Video Game: Kingdom Hearts SOS: The Road To Light

As the chains tightened around Luna, she could feel more and more of her energy drained out of her. The woman raised her hand up to sky and the chains, along with Luna, rose with her hand. Before Luna could utter a word, the mysterious woman slammed her down and sent Luna crashing onto the floor. With another motion, she swung her hand to the west wall, sending Luna crashing into it. She could barely move before, but now her body was almost lifeless. The woman then pulled Luna's chains and slammed her onto the opposite wall. Luna could barely feel her fingers or move anything in her body.


The sound of a chair hitting against something rang in the princess' ears. She tried her best to move her head, only to see Noctis and Prompto. The woman immediately bound Prompto in her chains as Noctis looked for something to shield himself with. Luna slowly opened her mouth and hoarsely spoke. "R..Run...get..out of...here.." Noctis asked the woman just who she was. She revealed herself as Princess Amelie from a kingdom called Ridania. Luna was definitely unfamiliar with that name or that kingdom. Amelie then turned to Luna before tightening her chains further, accusing Luna of taking something. Just what could Luna have taken if she had never even known of this woman?


Amelie continued to drain the light out of Luna. Luna was on the verge of losing consciousness before she felt the chains being removed from her body. Her body dropped to the floor before hearing an aggravated scream coming from Amelie. Luna tried to move her fingers but found it hard to do so. Noctis ran over to the princess, wrapping an arm under her shoulders to lift her body slightly. Prompto walked over to the two to make sure they were alright. "Noct! You alright?" Noctis nodded his head. "I'm fine. It's Luna that needs help right now." Prompto looked at Luna and was concerned. "Her highness needs some immediate help and fast."


The sounds of an argument filled the room. The two men looked over to see what was happening before looking back at Luna. Luna needed some medical attention and she needed it fast. Noctis shouted at the group. "Hey!!" Prompto looked at Noctis while remaining silent. "I think we have a bigger problem over here! She needs help!!" Prompto looked to the group before shouting. "Her highness is gonna need someone to look at her before anything else. Whatever that lady did to her, it really really knocked the wind out of her!!" Luna tried to open her eyes and opened her mouth. "You...you guys...go on...ahead...." Luna struggled to utter her sentence as she told the group to go on without her. Amelie had drained so much of her strength while inflicting various other injuries on her that it almost hurt to speak. "I-....I'll catch up....with you...soon....The others....they need more help...." Noctis and Prompto stared at the princess as she pleaded for the group to help out the others.

 

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When Beuce said that he was right about getting the other out he shrugged. It was better then fighting them again with there current numbers. Aislinn went off again bout the ship and there was nothing to be said about it. With nothing to do but heal everyone in the summit room he did so. Beuce soon left the area and began to run to the jail. With nothing do do here as everyone in the room was back up to full heath he guessed he would just follow Beuce. Soon there where met with Aux, Karina, Kaida and two others. Then one of them shot Aux in his arm. Please don't tell me there were the people who attacked us on Olympus he thought. He looked at the two. "What is with wanting to take people to the doctor for injuries? When we have healers right here." It was completely unnecessary and a waste of time to go to the doctors for blood coming out. He used Curaga on the SOS group that he did not before. Then turned to two new people. "Are you the ones who knocked us out at Olympus?" he asked.

 

~A couple minutes earlier~


Quill left the room after making sure the others seemed alright. They seemed stunned by the previous events, taking to waiting in the room for a time. They’d be fine though, their friends would meet up with them soon and get them to safety. That was the benefit of being part of a group, you always have someone to watch your back...But Quill couldn’t focus on their group for too long, they barely knew him after all. He couldn’t impose on them- No he’d be fine, and he had other matters to concentrate on now.

After reaching a couple of different prison blocks, and finding other knocked out guards, it really became apparent how lost Quill was right now. Even with one of these high tech tablets the guards used, the interface seemed to be experiencing this strange static. What could be causing such strange interference. Figuring he might get some answers this way, Quill began to go down hallways where the static was more prevalent. Ten or so turns later he found himself in an empty metallic hallway and the tablet was completely useless. But a sign caught his attention, Confiscated Cargo. Well that was convenient. Quill found the area he was looking for, items labeled Prisoner Contraband. Peeking into the room, Quill found yet another guard passed out. He was holding his tablet close. Quill snuck in to check on the man, suddenly an arc of electricity came out and struck Quill. Luckily Quill’s strange new biology seemed to resist the shock as it hit his black carapace. It still scared the *kupo* out of him though. This might explain how so many of the guards were taken down at once, a false message sent out across their tablets that included a shocking surprise. Coming to his feet, Quill needed to finish his business here. Potions, oh that was a relief. Quill began chugging a couple and felt his bruises and cuts heal. He had been hesitant to use any Cure spells, in case his new biology had rejected the healing. He found various accessories and even keychains, but this wasn’t why he was here.

