Vanitas's lingering will lead the way as the three keybladers followed him higher up the castle, trying to find their way to the highest peak to stop Xehanort. Despite the fact that they actually were listening to him, Vanitas could practically feel the tension flowing through the air, and he truthfully did not like that feeling.
As they continued to walk, they came across another large room that was practically empty besides several tables and chairs, which lead to Riku believing the room was an extra lounge room. Another noticeable note about the room was louder than any of the other rooms he had been in this castle; the only thing he could hear besides the sound of their footsteps being several loud crashing noises below them.
After several more seconds of walking, Vanitas came to a sudden halt, which lead to the others following his lead and stopping as well. "Is there something wrong, Vanitas?" Kairi asked.
Vanitas didn't answer at first, but then quietly asked himself, "Did he really do it?"
Before he said anything else, Vanitas walked over to the one wall of the room that was completely made of glass, serving as a window that showed the highest peak of the castle, the peak they were trying to get to. The other three followed his lead to look out the window to see a huge door appearing on the peak, glowing a pitch black darkness darker than night itself.
"Please tell me that is not what I think it is…" Kairi said worried.
Vanitas looked out the window for several more moments before replying, "The Door to Darkness."
Kairi sent a worried glance over to Riku, who looked like he was going to break through the window and get to the top right away, but Vanitas stopped him. "Don't worry; I know Xehanort wouldn't open the door as long as Lover Boys is still alive," he said, referring to Sora, "he probably just summoned it to save time…"
Vanitas's tone sounded the slightest worried, which Kairi caught note of right away. "Why do you sound worried about that?"
Vanitas huffed a laugh before saying, "That means he probably knows I betrayed him."
"Well if that's the case you better get us to the top soon before he changes his mind," Riku suggested.
"Before who changes his mind?"
Riku and the others froze when they heard this voice behind them. Riku swore to himself before the four of them turned around to see Xion standing not too far behind them, her armor covering every inch of her body besides her head. At first, she did not notice Vanitas was standing with them, but when she saw the worried faces of Riku and Kairi, she noticed him standing right in between them, with Sora standing right by him. And as soon as she laid her eyes on him, her blood began to boil.
"Xion," Riku tried calming her, knowing that she most likely wanted to rip Vanitas's lingering will apart right about now. But he knew his calming did not work when she summoned her helmet back on her head and she flew at lightning speed towards them. "Xion!"
But Xion did not stop, and instead flew so fast past them that Sora's will, Riku, and Kairi flew backwards from the impact. It was right after this when Xion grabbed onto Vanitas's shoulder and pinned him against the glass wall, the impact being so strong the glass began to crack. "What the hell are you doing here?!" She yelled, pointing some of the weapons that were kept in her shoulder compartment of her armor right at him.
Vanitas laughed at first, "I missed you too."
Vanitas didn't even notice Xion's hand came off of his shoulder and punched him right in the face, the sound of metal clashing on his armor ringing across the room. Xion let out a small whimper from the connection and began to shake her hand back and forth, trying to stop the pain. Once she was done, she went back to pinning him against the glass and said, "Don't you play those games with me Vanitas."
The way she hissed out his name at the end was so venomous it could take down a darkside heartless.
"Xion stop! He is trying to help us," Kairi tried to stop her, but Xion was not done yet. The former member of Organization XIII then took out her sword that she kept in her holster and pointed it directly at Vanitas's neck.
"You really expect us to trust you? After everything you did?!" Xion yelled.
It was at this moment when Kairi noticed Riku laughing next to her. "Why are you laughing at this? We need him!" Kairi scolded.
"Sorry, it's just…" Riku laughed again, "Vanitas is getting his ass handed to him by a girl."
Sora's will, who was standing on the other side of Riku, looked at Kairi and sent her a movement with his hands screaming really?
