Chapter One

Part 2: The dis-Organization

"They are your heartless!"

The room became very quiet and very still after that. It was almost as if someone had frozen time or Luxord decided to play a prank. Imagine if you spent ten to three years (depending on how new you were to the Organization) looking desperately for something really, really, really important, something you could never feel complete with out and then some random girl out of nowhere appears dangling it on a string.

Then you might have the vaguest hint on how the Organization felt right now.

The girl grinned; finally they were having the intended reaction. She continued in her speech. "Yes, one heartless for each of you." She showed them her Keyblade.

"I obviously have a Keyblade, which means I could release your captive hearts and give them back to you right now. But… if you don't listen to me, I'll destroy them with magic and they will be reborn on another world who knows where, and I won't bother wasting my time finding it again. In other words you'd be screwed over."

She looked into their eyes. "And don't get any bright ideas yourself. You, unlike me, lack a Keyblade and can't release anything. If you destroy your heartless it'll respawn somewhere else, but I'm quite sure you already knew that!" She giggled at the end of her monologue.

Marluxia looked torn and upset. "What do you want?"

She glared impatiently at him, "I already told you! I want to be the Superior, in fact I already am! Marly I thought you were smarter than that?"

Marluxia looked horrified. "Marly…?"

The girl winked at him, and he had half a mind to decapitate that smile. But… his eyes wandered to a poisoned plant heartless in the group. How ironic it would be if that was his heartless, he had killed thousands of those little buggers and had seen one so recently… was it possible that-?

The girl continued, "So you have two options! Join me or stay a Nobody for the rest of eternity!" she smiled happily as if that was the only emotion she possessed.

"How did you even get those heartless in the first place?" Vexen inquired. He felt as though he should inspect each one to see if one really was his counterpart.

"It's a secret," She put one finger to her mouth and made a "shhh"-ing noise, as if she were a fifth grade teacher and they were her annoying class of children.

Needless to say, the Organization did not appreciate the gesture in the least. The girl looked around the room and for the first time noticed some important people were missing, namely her favorite people.

"Hey, where's Axel?" she tilted her head to the side.

Now would be a great time to remind you dear reader that Axel had left because everyone was five seconds from killing each other, and most likely all trying to kill him.

As a direct result of this Saïx went after him mainly because he didn't want Axel doing anything stupid like abandoning the Organization and telling Sora they were revived; for the last thing they needed was the hero of the story coming back and trying to kill them again.

Saïx rose from the table, because he noticed Axel was absent, and the last thing they needed was the "hero" breathing down their necks. He figured the first place Axel would go was to the grey room, where Saïx used to give everyone their missions before departing on his own, or planning the next stage to obtain Kingdom Hearts. It was one of the very few places that wasn't completely destroyed when Xemnas decided the castle would be an effective space ship/ dragon thing.

When he got there, Axel wasn't particularly happy he had been followed, but was tactful enough not to show it. Axel knew Saïx was only here to keep an eye on him and Saïx knew Axel was only here so he wouldn't disappear again when the tables turned on him for being a bigger traitor than Marluxia (which it would have done if he had stayed, the authoress isn't sure how many times it takes to make this point clear). There was no reason for either of them to have a conversation, but Axel being Axel started one anyway.

"So, who do you think should be the next big shot?"

Saïx didn't answer the question; it should be obvious who he thought was the only one dedicated or intelligent enough to be Superior. That's what both he and Axel had worked for until Axel randomly decided to be best friends with a Keybearer and a replica (Of course Saïx didn't remember the replica part). So instead he offered his patented "hmpf" as a reply.

"Yeah," Axel continued as if Saïx had answered. "I know. But I personally think the Organization's pointless now. Kingdom Hearts was our one big chance, and that isn't happening anytime soon." He paused "Do you even have any plans? Does anyone?"

Saïx remained silent.

Axel nodded. "I thought so."

The room's inhabitants were quiet again. Axel decided to start another conversation, since he didn't feel like going back to the kitchen until everyone simmered down. No one really wanted him here and he'd gladly return the sentiment, but it was decided it'd be best to keep an eye on him, as the Organization couldn't afforded a rogue factor. And let's be honest, killing him might just have him respawn somewhere they couldn't keep tabs.