Remembering the photos Karina’s dad had shown him, he remembered which locked vault had his possessions. Digging his claws into the metal, the door eventually bended open. His keyblade, Razor Vine, though that name felt..wrong somehow. It was a massive keyblade, as long as his body, supremely heavy too. The rough stone of the blade was hardly sharpened, just blunt and chipped. He had done this to his keyblade, he had committed this sin. Taking the blade, he placed it on his back. It would weigh him on him, this would be his reminder of his horrible deeds now. Suddenly something snapped his concentration, speaking from a nearby room. Taking a slow approach, he found a room with various monitors, while a man spoke through coms. "Some Zetta son of a digit is counter-hacking me!” This guy, his was the voice announcing the invasion! Quill nearly ran in, but the soreness from his fight with Gilgamesh gave him pause. He couldn’t expect anyone to help now, he had to try something smarter. Even if the plan made him uncomfortable. Taking a moment to pull out his Keyblade, he began collecting himself. He had done terrible things, he wasn’t worthy of this power, but he needed it to do the right thing. Even if his soul would ache for using it in his current state. Quill began concentrating on the power of the earth, his Aura.​

 

Beuce panted slightly as he stopped at the entrance to the jail. He opened the door to their destination and felt a weight lift from his chest. His pant briefly turned into a sigh of relief as he walked over to Karina, seeming to not even notice her poor state. He wrapped his arms around her back and pulled her close to him. "I'm glad you're okay..." He muttered quietly. It only lasted for a moment, but he felt it was something that needed to be done. Once he released her, he turned back to everyone else. "Alright, for anyone who hasn't been caught up to speed yet, a couple people have been kidnapped by the Red Society. One of them is Kel. They're probably somewhere still on the ship, so we need to split up and look for them as quickly as we can. I imagine we were all just in combat, so if you need healing, see a mystic until you're good to go. If you're seriously injured, go with them to the medical bay." Beuce scanned who they had left. Luna was out of commission, as was Aux now. That left them with nine people. "Otherwise. We'll split into two groups, four and five. Castur, AJ, Faust, Aislinn, and Stratos. You all go together, you're A team.. The rest of you, with me. We're B team. A team starts from the east. B team starts from the west. We don't have a lot of time, so let's get going while we can. Any objections?"​

 

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Kel had hoped that he would be able to get farther away to be able to put all of the information that he had to use, but that wouldn't be the case as his face met the ground and again was restrained. It was nowhere near as easy as to get out of these as with each attempt made to move an inch led to the Remnant's grip tightening to the point in which his keyblade had just fallen out of his hands. "Who. The hell. Is Bravo. That is not my name." And being called that, especially by them of all people, was starting to get old.

 

Beuce looked a little puzzled at Karina as she held out her manacles. "Huh. That's odd. I wonder why he didn't. Don't worry, I got ya." Beuce summoned Lofty grasp and twirled it so that it was centered between her arms. He lowered it and with a slight tap at both ends, the manacles both popped open and fell to the ground simultaneously. "There you go. All set." ​

 

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He turned to Beuce when he said, 'A couple people have been kidnapped by the Red Society. One of them is Kel. They're probably somewhere still on the ship, so we need to split up and look for them as quickly as we can.' He wondered why. He did not like the idea of spiting up after what just happened. "So you want to search the whole ship?" If Beuce wanted to search the whole ship he was not going to stop him. 'Any objections?' "We know what the red society want more or less. Information and leverage on us." He pulled out the map and stood by Beuce. "If you want to find the Red society they could be anywhere on the ship but I would a think they would want to leave as soon as possible. So one place is here." The pointed to the area mark arrival bay on the map. "Seeing as this is an open area and rather close to the med bay I would think that this is out. Then there is hanger or possibly the bridge. So they would think they would want an area off but easy to get out of here. Then there is this area." He pointed to an area labeled docking bays. "Look I do not know where they could be but out of all the places those make the most sense." He did not say what he had on mind as he was sure they would not like it. There was nothing to do but go off he guessed. Aislinn was in change of group A so there was that and she took off ready to hunt The red society down.

 

Quill’s trance took several minutes of quiet concentration, collecting the shards of his old self was painful and he was not ready to confront it face on. But he needed this power again, even if it was going to be imperfect. Connecting to one’s core, the sturdy force of nature ever enduring is still within. As his Keyblade connected to his soul, a taint of corruption could be felt. This was his opportunity.

