a hand to her heart, feeling it beating far too quickly and she felt it ache.
Lea was shakingly running a hand through his hair, his breathing quivering as he tried to come to the grips of the vision; in the other dimension, he died. Everyone did. Except for Sora. But even then, that outcome wasn't good.
"Does that mean...no matter what we do, the Realm of Light will be lost?" Roxas muttered, in disbelief and dismay. If none of them are able to stop Xehanort in the other dimension, then would that mean all hope was lost here too? Sure they defeated Xehanort here, but that came with a price.
Chaos and Bhunivelze.
"No...it can't be true!" Mickey shook his head quickly in denial, tears beginning to form in his eyes. It was bad enough that he failed in the past, and that Master Yen Sid's life was on the line. But what he had seen...his other self and the other selves of everyone here...were gone, just like that and Xehanort had won.
"Guys? What happened?" Ephemer asked, as he, Skuld and Strelizia, who'd been very worried about their friends, approached in great concern.
"...Our other selves have lost." Isa muttered grimly, clutching his fist tightly. "Xehanort has won and now rules the other dimension."
"The other me is the only survivor in that dimension, on the Guardians of Light side." Sora muttered, still on his knees and...his heart was aching badly, tears were forming in his eyes. He didn't know what to do. He'd known that the loss would be devastating here, but...for him to lose everyone he loved in all dimensions was even worse.
It was hopeless. Everything was hopeless. No matter what they did, whether it was Xehanort or Bhunivelze or Chaos or whoever else, the results will be the same. Sora would lose everyone he loved. The Realm of Light is finished.
"It's...just like in my nightmares, only without Bhunivelze and Chaos." Kairi muttered, sorrowfully, unconsciously holding Lea's hand as though afraid he would die here too.
"Sora?" Riku muttered, noticing his best friend's still kneeling position.
"It's all my fault...no matter what I do...I can't save the Realm of Light." Sora choaked back a sob, which shocked all of his companions. "How can everyone be saved if everything will be destroyed and we're no match for Xehanort's Keyblade or the gods!?"
Caius and Ardyn were right. Aced was right; it was over.
"Aced's right. We just make things worse. I just make things worse..." Sora continued feverishly. "Everyone will be gone and it'll be because of me!"
"Sora, what're you-?" Skuld began, only to gasp as Sora quickly stood up and ran off blindlessly into the ruins of Daybreak Town.
"Sora! Wait!" Kairi cried out, and without second thought, she hurried to follow him.
"Wait, Sora!" Mickey cried out, as he and the others made to follow, but Ephemer stood in front of them and firmly shook his head.
"Let him go. Sora needs to try and figure this out, and while I don't know Kairi as much as you guys do, I think she's the only one who can talk sense into him." The young man told them.
"But what if he ends up falling into darkness the way I had?" Terra pointed out. "I stormed off from Ven and Aqua in Radiant Garden and I didn't listen. If anything, all of this is my fault. If I hadn't been tricked, I would've stopped Xehanort sooner and no one else had to suffer and Sora wouldn't have to go through this or other scenarios which in the end...we lost the war before it even started."
"We don't know if we lost the war here in this time-line." Skuld pointed out firmly. "I don't know what you all saw, but Xehanort is gone, and things are different. Yes, there is that risk that we will not survive, but that doesn't meant we lost to Chaos and Bhunivelze and it's not Sora's fault and it's not your fault either, Terra."
"But what if we still fail to save the Realm of Light? Everyone will be gone." Xion said with tears of hopelessness.
Strelitzia sighed, before facing the group as well and began to explain, "That's the same hopeless Noel felt when Caius stabbed himself since he had the heart of Etro. But even when Serah died and her and Lightning's world had merged with the Unseen Realm and the world had to be rebuild, Serah was still revived and she and everyone else she met were still able to be together through rebirth. Bhunivelze was powerful, but he underestimated the power of Humanity. We can do the same thing again, and save the Realm of Light."
"Just because Xehanort won the war in the other dimension doesn't mean Bhunivelze and Chaos had won here. The only thing we can do is prepare ourselves and work together. We all knew the risks, but I don't want a repeat of what happened in the first Keyblade War." Skuld added.
Mickey and the others shared gloomy expressions, though new hope began to rise, but none of them were certain.
Plus, Sora was disheartened with what he'd seen. They can only hope that Kairi will be able to talk sense into him.
Otherwise things here in their dimension will be much, much worse than in the other dimension where everything is lost and it's all over.
KINGDOM HEARTS III: SECOND WAR.
A/N: This will be in a future chapter of "Kingdom Hearts III: Second War" and extended. But seeing the new trailer broke my heart as while I knew the outcome of the battle would be bad, it was devastating to see it which makes the ending even more unbearable even before anyone can see it. *Cries in the corner*
See you in the next Back-Scene.