"Say you were superior, what should every one call you? Lord Saïx?" Axel wasn't hiding the fact he found the idea was rather humorous.

"You were never one for authority, Axel," Saïx said.

"You were never one to take a joke, Saïx," Axel said mimicking Saïx's bored tone. The berserker ignored him, and looked out the window out into the dark sky.

It was rather surprising this room had survived, since it had such a large window. Axel looked out the window too; he wondered briefly why The World That Never Was couldn't see the stars that shone so intensely in other worlds. Was it so the artificial Kingdom Hearts could shine a bit more brightly, or was it because this world really had no connections to any other world?

"Why were we revived…?"

Axel got up from his chair, ready to go back to the kitchen, he really wished he didn't have to leave in the first place because of the conflict, but he didn't have a heart to make him feel guilty for it either. Saïx left the room too, but not without giving a last glance to the empty place where Kingdom Heart's moon once shined down.

When the two returned to the hall where the kitchen lay, they heard a voice neither could recognize, which was exceedingly suspicious.

"Because, I have a Keyblade," said the voice of a young teenage girl. She was defiantly not any one the Organization associated with. Axel opened the door just wide enough to be able to get a peek inside, and remaining unnoticed. Saïx leaned in to get a good look to at the intruder, part of him was reminded of the old days, before they were Nobodies and would play pranks or listen in on neighbors. Saïx felt as though he should interfere with what proceeding in the kitchen, but his instincts told him not to enter the room at any and all costs.

"That is not a Keyblade," Vexen said stating the obvious. Axel rolled his eyes, but couldn't help but wonder who she was in the first place.

"Oi! The Glamour is malfunctioning!" the girl squealed. Axel gave Saïx a look as if to say 'who the heck is this girl?' and in return Saïx gave a look that said, 'why should I know or care?' The girl did something with her necklace that Axel and Saïx were too far away to see clearly, and she was replaced by a beautiful girl. Axel looked at his red hair and hers and came to the conclusion they were identical. Axel wasn't very happy about it either.

"What the…?" Marluxia began.

"Why is this girl here?" Axel whispered.

"As I was saying, I'm your new leader," The girl said with a smile that did not flatter her new features.

"I don't know, but intruders must be dealt with," Saïx replied to Axel's question, he attempted to move from his position and join everyone in the room, but Axel stopped him.

"I don't think that's a good idea," He whispered back. He wasn't sure exactly why it wasn't a good idea, but his non-existent heart said so, and one must always listen to your non-existent heart right? They were created from Disney after all.

Of course this same line of thinking drove Sora, Axel, and even Maleficent to commit suicide (stabbing oneself, putting your entire being into one attack, and attempting to defeat about five billion heartless respectively) more or less. They all got better in the end, but how were the third graders playing the games supposed to know that?

The group exchanged uninteresting lines, and the girl summoned some pretty weak heartless. Axel almost laughed out loud, but didn't because he wasn't in the mood to reveal themselves to the insane little girl.

"If I had a heart I don't know if I'd be laughing or crying at that pitiful attempt…"Saïx deadpanned.

"Me too," Axel replied. "You'd be shaking your head in embarrassment on her behalf."

The girl continued to ramble until…

"You've taken heartless hostage?" Demyx asked sounding uncertain.

"Those aren't just any heartless…they areyourheartless!" she finished in a voice mixed with laughter, insanity, malice, sugar, spice, everything nice, and chemical X.

"Holy…" Axel's curse was cut from the story. Sorry for the inconvenience.

Saïx's eyes got very wide. His heartless, no his heart was in there? He didn't have to be a Nobody any longer?

The girl went on in a ramble about how she could kill the heartless two ways, and how she wanted to control the Organization.

"So you have two options! Join me or stay a Nobody for the rest of eternity!" Axel was really starting to hate that smile, if he could hate that is.

"How did she even get those heartless in the first place?" Saïx asked. Vexen repeated the question as if he had heard him.

"It's a secret!" The girl whispered. She then looked confused for a second, and scanned the room. "Hey where's Axel?" she asked, sounding like a lost puppy.

Axel for the second time today cursed, and he had gotten so good at not cursing after all that time spent with Roxas. He wouldn't want to corrupt one of the few innocent characters in the Organization, you know. But now the situation seemed to call for some profanities.

