Chapter 79: Time

The Aversion Endless took everything in as he began to walk towards his home, he never would have thought that he would have missed his home so much. He had been off world before but that was only going to one world before coming back to Little Devon. Since living on the gummi for the past few months, it made Brian think about what he could be missing while trying to save the worlds. He, Max and Hikari had missed Vaan and Penelo get together, something that the three had been teasing the two about for the last year. Hopefully we can make it back to the annual festival. He thought in his head before opening the wooden door to his house, "Guys! I'm back. What's so important that I had to come back?" He called into the house.

"Hey Brian, nice to see you again." Takura greeted him as Brian came into the Devon house, working on the projector in the middle of the room. "How was your adventure?" he asked.

"Hey, Takura." Brian greeted back, "Going from world to world can gather a list of questions." He answered as he sat down on the right side of the chairs in front of the simulator, "Where's Daniel? I need to talk to him." He really wanted him to explain about the secrets that he had been keeping and to see if there was anymore that he was keeping.

"Danny is currently resting due to going to Incas so he won't be joining this discussion." Takura answered, moving away from the projector and quickly went into the kitchen to wash the oil off his hands and face.

"What about the others?" Brian asked, maybe he could get something out of Kyle and Scott since Daniel wasn't joining the meeting.

"Kyle is quickly mending to Daniel while Scott actually went to get you away from your fan girls so I don't know where he is at the moment." Takura answered. Brian realised that his brothers was expecting him to slack off again and go running to the girls, show them how much they know me. The red head relaxed on the sofa chair before watching Takura fix the projector.

This made him wonder how he couldn't have noticed his memory loss before since he had no idea where Takura had originally come from, he had always assumed that he never asked or Takura never told him. The case surrounded the Devon brothers as well; he didn't know where they come from before creating Little Devon, one of the very same thoughts that questioned his trust towards Daniel in the first place and one of the same thoughts that crossed his mind when he planned to see King Mickey. I feel so stupid, how could I have not realised this? Basil had told Brian that the first few weeks of his memory loss could not be recovered, saying that would be the best time for family and friends to tell them anything and he would believe it. At least they told me about my life in Little Devon. He thought. But I remember meeting Daniel and the others somewhere else and Daniel looked as if he was my age. I have to know the truth.

As Takura banged his head on the projector, trying to get out from under the thing, Kyle walked into the room to notice Brian, "Brian? I thought that you would drown yourself in your fan club." Kyle said to him casually. Oh hi to you too, Kyle. "I swear that I saw you run pass earlier with the girls trailing behind."

"That was just Hikari's friend disguised as me so I could get here." Brian explained.

"Since when do you take meetings seriously?" Kyle smirked, knowing something was up. Brian glared at his foster brother, getting sick of his attitude of him slacking off.

"Don't be cruel, Kyle." Takura advised the robotic man, Brian sighed as he calmed down, "At least he's here on time, unlike Scott."

"If you want, I can go look for Scott." Brian offered as he begun to stand up from the sofa.

"Don't worry about it." Kyle told him, crossing his arms casually. "We'll just wait for the idiot to realise that it wasn't you that the girls were chasing." Kyle turned around to Takura, who bumped his head on the projector again. "Is it fixed? I've tried everything." He asked him.

"Nope." Takura replied from under the giant projector. "This might take some time."

Good, that gives me time to ask about everything. "Kyle?" Brian called him for his attention.

Kyle turned away from the projector and looked at Brian with a questionable look, "Yeah?" The nineteen year old adjusted his automail arm while waiting for his younger brother to ask him something. All that he got though was a thoughtful expression on his face and whatever he has on his mind his angering him as his hands were clenched. "Brian, are you-"

"Why didn't you guys tell me about my memory loss?" Brian asked straightforward. "When I asked about my past, why didn't you guys just tell me?"

Kyle didn't seem surprised that Brian had found out as he simply asked him, "What did you remember?"

"It doesn't matter what I remember!" Brian shot the question away, "What matters is that you guys lied about my life! And now, I had to find out from the Order that I used to be one of them and that-"Brian took of his black glove to show his brother his glowing red shadowed claw, "- this is not a lambent birthmark."

"WHAT?!?" Takura jumped up in shock, making him bang his head on the projector again, "Owwwww. I've got to stop doing that."

