Blade of Light: Space Paranoids
Date started: 7.16.06
Date
finished: 7.20.06
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Authors note:
nya ha, oh boy the plot thickens, not much to say really, thanks for the reviews of chapter 10. I know that most of you probably want to kill Roxas, but I have to ask you to not kill him until the end of the story, I still kinda need him, but you can beat him within an inch of his life if you like . Read and Review if you please. Thanks for reading! oh and eating cereal when you write is the best, mmm crunchy, it makes the best late night snack.
"We're almost there," Kairi gasped, pulling Sora up yet another set of stairs. Rain lashed at her face as she swept her bangs out of her eyes with her free hand.
"Kairi, maybe you should rest," Sora said, looking worriedly at his sister, "I can bear to walk a for a little bit."
"Sora you and I both know that if I let you walk on your own it would take forever to get to Hallow Bastion. We don't have that kind of time right now." Kairi shivered as the wind picked up.
As they reached the top of the stairs, Kairi stumbled under Sora's weight.
"Kairi?" Sora asked worriedly, struggling catching her before she fell over.
"It's alright, I just tripped thats all." Kairi said, pulling Sora's arm over her shoulder again.
"Kairi, I'm going to have to insist that you take a break."
"But Sora, we don't have tim--"
"We have time for a small rest," Sora said smiling at his sister, "I'm sure Donald and Goofy will understand."
Kairi didn't say anything, but started to helped Sora over to the battlements. As they reached the battlements, Sora heard a shuffling of feet behind him and turned to see a small group of heartless and nobodies surrounding them.
"Stay behind me," Sora said, pushing Kairi behind him and summoning his keyblade.
"Sora behind you!" Kairi yelled.
Sora turned to see a nobody attacking him from behind, slashing his keyblade down, he killed it. As he started to swing back around, two heartless attacked from behind him. He managed to cut the first one down, but was hit by the second.
An intense burst of pain shot through Sora's body, "Damn," Sora muttered, gritting his teeth against the pain and dropping to one knee, "I could totally waste these guys if I wasn't injured."
The attacks continued as Sora tried desperately to protect Kairi as the heartless and nobodies started closing in on them. Just as Sora thought all hope was lost, he heard a familiar battle cry. Looking up, he saw Donald and Goofy charging into the mass of heartless and nobodies. The battle was over almost instantly, Goofy came over to help Sora to his feet as Donald took care of the left over enemy's.
"Boy am I glad to see you," Sora said gratefully as Goofy pulled him to his feet. Trying to ignore the new pain that shot through his body, he turned and helped his sister up.
"When you didn't show up at the castle, we got worried, so we came to look for ya," Goofy explained, trying to help a teetering Sora balance.
"Yeah, and then Leon showed up and asked if we'd seen you," Donald added, joining the group, "He acted as if you two had run off."
Sora and Kairi exchanged guilty looks, "Well...I think that the phrase 'ran off' is a bit of an exaggeration," Kairi said, looking away, "We just er...took a walk with out permission."
Sora nodded for emphasis, "See before we called you, we had this fight with Squall and Cloud about going to Space Paranoids, we tried to go with them to Hallow Bastion, but they wouldn't let us. So they left Yuffie to make sure that we didn't try and sneak out, but we summoned Stitch and set him lose in the kitchen, and while she was distracted trying to stop him from destroying everything we used the computer terminal to contact you. Then we snuck out the back door, and here we are."
"You two realize that you're going the wrong way, right?" came a sullen voice from behind Donald and Goofy. A angry looking Leon stepped out from the shadows, "If you two had kept going, you would have ended up in the gorge. The heartless are gathering there for some reason, you wouldn't have stood a chance."
"Look we're really sorry Leon," Sora said looking Leon in the eye, "But this is something I have to do, with or with out your help, I'm not letting the Organization get this worlds heart."
Leon sighed and shook his head, "Follow me, we don't have much time."
Riku awoke to find his ams wrapped around a brown haired boy.
"Sora?" he mumbled, carefully sitting up so he wouldn't wake the sleeping boy.
But leaning over the boy, he realized that it wasn't Sora at all but Roxas. Panicking slightly, Riku looked down and was relieved to see that he was still wearing his boxers. Riku felt the other boy stir, and was afraid that his sudden movement had awoken him, but the other boy just rolled over and remained asleep.
"He looks so much like Sora when he's sleeping," Riku thought, watching the boy's chest rise and fall as he slept peacefully.
