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*I don't own ANY of the Kingdom Hearts characters, Final Fantasy VII characters, Final Fantasy VIII characters, or Merlin. I only own Katie and her cat, Venitas.
As soon as the Keyblade Wielders made it into Merlin's house, Cid, as usual, was sitting at his computer, typing in codes and muttering bitterly under his breath. "What's up?" Sora asked.
The retired airman angrily replied without stopping his rapid-fire typing, "The stupid computer system turned to crap on us, that's what's up!"
Katie walked up to the computer with her cat still in her arms and looked at the codes Cid was typing in. "From the looks of it, you're typing an override code. Did something happen in Space Paranoids or the security system?"
Cid looked over his shoulder and stared at Katie. "Looks like I finally got a computer whiz!" he got up from his chair and motioned Katie to sit. "If you're so smart, how 'bout you fix it! It'll be better than that old wizard's voo-doo!"
"My magic is not voo-doo!" Merlin retorted.
"If you didn't use that spell of yours in the first place, I would've gotten the damn computer system working again by now!" Cid bellowed.
"GUYS!" Katie yelled, making the two men stop quarreling. "If you want me to fix this, I'll need peace and quiet so shut up!" She cracked her knuckles. "Let's see what's going on in this thing…" Quick as lighting, she started typing green characters onto the black screen. After typing about twenty lines of codes, she said over her shoulder, "This might take me awhile…"
"Take your time, Kates." Lea told her.
"I will need all the time I can get…" Katie huffed. She continued to type. The sound of key's clicking filled the silent room. After a good ten minutes of typing, Katie leaned back into the chair and stopped typing. "Well, there's you're problem."
The Radiant Garden Restoration Committee and Keyblade Wielders gathered around Katie. "What's wrong with the system?" Leon asked.
"Well…it looks like someone hacked into the system, overridden the security of Radiant Garden, and the Space Paranoids is filled with viruses." Katie answered, she turned around in her seat to look at the group better before she continued, "And the problem can't be fixed from this computer…it has to be fixed from the source; Ansem's Computer."
"Ansem's Computer?" Sora repeated.
Katie nodded, "Yeah. And the Space Paranoids. From the looks of it…" she turned back to the computer and started to type in a long code. A video feed popped up on the screen. "…It's getting over run by robotic Heartless and…uh-oh."
"What? What's wrong?" Leon asked, his voice staring to sound worried.
"Bug Boxes." Katie stated worriedly. She started to type quickly. Under her breath, she muttered, "How did they get here? They can only be generated by Data-Naminé…"
"What the hell are Bug Boxes?" Cid grumbled. "I've never heard of such a thing!"
Katie didn't stop typing franticly as she answered, "That's because Bug Boxes are a new type of viruses. Basically, Bug Boxes are, well, bugs that totally mess up a computer's data. From what I know, they can only be destroyed by Keyblades. These codes aren't doing anything to them except make more!" She got up from the computer and turned to the gang. "We need to get into Space Paranoids and help Tron. Those Heartless and Bug Boxes are too much for him to handle."
Sora nodded in agreement and suddenly heard screams outside. The group dropped what they were doing immediately and ran outside. Heartless were everywhere. "Heartless!" Repliku hissed. He wielded his sword. "I can't believe I didn't sense any of them!"
Katie wielded her Keyblades and the Keyblade Wielders quickly followed her example. "They must've just shown up." She noticed the vast numbers of Heartless, at least quadrupling their numbers. "Leon, we've got to split up. There's too many of them!"
Leon nodded and ordered, "Lea, Riku, and Sora; go to Market Street. Kairi and Repliku, you go to town's square. Yuffie and Cid, get to the church in Sector 7; help Aerith. Katie, you and I will make a path to the Research Facility. Once all of the Heartless are taken care of, go to the Research Facility and meet me and Katie there. Let's go!" The group nodded and split up.
As Katie ran beside Leon, she suddenly realized she had no idea what she was doing; Vanitas hasn't taken over her body yet. 'Vanitas? Vanitas, are you there?' The Master of Void didn't respond. 'Vanitas! Come on, I need your help! Vanitas!' Still no response sounded from Vanitas. Katie started to panic, how was she supposed to help if she couldn't even fight? Then she remembered she used Apocalypse in the Pride Lands, but pushed the thought away, using that move in Radiant Garden would be dangerous. The only summons she had on her that would lend her power and merge with her body were only Zack and Sasuke. 'Zack is out of the question, summoning him would be extremely dangerous. Sasuke wouldn't be able to handle all of these Heartless; he's more for one-on-one fighter.' Katie was running low on options, then she remembered. Her Materia. She dismissed her weapons.
"Katie, what are you doing?!" Leon exclaimed. Katie didn't answer him; she dug into her pockets until she felt an orb. She smirked and pulled out the Materia and shoved it into her wrist, making her arm glow green. Leon raised an eyebrow at the orb, recalling that only Cid, Yuffie, Cloud, Tifa, and Aerith had these, "Materia?"