"Actually…" She counted everyone in the room and finally noticed a lot of people were missing. "…where is everyone?"

"Xemnas, Xigbar have been missing from the very start." Marluxia said. "And Saïx went after Axel about ten or so minutes ago."

The girl looked upset. "I don't really care 'bout Xemnas or Xigbar, but someone needs to go find Axel and Saïx. Oh, and Marluxia remember to refer to me as Superior or Overlord or something dignified from now on."

"Why would I ever call you…?"

The girl silently pointed the Keyblade at one of the heartless in the group, a flame licked idly at the top of the weapon. It was ready to destroy the heartless, and maybe the entire group of them, dooming the Organization. "You were saying?" she asked with mocking sweetness.

Marluxia swallowed his pride. "Nothing… Superior." The words sounded forced, and the look on his face showed he was less than five seconds from killing her.

"Good." She giggled. "Well, I suppose we have to go find those two." She randomly pointed at someone with the Keyblade. "Old man, you go out and find them okay?" It wasn't really a request Vexen could say no to. He grumbled something about never getting the proper respect and exited the kitchen. Behind the door Axel and Saïx were nowhere to be found.

A few minutes later he came back.

"Did you find them?" the Superior asked, tilting her head to the side. Vexen shook his head and the girl cursed. "Where could they have gotten off to?" she looked at Zexion, who had been since her arrival thinking of numerous plans to get his heart back without bowing down to her whims. And having to scrap numerous plans because she released new information, right now he was working on plan five hundred and sixty three. Zexion was known as a schemer for a reason, you know.

"Zexy, can't you smell them or something?" the girl asked, reminded of what she learned in the remake of Chain of Memories. Zexion didn't bother questioning how she knew this, only took it as proof she was well versed in their abilities, and most likely already knew their fighting style. He was going to have to take that into account in his next plan, whatever it may be.

"Zexy? Are you even listening to me?" she huffed, placing her hands on her hips, and leaning forward.

"Of course. Superior." 'Zexy' said politely. It's always better to act friendly towards your enemy, so they won't notice the knife behind your back. Axel had taught him that much. "…Axel and Saïx are no longer on this world."

"What?" she asked. "Where are they?"

"I suppose the most logical choice would be the world Radiant Garden, it is their home world after all," Zexion continued; that of course was a complete lie. He had realized Axel and Saïx had been listening in on them, for their scents had disappeared the second she mention finding them. It would be good to have some people on the outside, and no matter how much he distrusted Axel, him telling the newest "Superior" where they went was stupid. Hopefully Saïx would be competent enough to actually get something done.

"Ugh," The girl whined, "I guess we can go get them later. Right now I want to know, is there a room where we could hook up a TV?"

"TV?" Vexen questioned. There was no such thing in the KH universe or at least not to his knowledge.

The girl looked at him as if he were an idiot. "You know the screens that show, uh, TV shows and more importantly videogames. Tele. Vision."

"I'm not sure what you're talking about." Demyx said. The girl looked horrified, as if he just told her he wasn't sure what a "Twinkie" was (Which he probably didn't).

"Well, I guess that's just going to make everything a little bit harder," She muttered under her breath. She looked up; her eyes were a mask of seriousness. "Well, are any of you good with computers?"

Axel and Saïx during all this were in Betwixt and Between, having a discussion on what to do next…

"I don't suppose you have any plans?" Saïx questioned.

The pyro shook his head. "You?"

"..."

"Thought so," Axel looked around Betwixt and Between, he didn't enjoy being here as this had been when met his second death. The walls were made of random colors swirling around never able to make a pattern. It didn't have a floor here, but you'd never fall, unless you tripped. Nothing made much sense here, but then again currently in Axel's life nothing else was making sense either.

"I guess we'll just wing it," Axel eventually said.

"Wing it?" Saïx said in a tone that more than suggested he did not "wing" anything, and preferred to have a plan before prancing off into the unknown.

Axel was already walking away, his mind made up. He didn't really care if Saïx followed him or not. In fact it might work out better if he didn't. And Saïx on the other hand was debating following his former 'friend'. He could just leave and go their separate ways. There was no real reason to see what Axel was up to.