"Riku stop being immature and just stop her!" Kairi commanded. After looking back so see how pissed Xion really was, Riku finally agreed and began to walk over behind Xion to intervene. However, the sound of crashing noises below their feet stopped Riku and, as if by some miracle, stopped Xion from attacking Vanitas as well. As Xion let go of Vanitas's shoulders, he dusted himself off and listened for the crashes.
(Guardando nel Buio – Kingdom Hearts HD 1.5 Remix) Before anyone could even question what the loud crashes were, the five looked out in front of them to see the ground breaking before them, with a huge silver hand coming out of the ground. The group quickly began to back up as soon as they saw the hand, fear running through each and every one of them. Their fear only intensified as they saw an arm connected to the hand rise up out of the floor as well, and before anyone knew it a huge silver robot several about the size of a darkside heartless was towering over them. The robot's silver body shined in the white room and its red eyes were redder then blood but glowing.
"Vanitas, what the hell is that?" Riku demanded the answer.
"Princess, do you remember when Arlene told you we stole that bracelet from Stark?" The will questioned.
"Yeah, what about it?" Kairi asked worried as she summoned her keyblade.
"Well that wasn't the only thing we managed to steal," was Vanitas's reply. The five then looked at the robot, noticing just how similar the creature was to Tony's armor: the repulsor ray shooters in the hands, the body structure, even the details in the armor were similar. "Meet Ultron."
At the sound of its name, Ultron let out a large robotic screech that nearly shattered the windows even more than they already were.
"Well Ultron sure doesn't seem friendly," Kairi stated the obvious.
"I should have known Xehanort would save him for a time like this," Vanitas admitted, "All this thing has been doing is sitting in the basement, I should have figured he would release him soon!"
"Thanks for warning us ahead of time that you guys stole Tony's huge rage robot," Xion spat, "Gives us even more of a reason not to trust you."
"Xion, I hate to break it to you but we don't have a choice but to trust him right now so please just get used to it," Riku said before turning to Vanitas. "Have any idea how to take this thing down?"
Vanitas hesitated. "Well, knowing that this thing is Stark technology, it's an artificial intelligents system, and the fact that we kind of made it evil I would say it isn't going to be an easy task."
Xion turned her head to look at Vanitas and said, "Great advice."
"Look, if I knew how to take it down I would tell you but as of right now we are just going to have to beat the living machinery out of it until it turns to scrap metal," Vanitas retorted.
"Beating the machinery out of it sound pretty good to me," Kairi added with Sora's will nodding in agreement.
Riku then looked over to Vanitas and Xion, who both did not look very pleased to be near each other at the moment. "Just promise me you two won't kill each other in the meantime."
"What?!" "Wasn't planning it." Xion and Vanitas screeched at the same time.
"No arguments!" Riku yelled back at them, "Just focus on killing this thing!"
"Fine, but when he backstabs all of us and Xehanort wins because of it, I am going to rub it in your face and say I told you so!" Xion retorted.
And as if on cue, Ultron brought his hand out and pointed it right at the group of five, sending a repulsor ray flying right towards them. The five managed to jump out of the way at the last second, and they were all thankful they did because the blast was so large that it might as well served as a miniature explosion. Sora's will and Kairi, who both jumped out of the way and landed in the same spot, both had the same idea and blasted magic attacks at the robot. However, as soon as the magic made contact with the robot, it blasted right off the metallic surface and if anything only caught Ultron's attention and made the monster move towards them. When he noticed the red glow coming from the robot's mouth, Sora's will quickly put Kairi behind him and put up a reflect shield just in time for Ultron to fire a huge red laser right at them. Sora's will tried to keep the shield up as the monster continued to blast the red laser right at them, but was unsure of how much longer he would be able to.
Seeing his friend's struggle, Riku made the quick decision of running up to the monster and began to hit its feet with his keyblade. But, much to his horror, Riku noticed the keyblade barely scratched the surface of the robot, despite the fact that he was hitting it so hard the clang sound that bounced off the metal surface was loud enough to shatter eardrums. After what seemed like an eternity, Riku finally managed to get the robot to turn around and focus its attention off of Sora and Kairi, but the only problem was Ultron now wanted to kill Riku. The robot then used his giant feet to try and stomp on Riku, which he just barely managed to avoid each time, but was not sure how much longer he would be able to do so.
