Video Game: Kingdom Hearts SOS: The Road To Light

Aislinn nodded back at Faust. "Got it. I will meet you there soon." Aislinn stated before she turned and left the boy to go find Adrian. He was likely to be in a study, even with the kids around him. She would rescue him so that he could finish his preparations. It also made her do something other than look over his shoulder. She had some issues just letting him do his thing, There was a part of her that constantly wanted to help him and give him advice, even when he didn't want it. She knew that she was a bit of a control freak, but at least she was working on it. Soon Aislinn found herself at the study, and scooped Dayla out of her chair. "Come on Zeke, lets leave daddy alone for a bit so that he can work." Adrian gave an appreciative grunt and half wave as Aislinn walked off with the kids to meet back with Faust. Dayla held on her hip, and holding Zeke's hand.


Karina was barely conscious through Aux's trial. She listened vaguely, heard another rant, but she was honestly not as invested in Aux as she had been in Kaida's trial. She couldn't afford to let herself get invested in it either though. The trial was a lot shorter than Kaida's too. It didn't take long before yelling from the judge brought her around to consciousness a little more. Karina sat up and looked at the screen to see her father escorting Aux away, then it was silent. The silence seemed to last longer than she would have expected, but it eventually was interrupted by the sounds of footsteps. Karina knew that rhythm of steps, knew exactly who it was. "So are you here to bring that muzzle that you promised?" Karina asked looking in substantially worse shape than when he had thrown her in there to start. She barely registered that Aux was there, but she didn't want to. Not at least until her father was gone. If she showed any signs of being happy to see him, her father would move Aux as far away as he could before she managed to say a word.

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His father looked down at the door. "Ah. So I did..." He unlocked the door and opened the door. "Let's see yer fancy key sabre do that," he chuckled, guiding them out of the room and locking the door behind them. He walked his son towards the elevator and looked around their surroundings. "Y'know this year has been a crazy ride without you son. Turns out there's this whole order of people and governments outside our own world making the big calls...." He looked back to his son and didn't want to bother him further with the politics. "But let's forget that noise for a minute. What about you kiddo? Got a brigade on your back? What worlds have you explored? got a girlfriend yet?" he nudged playfully.

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"No... Just more trash to roll around in," Xares replied dragging in Aux by his collar. He was in the same cuffs as Karina.
Aux looked up to find Karina in a torn dress. Quill was at least right on his intell. "Hi Karina..."Aux awkwardly waved with his cuffed hand. "Nice dress."
Her father shoved him into the adjacent cell with angered force. As he hit the wall, Aux turned to Karina. "Your dad's a treat by the way."

Xares activated his shock collar on the hgihest setting, causing him to fall to his knees. "Do all the trash you associate with talk back this much?" he asked his daughter.
"You have your daughter's temperament, sir..." Aux was shocked again with a straight faced and unimpressed Xares. "Before I leave I'm curious about this Remnant was discussing.... Some sort of greater power? If you got rid of it, I want to know where it is... "
Aux looked up. "You want an all consuming force of darkness to make you stronger?" he asked.
"Power is power, son... doesn't matter where it comes from. With some testing, I can eventually weaponize it. Co-operate and who knows... maybe your life sentence turns into 40 years with probation."

Aux stared blankly before he burst out laughing.
Xares scowled at him. "You think you're in any position to mock my offer?"
Aux tried to wipe away tears of laughter from his eyes with his shoulder. "Heh, it's not that... it's you... I almost turned into you. Getting stronger by any means necessary. That was me in a nutshell a year ago... If I didn't have a change of heart, I would've ended up like you."
"A powerful, authoritative tactician?"
"A weak, scared old man that doesn't want to lose the power he's been hoarding."
Xares glared at him. "I've achieved greatness you could never dream of."
"Lucky me," Aux smirked.
"To think this pathetic boy gave you so much trouble for so long," he said as he addressed his daughter.

 

Karina hated the way that her father spoke about her friends, but then Aux opened his mouth and she decided not to try and defend him. "Piss off Aux." She replied to the dress comment. Of all people to join her, it had to be Aux didn't it? Well he was also probably the only person capable of pissing someone off enough to end up in max security. Aux didn't seem to know when to stop either as he kept talking until her father electrocuted him and then turned to her for a moment. Karina glared at her father as he called her friends trash.

"You might be right about this one. He isn't the best person in the world, but don't you dare call the rest of them trash! Most of them are better people than you will ever be. Kel, for example was the first one to offer me a place to go after finding out that home was not an option. Kaida offered me a cloak and a comforting hand when I was at one of my lowest moments. Beuce... Beuce is the best person I have ever met. He is good in a way you could never comprehend. I am actually happy when I am with him. Happy. Do you understand what that means for me? The only trash I know is you!" Karina couldn't help but yell at her father. It took a moment before Karina noticed she wasn't shaking because of rage, but from the electricity that coursed through her system.