Axel walked out of the portal, relieved to away from the Corridor of Darkness. Well, actually it was an empty and hollow feeling of "relief", but as a Nobody one learns to hold on to even the smallest wisps of emotions. It might be all you got.

"Destiny Islands?" Saïx questioned, as he too walked out the Corridor, and looked around the island paradise. "I didn't quite realize you were this big of an idiot."

"You don't have to follow me." Axel said, resisting his urge to tack on a 'got it memorized' at the end. The catch phrase seemed to appear far too often and it should be saved for only special occasions.

Saïx continued like he hadn't heard. "Do you really think the Keybearer or his idiotic friends will assist the very Organization he spent the better part of a year destroying?"

"You know Sora likes helping people."

"He may be gullible, but there's a limit…even for him."

"I didn't say anything about tricking anyone, did I? Besides is it really so wrong for me to visit my friend's other?"

Saïx began to glare. "Nobodies don't have friends."

"You mean youdon't have friends. No surprise seeing as you manipulate everyone. Not that's not an uncommon trait in the Organization, in fact it almost seems to be a requirement."

Saïx's Glare of Doom (he would get it trademarked but "glares of doom" were surprisingly common) became even more intense. "You have no right to give me a lecture; it wasn't as if you were an angel of virtue."

Axel shrugged. "I got better."

"At what? Being a traitor?"

Axel glanced over at Saïx, his face was unreadable. "Saïx are you … upset?"

"Of course not! Have you forgotten what a Nobody is? Did dying give you short term memory loss?"

Axel gave him a long look as if he had just proved his point. "Then why are you shaking? And why do you look this close" he showed him, his two fingers which were about an inch apart "from summoning that claymore of yours?"

"What are you rambling ab-?" It was then Saïx was aware Axel gave a pretty decent description of Saïx current behavior. Saïx, who had always been calm to a creepy amount and didn't bother to pretend to have a heart like other members, should not be angry for any reason. Oh yes, some may say his 'berserk' mode was a direct contradiction of the previous statement, but his berserk state was completely intentional and only could be accessed when he was standing below Kingdom Hearts moon. He didn't go 'berserk' because he was actually angry, but because it was an effective move and increased his power and strength significantly.

But what was happening now was different.

Axel continued, "Actually, when you think about it the argument the Organization made earlier was a bit strange too. Typically a Nobody like us arguing with others is because we think it was an appropriate time and place, and it was something our previous selves would have done, but today, during a meeting to discuss the next Superior and the future of the Organization? It was defiantly not the time or the place.

"When Marluxia proposed his plan to be the next leader, he shouldhave been confronted with cold indifference, not fury from the other members. Not that I like the idea much either."

"What are you trying to articulate?" It was Saïx's way of saying "get to the point Axel".

"I think something happened to the Organization when we were revived."

"…And what do you think happened?"

"Not sure."

"Useless," Saïx said with a sigh, but at least he didn't feel angry anymore. He had to wonder why he was only 'feeling' negative emotions later. Saïx gave Axel a glare. "If your theory is true why do you seem unaffected?"

"Because, Iwas hanging around with Roxas. Didn't ya here me say 'he made me feel like I had a heart'? I know you were spying. The Organization had problems with that."

Typically Saïx would argue and defend the Organization, but he didn't feel like doing so at that moment. "The Organization had a lot of problems." Saïx didn't say out loud that Axel was one of those many problems, but Axel knew he implied it.

Axel shrugged. "Still does, I guess."

With that the two men, started to walk in the vague direction of the nearest town at Destiny Islands.

Destiny Islands as its name suggests was a world of many islands connected by boats, which the natives used to get around. Whether or not the "Destiny" portion of its name had any real standing was debatable, but so far the three other heroes of our story each lived here and considered it home and previously one villain also called it home before leaving to take over the world, control Kingdom Hearts, and use the power of darrrrknessss! (Oops, that was a spoiler to those who haven't played the games or watched the cut scenes on YouTube.)

Regardless, the two heroes of our story (okay that's a stretch, and the authoress would like to apologize) had to find the Organization's worst enemy. It was when they reached the town the two realized.

"Let me guess, you have no idea where Sora lives?" Saïx stated.

"Nope."

