Chapter 71: Questions
"Neutral!"
A dark blue portal appears in front of the Angered Endless to reveal the Sorrow Endless. Skullo didn't waste any time to appear next to the neutral to grab his head and slam him down at the table that was located next to them. Nikolai groaned at the pain of his head, "What the hell, Skullo!!" Nikolai growled as he pushed Skulo away.
"Where were you?" Skullo questioned, "You were supposed to remain here."
"I went to Neo Mansion on the quick." He lied. He didn't really want another dose of torture for giving away information. "Besides, I thought that you would be happy that I was gone."
"Do I look happy?!" Skullo glare at him deadly, Nikolai could have swore that he had heard deadly violins playing somewhere that even frighten him a bit. Skullo grunted before he turned his back to him. "If you remember, the colonel requested for me to teach you about some of the technology that we have, as much as I disgust this."
"Great..." Nikolai said with sarcasm in his voice before walking over to the computer to where Skullo was now working on.
"The first thing that I will show you will be the tracking system for our members." After finding the right file, a holographic screen appear, showing a number of worlds including Neo Mansion, African Depths, Caribbean Waste, Ultimate Castle and other worlds that the Order have managed to achieve. On some of the worlds, a blinking light of different colours were shown. The Unbirths would come up in a light yellow while the Endless and the Order members would show up as their respected element colours. "That's how we find you every time you go for a wonder." Skullo smirked as he pointed to the blood red and dark blue lights that were currently flashing at Ultimate Castle.
"Can I destroy this computer?" Nikolai randomly asked.
"No." Skullo bluntly replied.
"Damn it." Nikolai cursed under his breath.
"As you can see..." Skullo pointed at the screen once more at the scarlet red light that flashed dimly off the charts. "We are now able to track where your former friend goes. It's just not strong enough to locate him in the realm of between." He explained.
"Like the resistance's world?" Nikolai asked.
"Exactly." Skullo smirked. He was glad that he didn't have to explain it lots of time...unlike the other neutrals.
"Where is he now?" Nikolai asked. He thought that maybe he should reveal himself to his former friend but he already know that confronting him won't make him feel better, not after hearing about the Recon mission that Skullo had gladly interrupted.
"I'll scan the other worlds now." Skullo typed in 'Aversion' into the computer before the computer began to search the worlds for this signal.
A purple portal suddenly appeared as Link rushed into the room, "Sir! The Dark Master requires all of the Order members that are not on base collection to report to Neo Mansion." Link reported urgently.
"Can't it wait?" Skullo growled at his search being interrupted, not turning to face him. "I'm in the middle of-"
"No!" Link shot back, making the Lieutenant turn towards him and glare at his so-called assistance. "Abroc has already sent him over the edge and now he's questioning the trust of you, Nikolai, Abroc, Snake and Devil. He looks as if he's going to go through his Outburst mode."
Skullo gritted his head together and held his claw tightly as his anger grew. "That idiot!" Skullo referred to Abroc. "He's going to ruin everything." Skullo slammed his claw down on the computer out of rage. "Let's go before we end up getting the end of the Master's rage." For once, Nikolai had to agree with Skullo.
As all three of the Order members walked through the portal and left Ultimate Castle behind them. The A.I of the computer spoke,
Scan Complete
Location: Mousedom
Aversion Endless detected
two other Endless detected.
BOWBOWBOW
"Damn Hikari and her stupid blade!!"
A beam of light appears behind Brian to reveal Sora. Sora had managed to fix his clothing up a bit as well as wash the white paint out of his spiky brown locks and healed his eye so that the shiner was no longer there. He took in his surrounds as the rain lowered his spikes a bit but still remained gravity defying. The buildings looked like they were tall skyscrapers but were in the detail of Victorian houses, similar to the houses back in the London at Neverland. He looked at the side to see a road in the distance but the other side of the road looked miles away and the cars looked the size of Disney Castle. He could tell that both him and Brian had become small to fix in the world's environment as well as finding that the gummi ship had located them in some sort of alley way.
Sora looked down at himself to see that his appearance had changed as well. He could see that he had little small paws with a little black nose, gray fur and random tuffs of brown spikes that reflected his hair, he didn't know his claw much as his gray claw blended in with his fur, the spikes on his forearm still showed though. He also had little beanie blue eyes, tiny mice ears that seemed to be hidden in his hair and a little pink tail at the back. He also noticed that his garments remained on
Sora looked over to Brian, who was still mumbling about him coming, was surprised by Brian's appearance. "Woah!"
"What?!?" Brian snapped at him as he turned around to face him. "You're a mouse." Brian said bluntly.
"So are you."