This wasn't enough however because her was asking Aux about things that he should have no business dealing with. Karina bit her lip and kept her mouth shut while Aux was speaking, but when he was done, and her father looked to her again sneering. "At least he is trying to be better, unlike you." She retorted before continuing. "At least he doesn't rig trials. You requested that judge didn't you? There is also the fact that you locked me up during them. I could have helped. I could have done something to help Kaida and you knew that, didn't you? You knew I last to see Shiro. He was the one who gave me my mark of mastery and returned to my friends. Kaida hadn't been away from us since then to do what they accused her of. Lea disappeared, but not when they claim. He put together a group of people to help against the one called Nequa. He took me with him and taught me that I am not defined by my past. I am not defined by you, but I define myself! He might have been betrayed, but not by Kaida." Karina stated. She didn't know if her father actually knew this, but she knew it was intentional keeping her away from the trials. "And you will never achieve the greatness you dream of. It doesn't exist."


As Aislinn walked, she heard her name. Approaching was AJ and Aislinn smiled brighter. It was nice hearing her friends where alright, but actually seeing one was better. "AJ! Good to see you are alive and well. Is Luna and Kel around? They aren't among the ones in prison are they?" Aislinn couldn't help but blurt out her questions as Zeke started to hide a bit behind her, and Aislinn let go of his hand and put a hand on his head instead. "Sorry he is a bit shy when it comes to knew people. "How have you been?" She then asked finally regaining her composure a bit and speaking to him more normally.

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"What I do is no longer any concern of yours... It's almost as if you're a broken record sometimes," Xares sighed. "You become dreadfully predictable once you decide to rebel against something. It's as if you're trying to convince yourself that defeating me will somehow give you new purpose..." He looked over to the floor ridden Aux. "You there... what do you make of my daughter?"
Aux was confused at the sudden question. Make of her how? As a friend? As a love interest? "I uhh... don't think I'm her type. But from what I can tell, she's got a lot of rage, she thinks I'm trash, she hate's you-"
"Not that you imbecile..." Xares sighed. "She has this ridiculous notion that she is strong enough to overpower me. What do you say to that? You were once on the opposing side."
"Yeah... but given the current circumstances-"
"Is she on par? Yes or no. It's that simple." Xares interrupted. "Your collar will shock you if you're lying..."
Aux sighed as he looked to Karina. He then turned to her father. "If my daughter were able to fight for herself, would she defeat me?" Xares repeated.
"In a fair fight?" Aux asked. Xares nodded.

Aux looked to Karina and back to her father again. Why did it matter what he thought? Her father was clearly a strict military type. And Karina was... Karina.
"No... She wouldn't beat you." Aux solemnly replied.

Xares turned to Karina. "You see? Even your enemies can tell clear as day."
"She would actually destroy you," Aux added.
Xares scowled as he shocked him again. He put away his device and turned to leave them.

"I have a summit to attend to. Have fun amusing one another..."

Xares left the two in their seperate cells. Aux was left breathing heavily, recovering from the last shock.

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"Truth be told, your mother and I were kind of dragged into this whole thing. It's only by chance that we found you really... But believe you me, your mom was worried sick. I would not wanna be you when she finds out where you've been," he chuckled. the elevator stopped at the food court level, as he guided his son through droves of people to find the vendor he was looking for. "Two cobblers please." He handed the vendor 500 munny and took his son to an available table. He sat with his legs spread out and stretched his arms. "Because of my battle experience, I was promoted to one of the captains for a few squadrons on the ship. You wouldn't have believed the face I made when I found out they black bagged you and your friends..." He took a few large bits of his cobbler before looking to his son. "What's wrong? Not hungry?"

 

Of course her father didn't address her accusations on the matter of the trails. He was off to do something else that was much more important. As her father walked away, Karina collapsed onto her side. Blood trickled out from under her manacles, where she had been tensing against them as he collar had been shocking her. In her moment of rage she had been able to ignore it, but now it was all that she could think about as a few tears managed to escape. Aux now had seen her in a dress, she figured crying couldn't be much worse as she managed to say, "it hurts, so much." But her words were barely audible as she curled up on her side like she could somehow protect herself from another shock if she curled up enough. "Thanks for trying Aux, but I couldn't even beat him in the elevator on our way down. He had me in restraints like all my fighting was nothing to him. I don't know if I can destroy him." She would have liked to think that she could beat him. For a while now she thought she stood a chance. But seeing how easily her father had been dealing with her, that didn't seem possible.


