Usagi: Hi again everyone…sorry for the wait…

Zakura: what the heck have you been up to?

Usagi: getting you a boyfriend (picks up furry lionhead rabbit)

Zakura: …no seriously that doesn't take so long. You found that rabbit hanging around the garden, don't think I wasn't watching.

Usagi: Okay…so I've also been busy trying to save Spira from Sin, saving Heaphness from the world eaters and random evil gods, saving Veldime from turning into a Netherworld, saving the worlds from an evil albino monkey (twice) saving Azeroth from the Undead Scourge and building a zoo.

Zakura: …. You gotta stop getting all these new video games…

Usagi: (Playing Zoo Tycoon) Hm?

Zakura: gah! Never mind. Guess I just gotta start this chapter instead…. Now how do I do that…oh yeah.

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Chapter 24
The Secret of the Albino Powerwild


Darkness. Darkness everywhere. Paradise for any heartless right? Wrong.

Deym was starting to hate the Netherworld more and more, it had been fun for a while, messing with the demons, turning them into heartless as he saw fit… However he was about to realize demon heartless weren't like other heartless.

The stupid shark had left, or "left" wasn't the right word, Deym was lucky he got away from that crazy demon alive!

"Well this stinks" he muttered as he arrived at yet another abounded wasteland. "Leave to Xehanort to mess everything up."

Sure it may or may not have been Xehanort's fault the demons decided to turn on him for no reason, but it was him who let the Netherworld go to hell…or the realm of darkness, it was hell already.

You'd think the demons would be more submissive after getting their world blown away but no, they were worse than ever.

Quite a few of them went completely nuts and destroyed everything they saw, and every last one of them made it their goal to kill as many "common" heartless as possible, which for some reason they counted Deym as.

What did he do to them that were so horrible? Except for existing which was the most common answer he'd get when he bothered to ask.

"I had a good plan but it didn't go right" he said. "Those ungrateful demons. They weren't using their hearts anyway! What difference did it make?"

"There you are. I was almost worried some other demon had already finished you of" a young voice said.

Deym turned around quickly, he hadn't noticed anyone coming, but there stood Laharl, looking ready to rip a certain someone's head of.

"Well if it ain't the little heartless Overlord. I take it you're the one who's been telling everyone to start beating me up?" Deym asked.

"Yup" Laharl said. "I just decided, your kind isn't allowed here anymore."

"My kind? May I remind you I'm a heartless just like you?" Deym said.

"I may be a heartless but I'm also a demon, which you're not, you're just some common trash just like that Xenny-guy. So get the hell of my Netherworld!"

"Fools talkin' 'bout there's enough room for just one of us. Sometimes all I can do is laugh" Deym said. "May I remind you this isn't your Netherworld anymore? Its common practice, one a heartless steals the heart of a world it belongs to the heartl… hey!"

Deym got cut of a fireball hit the ground just inches away, almost hitting him.

"The heartless you say? Why don't you try saying that to my new vassals?" Laharl asked, as eight large monsters appeared behind him.

"How do yah want him? Just a little roasted or burnt to a crisp?" Kyuubi asked grinning evilly.

"How about buried under a mountain of sand? It's quite painful, or I've wasted my life" said Shukaku, who appeared just behind him.

"Let the dead deal with him" Nekomata said, the large feline demon came up on the other side of Laharl. "They'll show no mercy towards this rat I assure you."

"Let me have him" growled the three-tailed heartless shark. "He won't get away this time!"

So that's where he ran of to Deym thought to himself as the remaining bijuu crawled out of the shadows, Kaku the badger actually appeared out of a hole in the ground, glaring at him and showing of his powerful teeth.

"People…demons… monster-creatures… Why can't we be friends? Ruling the Netherworld obviously never mattered to me, as long as we can live in harmony" Deym said.

"We don't even get along with other demons, why should we get along with you?" Laharl asked. "Just… just kill him. In whatever manner you prefer."

