(Another Side, Another Story Battle Version – Kingdom Hearts) 'Riku' and Sora's weapons instantly clashed, causing sparks to form between the two. Sora tried to push back Riku's souleater, but Riku only pushed Sora's back instead. "Riku! What's gotten into you?" Sora said, repeating his words to Riku before when he battled him in the Forgotten City on Edge.
Riku said nothing at first, and only pushed on Sora's keyblade, forcing the keyblade master to jump back. "You're a fool Sora, I know you don't remember me, but you should at least have figured it out by now." Riku said.
"What do you mean?" Sora asked, keeping his keyblade close just in case Riku jumped at him again.
"Let me give you a hint, I am what Xion is to you, or at least what she used to be." Riku said. Sora then thought for a moment, Xion was a replica of Roxas, well before she and the others apparently developed their own hearts according to Xion in her letters to Riku. But since Roxas was Sora's nobody, that would make Xion Sora's replica as well. And then reality hit Sora.
"Riku has a replica?! But… How?" Sora asked, shocked by his realization.
"You would know Sora if you didn't forget." Riku's replica said.
"Forget what?" Sora asked.
"If you didn't forget what happened before her nobody wiped your memories from Castle Oblivion." Riku Replica said as he pointed his finger at Kairi, who was still behind the force field and could not break through. Sora only then shot him a glare, before the replica prepared to fight once more. Sora then got ready in his battle stance.
"Sora, be careful." Kairi said through the force field as Sora nodded before the replica ran towards him. Sora only brought his keyblade up to block the blow before moving to the side, causing the replica's weapon to hit the ground with a thud. The replica only shot a glare to Sora before charging at him again, this time, Sora jumped to avoid it. But the next attack Sora was not so lucky, since the replica fired a blast of darkness right at Sora, which hit the teenager's arm. Thankfully, it was the arm he didn't use his keyblade with and even though the darkness attack hurt like hell, Sora was thankful that it wasn't his fighting arm. Sora then took his eyes off his arm and looked at the replica, which was running right at him with his keyblade raised. Sora then jumped back once again, this time being more thankful since when the replica's sword hit the ground, darkness erupted out of it.
The replica then let out a heavy sigh before a light laugh. "Never wanted to quit, just like I remember!" Riku replica exclaimed before he jumped up in the air above Sora. Sora only looked up as the replica slammed his keyblade into the ground, creating a circle of darkness around him that created a shock wave that was sent though the ground. This first attack hit Sora dead on, but the next few attacks, Sora was able to avoid by jumping and dodge rolling out of the way. Sora then was able to dodge roll behind the replica and get a combo hit on him. This caused the replica to stubble forward and just barely be able to stop himself from hitting the ground face first by putting his hand out to stop him.
The replica then turned his head to see he that Sora had jumped in the air, with his keyblade glowing a bright light, and was about to come down on the replica. But the Riku replica brought his souleater up just in time to counter Sora's blow, even though it blinded the replica slightly due to the light shining off the keyblade. The replica then blinked his eyes rapidly until the light wasn't blinding him anymore, and the pushed Sora back into the air. Sora did an aerial recovery however and landed on his feet just in time to block the next attack the replica tried to perform on him, which was just trying to hit Sora with his keyblade.
The replica was now getting very aggravated since Sora continued to dodge his attacks and because of that, was losing this battle. The replica then took his keyblade and fired blast of darkness at Sora once again. Sora knew he could not let this happen since his arm did just recover from the last darkness attack the replica sent after him. So Sora then took his keyblade and countered the attack, letting the darkness hit his keyblade while forming a light attack, which was sent flying at the replica. The Riku replica then widened his eyes as the light came at him, but it already hit him before he had any time to move out of the way. (End Another Side, Another Story Battle Version)
Riku then back away from Sora, breathing heavily and holding his hand on his chest for a short time before taking it off. "Your stronger then I remember, now I can see why you saved the worlds more than once." Riku replica said.
"Now get off my island now!" Sora exclaimed, but the replica only let out a laugh before rising from his slouching.
"I think I will; it's not going to last much longer anyway and either are you!" The Riku replica exclaimed. Sora was confused by this at first, but then the replica pointed his souleater at the gummi ship. Then a dark purple and black ball appeared from the tip of the sword, which made Sora's blood run cold.