"What?" Brian looked over his own appearance to see that he had turned into a mouse as well. Brian's fur was brunette brown, similar to Sora's hair, and had random tuffs of red spikes like Sora as well. He had his spiky scarlet red hair covering his face due to the rain but he could see that his nose was similar to Sora's. His claw stood out as it remained the same. "Just great. That's all I need." Brian sighed as he searched through his pockets to find his black glove, which he place on his red claw.
"What do you think the world's rule is?" Sora wondered as he swiped his fur as the rain was slightly getting to him.
"We're in a world where we change form, meaning that we can't use drives or our elements abilities." Brian said with irritation while adjusting his glove to hide his claw so only the marks that miss out on the glove is disguised as a birthmark once more. "Shouldn't be a problem for you. At least you still have you Heartless ways." Brian bashed his shoulder into Sora as he was walking past, sending the Keyblade Master to the mud.
Sora glared at his companion as he wiped the mud out of his face and off his clothes once he had gotten up from the muddy puddle. "Will you stop calling me that?!" Sora demanded.
Brian chuckled as he stopped walking a looked back at Sora, "Why? Does it annoy your darken heart?" Brian mocked him as he pulled a pouting face and brought his closed hands by the bottom of his eyes. "Look at me. I'm Wittle Sowa who is mean to everyone and can't face being called a wittle name. Boo woo woo."
"I'M NOT A HEARTLESS!!!" Sora shouted as his voice echoed through the alley way. Brian stood in front of him, watching Sora drop his head down as the depression began to hit him. Brian continued to glare at the Keyblader before turning around and began to walk the alley way without him.
He could feel the rain become worse as he stood in his own sorrow. Sora was starting to feel worthless himself, knowing that half of his friends don't trust him while the other half are on the other worlds. The connections that he had made with his friends seem to be breaking a little. Sora tried to look at the good memories with his friends but the only ones that would come would be his nightmares. Sora closed his eyes, focusing his mind so that he could face the person that he needed to see. You did this. He said out loud in his thoughts.
BOWBOWBOW
Sora appeared in the station of awaking where he remained on the mural of himself, the one he had fought Roxas on. Sora stepped forward to the figure that he had seen the last time he had seen Roxas. The figure still remained in an Organisation coat as he looked at Sora with his arms crossed, "I'm just your soul. I have no control of the body. Last time I checked, Roxas was the shell."
"For a part of me who said that you were going to help me through this journey, you have managed to make things worse." Sora glared at the hooded figure. "You were the one that got rid of Roxas. Don't think that you can blame him." Sora summoned his Kingdom Key and pointed it at the figure. "I've had enough of this! Tell me what you did!"
"Or what? You get rid of me?" The figure laughed at the thought, "Even if you could defeat me, you will fall into darkness and Roxas would be re-born, just in time to see the Order corrupt Kingdom Hearts."
"And what do you seek?" Sora asked, "What do you get out of this?"
"Freedom." The figure simply said, "If only your conscience remained in the darkness when you sacrificed your heart. If only that Worthless Princess stayed away from me then maybe I would still have my freedom." The figure 's voice changed to a more aggressive tone from the mention of Kairi.
"YOU!" Sora shouted at it, realising one of the things that the soul had done. "You was the one that make Kairi upset."
"And we have a winner!" The figure mocked as it clapped its hands. "You deserve a medal for stating the obvious."
"Why would you do that?" Sora questioned.
"Because the mind has sooo many thoughts." It replied. "You cannot denied that the thought didn't come through your mind."
"I would never think that Kairi was worthless!" Sora raged, griping his keyblade tightly.
"You are over-protective though, WHICH, counts as you thinking that she cannot fend for herself or me thinking that she's worthless."The figured shrugged. "All I know is that I don't exist at of this moment so the words that actions that were caused was of your doing."
"Then maybe I should tell them about you then." Sora closed his eyes to snap back to reality.
BOWBOWBOW
Sora opens his eyes to find that he was still staying in the rain, completely soaked and that his hair wasn't currently gravity defying anymore. A few shakes with his head and his hair were back in place.
"I would consider you actions if I was you."Sora's eyes widened as he felt his arm burn as it flashed brightly. The pain made Sora grab for his arm once more. "If the others know about me then there is no need for me to hold back my power. I will send you to the forgotten memories to where your precious Nobody is without any connection link to your heart. The heart and body will be mine to control and so will the power to the door to the light. And if you think what I said to Kairi was bad, wait until I get full control of the heart."
"No....I...won't let you." Sora grunted through the pain as he dropped to his knees.
"Then all you have to do is swear not to tell any of your friends about me or hinting that there is something wrong. You do and I'll see just how worthless your precious princess is."