Realizing who he was thinking about, Riku shook his head trying to clear his thoughts, "No," Riku thought, "He doesn't belong in my thoughts anymore, he is dead to me, and I to him."
Untangling himself from Roxas, he quietly got out of bed and started searching around the room for his clothes. After a few minutes of searching, he had only found a pair of jeans, which he gratefully pulled on. Shivering slightly, he wished that he hadn't gotten out of the nice warm bed, but something about snuggling up to Roxas felt wrong to him.
Sighing, Riku walked over to his favorite spot in front of the large picture windows that took up the far wall of his room.
"It's always dark out side," Riku thought, staring out over the gloomy wet city, "Even during the day time, the clouds block out the sun. There is no light in this world, only darkness."
Buried deep in thought Riku didn't hear Roxas coming up behind him. In fact, he didn't realize that Roxas was even up until he felt him snake his arms around Riku's waist.
"Riku, love, why are you up so early?" Roxas purred, drawing himself closer to Riku, "I didn't kick you out of bed, did I?"
Grateful for the warmth coming from Roxas, Riku smiled, "No, I just couldn't sleep. Besides," he said turning around to face Roxas, "I didn't want to wake you up."
"Well then you shouldn't have let your side of the bed get cold," Roxas whined, imitating the pout that Sora always put on when he didn't get his way.
Seeing the infamous Sora pout, Riku turned away from Roxas with a pained look.
"Don't do that," Riku said, trying to push away from Roxas, "It creeps me out."
"Oh, I'm sorry, did I upset you?" Roxas asked, hanging on to Riku's waist.
"It's just...I don't want to be reminded of him anymore," Riku said, giving up trying to struggle out of Roxas's grasp.
"Then let me take your mind off of him," Roxas whispered in Riku's ear.
Spinning Riku around to face him, Roxas pulled Riku into a deep kiss. Running his hand through Roxas's hair, Riku pulled the younger boy on top of him as he fell over on the bed. Finally running out of air, the two boys broke apart. Panting, Roxas pushed himself into a sitting position on top of Riku.
"Your computer is blinking," Roxas said, noticing that the new message button on Riku's computer terminal was flashing.
"So? It can wait," Riku mumbled, pulling Roxas back down for another round of kissing.
As Roxas and Riku started to make out again, Riku's door flew open and Zexion came marching into the room. The two boys broke apart and Riku pushed himself up on one arm to see who had interrupted them.
"Well, well, I hope I didn't interrupt anything." Zexion sneered, crossing his arms.
"Don't worry, you did," Riku said, glaring at Zexion.
"What do you want Zexion?" Roxas asked furiously, still sitting on top of Riku.
"Well, I was sent here to see why you haven't joined the Superior for breakfast yet." Zexion said in a bored drawl, "I guess you were to, erm, busy to check your messages?"
Zexion smirked as both boys gave him a cold glare, "At any rate, he expects both of you in the great hall in about oh, five minutes."
Turning to, walk out the door, Zexion called, "Oh, and you might want to put on something besides your boxers."
Blushing Roxas got up off Riku and started searching for his clothes. Finally finding all his clothing, Roxas began getting dressed. Sighing reluctantly Riku joined him and soon both boy's were dressed and heading towards the great hall.
Sora, Kairi, Donald and Goof followed Leon into the computer room deep in the heart of Hallow Bastion, leaving a wet trail of water behind them. Tifa, Cloud and Cid were all standing in front of a large computer console . A very wet and unhappy Yuffie was leaning against the far wall.
"Is the transfer program ready?" Leon asked, joining Tifa, Cloud and Cid in front of the computer.
"Just about," Cid answered typing furiously.
"Transfer program?" Sora asked skeptically, still using Kairi to keep himself up.
"How else do you think you're going to get to Space Paranoids? Thats why you're here right?"
"Yeah...but I thought it was inside the computer. I thought that it would be like a video game, you know?"
Cid threw back his head and laughed, "Well, squirt, this is going to be better than any game you've ever seen. Ok, we're all set, you three," Cid pointed at Sora, Donald and Goofy, "Go stand in front of the scanner."
Donald, Goofy, and Sora, being helped by Kairi, went to stand on a glowing platform off to the side of the computer.
"Ok, so here's the deal," Leon said, facing the group, "Once you enter the Space Paranoids, we are going to be unable to control anything that happens to you, although we will remain in contact. So, don't make any brash actions Sora."