"Just because you're an Endless doesn't change anything." Kyle said to him.

"Then why did you send Sakuzy away?" Brian questioned, Kyle's eyes widened at this before going into thought. "Hikari had to deal with losing her brother to Major Snake before we fled African Depths."

"Did the Order tell you anything else?" He asked while in thought, "Have you had any flashbacks about them?"

"Now that you mention it." Brian sat down on the sofas again, "I've had two. The second one was strange though."

"What were they about?" Kyle asked him, curious about Brian's past himself.

"Well, one of them was the Colonel telling me that he done whatever he done because 'One life saves a thousand' while the other was-"Brian paused as he realised that Kyle had control of the conversation. "Hey! Wait a minute!" Brian rose from the sofa and glared at his brother, "How about you answer my questions first?!" Brian raged, "Who am I? Really?"

"You already know who you are." Kyle simply answered, "All you have to do is look into your heart to discover the memories beneath them."

"Why won't you just tell me?!" Brian raised his voice.

"Because-"Kyle began to explain, "We don't know half of your life. There was a time where you had met us before but we didn't really know you then. All we knew about you then were that you came with your father and that he was an Endless as well, just a broken one." Kyle looked at his younger brother, seeing that he was listening to him calmly, "We only got to know you when you arrived in Little Devon, you said you was looking for us."

"Why was I looking for you?" Brian asked.

"Beats me." Kyle shrugged, "You explained you reasons to Daniel and he had never said a word to me or Scott or even Takura."

"Yeah and I'm his best friend." Takura said from under the projector.

"Right..." Brian sighed, seeing that he would have to see if Daniel will tell him the past, which would be pretty hard considering that he doesn't like Brian one bit. There were questions that still crossed his mind. "Why didn't you tell me that I was an Endless?"

"That was because Daniel didn't want you to tell your friends about it. We had strict orders not to tell you." Kyle explained, "He said that he didn't want the public to worry that an Endless lived among them." He watched Brian bit his lip nervously, making Kyle glared at him with an annoyed look, "Your friends know, don't they?" He asked.

"Only Sora, Kairi and Hikari know." Brian told him, "But the others deserve to know too. I don't care what Daniel thinks."

"Brian, I don't think-"

"Brian has a point." Takura said while screwing the bottom part of the projector together before coming out from underneath it.

"Yeah." Kyle sighed, watching Takura retreat into the kitchen, "I'm glad that the Daniel fought Da-Devil- Colonel Devil now." Kyle corrected himself quickly, receiving a suspicious look from Brian. "He wouldn't be pleased one bit." Takura chuckled as a response before walking back into the meeting room and headed towards the computer.

Brian shook away his thoughts on Kyle's mistake and looked at him in surprise, "Daniel fought Colonel Devil?" Brian asked.

Kyle nodded in response, "He came back a couple of days ago, failing to save Incas from falling to the Order. He has been unconscious ever since."

"At least he got that important item for the cure." Takura added, "Without that llama's wool, there would be no chance of curing the infected since llamas are now extinct."

"Oh right." Brian quickly grabbed his brown bag, not noticing Jiminy jumping out and admiring the Devon's house. He searched his bag before pulling out a leaf covered gorilla's hand from Deep Jungle and Mouse Crown from Mousedom. "Here." He handed them over to Kyle.

Kyle smiled at this and placed them in the safe where all of the other ingredients were kept, including the ones that they had collected from other worlds. Brian quickly assumed that Max must have dropped by and handed over the items. Kyle locked up the safe in the wall before turning back towards Brian, "Speaking of cures, what is Sora's status?" Kyle asked, "I haven't received a report from you since you decided to contact us at half four in the morning." Neither of the brothers noticed the cricket listening to the conversation.

"I think that Sora had the virus." Brian said truthfully to him, so long as the Devon brothers don't talk to Sora about it then there is no risk in quickening the virus.

"What stage is he at?" Kyle asked.

"Three."

"Shouldn't results start showing if the virus is at stage three?" Takura asked as he worked on the computer.

"They should." Kyle answered Takura before looking at Brian, "Have they?" He asked.

"The results keep coming back unreliable." Brian explained, "I've have even tried the HDS test but that came back unreliable as well."

"If you can't get any results then how do you know that Sora is at stage three in the virus?" he asked.