"Yup." Katie confirmed. She raised her glowing hand and aimed at a Shadow, with a yell, she sent a large fireball from the palm of her hand. The Firaga spell zoomed towards the basic Heartless, it burnt to a crisp on impact and the fireball still continued down its path, taking out more Heartless. "Let's go!" she told Leon. Leon nodded and continued on. Katie fired a Firaga at a Soldier Heartless that came behind Leon. Leon sent her a silent thanks then fired his gunblade at a row of Shadows, making them disappear at the bullet's contact. An Air Pirate swooped down at Katie; Katie jumped up at the Heartless and grabbed its wing. With all of her strength, she threw it at a large flock of Air Pirates and sent a large fireball after them, making them burst into flames. With a nod of approval from Leon, Katie launched the biggest Firaga spell she could at large cluster of Neoshadows and Shadows in their path, blocking the entrance to the tunnel that led to the Research Facility. Leon sent a shower of bullets after the fireball, making the Firaga spell break and go in all directions. The flames rained onto the ground and caught the Heartless on fire and ultimately destroyed them. Katie and Leon ran into the newly opened entrance and shut the gate.
"Don't lock it." Leon warned Katie. "The others will have to go this way to get to the Research Facility."
Katie nodded in understanding; she followed Leon in the dark tunnel. Not surprised, Heartless appeared from thin air. Katie grabbed a Neoshadow's face with her Materia-infused arm and lit it on fire, she tossed it at a hoard of Shadows, lighting them on fire as well. Leon sent bullets towards the flaming Heartless, finishing them off.
In the corner of Leon's eye, he saw a Neoshadow jump in Katie's blind spot. He couldn't shoot because there was a very likely chance he would shoot Katie instead of the Heartless. "Katie, behind up!" he shouted.
Katie didn't turn fast enough, but right before the Neoshadow clawed Katie, Void Gear appeared in her Materia-infused hand and slashed the Heartless down. Darkness' Master appeared in her other hand suddenly and was thrown at an Air Pirate. Katie blinked in confusion, how did she do that?
"Missed me, kid?" a familiar voice rang in Katie's head.
Katie mentally smiled, 'Vanitas!'
"Now know who I really am now, huh?" Vanitas huffed.
Katie shrugged. 'Yeah…you couldn't hid it from me forever, you know that right?' She cut down another Air Pirate. 'Where were you? I tried to contact you like four times!'
"I have no idea…but from the looks of it, we're not on Berk anymore, are we?"
'Wait, you don't know that we went to my home world and the Pride Lands?' Katie asked mentally as she sent a large Blizzaga spell at Heartless that got too closer to her and Leon.
"No…" Vanitas answered boredly. After Katie threw a flaming Void Gear at a Heartless, he groaned. "There's too many of these stupid things…Katie, I permit you to use my minions."
'Your minions?' Katie repeated. 'You mean the Unversed? I can just summon then just like that?'
"You can now since I gave you permission to use them. They'll listen to you just as if you were me." Vanitas huffed.
Katie nodded mentally to Vanitas and took in a deep breath. "Leon, I'm just about to do something crazy so…don't…freak out."
Leon sliced his gunblade though a baker's dozen of Heartless before he asked, "What?"
"Just don't attack them, all right?" Katie sighed and yelled, "Unversed! Round Up!" Just like that, Floods and Scrappers jumped from out of the ground and Archravens swooped out of thin air. They surrounded Katie as if they were waiting for orders.
"What are those?!" Leon exclaimed.
"I'll explain later!" Katie told Leon before she returned her attention to the Unversed. "Unversed, attack the Heartless! But don't attack anything else, got it?" Not even waiting for a response, Katie yelled, "Attack!" The Unversed excitedly jumped into battle. She turned to Leon, "The Unversed will give us time to get out of here. C'mon, let's get to the Research Facility! My Unversed will cover us!" Katie urged the swordsman. Leon thought for a bit then nodded. He and Katie made a break for it for the large former castle.
At Katie and Leon's approach of the former castle, a pale blonde scientist emerged from the gate. "If it isn't Leon! What brings you here?" He eyed Katie. "And who is this?"
"Even, this is Katie. She's a friend of mine; she's here to fix the computer system." Leon told the scientist. "The others will come shortly so let them in when they come please?"
Even nodded. "Of course." He stepped to the side, letting Katie and Leon pass him and get into the castle. Even was about to leave but he stopped and looked over his shoulder to eye Katie. To himself, he said, "How weird…the girl has two different dark presences inside her…and her heart is made of both light and darkness equally as if someone took half of a heart of light and a heart of darkness and sewed them together. Also, one of the dark presences inside her seems to be slowly taking over her heart; very interesting. I hope she realizes she has less than three weeks left before it takes her heart completely…"
Uh-oh...