"NO!" Sora exclaimed as he ran towards the replica, but it was already too late; the replica had released the ball of darkness and it when towards the gummi ship. The ball then made contact with the ship and a huge explosion cover the ship. And when that explosion faded, the gummi ship was all broken pieces. Sora then stopped in his tracks and sent a death glare towards the replica, but before Sora could do anything to him, the replica vanished through a corridor of darkness and was gone. Sora then fell to his knees in failure. "No…" Sora said.
Sora then felt a hand on his shoulder; he then looked up to see it was Kairi. "It's alright Sora." Kairi said as Sora rose from his knees.
"No, it's not alright, that was our only chance of getting everyone off this island alive. But it's too late now; the world is falling into darkness and we will all go down with it because of me!" Sora exclaimed. He was furious, in fact he hadn't been this furious since the Keyblade War, and he hated having all that anger building up inside him.
"Don't worry, we will figure something out, we just need to get to the beach and make sure everyone is alright." Kairi said. Even though Sora was ready to erupt, he nodded and he and Kairi ran towards the beach while trying to think of a way to get everyone off the island.
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Selphie still had the unconscious Riku on her lap as everyone around her fought to keep the heartless way from them. She looked around at the fighting taking place around them and only prayed that Sora and Kairi would show up soon with the gummi ship.
It seemed that some of Selphie's prayers were answered when she saw Sora and Kairi running towards them, eyes widening when they saw who was on Selphie's lap. "Riku!" Sora and Kairi exclaimed as they ran towards the two, slicing through several heartless along the way with their keyblades.
As soon as Sora and Kairi made it to the two, Tidus, Yuna, Rikku, Paine, and Wakka surrounded Riku as well. "He was trying to fight off some heartless, but a neoshadow got him right in the chest." Yuna said as Sora then saw the bright red blood coming from Riku's wounds.
"I used cure on him but it's taking much longer then I thought it would." Rikku said as Paine then noticed something.
"What about the gummi ship? You know so we can all get out of here?" Paine commented, but then Kairi rose to her feet.
"A replica of Riku destroyed it…" Kairi trailed off, receiving several gasps from the group, even though it was hard to believe.
"I'm sorry, that was our only way out and I blew our chance." Sora said, bringing his fist together. "Now it looks like we will all fall into darkness with the world."
It was then silent for a moment, but then someone spoke up. "No, you, Kairi, and Riku are going to get out of here." Tidus said as Sora looked at him shocked.
"What are you saying?" Sora said.
"You and Kairi have riders yah? You use them to get Riku out of here while we stay here and fight." Wakka said.
"What? No we aren't leaving anyone behind!" Kairi exclaimed.
"Don't worry about us Kairi; last time this world fell to darkness, Tidus, Wakka, and I were sent to Traverse Town, and I know for a fact the light within us will bring us there once more." Selphie said.
"And I know that Yuna, Rikku, and Paine have enough light to bring them to Traverse Town as well." Tidus said as Yuna let out a light smile towards him. Sora then looked towards Kairi before turning to look at Riku, who was still unconscious.
Sora then looked at the group. "Thank you for your sacrifice to save others." Sora said as he made a light bow towards the group. "I promise, we will come to Traverse Town as fast as we can to make sure you are safe." Sora said.
"We'll look out for you." Rikku said, "Now get him out of here and someplace safe."
Sora only nodded then and ran towards Riku, making the silver haired teen tap the armor guard on his shoulder, making him become surrounded in armor. Sora then threw Riku over his shoulder and summoned his own armor as well as his rider. Sora then looked over to make sure Kairi was ready as well, which she was, and then road off into the sky, escaping the world falling into darkness and heading towards the one and only world Sora could think of that would be safe: The Mysterious Tower.
Sorry if that fight scene wasnt so good, but dont worry! They will get better later.
And yes, Riku Replica has arrived in the Reconnect Series! About time am I right?
And sorry again, I would have gotten this out sooner but there was an Avatar the Last Airbender maraton, and of course I had to watch Zuko and his awesomness!
So anyway, please R&R! You are all suprising me with how many we have gotten so far (a wopping 25 baby!) So can we get more please? And dont forget to look out for the next chapter!