"He basically said to Kairi that she should rot to the ground and die with me by her side." He basically said.

"Okay, he's at stage three." Kyle concluded. "What colour is his claw? Judging by what you've said, he could turn into a Cure Endless."

"His claw is greyish-white." Kyle thought about what sort of Endless Sora could be. "Kyle?"

"I think that Sora is a-"

The wooden front door burst open to reveal Scott and he ran in and closed the door behind him. As soon as he locked the door, he turned around to see Brian talking to Kyle, "There you are!" Scott cheered as he pulled Brian into a brotherly hug.

Kyle glared at Scott's sudden appearance, "About time! Where were you?" He questioned.

Scott winched as he began to explain, "I was in a dark place. A place where no man should be forced to go to, a place where you would rather be trapped as an Endless slave forever instead of being trapped in the deep-"

"You got attacked by fan girls again, didn't you?" Kyle cut him off.

Scott looked at Kyle with surprise. "How did you know?" he questioned. "Anyway, after that I ran into Max, who was looking for a chocobo, so I decided to help out."

"Whatever, so look as you're here. We can get started." Kyle walked over to Takura to help him out on the computer.

"Chocobo?" Brian looked at Scott with excitement, "My Chocobo? It hatched? Where is it?" Chirping could be heard from Scott's sleeveless jacket. Brian looked at his pocket to see a small Chocobo head. The Chocobo looked over to Brian, chirping with happiness as he slowly flew over from Scott's pocket to Brian cupped shaped hands, landing clumsily against Brian's claw. The Chocobo seemed to have gotten a little bigger since hatching but was still small comparing to the size of the egg. The chick 'kwek' as Brian brushed its fluffy yellow features as well as admiring the small red tips at the end of some of the features surrounding his head. "I think I'll call you, Steve." Brian at the small Chocobo, the Chocobo jumped in joy as a response.

"Don't you think that you should wait until the chocobo grows a bit more so that you can tell the gender?" Kyle pointed out.

"The chocobo has red tips, it's obviously a boy. " Brian replied.

"The tips just show that it has greater speed then other chocobo." Kyle argued, "Do what you want though. It's not like I'm right or anything." Kyle looked back at Takura.

"Well I think the Chocobo is a fella." Scott posted his opinion, "It does have red tips. Only guys have red hair." Brian quickly noted to himself that he would have to introduce Kairi to Scott again. "Otherwise Brian would have brown hair." Huh? Where would I have brown hair?

"Scott!" Kyle shot a glare at him.

The projector rattled slightly before switching on as it turned the entire room into the middle of space, making it look like the sofa, projector, computer and everyone one in the room look it was just floating in the middle of space. "It's fixed!" Takura cheered from the computer desk.

"Good. Let's begin with this meeting." Kyle smiled as he walked towards the projector, fading away so that Kyle could stand there. Steve the Chocobo seemed impressed it jumped from Brian's hands and on to one of the seats where Brian was placed next to it.

A hologram appeared from Kyle's automail, allowing him to control the computer from where he was standing and allowing Takura to join the meeting. Within a few questions, they were surrounded by all of the items that they had collected so far. "Right, so we have Gypsy Gold, Family Aura, Hand of Midas, Davy Jones' Heart, White Rabbit Pocket Watch, Gorilla's hand, Mouse Crown, Golden Arrow, Ilama's Wool, Traveller's Star, Glass Slipper, Poison Apple, Enchanted Thrones and a Red Rose Petal." The named items faded away to be taken by grey shaded items. "We still need to get Sea-Salt Ice-cream, Lion's Main, Pixie Dust, Dragon's Crest, Holiday's Soul, Trident's Thunder and Champion's Pride." As the needed items faded away from the space surroundings, Brian couldn't help but feel that there was something missing in the list of items. "We only have to gain these items to break the barrier that holds Ultimate Castle and Neo Mansion. We can put a stop to Vanitas and his Order."

"Vanitas?" Brian raised an eyebrow, not hearing the name before.

"Riku came in and reported that Vanitas, the source of all Unbirth, the apprentice of Master Xehanort, the one that was the only wielder that belong to darkness, is the Leader of the Order." Takura answered, "We get him and we'll cut off the Order's control of summoning Unbirths. Most of their army will be gone and the worlds will begin to balance as darkness will slowly return to balance with the light."

