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"What the hell was that?" Xigbar, Axel and Zexion burst out in unison as all the coding on the screens was momentarily wiped out, only to return to normal a short moment later. The only difference from before the interruption and after it, was that now they were looking at the first wall of the Kingdom Heart Defense system again.

Axel turned with fear in his heart to see if Roxas was still breathing and met with the blonde's confused clear blue eyes.

"Axel? What… what have I missed?" Roxas croaked out with a dry throat as he took in the other people populating the room.

Axel hurried forward, unwired Roxas from the chair, in which he'd been imprisoned for the last number of hours, and as soon as all the cords and sensors were off of him Axel closed his arms around him, holding him tightly.

"It's all OK now, Rox. Ansem's been taken care of by Lexaeus, and Marluxia has been dealed with in the same manner," Axel said in a try to sum up the events.

Zexion, his dislocated arm put back in its socket and placed in a mitella by the help of Xigbar some minutes earlier, came forward with a curious expression.

"I don't know how you did it, but somehow you managed to reboot the entire Kingdom Heart defense on your way out. There's not a single trace of you ever getting inside…"

Roxas managed a smile over Axel's shoulder.

"Don't thank me. I only did half the job."

Zexion raised his eyebrows a bit further.

"Oh, really?"

Now Xigbar was standing beside the librarian as well.

"Does this have something to do with your code key splitting into two back there in the end of it?" the black haired man asked before Zexion had a chance to say anything more.

Roxas thought about it for a moment. The way things must have looked to the ones looking on the actions from this side of the screens, he guessed that was what had happened. The key had split in two as he and Sora both operated it to unlock the door out.

"Yes, you could say that. Sora helped me most of the way."

Both Zexion and Xigbar looked dumbfounded and Axel pulled away from Roxas just enough for him to be able to look him in the eyes.

"Sora? You mean his memories?"

"Partly. His mind was sort of stuck in the coding of the Kingdom Heart defense, and connected with me, which made it possible for him to help me find the way out."

The others looked like a group of question marks and Roxas decided to go over the details another time, when he felt more rested and up to the task.

"I'll explain it more thoroughly later on," he said and looked at Axel with a smile on his lips. "Right now I need to rest. I'm tired to the bones!"

Axel smiled back, his emerald eyes glittering with warmth.

"Do you think you can walk, or should I help you?"