"What?" Sora whined, "I didn't do anything."
Leon glared at Sora and continued talking, "When you get transfered into the computer, you will feel as though everything that happens to you is real, but the truth is that its not. In that world you are a stream of data, no physical harm can come to you. You must remember this when you are faced by an enemy, we have no idea what's waiting for you in there. Any questions?"
Kairi raised her hand, "Um, Leon? How is Sora supposed to fight if he can't even stand up on his own?"
"Not my problem, he's the one who's insisting on going," Leon said, turning away from the group.
"Don't worry Kairi, I'll be fine," Sora said, giving his sister a wide grin and stepping away to prove that he could stand by himself.
"Oh really?" Kairi, asked giving Sora a small smirk and giving him a little push.
Caught off balance, Sora fell backwards and was caught by Goofy. Struggling to get back up, Sora smiled sheepishly up at Kairi.
"Kairi, you ca..."
"Can't come with you right? I know, I wasn't planning to," Kairi said, helping Sora to his feet, and giving him a kiss on the cheek, "Be careful big brother."
"Ok, kiddies, its time to save the world." Cid called from the computer terminal.
"Remember Sora, no rash actions." Leon called as Cid started to digitize Sora and the others. But before Sora could say anything, he was being sucked into the data stream.
When Sora was finally able to see again, he found himself standing in a room that had flashing blue stripes running all around the room. Looking down at himself, he realized that his clothes had changed to emulate the walls of the room. His clothes had become more fitted on his body, and now sported accents of blue light and grey fabric.
"Woah, cool!" Sora said when he saw that his keyblade had also changed. Looking around, he noticed that Donald and Goofy hadn't shown up yet.
"Donald? Goofy?" Sora called, wandering around the room.
"Hello?" A voice called from one of the corners of the room.
"Who's there?" Sora called, holding his keyblade, ready to attack.
"Me," A man wearing a grey body suit with blue light accents walked out of the shadows.
"Who are you?" Sora asked, still weary of the strange man in his suit.
"I am me," The strange man said, "I am Tron."
"Tron?"
"Yes, I am the security program known as Tron. Who are you?"
"I'm Sora," Sora said holding out his hand, "Nice to meet you Tron."
"I am not familiar with that gesture," Tron said eying Sora's out stretched hand with a confused look.
"Its a hand shake, people do it when they meet someone new."
"A...hand shake?"
"Uh-huh," Sora said dropping his hand back down to his side, "You know what, don't worry about that right now, have you seen my friends, Donald and Goofy?"
"Friends? Donald? Goofy? What kind of program's are they?" Tron asked, still looking confused.
"They aren't programs, Donald is a duck, and Goofy...well, Goofy's a dog I guess. They're my friends, you do know what friends are, right?"
"I have not seen anyone who is called Donald, Goofy or Friends."
Sora sighed exasperatedly, "Uh, never mind, can you show me how to get out of here? This is Space Paranoids right?"
"That is correct, although I cannot show you the way out."
"Why not?"
"Because we are the prisoners of the MCP, we are in Pit Cell. The only way to get out of here is to have the access codes."
"Well...do you have the access codes?" Sora asked hopefully.
"I'm afraid I don't, I have been stripped of all data concerning the system. I am no more than a hollow data stream."
"Then do you have a way to contact the computer terminal in Hollow Bastion? Will you help me?"
"Hollow Bastion?"
Tron stood deep in thought for a few minutes and then his face lit up with excitement.
"Yes, Hollow Bastion. It is my user's world."
"Your user?"
"Yes, the user of this computer, Ansem."
"Ansem!"
"Yes, do you know him? He was my user for so many years, but then something happened and he became my enemy. He turned back on the MCP, and soon after that I became imprisoned in this cell."
"That must have been year's ago," Sora said, lost in thought, "Well, you don't have to worry about Ansem anymore, he's gone. I killed him."
"That is a shame, why did you kill him?"
Sora looked a little taken aback by Tron's question, "I...uh...I don't know..."
"You don't know why you killed him? What kind of program are you? Are you a virus?"
"No no, I'm not a program, I'm a human being, a user I guess. As for why I killed him...I killed because, he took things that were very precious to me. He also threatened the existence of these things, so I guess the reason I killed him was to protect what was precious to me."
"To...protect?"
"Yes, you see, in the user world, user's have things called families and friends. Your family are people who you are related to, you share most of your life with them. You usually live with them, and they are always there for you. Your friends are like your family but you aren't directly related to them, but you still share they same bond. Families and friends, they always are there for each other, they protect each other, no matter what."