"And here we go again" Deym sighed, and summoned his electric guitar just as the monsters all charged towards him. The massive water dragon erupted out of the ground, knocking the bijuu out just in time for Deym to jump a long way back.

"There are a lot of funny people in this funny world. Shame I can't stay to enjoy it" he said. "I need to get myself away from this place. Good luck fighting the war against Xehanort, you're gonna need it."

With that he vanished into a portal, just in time for Raijuu to jump onto the spot he'd just been standing and crashing down like a lighting bolt to the ground.

"DAMN IT!" Laharl shouted. "I AM SO GOING TO KILL THAT GUY!"

"Wasn't that what we were just trying to do?" Shukaku asked before he had to duck away from Laharl's sword.

"Forgive me for saying this but it seems to me we have bigger problems" Soukou said. "As much as I hate to admit it, Deym is right. Xehanort was able to pretty much push the entire Netherworld out of balance. How are we going to defeat him? Orochi isn't a pushover either, and heck who knows what kind of monsters he's gotten among his allies?"

"Idiot. Xehanort is a human, what good can he do?" Laharl said.

"If he was so weak why did you loose against him?" Shukaku asked. Laharl threw an energy ball at him and he had to revert to his smaller racoon-dog form to escape.

"I will get him next time. And that snake too…and even that dumbass rocker. I'LL KILL THEM ALL!" Laharl said. "I don't care what it takes I'm gonna get the Netherworld back to normal."

Soukou sighed, obviously not agreeing with the "plan".

Kyuubi merely chuckled. "You may be a heartless but you've got guts kid. That's what I like about you" the fox said. "But as much as I hate to say it the chicken-lizard has a point. If Xehanort got the Netherworld he's probably gotten a hold on a few other worlds too, and common heartless are not as intelligent as demon heartless are. They'll obey his every command without question, and there are a lot of them."

"You know… that rockstar wannabe called me something previously… It was quite catchy" Laharl said, seemingly ignoring what Kyuubi had just said.

"Monster creatures?" Kyuubi asked.

"No. When we first got here".

"Little Heartless Overlord?"

"Scratch the "Little" part. But Heartless Overlord has a nice ring to it" Laharl said. "If its true that heartless obey the strongest around, no wonder demon heartless are so stubborn."

"Quite logical…who are you and what have you done to the Overlord?" Kyuubi asked grinning.

"Ugh…shut up" Laharl said. "The point is, the demon heartless needs a leader. And that leader is gonna be me."

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"That's your plan? A monkey?"

"Technically it's a chimpanzee" Xehanort told the wolf who was giving him odd looks with one eye. "But if you'd rather be the first…"

"As if. But fine, they do say chimps are closely related to us anyway" Xigbar said.

"Me perhaps but I doubt they're any closer to canines…" the heartless started

"You where never good at jokes" Xigbar said interrupting him. "So you've got a chimp heartless… but don't you need a nobody too? Didn't you just say normal animals don't get nobodies?"

"Normal animals no" Xehanort said, smirking at the unconscious albino Powerwild in the cage. "But who said this was a normal animal?"

As he said that Orochi showed up in a portal…two Orochis none the less.

"And I thought with one eye I wouldn't see double anymore…" Xigbar said.

"You're not seeing things there ARE two of them…actually there's eight, one human form for each head" Xehanort said.

One of the little men was the same as the first "Orochi" Xigbar had seen. The one wearing a hood covering his face.

The other one was showing his face, but seemed to wish he didn't. The face itself was normal, he looked like a normal bearded man except he wore a set of fake bunny-ears.

Once he'd gotten over the fact that there were two of them Xigbar noticed the snake-demons carried what appeared to be yet another unconscious ape.

It looked pretty average, except that his fur was all white, he wore red pants, a small scruffy brown cape and a white helmet with a giant blue light on it.

"We caught him master" the one with the bunny-ears said. "And might I add I hate this uniform."

"Get in line. I'm not letting you guys walk around looking just the same, it's confusing" Xehanort said. "And there was a sale on silly costumes down in Twilight Town."