"But how does defeating the Dark Master balance the worlds? Won't it just weaken darkness even more, making the other members grow stronger?" Brian questioned.

"Vanitas is a Heart-struck Endless." Kyle answered.

"That doesn't help." Brian complained, "You never told me what a Heart-struck is."

"Heart-struck Endless are the most powerful Endless as they have the ability to control other Endless as they are infected in the heart as well as the soul. This is the reason why Vanitas can still wield a Keyblade. When you defeat a Heart-struck, the realm that they fight for will absorb all of the energy from them and return it to the realm, not the side that had destroyed them." Kyle explained.

"So when a Heart-struck Endless dies, their Heartless and Nobody aid the side that they were on?" Scott asked in confusion.

"Their whole being dies." Takura said, "While the Heart and Body return to Kingdom Hearts, the Soul returns to the realm that they belong to. Think of it as the Heart-struck's last stand." Scott nodded as he understood.

"So do Heart-struck Endless remain in Outburst mode?" Brian asked.

"Heart-Struck Endless are different from the other Endless as they can only be two different elements; Light and Darkness. Because of this, Heart-Struck are not consumed by one Emotion but rather have the ability to absorb other Endless' emotion abilities while fighting them. They still have an Outburst mode but it is much stronger then a regular Outburst and Heart-struck Endless only have the same element as the realm that they fight for."

"Sooo…if we run into Vanitas-"

"You stay away." Kyle said quickly, "The Dark Master might be able to control you if you get too close."

Scott rested his hand on his chin as his mind was in thought, "Wasn't there another type of Endless?" Scott said out loud, receiving a growl from Kyle.

"What? Another type?" Brian looked at Kyle and waited for an answer.

"There are called Brokens." Kyle spoke after a moment of silence. "They're just Heartless that only can use light magic from when they were a Light Heart-Struck. It only happens to Light Heart-Struck Endless since Heartless belong to Darkness anyway. They're nothing to worry about since they only have half the power of a normal Endless when losing their heart and they lose the ability of turning Outburst mode. They're very rare to come across anyway."

"Broken huh?" Brian took in the information that he had been told. "Didn't you say that my dad was a Broken Endless?" he asked.

"Yeah. He lost his heart after seeing the one that he loved die in front of the Colonel." Kyle explained, "That's all that our Master told us."

"Master?" Brian raised an eyebrow.

"Our teacher before forming Little Devon." Kyle quickly answered. "Right. Let's see what the playing field is like." Kyle began to type commands on his robotic arm.

The surroundings around them sped past them like they were moving at light speed through the emptiness of space. Takura, Scott and Kyle watched as they passed galaxies at a fast paste while Kyle casually waited for the program to reach the right place. After a while, the stars came to a halt as they looked at the number of worlds in front of them. While some of the worlds were covered in a purple aura, others were covered in darkness and a selected few were covered in light. "It seems that the Order has more control than we thought." Kyle signed. Most of the worlds were controlled by the Order.

"They're overrunning us." Takura gulped. "Only ten worlds have been balanced while the Order has more than half the galaxy under their control. There are even some worlds that are still consumed by darkness from Xehanort control with the Heartless."

The World that Never Was, End of the World, Castle Oblivion, Land of Departure and Monstro. "You think that Maleficent still have control of those worlds?" Brian asked.

"If she does, why would see hold back and watch us deal with the Order?" Takura asked out loud.

"Maybe she's waiting for the right time to strike." Scott thought. "I mean, if I was her I would wait to one side had defeated to other so I could get them when they are weak." Scott opened his eyes from his thought to see that Brian, Kyle, Takura and even Steve the Chocobo were looking at Scott in disbelief. "What?"

"Nothing." Kyle shrugged off, "It's just that we're all shocked that it took seventeen years of your life to say something smart without referring to nachos." Scott glared at Kyle before heading in the kitchen. "Where are you going? The meeting hasn't finished."

"I want nachos!"

Takura chuckled at this, "There goes that comment."

"Scott might be right, though." Kyle said seriously, "If we were to defeat Vanitas while Sora had the Virus, there will be too much darkness in the balance and will give Maleficent the advantage to strike us when we are weak with her Heartless." Kyle looked at Brian, "This is one on the main reasons why we wanted to prevent Sora from getting infected."