"You...protect each other."
"Yes, and in sharing these deep bonds, my family and friends become precious to me, do you see? Ansem, he kidnapped my sister, and then he...he took away my best friend. Then he tried to destroy the universe, which put my sister and my best friend in danger. So, I killed him to protect them."
"I understand, is that why you're here? To protect?"
"No..." Sora looked at the ground, trying to hold back tears.
"Your emotion, it does not compute, why is this?"
"Because, I'm a lousy friend. I couldn't protect what was precious to me, thats why I'm here. I'm here to stop the Organization from destroying this world and the user world, but I'm also here because the Organization kidnapped my best friend, Riku, and now they've turned him against me. I'm here to try and save him."
"And to save him you need to know how to contact the user's in Hollow Bastion?"
"Yes, to start."
"Then I will help Sora," Tron said proudly, "Does this mean that Tron and Sora are friends? Tron is watching Sora's back by helping him, yes?"
"Yup," Sora said cheerfully.
Tron's face lit up with a smile, "I have never had a friend before. Come, I will show you the terminal, you can contact your user friends through that."
Tron led Sora over to a small blue computer that blended in with the wall. Looking around the cell, Sora realized how small it really was. He couldn't imagine how Tron had been able to stay in here for all those years.
"Hm." Tron made an unsatisfied noise, "It seems as though my access code has been denied."
"Does that mean that I can't contact my friends?" Sora asked worriedly.
"No, I can hack into the system, but you won't have long. I'm 99.99 sure that Sark will notice the hack within a matter of minutes. Something strange is going on here, I was able to log into the system this morning."
"Its the Organization, I'm sure they have something to do with it."
"Yes, you must tell me more about this Organization later, but now you must talk to your friends, just talk strait into the terminal."
Tron stepped aside to allow Sora full use of the terminal, stepping up to the terminal, Sora began to speak.
"Leon? Leon, are you there?"
"Sora, boy am I glad to hear from you. Your tracking beacon disappeared when you were digitized. We weren't sure what happened."
"Leon, listen, do you know where Donald and Goofy are?"
"No, they disappeared too. Look, I'm going to bring you back, we'll analyze the computer and find out what's going on."
"Ok, lets do it, I don't want to get stuck in here with some crazed Organization member."
"Ok, just hold on for a minute while I prep the program."
Sora stood in front of the computer screen patiently, waiting for Leon to begin the transfer program.
"What! This can't be!"
"What's happening?" Sora shouted, starting to panic.
"We've been locked out of the computer, we can't control anything. They'v--letely--rewro--th--sys--."
"Leon!" Sora yelled at the terminal, "Leon answer me!"
"It's no use," came a new voice from out side the cell.
"Sark," Tron muttered angrily.
"Well well, who's your little friend Tron?"
"My name is Sora, and I demand that you let me out of here at once."
"Oh we'll let you out, when its time for the games." Laughing, Sark walked away from the cell.
"The games?" Sora asked, curiously.
"Yes, everyone who is a 'guest' of the MCP is forced to play them, unless they willingly join the MCP."
"That can't be to bad, I'm good at games."
"Yes, but the stakes of these games are high. You either win, and live to play another round, or you lose."
"What happens when you lose?"
"You are erased, your data is no more."
"So, in other words you die?"
"Yes, that is the only way to escape this place once you have been entered into the games."
"Well, well, well, its about time," Xemnas said, amused as Riku walked into the great hall.
"My apologies Lord Xemnas sir," Riku said, trying to straiten his black coat, "I, uh, overslept."
"Well your not too late, please sit down." Xemnas said, with a smirk on his face, "Have you seen Roxas by any chance? He was supposed to join us."
"He said that he would meet with you later," Riku said, sitting down and helping himself to the piles of food that crowded the table. Riku looked up to see Xemnas smiling, "What?"
"Oh, nothing, you just seem...oh how should I put this...happier this morning. Do you care to explain?"
"I...I guess I just got rid of some unwanted weight." Riku said, smiling.
Blabbing:
aw, poor Sora, being called "unwanted weight", damn you Roxas, you whore! Sorry for the shortness, but I wanted to post this up before I went out of town since I won't be able to bring my laptop with me. Up next is the games, it shall be a long chapter for sure. Thank you to the people who consistantly leave comments, and the people who just plain comment, it means a lot. Thanks for reading!