I'll Protect You No Matter What

Toil and Fear

My Pov

Tron lead us to the tower. That's when the hostile program the MCP created appeared.

MCP: "I'm disappointed in you, Program. Why do you insist on allying with these selfish Users?"

Tron: "Because I want to help them. Something written into my code commands me to do what is right."

MCP: "Really? And what command would that be?" Tron shrugged his shoulders. "I can't really say for sure."

Me: "Friends-They help each other, that's all."

Sora: "Uh-oh-look out!" The program shot beams from the spikes on its body to create solid walls around us. We were limited on space now. This program was tough. It would shoot these rays that would follow each of us and try to hit us. Each time one of us hit the program, it would drop clusters. After gathering enough, we could freeze the program. Doing this allowed us to do damage without being attacked. Me, Tron and Sora combined our attacks and destroyed the program.

Tron: "I really owe you one. With all my functions up and running, I think I've got a chance of getting system control away from the MCP. Now I'd better get to work. It's what my User would want."

Sora: "What Ansem would want..." Sora looked at Donald and Goofy who nodded. "Listen, Tron. We didn't get the password from Ansem. We sort of found it, back in the User world. By accident. And one more thing... Ansem-he was our enemy. I mean.. he still is... I guess."

Tron: "Well, actually... he's my enemy, too." That was surprising.

Me: "What do you mean?"

Tron: "Ansem took ENCOM's original system and customized it for his own use. I was part of the original system, and Ansem modified me. So that makes him my User." We nodded. "But Ansem is also the one who brought back the MCP. The Ansem I first knew wouldn't do that. I'm sorry I didn't tell you." I wanted to tell Tron that Sora was talking about an imposter, but I needed Mickey's help to explain.

Sora: "It's okay, but... now I REALLY don't get it."

Tron: "I don't... understand it either. But I think Users, like you, are going to be the ones who will finally figure it out. You have the ability to take illogical routes and still arrive to the answers you seek. No go-before the MCP starts up again! Any data you need from the DTD can be accessed directly through my User's terminal. I'll keep a dedicated access channel open for you. I changed the password, so you won't have to worry about the MCP for a while."

Sora: "Access channel?"

Tron: "I knew you'd ask." Tron pressed a button on the terminal. "It's an important link between our words. It's how we stay connected." We started to teleport back to our world. "You... my friends... are the new password." I felt touched that Tron had made us the new password.

Me: "Thank you, Tron. Be careful!"

Tron: "You too! And give my best to the Users!" We got back to the computer room.

Leon: "Look." On the screen was 'Thank you' in bold letters with little digital version of us.

Sora: "Tron... hang in there."

Leon: "It's asking for a password."

Goofy: "That's easy. It's..."

Sora: "Sora!"

Me: "Hikari!""

Donald: "Donald!'

Goofy: "Goofy!"

Leon: "That's... to the point." Leon accessed the computer. "I have to go into town. Feel free to use the computer." Leon left the room and Sora went to the computer.

Goofy: "Maybe we have to type something."

Sora: "Riku and Kairi!" Sora types their names. The computer flashes 'DATA ERROR'. "No way... Even Ansem's computer doesn't know." Goofy typed in Organization XIII and Nobodies but the result was the same. "Stupid computer!" Sora started pounding on the keys.

Me: "Sora, stop! You're gonna break it!" That's when a picture of a man appeared on the screen. Ansem the Wise.

Sora: "Who's this guy?"

Mickey: "Did you find anything?" Mickey walked into the room.

Sora: "Not really, but the computer pulled up a picture of some guy." Mickey took a look at the picture and jumped.

Mickey: "Ansem the Wise!" I was the only one not confused.

Sora: "Come on! Are you teasing us again?"

Donald: "Did you forget what Ansem looked like, Your Majesty?"

Mickey: "Of course I do! And this is him, I'm positive."

Sora: "Excuse me... could you come this way please?" Sora grabbed Mickey by the hand and dragged him back to the study. We all looked at the portrait. "See? This is Ansem. You know, the guy we all worked REALLY hard to defeat."

Me: "Sora, about that..."

Mickey: "I never did finish explaining. Well, the man in the picture is definitely the one who tried to take over Kingdom Hearts-the one you fellas defeated. But, what you actually fought was his Heartless. Ya see, he wasn't really Ansem. He just went around telling everybody that he was."

Sora, Donald and Goofy: "WHAT?!"

Me: "It's true."

Sora: "We went through all that work to defeat an imposter?"

Mickey: "Yep. A fake, but he still needed to be stopped."

Me: "And I believe his Nobody is the leader of Organization XIII." The longer I looked at the portrait, the angrier I got. I placed my hand on the painting and black fire sprouted from my hand. The entire painting dissolved into ashes. That's when the whole castle started shaking.

Mickey: "Looks like we need to start helping out here! He ran out of the study and we followed him soon after. What was going on?

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Zexion's Pov

We had managed to escape Saïx, but just barely. We watched as the swarm of Heartless began invading the bailey, just as we feared.

Larxene: "What's the next move?"

Lexaeus: "With this large number, the security gate won't keep them out for long."

Marluxia: "And then the town itself will be invaded."

Vexen: "The logical choice would be to help, but we'd be exposing ourselves."

Me: "We need to lend our assistance. Hikari and her friends will need every ounce of help they can get." With that, we began destroying any Heartless that crossed our path, lending our help to fight this war.

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Note: Okay, it's 7/30 has I'm adding this in this note. My dog picked up a baby possum that was alive. It didn't bite him, but I'm still a little scared. My mom told me about it when I went out into the living room and saw on the patio. If that's not enough, I saw a skunk in my front yard and a full grown possum walk right past my front door months ago and to top it off, possibly a family of bunnies is hiding under the shed in the backyard.