The whole situation was AJ was weird and left Aislinn a bit uncomfortable as she thought about how to answer everything that he through at her. "AJ calm down. Look the guards aren't out to get you, they are here to keep the peace on the ship, that is it." She started by explaining before she held up her hand that had been on Zeke's head to AJ to show a similar bracelet. "But I can't use my keyblade either, it is just a part of being here. Most people you can just take away their weapons and that is enough, but you can't do that with us. No civilian is allowed to walk around here with a weapon, it isn't needed anyways." Aislinn tried to explain, keeping as calm as possible, hoping that if she showed how calm she was, that AJ would follow. AJ then went on to talk about where Kel and Luna were, which was not the same as Faust told her, but it was good to know. She would still have to try and talk to them soon when she found them.

The conversation continued and it took a bit of an uncomfortable turn. "AJ, we can't just leave this place. I can't just hop on my glider and go, and I certainly can't just take only my family. I get that you don't trust it, but there are a lot of innocent people here that have no where else to go, and Sanctuary is doing good things for them. If it wasn't for this place, I would have lost my family, the only family I have left. I am helping my brother-in-law organize and lead the people who managed to get off my world before it entirely fell, if I take them and go, then I am leaving all these people behind and I can't do that. And while I don't know of anyone from the worlds you mentioned, that doesn't mean they aren't taking refuge here as well. How can I just pick up and leave that, even if there is something you don't trust here." Aislinn tried to explain, just as Faust showed up and reported what they found. This time she actually had some inkling of who he was talking about, though she didn't know the girl well.

Faust had continued to entertain Zeke, while AJ continued to explain. The boy had a huge smile on his face, even though he still hid behind Aislinn a bit. He seemed rather pleased with it. Meanwhile Aislinn was left to think. "Well I can't say I ever really liked General Xares, but the trails, they sound like they might be rigged partly from the outside. Stacking up people against Kaida, which doesn't necessarily come from within. Though she was unlucky to get Karen as a judge. I can see who I can talk to about getting another trail maybe, but don't do anything too irrational. After all, while there might be problems, there is still a lot of good here." Aislinn tried to explain again before looking to Faust who had finished his tricks. "Those were great. Though perhaps you should see if you can track down some of the others and share the news you know. Unfortunately there isn't much I can do to help until after the Summit. Though I will let Kel know if I see him before the meeting." Aislinn told him.

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"Yeah that is the plan." Aislinn confirmed for AJ. She wanted to give him some sort of motivational speech about there being more he can do than he thought, but she was cutting it close on time and didn't want to waste too much more. "I will talk to you guys later okay? I will make sure that Kel gets the notice about Karina." Aislinn confirmed as she grabbed Zeke's hand again and the boy looked up at her. "Auntie, I am hungry." Aislinn let out an exasperated sigh, when the summit started, food wouldn't be an option so she just nodded. "I will find Kel after I get Zeke a snack." She confirmed before walking off with the kids.

When Aislinn went to get a snack, she had not expected to run into Nathan. Actually her back was turned ordering the food when Zeke ran off on her. By the time Aislinn turned around Zeke was already bothering his favourite person on the ship. The young boy had run up to Nathan who had sat down to eat with.... "Kel!" Aislinn strolled over towards Kel with a smile on her face. "Sorry Nathan. Is he bothering you? Zeke come here and eat your snack." She tried to tell her nephew as he niece tried to grab out for a piece of the cookie and Aislinn just sighed. "I will get you your food later." She tried to tell the baby knowing that she wouldn't understand as she tried to hand the cookie to Zeke. "I am glad you are safe Kel. I haven't seen you since you and Luna fell overboard on that ship." Aislinn said before remembering what else she had to say. "Oh right, apparently... Faust... I think that was his name, heard something about Karina. He said he heard a guy say she was in the deepest cells or something." Aislinn quickly added on as she switched Dayla to the other hip to ease her arm.​

 

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"Well if they're gonna end up anywhere, it'll probably be back here. Place has more security than ten prisons...." He looked back to his soon and leaned back in his chair before being hugged by a small boy around his knee. "Hey it's Zeke! Howdy bud!" He tussled the little boy's hair as Kel was immediately embraced by Aislinn. "Hah! I knew you had a girlfriend! If that's your missing friend though, she's been here for a bit of a while."

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Aux sat with his elbows over his bent knees. "Just because he's stronger now doesn't mean he's won y'know..." He looked at his own hands realizing just how much fighting he's been doing. "When my grandfather was training me, every day was 110%. I was always taught that there as no room for failure... and that to be strong I needed to destroy all the darkness. And now years later I'm strong and what did it get me?... I miss my family and my home... I haven't seen them in almost 5 years now." He turned back to face Karina. "But even with all the power I got, I'm still losing. And after I lost that power, I'm still losing." He scooched a little closer to her cell to try and get his message across clearly. "But I haven't lost. And neither have you. You only lose when you give up... I threw you into darkness, but you didn't give up. You lost your keyblade, but you didn't give up. And now your dad is trying to destroy your spirit by throwing you in prison without your friends...."

He tried to feign a smile. "You're too stubborn to give up after all that."