"I only knew about the attack in Disney Castle." Brian defended himself, "I can't look out for Endless spies all of the time."

"Kyle. Time is running short." Takura remained him as he watched Wonderland switch from light to purple aura, making it part of the Order's territory, changing it to Underland.

"Right." Kyle selected a section of the galaxy and zoomed in, revealing worlds that are not under any ones control at the moment. "Because of the lack of balanced worlds that were on your part of your journey, Daniel has requested to take this path, heading to the Land of the Dragon first and head to Pride Lands last since that world will be the most challenging one to balance." While Brian memorized what Kyle was saying, Jiminy was noting everything down in his journal.

"And no world touring." Scott walked in with his mouth half filled with nachos.

"When ever have I gone world touring?" Brian questioned.

Kyle turned towards Scott, "That's just for you, Scott." Kyle looked at him in disgust, "And will you eat with your mouth closed. I rather not want to clean the floor from your melting processed cheese."

Scott swallowed the food in his mouth, "Oh, sorry."

"Be aware while you're travelling." Takura warned Brian, "There have been reports that Endless ships have been spotted in that area so be prepared for some battles."

"Right." Brian nodded in agreement. Kyle placed a code in his arm, shutting of the space projection and ending the meeting. "I better go meet up with the others." While Brian adjusted his worn jacket to let Steve the Chocobo sit in the front pocket, Jiminy quickly write the rest of his discoveries and jumped back in Brian's bag. As soon as Brian made sure that Steve was comfortable and safe in the pocket with its head popping out, Brian grabbed his brown bag and began to head out the door.

"Wait!" Brian turned around from the door to see Kyle approach him with two metal cases, "Here." Kyle handed over the cases.

"What are these?" Brian asked.

"The first case is full of balance badges for when you go to Pride Lands, for when you and Sora go to the world." Kyle explained.

"I would have to explain to the others what they are? Won't they question when I place one on Sora?" Brian asked.

"That's why you have more badges; just say that not wearing the badges will cause the virus instead of quickening the rate of the virus." He answered.

"Right." Brian looked down at the other case that Steve seemed to enjoy pecking, "What about the other case?"

Kyle shrugged as a response, "You gave it to me before the Recon mission." He said to him, "I just thought that it might help you remember."

Brian looked back down at the case with Steve looking up curiously at him. Maybe I should wait till later. When I'm on my own. Brian looked back at Kyle with a smile. "Thanks Kyle." Brian quickly place the cases in his brown bag before heading out of the door.

As soon as Brian left, Scott looked at the door worryingly. "You're not going to tell Daniel, are you?" Scott asked his brother.

"Not right away." He said, "Daniel may not understand but Brian's mind will be full of confusion from his memories. It's best to let him recover them before letting Daniel have his way."

"Which will be?" Takura asked him.

"If we don't defeat Vantias before curing Sora on the deadline, he'll get rid of him."

A/N: ahhhh, I can relax again. Damn teachers, say they want a great idea 'Cosplay costume store all the way' and then decide to randomly select two groups without looking at all of the research....I could have updated all of Little Devon chapters if it wasn't for that. Also, next week will be my 18th so I will try to update before that ^^.

Messages:

Soragirl4ever: Awww, you made a name. That's cools. ^^ This is what I get for trying to make the story make sense ¬¬. Sorry I haven't checked your story out latey, coursework has decided to take up my free time.

Grey vs Ale: If you think that Lighting is a bad name, you should hear her real name. Now that is bland.

Celticskyedancer: lol, the fight might come soon, you never know. Nice to hear from you again. ^^

Kisdota-The Freak Gamer: It will be cool if Riku did find someone in the future games as well as Sora and Kairi getting together. I want Soul Silver.

Island-style-girl: Riku has a soft side. Hehehehehe

Future Keybearer: I have a feeling that Zidane will enjoy it. Ehehehe

Artism: Lol. I have days like that. I'll be looking for something and some else that I have been looking for ages randomly appears.

Shadow Sylph: If I told you everything that was going to happen in the story, you could write it yourself. Lol. Talk to you at college.

Okay people, after 30 chapters or so Brian finally managed to get to that meeting. Next chapters will be Sora and Kairi based so stay tuned.

See ya next time

Kingdommad