“Hotel, I got these yoctograms routed now. Null problem except for-” Quill burst in and glowed with a powerful aura. Quill slammed his Keyblade into the metal straight up and focused power through. The blade buried itself deep in “Grave Digger!” as the metal began to warp and rip as ashen gnarled tree roots burst from the ground. The ripple of massive re-dead plant life formed a line that slammed through and unheaved the computer consoles. The attack managed to knock Sho away from his setup and hit the wall, but he managed to recover. “Sh- sho-- you th- r-” The last sparks of power leaked out and the man looked up with a wry smile, clearly annoyed with Quill. “So much for ignoring you hectopascals, you’re not in that group of key-slingers correct? So what’s the beef?” The man began to radiate a strange energy, wings made of static began to form behind him. The remaining devices began to spark and levitate, along with the man himself.
“Well, I had urgent business but your group’s little ‘rave’ was a tad loud for me. So taking you down a peg went up on my priority list.” The man began to laugh. “So some bystander key dunce wants to get involved, well another player for my game is welcome. I’m your gamemaster Sho Minamimoto and now I’ll show you Infinite pain!”

Sho’s static wings shattered and orbs of purple electricity whizzed around the room, a torrent of voltaic explosions centered on Quill. Deflecting and blocking with his large Keyblade, the brunt of electric attacks were taken well. Quill’s theory about his carapace being non-conductive was correct. Quill rushed forward, manipulating the ashen roots from before with his aura, they began blocking Sho’s attacks. They formed a walkway up to Sho, Quill jumped along the roots and brought his blade down. But he wasn’t there, he had appeared behind Quill and shot an orb at his back. Quill swung again and he could see the static of his afterimage as another blast zapped Quill’s back. Quill swung again one handed but with the other grabbed the teleporting man's throat. “Ha, so you’re zetta slow but not stupid. That’s a plus.” Quill told him to shut up, and demanded the plans of his group. “Oh now you’re too zepto, look around you new kid.” Quill looked around the room and began to realize. The explosions were a distraction for the various creatures forming from black static. Monsters with mechanical augmentations began to surround the two, the smile on Sho’s face told everything “Test Number 1, begin!”

 

The minutes after the suddenly intense fight required a few minutes for her to mentally cool off. As people filed in and clarified exactly what was going on she looked around nervously to find Aux. If something terrible happened Karina probably would have mentioned it. Then Karina went into a long apology. Kaida stayed silent to get everything, pushing away the casual mentioning of stabbing for now. She reached out and put a hand on her shoulder and said, "Karina, this was clearly all a setup since we all got black-bagged here. This was going to be rigged no matter what, your father clearly just wanted you to be complacent. You can't take the blame for this when it isn't your fault. If you let yourself think it is your fault, he's won." she let go of her shoulder and said, "I'm sorry you had to go through what you did. I wish I could have been there to help. But what's done is done and your father clearly can't lie to us about this stuff anymore. We're here for you. Don't let him think we're not." Kaida's smile broke a second as she said with a mocking frustration, "And I can't believe I have to say this to anyone other than Aux but stop stabbing people."

 

Quill was backed into a corner, the creature Sho had summoned surrounded him. Sho himself floated above the room, clearly having the time of his life. “I see you understand your situation, we’re in control of your world, and frankly that world is garbage. Let's commence the Test, now die radian!” The beasts pounced on Quill as he took a deep breath and remembered. This wasn’t the first time the odds weren’t on his side.

Quill began by making some room with a wide swing, turning the slamming his blade into the ground to shake the room. Focusing on keeping his defense strong, his other arm began to form a shield and half plate from the chitin on his body [Paladin Form]. Quill’s shield caught the razors from a wolf creature, Quill pushed it off onto an incoming dragon creature. Both fell and were quickly slain as Quill jumped high and impaled them on the ground. He was then tackled into a wall by two bear creatures, their metallic claws scratching against his chest armor, holding him down as they attempted to gore him. Quill was quick to react “Aeroga!” wind burst around him and knocked the bears back. Two other dragons came in quick and attempted to bind him, Quill took the offensive and rushed forward “Barrier Surge!” as a barrier cloaked his body and deflected any attacks. Quill tackled a bear and started chopping, the blade finally decapitating the creature. Turning again, Quill concentrated his aura through his blade and threw his Keyblade into a group of monsters. “Strike Raid!” The Keyblade slammed through 5 creatures and ripped their forms apart. Quill began to notice that after they were destroyed, they would dissolve into some strange electrical noise. These weren’t normal heartless, there were something created from Sho’s control of electricity.