Sora could feel the pain getting worse and his chest getting tighter as his sight began to blur into a familiar light. "Alright....ah.....ah.....alright." Sora breathed in agony. Soon, the pain had slowly stopped and Sora managed to get control of his breathing again. Sora pushed himself up, waiting for the voice to reply. When he didn't get one, he noted that there business was done and that he needed to catch up to Brian. He had already been gone for too long.
BOWBOWBOW
"God damn it." Brian cursed as he remained hidden behind a giant green boot. "Of all of the members to be here." He sighed as he watched the figure ahead. Brian saw that Lizza had been reported to Mousedom, properly adding someone that could bring the Unbriths here to control the world and turn it to another one of their bases. He couldn't see if see had changed form much since she was fully dressed in armour but he did notice her mouse tail every now and again.
Brian normally didn't mind Lizza's appearances, it's not like he falls in love with every girl he flirts with. It's the fact that Sora is with him and the main thing that is going to be on his mind is wondering why Kairi is angry with him, which can link to many emotions, including love. He knew that something was wrong with Sora, he knew that it was the virus and he also knew that what happened back at the ship was one of his signs. Brian signed at this, I let my anger become my judgement and now I have to think of some way to tell the others. I can't tell Sora. I remember Daniel instructing me not to tell him but why? There is so much that he's keeping from me. Whatever, so long as I tell Kairi then we can find some way to help him, I promised that I would tell her...
Suddenly, he noticed Lizza halting and looking at her surroundings. Oh crap! Oh crap! Oh crap! Ok...ummm....think about father! Think about father! Think about father! Soon enough, Lizza shrugged it off and began to walk the other direction. Brian huffed at the thoughts of his father, wondering if Daniel knew about that too. He quickly calmed himself down before he continued to walk the Love Endless. I wonder why she sudden turned? Brian turned around from the sounds of footsteps to see that Sora was running up to him. OH CRUD!!! "Sora! Go back! There's a Endless right-" He turned back to see that Lizza was right in front of him, "here."
"My, my, my, what are a couple of boys like you doing in a place like this?" Lizza smirked as she started to play with some of the dumbfounded Brian's hair.
Brian jumped away from her and summoned his staff, "Just get out of my way so that I don't have to fight a girl." Brian created his blades on his staff and swigged it a couple of times to give her a warning. Brian quickly turned around him and formed a barrier between him and Sora. Sora was ready to break it when Brian spoke, "Go to Baker's Street. I'll meet you there." Before he could respond, Sora watched Brian get grabbed by Lizza and thrown over to the other side of the huge road, hitting the wall. Sora tried to break the barrier a couple of time before following Brian's orders and went to find Baker's Street.
BOWBOWBOW
"I'm at Baker's Street. Now what?" Sora looked left and right at the huge road while he continued to get soaking wet. "Well, it never hurt to look around." Sora said happily as he tried to look for cover from the rain. He ended up at the corner of Baker's Street as the streetlamp shone down at him. Sora looked up at the streetlamp, it remained him of the deepest darkness and how there is a light that will never go out, so long as he doesn't lost his friends.
"Did you also remember how the closer you get to light, the greater your shadow becomes."
Sora's eyes widened as he quickly turned around and saw that his shadow had given enough darkness to let Heartless appear in front of him. Sora summoned his keyblade and began to run towards the Neoshadows that were created. He was able to fight with the use of a tail since he had gotten use to the form changes. As he fought the NeoShadows, another appeared from behing, oblivious to Sora. The NeoShadow raised his claw to strike when a bottle came out of nowhere, which exploded in the Heartless' face. The explosion had managed to push Sora flying as well into one of the buildings before leading him fall to the ground floor of the house. Sora looked up to see that the NeoShadows had fled as also found himself in front of another house that was the right size for a mouse.
"Well, don't just lay there. Get in!" A British voice told him.
"Huh?" Sora pushed himself up and looked where the source of the voice had come from. When he found that the wooden door that lead to inside the house was left open, he guessed that whoever had helped him had gone into the house. Sora slowly walked over to the door and looked in the house with caution.
He could see that whoever lived here was some sort of scientist as a number of test tubes with various liquids in them as well as some inventions that aided the home owner's research such as a machine that automatically printed footprints and another machine that kept the home owner's pipe alight. Sora wasn't sure what that had to do with the home owner's research but he didn't complain. There was another room that looked more comforting as a the armchair was set in front of a fireplace with a violin set to the side of it, the fire that was burning was giving a welcoming vibe to the house.
"Hurry now, Sora. You'll let the wind in." The voice said again.
