Note from forevermagik13: Uploading spam! However, this one was written mostly by rarmaster, who wrote the scene with L and 37. I wrote the scene in the computer room at the end. I need to get this posted so it runs close-to-parallel with what is going on in Hollow Bastion in Dead Inside at this time.
Note from rarmaster: Ewwie! you two! that's DISGUSTING! I don't even let Namine and Riku get away with thinking things like that! I don't CARE if it was amusing, it was still really gross! Ug! sigh... this is what i get for putting them alone in a room together...
Note from forevermagik13: And, ignoring that. As for the scene at the end, I apparently enjoy putting random people in a room and letting them talk. Heheh...
"This is so stupid!" Larxene L cried, not for the first time. She held half of Joseph's sword, and was currently examining it. They sat on the floor, having nothing better to do, really. The room lacked furniture.
"Careful," 37 warned. "You might get a splinter."
"Oh, I might get a splinter, huh?" she asked, bitterly. "Yes, because that's really the most important thing right now!" She turned and whacked him over the head. "Did you miss the part concerning the fact that we're locked in a room without any of our abilities? I can't even form a lightning bolt to chuck at the wall!"
"Ah, yes, that is a wonderful use of your abilities," 37 replied sarcastically.
"I wouldn't have cared if we were in a corridor proof room!" she argued, rather exasperated. "Then at least I could have killed that blasted mistake! If not sat here and-"
"Tortured him for your own enjoyment?" 37 finished. "You realize how completely childish that is, right?"
She made a face, and then chucked the half of sword at him and rose to her feet.
"You're ridiculous, you know that!" she snapped, and then turned away and walked across the room, making a point not to look at him as she did so. "Sometimes I wonder why I-" she stopped suddenly.
"Go on," 37 said, rising to his feet. "Why you what?"
"Nothing," she muttered.
Gently, he placed a hand on her shoulder. "You can go ahead and tell me," he whispered.
She cast a glance at him, then shoved his hand away.
"Nope, we're not going there again," she exclaimed. "Especially not after-"
For once, anger towards her flared up inside 37. He quickly covered her mouth with his hand, much to her displeasure. "You mustn't speak of him!" he hissed.
Angrily she pulled his and away and put a large distance between the two of them. "Are you insane!" she demanded.
"You know what Saix will do if speak of him!" 37 replied simply. "He will not hesitate to kill us, even if we are his two most faithful Replicas!"
"Well it's his fault for-" Larxene L began, and then stopped, catching the look 37 was giving her. She frowned, and then sighed. "Fine," she muttered, pouting slightly.
He laughed.
And, though she tried hard not to, she smiled, too.
There was silence for a moment, and then, very quietly, she asked:
"Saix laughs at us, doesn't he?"
"Saix doesn't have the heart to laugh with," 37 assured her.
"I know, but- with his stupid theory that Replicas don't have emotions, he's convinced himself into thinking he has something of a heart," Larxene L whispered. "Enough, at least, that he can scoff at us."
Uncertainly, 37 reached out and grabbed her hand.
"He can laugh all he likes. It doesn't change anything."
She stared to say something in response, but was interrupted by a dark corridor opening not far from them. They both stared at it in shock.
"I thought this room was corridor proof…" 37 said slowly, frowning.
"That little twerp only said it blocked abilities of Replicas in this room," Larxene L pointed out. "So, theoretically, you can get in…"
"Are you two coming or what!" someone called, and then Xigbar's Clone stuck his head through the corridor. "You're pretty lucky I'm getting you out of here. Normally, I don't do this kind of thing, but Saix is in a bad enough mood already-"
"We're coming!" Larxene L replied, tensely, pulling her hand away from 37. Very quickly, she headed through the dark corridor.
"I saw that, by the way," Xigbar's Clone laughed.
Larxene L, through the dark corridor by now, summoned her knives and had them at his throat in seconds. "You saw nothing!" she hissed.
He held his hands up in defeat. "Okay! Okay! I saw nothing!"
Satisfied, Larxene L walked off.
"She's crazy!" Xigbar's Clone told 37, as he closed the dark corridor behind him. "I don't see how you can put up with her!"
37 didn't bother to respond.
xx
The Computer Room was fuller than it usually was. Alpha and 19 were both unconscious still, and had been put up against the wall to wake up in semi-peace. 2 stood monitoring all the cameras and getting all the typical functions of the Computer back online. He had to in order to get the Repair Program back up. The usual Medics were now seeing to those who were injured. 7 had been given the unfortunate job of dealing with 22's body. 22 was the only one that had actually died that day. Joseph had apparently seen fit to keep Tulip from killing anyone else and Tulip apparently couldn't kill Joseph.
Which was going to end up becoming a crucial thing unless something was done about Tulip.
2 checked the cameras again. He was trying to locate everyone. Vexen had said that he'd do it, but 2 was much more content to let Vexen update the Catalog of Replicas, considering there had been some changes in sides and a few changes in status. He'd found everyone except 23, who hadn't been seen since before the battle.
"Did you check his room?" Vexen asked.
2 sighed and pulled up 23's room. Sure enough, there was 23, looking like he was asleep.
"I don't remember the last time he slept," murmured the Lexaeus Replica. "He could have just passed out from exhaustion and didn't even know about the raid."
"You know, I honestly thought Riku was the only one to do that," Amaryllis said.
Lexaeus shrugged.
2 ignored them and went back to monitoring their prisoners. Larxene L and 37 were still in the ability-proof room thanks to Joseph.
"What are we going to do with them?" he murmured, rubbing his temples.
Part of him just wanted to let them stay there until Riku showed back up. Riku could dispose of both of them easily, considering he was the only one who actually had abilities in that room since he wasn't in this System. Or he could ask Axel… but Axel probably wouldn't be willing to destroy Saix's two most loyal Replicas.
Come to think of it, Axel hadn't been around in a while. Probably too busy keeping face.
The computer started bleeping.
"Would someone like to tell me what the he—" Alpha began, waking up.
2 motioned for him to be quiet. Alpha swallowed his sentence and got up to see what was going on.
A dark corridor had just appeared in the ability-proof room. Someone knew that room was there and knew that you could get in, but not out via dark corridor.
"I can't see who it is!" 2 said.
"Move over," Alpha said, frantically typing in commands to the computer.
But by the time, Larxene L and 37 had disappeared into the dark corridor.
"Looks like they'll be back to annoy us another day," Amaryllis said sadly.
"Did anyone else notice that they were holding hands?" Lexaeus asked.
Alpha shuddered. "I wondered… but I thought I'd just been clonked on the head too hard."
"Ignoring that grossness, can we get audio from that room to figure out who it was?" 2 asked.
"Yes," Alpha said. "However the answer should be pretty simple. It's a Replica on Saix's side. None of us would go in there and get them out…"
"It would also be someone who knew that you could get into that room," Lexaeus said.
"The only Replicas who didn't know that were the Larxene Replicas and the latter half of the Vexen Replicas, and maybe some of the Marluxias," Alpha said simply.
"I didn't know that," Lexaeus said.
"Okay, I stand corrected, congratulations," Alpha said, slightly miffed.
None of them noticed that while they were all arguing, Vexen had come up and retrieved the audio. He pressed 'play.'
'She's crazy! I don't see how you put up with her!' came the unmistakable voice of Xigbar.
"I'm not surprised," Amaryllis said.