Chapter XVII
~Strategy~
Twilight Manor
Inside the old mansion, Iz had called Axel and Ukrix to the basement area. There Iz sat in front of a large computer. He began typing quickly with his gloves that looked like black, leatherly stripes which ran across his hands. When he stopped typing, he looked at the two Nobodies and smirked, "All finished!"
Ukrix replied as he nudged his friend playfully, "I know you could do it, Iz."
Axel interrupted the two, "Iz, right? What are we trying to do?"
Iz spun his chair around and faced Ukrix and said to him, "Ukrix, I need you to keep an eye at the front gate for any sign of the Heartless. If any do come this way, I want you to run back here and tell us."
Ukrix bowed and ran up the stairs and out of the mansion.
It was now Axel and Iz alone. Iz now stared at Axel. "Axel, I couldn't tell Ukrix this, but I'm working on a way to change the course of time," Iz explained.
"Change time..., how?!"
"It's complicated, but my strategy had to deal with you, Axel. Most people in this dimension don't know this, except for the two of us. But, when you stepped through that door and kidnapped Sora as a kid the whole timeline was shifted," Iz explained.
"How do you know this?" Axel asked.
"Simple, it's because I'm one of the last Keybearers. The Keyblade Wielder, as you would say has the responsible to protect people, but also the responsiblity to protect the worlds and dimensions. Whenever anything goes wrong, it is us that have to go in and fix it. So, when you changed time I started investing."
"Part of the change also had to deal with Ukrix being created from Riku, he wasn't supposed to exist. My partner, Lexi and I started looking around C.O. for any clues of why things were changing. We came up with the explanation that perhaps Ansem is messing with time some how."
"How do we change it?" Axel asked.
"That is where you come in Axel, in order to change things, you must go back to Destiny Islands and find the door that brought you here before Ansem does, because if Ansem gets his mits on that door then his destruction could go into other dimensions. We can't let that happen, there's simply too much on the line," Iz said.
"But, Destiny Islands was destroyed a long time ago," Axel exclaimed.
"Then, I guess the only answer is to go to the End of the World, because when all the worlds are destroyed a fragment of them goes to that dreaded place."
