Re: Fate of A Hero
Day 79
Facing the Grid
"Roxas," Axel shook his head, "Look at what you've gotten yourself into."
Roxas was having a meeting with Xemnas and Saix, and Axel was there to watch, as were Zexion and Vexen. Their conversation was muffled, Axel's mind wandered away.
"That girl…she's got you in a headlock."
Roxas nodded at Xemnas. It seems he was explaining some sort of plan.
"This girl….she exists…why do you even bother, brother?"
He looks down. Roxas rubs his arm nervously as Saix begins to speak.
"To feel-" He chuckles, "Man if you can feel, so can I.
"But I can't."
They give Roxas a USB drive.
"See Roxas, that's the difference between you and me."
Roxas takes the USB drive in his palm.
"I know my place. I don't try to feel what I just can't."
Xemnas puts his hand on his shoulder. Roxas nods again.
"I don't get attached."
Roxas materializes away.
"I don't try to replace people."
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Roxas opened his eyes. He was in a room. An underground room with a sudden chill of remembrance.
He looks around and finds the Mega Computer.
"The mega computer…now to find the port."
He looks around the big mass of technology and finds the USB ports. Cautiously, he inserts the drive into it, waits a few seconds, then removes it as instructed. He straightens himself up and goes forth to the computer, running his fingers through the keys in a daze. He stops, and begins to type.
"Come on…" He mumbles, typing furiously. The screen fades into black, and Roxas smiles quickly. He steps back slowly, staring at the screen.
A blinding white light immerses the room.
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Roxas
Roxas felt the cool floor beneath him, and his face was plastered on the concrete. He lifted himself up gently, only to find himself in an ominous city setting. He brushed off his organization cloak and scratched his head.
"What now?"
"Unidentified program!"
Roxas swiftly turned to see three people running to him, armed. Roxas panicked. He began to run backwards, only to the arms of another armed man. He squirmed to get free.
"Identify yourself program." One of the armed men approached his face, roaring the command.
"What are you talking about?! I'm not a pro-OW!" The man holding him and the two besides the one who commanded him took him by the arms, and the annoyed commander touched his neck.
"Program unidentified."
Roxas felt an electrical surge start from the man's finger down to his toes, and he collapsed, unconscious.
"What do we do now?" An armed man asked. The commander put his hand down. "Take him with the others," He answered.
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Roxas awoke once more in a bright white room, standing. The room was empty.
"Crap…I did not sign up for this-"
The four corners of the walls opened, as they were shaped as pods. From the pods came four tall females. The females had bright white suits with even whiter strips of light outlining their curves. Their faces were so pale, so clear, that even with their varying skin tones their face was radiant. Their eyes were large, outlined by heavy eyeliner and mascara, and their hair has pulled back into slick ponytails and blending in into their very skin color. They began to walk towards him, and they circled him, staring at him closely.
"Uh…hi?"
Two females, one with white hair and porcelain skin to match and the other with midnight hair and carmel skin, looked at each other. They nodded.
"New program. Must equip." The blonde spoke with a robotic and computerized voice, and she stepped back, as well as the caramel skinned one. Two others, one with yellow/tanned skin and brown hair and another with porcelain white skin and jet black hair, bent down to Roxas's cloak's bottom. They began to tear the cloth, running up his side with their finger.
"Hey-hey! I would've taken it off you know!"
As his cloak disappeared, black body suit material appeared in its place, and covered him up to his neck. The blonde and the caramel skinned ladies walked to a drawer, as it opened to reveal a disk and two arm accessories. The caramel skinned one looked up from her preparing the arm accessories to face the blonde.
"He is special. Like those other two."
The blonde snapped something into place with the disk and stopped, looking upwards and not at her partner. She smiled, then looked back down. The caramel skinned one sighed and turned simultaneously with the blonde, their assigned things in their hands. They began to walk to Roxas. The two who changed Roxas stepped back, and the two carrying things circled Roxas. The blonde stopped at his back, and the caramel skinned lady to his front. As the one in front positioned armor on his arenas (that began to spread to his legs and chest), the one in back implanted the disk onto Roxas's back, and began to speak.
"This is your disk, Roxas."
"How did you-"
"Your disk is the most important thing to you in this game. It contains all of your information, past and learned. If you are to lose your disk, that is game over. Game over, and you are done. Understand?"
Roxas nodded, a bit confused, then the girls all stepped backwards, back into their respected pods. Roxas's jaw dropped.
"But-wait- what am I supposed to do?!"
The girl with white hair stopped, her bright blue eyes shining under her black eyeliner. She smiled.
"Survive."
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