"So we could just wander around town with the possibility of running straight into the silver haired one…"

"Riku," Axel corrected.

Saïx didn't care if it were Riku, Joe, or Smith. "…Riku, and have him try to kill us before we even see Sora?"

"That's a possibility, but we're the Organization, were good at hiding in the shadows. It's a…"

"Requirement. Seriously Axel, is criticizing the Organization your new catch phrase or something?"

"I call it as I see it," the redhead shrugged.

The two walked into town, on a nearby bench was a brown haired girl wearing a bright yellow dress reading a book. Her feet swayed to the rhythm of the wind and a small content smile was on her face. Whatever she was reading had her attention completely as she didn't notice the two members approaching. The girl turned the page to the next chapter, but not without sighing in the way only a hopeless romantic could.

"I wish I had some special," She sighed to herself. Selphie hadn't finished the story yet, but was getting closer and closer to the sure to be tragic end to the tale. She wished she could rewrite the ending and give them a nice happily ever after.

She heard approaching footsteps and turned around. Selphie had gotten very good at hearing footsteps, because she couldn't trust Tidus or Wakka not to pull any pranks on her when she was engrossed in her books.

Axel and Saïx were spotted; Axel gave the native girl a halfhearted wave, while Saïx stared blankly at her. He hoped this didn't happen to be Riku's girlfriend and was going to run off screaming and setting the entire island against them.

Selphie on the other had been surprised. The islands were small, and while not exactly a "tight knit community" seeing a new face was surely unexpected. Its population never exceeded two or three hundred, and while no one memorized everyone's name (except the gossiping old ladies perhaps) you'd at least recognize their face distantly. But it wasn't just the fact Selphie didn't recognize them, everything about them was different; the clothes they wore, how pale their skin was (as she lived on an island everyone had a slight tan), and their distant mannerisms.

Still, she thought it wouldn't do to be rude. "Hello, it's a nice day isn't it?" she said, saying the traditional greeting.

"Uh, sure," Axel said, in his honest opinion it was too bright for his tastes, but the breeze was nice. Saïx gave a stoic reply also; you could almost hear the crickets chirping in the background.

Axel decided he might as well try to ask for directions, she seemed nice enough. "You don't happen to know a kid with really spiky brown hair, and blue eyes would you?"

Selphie's eyes lit up, "You mean Sora?" Axel nodded. The girl got a look as if she were thinking really hard about something; suddenly she said "Wait! Are you from another world?"

There was no point in lying at this point, as she wouldn't believe them anyway. "Yes," Saïx said curtly.

Selphie's eyes sparkled. To her other worlds were positively the most romantic thing in the whole universe. This opinion stemmed from Sora, Riku, and Kairi's story about their journey. There were epic battles of love, revenge, and betrayal.

A love interest, princesses of hearts, evil was triumphed by good, and friendship and love being the world's truest and purest power.

Sora spending a whole year looking for Riku so they both could return to Kairi (the love interest), saving countless worlds on the way… It was the most romantic thing she had ever heard, and unlike her books was completely true.

Secretly Selphie thought about leaving the safety of the islands herself. Maybe on another world there was someone special, someone she'd be willing to share a Paopu fruit with. Before she thought the stars where just beautiful things to look at, but now when she gazed at them twinkling in the night, she had to wonder sometimes if anyone was looking back.

"You need to find Sora, right?" Selphie questioned getting back on topic.

"Yeah. Do you know where he is?" The redhead questioned.

"Um…" Selphie paused in thought for a moment then smiled at the two newcomers. "He's probably with Riku and Kairi. They've been spending a lot of time together since he and Riku got back.

"Where would they be now?" Saix wasted no time getting to the facts as he was already bored with her.

"At the kid island most likely," Selphie eagerly picked up her book and tote, and stood, her total height coming to the two Organization's member's chest. "I can show you the way if you'd like?"

"That would be appreciated." Not really.

"Any friend of Sora is a friend of mine." Selphie said chirpily as they began to walk into town. Axel shrugged and followed her, thinking that she was an odd one. Saïx followed too, but couldn't help thinking that he was not her friend in the least, and he certainly wasn't a friend of Sora.

Thank you for reading, and please review. I'd like to have some feedback on whether or not this story is any good... should I change the summary?

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