"I wonder why" Xigbar said. "And here I was thinking you had no sense of humour."

"I'm out" the bunny-Orochi said before he turned around and left the room, only to be replaced by a bald guy with green shoes and a pink ribbon on his tail.

"O…k… so what's with the monkey?" Xigbar asked.

"Its not… ack who cares? Wake it up" Xehanort said.

The hooded Orochi pulled out a squirt gun from under his cloak, and immediately squirted the ape in the face with it.

The animal awoke immediately with a startled grunt, and pretty quickly started staring at each of the heartless and the one nobody in turn, the light on his head suddenly turned from blue to yellow and then red.

"Who the hell are you?" he asked.

"Oh so it's a talking monkey" Xigbar said. "With a light bulb on his head".

"Says the talking dog…. What's going on here?" the chimp asked.

"All in due time" Xehanort said, he started shaking the cage next to him, waking the Powerwild heartless who responded by flying at the bars and making angry monkey-sounds.

"You recognize this heartless don't you?" Xehanort said. "You were both one after all."

"So that's the albino powerwild's nobody?" Xigbar said. "Pretty advanced for an animal…who's not supposed to have nobodies in the first place?"

"That's because they're all idiots, right?" the ape nobody said. "I've dealt with apes before and they're not the brightest of the bunch".

"And what are you? A freaky human-chimp-hybrid or some kind of anthromorphic creature like the dog and duck who followed the keyblade master around?" Xigbar asked.

"What? Hell no!" the chimp said. "My name is Specter, I'm a chimp, nothing more. But thanks to this" he pointed to the helmet on his head which had switched to blue again. "I am a lot smarter than any other apes and you pathetic humans….and wolf too."

"I'm actually a human, this form is just temporary…I hope" Xigbar said.

"I don't care. They both suck" Specter said.

"…I'd hate you if I had a heart. But we have a rule here in Organization XIII, nobodies tend to make anagrams of their names so we can tell them apart from their others…"
"Fine, then call me Recepts".

"…and add an X" Xigbar finished after getting cut of. "Did you just make that up in one second?"

"Recepts is fine. I'm sure Xemnas won't mind, since he's my other anyway" Xehanort said. "So you want to help us with our little project?"

"No" Recepts just said.

"You haven't even heard what it was" Orochi (the one with the ribbon) said.

"I don't care. I don't work with humans, wolves and…whatever you two are supposed to be" Recepts said, with his back turned on the heartless and Xigbar. The Powerwild in the cage did the same.

"Is that so?" Xehanort said. "And fellow heartless and nobodies?"
"I don't care."

"What a shame" Xehanort said with a fake sigh. "Then I guess you're not interested in helping me fuse the two of you back together, and at the same time give you powers beyond anyone's imagination. I might even get you your friends back."

Both chimps suddenly turned their heads in unison.

"What kind of powers?" Recepts asked.

"Anything you can ask for my simian friend" Xehanort said with a smirk. "And much more."

Usagi: MONKEY!

Zakura: Where were Sora, Riku and Kairi in this chapter?

Usagi: at a Smash Mouth Concert.

Zakura: no really…

Usagi: back home I guess. Or at Radiant Garden fighting Kairi's mom. Potentially fighting some new unknown enemy in a very dramatic battle scene you'll never get to see.

Zakura: fine whatever…

Usagi: so we've got Specter's nobody introduced…What does the Organization want with him? Hah. Like I'm gonna tell that…

Zakura: The word Lab Monkey comes to mind…

Recepts: Hey!

Usagi: Well at least Vexen isn't there anymore. Or Mao. If he had he'd been in big trouble.

I based Recepts in this chapter of the first Ape Escape game, (or Ape Escape P, since that's the version I've got) and he wears a "normal" pipo helmet instead of the one he usually has. For all of you non-Ape Escape-players that means a plain white helmet with a huge light bulb on top. The light is blue when the monkey is calm, yellow when they know you're around and red if they're on full alert.

Now Review! Or the pipo monkeys will throw bananas at you.