Floating above, beginning the process of reforming a computer monitor through magnesis, Sho said “You need to learn to multitask zetta scrub, the noise forms too fast for your big club. Sorry to say but you’re out of your vector.” A cackle rang out from him. Quill deflected attacks the best he could, trying to buy time. “Oh is my gamemaster worried about me, perhaps we can pause for a quick drink and snack.” Quill slammed another noise creature into the ground.
“Well I’d love to but my ship awaits, and you don’t seem like much of a good recruit for Nequa. You move like a rusted machine, where’s the beauty in that?” Sho began forming the computer back together and a brief signal came out. “S-h-o, pick u-” Quill acted fast and lobbed his Keyblade like a spear, impaling through the computer and hitting the ceiling near Sho. “Damn cheeky digit, alright Test 2 then!” Sho slapping his hands together. “Sine! Cosine!” Electricity formed in his hand “Inverse Matrix!" and again noise creatures warped, and became 3 chimera like creatures that took up most the room.
They began to slap Quill around, grabbing him with dragon tails and dragging him against the walls. Their maws broke through Quill’s shield and claws slashed his chest. Quill struggled to stay awake from the pain, but he needed more time. “Alright no more play time kitties!” Quill dug his heels in, grabbing hold of its tail. Quill leaned forward “Sliding Dash!” but instead Quill stood in place and spun, using the propulsion of the skill to spin himself and creature. One went flying and slammed into another, breaking through the doorway and deformed into static. “Ha, no one’s throwing me through another wall AAAGH'' A bolt of purple lightning pierced through Quill’s chest, breaking through the resistant chitin. Quill fell against the well. He coughed up smoke and blood, it felt like his lungs were on fire.
“Like I told you scrub, you’re out of your vector. So why don’t you sit down and let me work huh? I doubt you have other plans- what’s that look?” Quill smiled, this was the moment he had waited for. He noticed some time ago that Sho floats around absent minded, and he had ended up right under Quill’s Keyblade. “Oh, nothing important. Clay Maker!” From his Keyblade, a torrent of gray stone pillars came from above Sho, smashing into his spine and sending him hurling into the floor. The chimera attempted to pounce Quill, but fortuitously the attack had collapsed the ceiling. As well as a couple ceilings above, a metallic avalanche engulfed Sho, the chimera, and Quill.

 

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It was really starting to get hold hearing that he wasn't in the position to be making demands and other such nonsense. Like he had said before, that was the last thing he cared about right now. His sentiments haven't changed in the slightest since the last time he was told that.

With Nequa essentially being a harbinger of misfortune that always seemed to end worse for him, all of his encounters with her were basically engraved into his mind permanently. It started with Deep Jungle and the battle against those chameleon heartless and that jaguar, the Nottingham and the Guard Armor, Land of Dragon with Shan-Yu -more notably his bird- and lastly Camelot with Mim and Nequa herself.

Beyond the difficult battles and general pain that he was put through that her being around tended to signal whenever she was around, he realized the other common occurrence whenever she was around.

Bravo. That one singular word.

An immense sinking feeling was cast upon him up, bearing enough pressure to almost crush him right where he was restrained. Was everything that had happened to them, from the fall of Central Haven to being thrown into the Realm of Darkness to damn near dying against No Heart, was it all really because of him?

The final nail in the coffin was the Scarlett 'B' on his right shoulder and along with the pressure was a tightness in his chest. His head was spinning as the overwhelming wave of despair clashed with the anger towards Nequa that only intensified, resulting in him uttering a single phrase.

"Gods Dammit!"

 

Beuce listened silently to Karina's story. He felt bad for her and all she'd had to go through. "Karina, Kaida's right. It's not your fault. What happened would've happened either way. Your father probably just wanted to kill two birds with one stone and make you obedient by convincing you that you were to blame. I understand how hard it must be, but you need to try to not let him get to you. If you do, it only brings you closer to what he wants." Beuce couldn't help but feel a twinge of frustration at the bits about the arranged marriage. When she mentioned the part about stabbing her would-be fiancee in the neck, he felt an uncharacteristic bit of satisfaction. Once he'd overcome his brief lapse in heroism, He turned around. "Now, come on, let's get back to searching dear." He said with a smirk. She didn't honestly think he wasn't going to tease her a little bit, did she? ​

 

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He turned to Karina when she said, 'While you aren't necessarily wrong AJ, the best place to start is here in the prison block. Vanitas told Aux and I that he put our mothers in prison somewhere, and unless you want to face the wrath of Aux when he gets his wits about him.' There was never any mention of finding anyone other then the red Society. He touched his head with what was going on. He was somewhat frustrated with everything. The objective was to find the red Society from what he has been told. Beuce did not say anything to him so there was not much to do there. He absentmindedly followed Aislinn who was pushing rioting prisoners that had escaped back into their cell. He silently wondered if they were put here for a unfair trail too. There was nothing to do now but to let Aislinn do her thing while he thought of a plan to stop the red Society.