Chapter 49: Secrets underneath the glove
Max and Goofy were half way from getting Brian's gummi out of the destroyed gummi while Donald checked the settings in Brian's gummi and Riku was on lookout. Max and Goofy decided to take a break; while Goofy went inside the gummi to take a nap, Max went to see if Riku was going to tell him if he had seen anything. Max stood aside Riku and sighed, "You don't see anything, do you?" he looked at him.
"Nope." Riku said while looking through the binoculars, "Nothing but a night sky and dirt. Lots and lots of dirt." he replied.
Max stepped away from Riku and summoned his bow. He took a deep breathe before pulling one of his arrows out and placed it with the odd colour balance flap pointing away from the bow. He aimed his bow and fired at a far distance. Riku stopped looking at his surroundings and looked over at the distance looking archer. "Max, you alright?" Riku asked. Max ignored him and carried on aiming at a far distance. Riku walked over to Max and lowered his bow down, making Max look at him. "What's wrong?"
"It's nothing." Max looked at the previous arrows that he had fired and tried to guess how far he had fired.
"Look, I've seen a lot of things and I can tell when something is on someone's mind." Riku saw that Max didn't want to talk about. Riku looked at Max's face and looked into the corner of Max's black eyes. If there is one thing that Riku had learned over the last year of wandering in darkness then it's the fact that eyes cannot lie, no matter how much you want them to. "You want Goofy to trust you more." Riku said to him.
Max looked at him with shock, "How did you-"
"Eyes never lie." Riku said to him, "It's hard for a father to let go of their only child even if you just reunited a month or so ago."
"Well, you don't know my dad." Max grumbled as he prepared to shoot again.
The ground trembled as sudden smoke appeared from the distance, Riku quickly grab the binoculars that were around his neck and looked into the direction of the smoke. The ground started to tremble again, worse than before. Riku and Max fell to the ground and noticed the sound that the ground made when they bodies contacted with it. Riku started to brush some of the dirt away from the ground to find something popping out of the ground. Max had also found something of a similarity to what Riku had found. It looked like a rusted pipe that been stuck in the ground for years. Riku, knowing better, got up and ignored the mysterious item in the ground whereas Max decided to rest his curiosity by pulling it out of the ground.
Two trap doors then appeared under Max and Riku's feet, making them fall nearly 100 feet under ground. Riku quickly responded by using his teleport ability to land safety on the steel ground before falling to the floor again when Max landed on him. Riku felt the air get wheezed out of him due to Max's mass. Riku managed to groaned in pain and muttered Max to get off of him, which he applied and helped Riku up.
Riku looked back up to the only sort of light to see the two trap doors immediately shut after their fall. Riku took this time to register where they actually were all this time as he could see that they were in some sort of training simulation unit.
"What is this place?" Max asked out loud. Riku went over to the walls casually as he was used to walking in darkness and started to look for a light switch.
"I'm not sure but I can see that this is not another world." Riku replied as he found the light switch, "Cover your eyes for a sec." he warned Max before switching the light on in the room. Riku was right when he though the room was a training simulation. He could see the digital blue lines, similar to the Devon's home, running around the room.
Max had his arm covering his eyes before he slowly opened his eyes and looked at his surroundings, "Woah! This looks awesome!" he cooed.
"C'mon. Let's find out where we are." Riku said before he and Max approached the door.
Spoiler Warning!! World location for 358/2 days
A dark portal suddenly appeared in the Station of Awaking as Roxas quickly dived out of the portal and quickly closed it before anything could come through. As soon as the portal closed, Roxas sighed with relief as he laid back on the stained-glass mural, panting for oxygen. Roxas has been searching every single mural for that being that locked him up after getting rid of Sora. He wanted to get rid of him so Sora could stop having these dreams and can fight normally again without worrying that he is going to pass out.
Roxas finally caught his breathe and got up before looking at the mural that he was on. His eyes widened as he looked at the mural in surprise. It was a mural of him, Axel and some girl that looks like Kairi and Naminé sitting on the paopu tree on Destiny Island. Roxas was confused by this, some of his memories were returning to him from returning to his other just as Kairi's memories about Radiant Garden were returning to her when Naminé returned to her other. But he doesn't remember going to Destiny Island or meeting some girl that supposedly looks like Naminé.