Sora quickly got into the warmth as he got into the house and closed the door behind him. He then realised that the home owner had said his name, "You know my name?" Sora questioned as he turned to face the home owner. Sora guessed right when he thought it was a mouse that had help him. The mouse had golden blonde fur with a brown nose and beanie black eyes. He wore a white blouse that had the sleeves rolled up with a green tie and brown waist-coat, brown former trousers and black shoes. Sora watched as he grabbed his purple robe with black outline and places the rope on him before facing Sora.
"Sora, the Keyblade Master to be exact." The mouse said casually as moved around his room, doing the basic things. "Born on Destiny Islands and left at the age of fourteen when your world was attacked by Heartless. Am I right?" The mouse smirked at Sora.
"Hmm, well yeah. You are." Sora chuckled as he seemed to be impressive but worried about the Intel that the mouse knew. "How could you know that?" Sora asked.
"It's simple really." The mouse chimed, " The style of your clothes show that you have been to a number of worlds as well as keeping the summer look that is important when it comes to living at Destiny Islands and your tan skin shows that fact as well. You wear huge boots to prevent getting sand in your shoes and your style of hair shows your care-free and heart warmth nature which is the description of the Keyblade Master." The mouse pointed out while examining Sora as he said it.
"Wow." Sora was dumbstruck. "You know me but I don't know..."
"I am Basil of Baker Street, my good man." The mouse quickly introduced himself. "Can you help me with this table?"
"Sure." Sora shrugged as he walked over to one end of the table and helped Basil place one of his spare table's into the middle of the room. While Basil placed some cushions onto the table and pushed the table in front of the railing of the steps that lead to the front door, Sora looked around once more. "Hey Basil, what do you do?" he asked.
"I'm a detective." Basil answered with no interest as he ran his calculation on where the table was and moved it a bit before feeling satisfied about its location. "There! Prefect!"
"What's the table for?" Sora asked him.
"Why, it's for your friend of course." Basil replied as he grabbed his magnify glass.
"My friend?" Just that second, the wooden door burst open to reveal Brian, who a multiple scars and scratches all over him.
"Wooaaahhhh, look at all the pretty stars." Brian said drowsily before he began to lose balanced. Brian had managed to stumble to his right before flipping over the railings and landing on the pre-made bed that Basil had just set up a couple of seconds ago. Sora was left in disbelief as Basil had managed to calculate the exact time when Brian would randomly come in and would land exactly where Basil thought he would.
"Hmmm." Basil went over to the unconscious Brian and started to look at the cuts that had been inflicted by him. "It looks like that Devon here has been poison from the attacks he had to deal with. Just a curing spell and an antidote would fix him up nicely." Basil went over to his desk with his lab equipment as he began work on the antidote. While Basil was at work, Sora went up to Brian and cured him; the cut that was left was the one that he had done to him. Sora started to feel bad, he wondered what else the soul could have done while in control. He didn't want to hurt his friends; he didn't want to hurt Kairi. "Ahhh, there we have it." Basil came over and tilted his head up to get Brian to drink the antidote.
Basil began to set his head down when he noticed something, his expression changing to curiosity. Making Sora worry a bit for his friend, "What is it, Basil?"
"It seems as if the back of Devon's head has a small gab as he had hit his head on a metal pole by the size of the gab. Also, I can guess that he has had this for about year and half and the location of the gab seems to indicate that it has damaged his hippocampus." Basil indicated before looking back at Sora to see the poor mouse confused on the last bit. "He has Amnesia." Basil simply said.
"Amnesia?!" Sora went wide eyes.
Mad: What will Sora say to Brian once he wakes up? Will Sora be able to get Kairi to forgive him. Why does Basil know everything? Tune in next time for Kingdom Hearts: Balance of Worlds. Wow! That was hard work. I had to research about the brain. ^^ I learned. YAY! Now for messages:
NinjaSheik: Hope you like the story. ^^
Razgriz1: Yeah...I thought I throw the two in a fight. And things are going to get worse for the two. Hehehehe ^^
Kisdota- The Freak Gamer: Yep. Sora is clueless about everything and I love the fact that you reviewed all three chapters. Thank you ^^. You just have to keep reading and everything will make sense.
Grey vs Ale: Happy new year to you too. ^^ Riku is waiting in Little Devon for the others so after Mousedom, Riku will meet up with the others. Sora had the Ultima weapon in African Depths as well after losing control. It's not really an Outburst mode, it's just the way the signs works while having the virus.
Celticskyedancer: Thank you ^^ What did you think of Third Sign anyways, I'm just wondering since It's one of the chapters that I looked forward in writing.
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Right, it's snowing like hell and I kept sleeping over my alarm which is not good cause I can't afford to pay for the local bus every day. Grrrr, SOMEONE BUY ME A ALARM CLOCK!!!
Brian: No! See ya next time.
Mad: that's my line.
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