"Hey ugly!" Riku heard Xion's voice yell. Riku then turned his head slightly to see Xion flying around the monster's face while trying to hit it with her sword. Ultron clearly was not happy about this and began to swat the air in an attempt to get her out of the way. After many attempts that all ended in failure, Ultron became so frustrated that he opened his mouth wide and fired his red beam into the air, moving his head constantly to try and hit Xion out of the way. Xion had to use a lot of power in her suit to successfully fly out of the way in time, but even she did not notice that Ultron brought his metal hand up and successfully swatted her, sending the former replica flying towards the ground. Vanitas, being the only one close enough, attempted to catch Xion as she fell towards the ground, but it didn't end as great as he though it would and she landed right on top of him, making the two clash and causing both of them to fall to the ground.
"What the hell are you doing?!" Xion yelled at the lingering will.
"Ah, breaking your fall?" Vanitas said in a tone that made it sound like he was asking for a thank you.
"Well don't do that again!" Xion then shot right back up off of Vanitas, who was left still waiting for a thank you. Vanitas only sighed as he began to get up, but was quickly forced to get back down on the ground and roll away from one of Ultron's giant metal feet, which was only inches away from stepping on him. Once he was a further away distance from the creature, Vanitas jumped to get himself in a standing position before jumping again, high enough to bring his weapon down on its chest, but it didn't even leave a scratch. When Vanitas landed back on the ground, he was right next to Kairi, who surprised him because she ran right by the robot's feet, which were still stomping towards them. Right when Vanitas thought she was going to get stomped on by Ultron, she put up a reflect shield just in time for the robot to trip on it, causing him to fall forward.
"Nice move princess!" Vanitas said, with Kairi nodding in response. The five then ran towards the head of the robot, trying to find a weak spot and then attacking it as much as they could. Unfortunately, the robot began to get up a lot quicker than expected since it used its repulsor rays in its hands to somewhat fly up back into a standing position. Ultron then began to fire its laser from its mouth at them, moving its head from side to side to try and attack more of them at one time. The five scrabbled as soon as they saw the laser, knowing from the way Sora's will handled the laser that it was bad news. When the robot stopped with the laser, small compartments came out of the shoulders of Ultron with small missiles coming out from it. The several dozen missiles then went flying towards the others, most of them being able to dodge it, but Riku was not as lucky. When he saw the missiles coming for him, he brought up his keyblade in hopes of blocking it, but unfortunately as soon as the missiles hit his keyblade, they exploded on contact, sending Riku flying backwards.
As soon as she noticed Riku get sent back by the explosion, Xion quickly ran over to his side to make sure he was alright. However, right when she got to him, she looked over to see Ultron towering above them, with his mouth glowing a dangerous red. Thinking quickly, Xion put herself in front of Riku, in an attempt to take most of the blow for him. But before Ultron could fire his laser at them, Sora's will jumped out in front of the two and quickly fired a blast of light right at the robot's mouth. This didn't seem to affect Ultron in any way, but it did however stop the robot from firing the laser and stumbled back slightly. That gave Xion and Sora's will just enough time to help Riku, who turned out to be just fine, out of the way and over to Kairi and Vanitas, who were a fauther away distance for safety.
When the three got over there, Vanitas could only look up at the robot and listen to the sound of the others breathing heavily from exhaustion. They have been battling Ultron for what seemed like forever and, no matter how hard they tried, this thing would not go down. The lingering will knew there had to be a weak spot on this thing, but they tried everything! The only thing the five didn't attack was the inside of it…
Vanitas spun to the others and asked, "Riku, did Aqua, Terra or Ven teach you the magic attack 'mini'?"