You're properly thinking who she is, right?
Roxas turned around to see the figure standing in front of him, wearing an black coat that used to belong to the former Organisation XIII. The figure had the hood up so Roxas couldn't see its face. Roxas growled and summoned both Oblivion and Oathkeeper, aiming it at the figure. The figure just shook its head and clicked its fingers. Oathkeeper disappeared from sight and Oblivion suddenly changed into Two Across. Roxas gasped at the disappearance of his second Keyblade and that his other Keyblade changed back to its original. Roxas then felt his anger grow as he stepped towards the figure. "Who are you?!!" he demanded.
The better question is; do you enjoy being who you are.
"Of course I do." Roxas shouted to him.
Do you really? Roxas looked at the mysterious figure with confusion, You had your own friends. You had your own mind and body. You even contained some sense of emotions that Nobodies can't do. You are greater than being some forgotten ghost that rests within an boy's mind and heart. You are just as trapped as I am.
"What are you trying to say?" Roxas relaxed a bit and continued to listen but was still aware in case it decided to pull anything.
I'm saying that we should try and regain our own heart, body and soul. The only way we can do this is to remind Sora of the darkness back when he sacrificed his heart for the princess.
"No! Never!" Roxas raged while using Two Across to signal awarning slash to the figure.
Don't you want to be real again?
"I do. More an anything." Roxas admitted, "To have friends like Hayner, Pence and Olette again. To feel the wind in my face when I'm on my skateboard. To fight for myself once more. To be myself. But I won't betray Sora and I won't leave Naminé."
You would stay within the light's shadow instead of helping us find a way to be. To exist.
"Yeah. I would." Roxas replied to the figure's angry tone of voice.
Fine. If you want to play that way then let me help you fade back into darkness where all of you nobodies buddies now rest. The figure clicked its fingers once more, making part of the mural that Roxas was standing on shatter. Roxas fell through the mural and continued to fall into darkness.
Spoiler ended
Riku and Max came into a hallway pointing to many directions, making them completely lost within the ship. Max went to carry on searching the ship when Riku placed his arm in front of him; preventing him to process forward. Max looked at Riku questionably when Riku pointed to the floor of the direction that Max was heading. It showed self activating lasers about 2ft above the floor and some bouncing off the walls, preventing entrance without proper I.D. Riku and Max looked at the other hallways and noticed that they were at the same state as the first hallway.
"What are we going to do now?" Max whispered to Riku.
Riku thought about a couple of scenarios about what sort of actions their could take. After finding that all of the scenarios would set the alarms off; Riku sighed and looked at Max. "There is no way to pass the lasers without one of us tripping the lasers." He told him, "We have to head back and try to gain some sort of I.D to pass them." Max nodded and the two started to head back in the direction that they came from.
Half way down the hallway and Max could hear footsteps coming from behind him. "Riku." He whispered but Riku didn't managed to hear him as he continued to walk down the hallway. "Riku!" Max said louder, catching Riku's attention. "Riku, we need to hide."
"Hey. Did you hear something?"
"Only the sound of your mouth going on and on."
"No. Down there. I heard someone's voice."
Max started to look for somewhere to hide from the guards but saw that there was no where to go. Max turned back around to face Riku and was about to say something to him when he noticed the serious vibe that was coming from Riku. "I have a plan." he said before pulling a dark spell on both of them.
Two guards in complete black endless armour came walking down the hallway, " It properly just the Order member of fear coming aboard the ship or something." The arrogant guard said to the panicky guard.
"Yeah but the Order member could not have been that loud. He's on the other side of the ship."
"Well, you know Sgt Abroc. You give him an speaker and he shout the 'banana phone' song throughout the entire elite ship."
The two guards suddenly halted when they heard something scatter across the metallic steel floor. The two guards looked at each other through their helmets before slowly walking through the corridor with caution. As they checked to floor while resting their shadow claw on their blasters when their suddenly heard a 'whoosh' sound appear from behind them and felt something cold and sharp pieces through their mid-section. They both fell to the floor and watched their eye sight fall into darkness.
Riku and Max shook the remaining darkness that covered their body off before it infected them. While Riku checked the pulses of the two endless, Max's body shook from the feeling of that spell. "Riku, can you do me a favour and never use that spell on me again." Max told him.
