[Episode 195163] [Episode 195163]It had taken interference in eighty two separate timelines, it had taken the impersonation of at least two hundred and sixty seven separate people, it had taken two chronological years, and decades of abstract years, but at last it was done. Crystal Tokyo never was. And that which never was, was nobody, and that which was nobody belonged to the twilight, trapped between the light and the darkness.
The temporal kinetic displacement caused by Crystal Tokyo's erasure from the timeline, had accomplished his goals greater than he could have imagined. Such a complex plan, some would say too complex for it's own good, but he loved complexity, or rather, complexity reminded him of the joy he felt looking upon at such works of fine art.
Zexion leaned back in the crystal throne in the middle of Tokyo That Never Was. He made a smile, he didn't feel happy of course, being an empty shell, he couldn't feel happy, but he could still play the part, and it was good to keep in practice.
Riku's clone had left him for dead along with Axel. Even the organization believed him dead. He had -crawled- from the basement, -crawled- to Twilight Town. And had there thanks to the kindness of strangers been able to slowly regenerate, open a dark gate at least, and return to his home. What greeted him was just a castle gutted by that witch and her lacky. His symbol in Proof of Existence utterly destroyed. He had come to Nothing Castle only to find it even more empty than it had always been.
All of them gone, all of them, he was alone. He saw Roxas' symbol alight and thought for a moment perhaps he was not alone. But tracking Roxas' scent to Destiny Island, only there he had learned the real truth. Roxas and Namine had abandoned the cause and had joined with their somebodies. Now he truly -was- alone!
But as long as one existed, the organization existed, and could be rebuilt.
Zexion searched far and wide for a way, until he happened upon one world, one that had yet to exist, but could exist, and in lay such power, if he could just have it!
That was when the Cloaked Schemer had created his plan. He would birth yet another World That Never Was. He would advert this timeline and make it like him.
He had taken the faces of countless wise men and sages, and other guardians of happiness and free will. All telling them a greatly revised version of this Crystal Tokyo...many of these timelines altered it, but none actually totally erased it... not the stopping of the Great Frost, in fact that had caused it to happen SOONER! Then there was the deaths of the Senshi's, but they just reincarnated! Even fusing a two timelines together hadn't been enough! But at last, at last, after finding a world with humanoids with beyond measure but with almost no skill or ability with sublimity, they had done it, were all else had failed, they had done it, they had prevented the existence of this Crystal City in the heart of a very much alive and living world.
And thus, it had vanished from it's spot in the light, and had appeared in the twilight. Zexion's domain. And with a new becon, others like him had come like moths to the flame.
First was a nobody who resembled Riku, and had no idea who Zexion was, weather this was in fact Riku's clone looking for a place for his heart to go, or a nobody created from Riku's heart being expelled by Xehahort, and Xehanort himself being expelled later...Zexion didn't know. But Kirux shared the clone's desire to see Riku vanish all the same, so he could become the real one.
The second nobody who came to this place, and thus was now Neo Number Three, was an odd one. Long bouncy brown hair, but that didn't mean much with forms changing slightly when a nobody was born. She recalled not being happy that she was the only one not targeted for having a good heart, and after working hard, was attacked by having a good heart, and felt so happy when she saw it leave her body... 'What a complete idiot this child must have been,' Zexion thought.
"But I remember something else, I remember the heart returning, but not to me, but to her."
Then it occurred to Zexion, this one might be like Roxas or Namine, a nobody with a somebody still alive... he hoped she didn't follow suit and betray the cause as well.
"Do you want to become real?" Zexion asked.
"Yes."
"Are you will to destroy her to do it?"
"Yes."
"Of course Nixma." Zexion said calmly. "Welcome to our family."
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