"Yeah, a while ago, but none of us really use it," he replied.
"Use it on me!" Vanitas yelled, which shocked Riku and the others. When Riku questioned it, Vanitas replied, "Just do it!"
Before Riku even had time to reply, Vanitas had summoned his keyblade rider and began flying towards Ultron's head at the speed of light. At that moment, Riku knew what Vanitas was planning and quickly used mini on him, making the lingering will so small that he couldn't be seen by the keybladers, out of their sight.
However, the remaining four did not have time to look for Vanitas since Ultron came running back at them; his feet landing on the ground so hard the ground shook. When he was in front of the four, Ultron's mouth began to glow red, showing that he was preparing another laser attack. Sora's will was the one who stepped out in front of the other three and prepared to use a reflect shield, but before he could, Ultron froze in his place. And before the others could even wonder why he had done that, the robot's glowing red eyes blinked out, and it began to fall forward. The four heroes managed to run out of the way just in time before Ultron fell to the ground, lifeless. (End Guardando nel Buio)
The four teenagers looked at the robot's lifeless form in shock, not believing that Vanitas actually did that, let alone in such a short time. The four then walked up to the body, knocking on the armor to try and get a response from Vanitas, but nothing came. Just when they were about to call it quits, a loud noise was heard by the mouth of the monster, and all of them turned around to see Vanitas's will, now back to full size, crawling out of the mouth. The others were about to go and help him, but he managed to get out before they got there and he stood up and sighed.
"Alrighty then," he said, wiping himself off, "Let's carry on."
Before he could continue walking, Vanitas was stopped by Kairi who asked, "How did you do that?"
Vanitas shrugged, "Just murdered its insides, no big deal."
And right after that, Vanitas began to walk, quickly followed by Kairi and Sora's will. Riku and Xion, who still stood there in shock, were behind. "I told you so," Riku muttered before beginning to walk away. Xion could not even describe in words how badly she wanted to punch him in the face, but remained calm and only followed them deeper into the castle.
…
Xehanort stood at the top of the castle, angrily looking at the Door to Darkness. They had managed to kill Ultron, but not only that, but Vanitas was the one who dealed the finishing blow. This news Riku's replica brought to him made his blood boil, and he was ready to attack something out of anger.
"Would you like me to intervene with them?" The replica asked his leader.
"No," Xehanort replied coldly. "Vanitas betrayed us, and because of that, he is going to face maximum punishment right now."
The replica stood strongly at his words before asking, "You mean…?"
Xehanort looked at the replica coldly before replying,
"Yes, he is to die by my hand."
Sorry for such a long wait guys! I know I should have said this earlier, but I started school and it has been a pain in the butt! And I was going to get this out yesterday, but when I only had to write one more paragraph my computer overheated -_-
But at least I updated, right?
So yeah, the boss was Ultron from the Marvel Comics and the upcoming villain from Avengers: Age of Ultron. You see, I didn't know a whole lot about Ultron when he was announced as the villain, but after looking more into his character I really started to like the guy and how he was so pissed all the time :P
But why did I decide to put him in here you ask? And more importantly, why did you make Tony Stark the creator when Ant Man was? Well Tony Stark is actually going to be Ultron's creator in the movie since Hank isn't going to be in it. Also, Ultron is one of those characters that, since we don't know a whole lot about how the movie version of him is going to be, I can experiment a little bit with his character. Most of the physical aspects of him remained the same though, since Ultron really can only be killed from the inside most of the time.
Oh, and just so none of you Marvel fanatics get mad at me, yes I know Ultron can talk, but I chose to keep him silent since the lingering wills made him evil with darkness and stuff, so he is silent like a darkside or something :D
OH AND FOR ANY OF YOU WONDERING, YES TEEN WOLF WAS AMAZING XD I CANT WAIT UNTIL JANUARY 6TH
So hopefully the next wait wont be too long... But if it is I am just going to apologize ahead of time. But please R&R and look out for the next chapter!