"Don't worry. That spell is a one use only. I can't use it again." Riku said before signalling Max to knell down beside him. Max knelled down next to him and looked at the corpses. "This is our way in." Riku pointed to the corpses.
Max looked wide eyes at the corpses before looking at Riku, "You want us to put on uniform that is still placed on corpses?" Max said with disgust and was hoping that Riku was kidding.
"It's the only way to get past the lasers." Riku said before dragging one of the corpses around the corner and started to take it's armour off.
Max groaned as he looked at the other corpse disgustedly. "Uh…can't you just disguise yourself and pretend that I'm your prisoner." Max suggested.
Riku popped his head from around the corner while having some of the black armour placed on his right arm. "I guess you're right." Riku sighed, making Max quietly chant happily. "If only Goofy was here, I know that he would have dressed up." Riku smirked before continued gaining the armour. Max immediately dragged the corpse around the corner without another thought and started to strip the armour away from the dead solider.
Ten minutes later, Riku and Max appeared back in the cross paths of self activating lasers with fully dressed black aluminium armour with the under garments being thunder blue and had placed black gloves on their right hand to show as their shadow claws. Riku checked his appearance by checking that none of his silver hair was showing at the bottom of the helmet. Max was too busy trying to adjust his armour, mostly his helmet.
"How do they breath in this thing and my ears are really hurting." Max complained within the helmet.
"Well, I'm sure that they don't make helmets for another beings." Riku went over to Max and slammed his fist down on the top of Max's helmet, making it go into place. "Let's go. Sora and the others are waiting." Riku said while ignoring the sudden jump that Max got while getting hit in the head.
"Okay. Okay. Just don't hit me." Max had said with a bit of anger while Riku went over to the I.D machine and placed his I.D card in the card slot. Max repeated the process and the lasers were suddenly shut off. The two quickly ran through the hallway before the lasers came back on.
BOWBOWBOW
Sora groaned as he slowly opened his eyes, using his right arm to the light that was coming from the lights on the ceiling. As Sora moved his arm away, he noticed that his arm was still looking like a claw but the marking that was up to his upper arm has gone back below his elbow and was starting to brighter up. Sora was glad at this as it showed that he was getting slightly better from what ever was happening to him but was also wishing that the reason Sora was getting better because the cost was getting rid of Roxas, the reason why he hasn't been about to contact him. Sora slightly shook his head at the thought, if that was the case then he would have been questioned by Kairi since Naminé and Roxas were at constant communication.
Sora pulled himself up using his surrounding, in this case bars. Sora looked at his surroundings to see that he was placed in a sphere like cage that was hanging from between the floor and the ceiling. Sora then looked that Kairi, Brian and Hikari were placed in separate cages with Hikari to his left, Brian to his right and Kairi opposite him. The walls were bright white with strange blue markings over it and saw that must have been placed inside ship after the tower fell on them since he was looking out the window and could only see the star-lit sky.
Brian looked at Sora's cage after hearing some sudden noise. After seeing that it was just Sora getting up, he crossed his arms and leaned against the wall of the cage. "Look, sleeping beauty's finally awake." he said out loud.
Hikari and Kairi looked at Brian strangely before seeing him point towards Sora's cage where they saw Sora awake. "You okay?" Hikari asked.
"Yeah. You guys aren't hurt, are you?" Sora asked with concern, more worried about them than himself.
"We're just glad that you and Brian didn't get killed when that tower collapsed." Kairi said with relief as she placed her hands on the bars and faced Sora.
Brian then looked over to Hikari with an accusable look, "Hey, uh, great game plan there getting ourselves knocked out and captured. Hey that's brilliant. Why didn't I think of that?" he said with a sarcastic tone.
"Don't rub it in!" Hikari scowled at him, "Every situation has it's way out. We just have to use plan B….or C."
"When you said aim at the pipe, did you have a plan B? Or was getting captured plan B? How about a plan G, like 'Get the Hell out of here!'" Brian then looked at Sora and Kairi as well, "I mean, you guys are supposed to be heroes of all of the worlds and ...and……and guess what? We're still captured."
"Give it a rest, Brian" Kairi told him, irritated by his constant complaining.
"Oh, I have plenty of time to rest--because we're captured." Brian replied.
Kairi rolled her eyes and faced Sora again, "What made you daze out when the tower started to collapse anyway?" Kairi asked him.
Sora sighed before answering, "I don't know. It was like I had no control over my body, like I wanted to stay." he honestly said. Before the conversation continue, Brian's complains returned from the depths.
"Can someone think of a GOOD plan that will let us fly free like birds, not listen to Hikari's plans since it lead us to getting captured." Brian shouted to all of them.
Hikari faced Brian's cage and glared at the person inside, "You're only saying this because you know you I can't hurt you." Hikari said deadly to him.
"At least there is one good point to being CAPTURED!" Brian shot back. Sora and Kairi watched from both sides as their watched the tension rise between the two and could have swore that they have seen electricity spark between the two teens.
The tension was suddenly interrupted when they heard a the door open. The four teens faced the door to see the endless that had attacked them back at the tower enter the room in his normal attire. Major Snake chuckled as he looked at what he had caught, "Well I be, we managed to catch some riff raff on our precious flying machine."
"Our names are Sora, Kairi, Brian & Hikari, Not riff raff." Sora announced, making Brian slap his forehead for Sora stupidity.
"Don't go introducing yourself to the enemy." Brian complained with an irritated tone , "Geeze why don't you just give him your address to where you live as well, that way he can steal all of your possessions."
Major Snake felt surprised as he heard an familiar name, "Brian?" he repeated before at Brian directly. After looking at the red- headed boy for a while as well as receiving an confusing yet warning glare from him, he chuckled as the memory came back. "My boy, haven't you grown. I haven't see you since you were five." The Endless smiled.
"Five? Brian, you said that you met the Order when you and Daniel were captured." Sora, Kairi and Hikari gave Brian an questionable look.
"I had never met an Endless till I was about fourteen and even then I've never meant any one with a cowboy get up in my life." Brian explained but sound kind of nervous.
The Major chuckled at the boy's insult, "Ha! Your funny kid, just like your old man." Brian face deepened with anger as he knew he was talking about.
"I thought you father was died." Hikari said as a statement instead of a question and waited for Brian to back it up.
"If you're talking about who I think you're about then I'm NOTHING like him and he can rot back into darkness for all I care." Brian said with hatred to the Major, ignoring Hikari's words.
"Negative towards him as always." Snake then looked at Sora, Kairi and Hikari before smirking at faced Brian, "I bet you haven't even told them, have you." This time, Brian's anger seemed to rise ever more and only the Major managed to notice that his head sub-conscious hanged in some other emotion.
"Told us what?" Kairi asked, wanting to know just as much as the others and then Brian just lost it.
"Okay, I've had enough. Who are you?! How do you know me and my business??! What the Hell are you talking about?!?!" Brian demanded as he felt anger pulse through him once more.
Major Snake at the familiar vibe of the boy's rage, "You should know, Brian. You have been keeping secrets under that there glove of yours…" Snake then when over to Brian's cage and used his scaly brown reptile claw to pull off Brian's black glove to reveal his red claw that was glowing due to his sudden rage. "Endless."
A/N: One more chapter then it would be 50 chapters. Hope I can get pass 52 before August then it would mean that I'm ahead of plans and that I'm not being lazy. Also, I hope that I'll get lots of reviews for this and the next chapter and I would like to thank the following reviewers since I began:
Shadow Sylph
Kisdota- The Freak Gamer
Future Keybearer
Soragirl4ever
And many more. Thanks for your reviews guys and hoped that you have enjoyed my first fic so far. Now for messages, YAY! DAMN IT, I CAN'T TYPE COOKIES ON THIS LAPTOP
Kisdota- The Freak Gamer: I just me and you are head to head and since I'm a completive person, I'll say this. YOU WON'T PASS ME!!! BWAWAWAWAWAWA!
Future Keybearer: It's best to remember Jiminy Cricket because Kingdom Hearts can't be Kingdom Hearts without Jiminy Cricket. When I went to London MCM Expo as Sora, I was the only one with a Jiminy Cricket in my pocket. Talk about forgotten.
June_baby95: Sora…and Brian…getting along? O-o (Laugh out loud) Like that would happen, if this doesn't get them back to the *I hate you* barrier then something so will.
Also, My laptop is finally fixed and if I get more inspiration from you guys then hopefully I can write more and post more. It all to you guys, REVIEW!!!
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