Kingdom Hearts: From No One to Someone

Omake: Vexen's Regret

(A/N: All omakes are canon.)

Erased timeline

Day before the members head to Castle Oblivion.

Vexen was busy writing down notes in his lab when a test tube suddenly burst into flames.

"Blast it! This is the third time today!" He yelled as he put the fire out with his cryokinesis. After that was done he quickly messaged his temple.

"Okay, what am I doing wrong. I have run this experiment 17 times today and the exact same thing has happened three times in a row." He groaned out. He was too busy figuring out what went wrong that he didn't notice someone entering his lab.

"Even." A voice said.

Vexen froze on the spot at the sound of the voice.

'Impossible...she's dead. I saw here die before my eyes!' He thought to himself. Unless...

"Even, Even!" The voice continued.

"Claire?" Was all he could say still in a stupor.

"Who's Claire?" Was all the voice said as it started to change. Vexen turned toward the speaker and widened his eyes at seeing a familiar sight before it started to change into the visage of his greatest creation.

"Xion, what are you doing here? I told you not to come in the lab when I'm conducting my experiments." He said in a much more cordial tone then around the rest of the Organization. After all she was the first successful Replica that he be created.

"I'm sorry, but Lord Xemnas has requested me to bring you out of the lab. He wishes to speak to you about Castle Oblivion." She said getting Vexen to nod.

"I see. Well tell him I'll be out in a few minutes. I just need to put away a few things first." Vexen said. It wasn't the complete truth as he only needed to put his notes away.

Xion nodded before she left the lab. Halfway through the door she turned back to face him.

"Who's Claire?" She asked again stunning the elder Nobody. " You called me that when I was in trying to get your attention." Vexen could only sigh at that.

"She was someone very close to me when I still had a heart. Sadly I lost her a year before I became a Nobody." He said solemnly. After that it was silent for about a full minute. He slumped into the nearest chair and went back into a stupor.

"Vexen..." Xion trailed of worriedly. He did treat her better then rest of the Organization besides Roxas and sometimes Larxene.

"I'm fine Xion, just go report back Lord Xemnas okay. I'll be fine." Vexen said as he tried to shoe her outside the lab. Xion complied with his request and took off out the door. Once it was shut, he snapped his fingers.

A Dusk appeared right next to him.

"You know what to do."

With that it bowed to it's liege and took off.

He had trained this Dusk to do this once a day for the past few years. It would retrieve a single item from the castle in Hollow Bastion and bring it back to him. After that he would summon it back to return the item back to it's rightful place. Everyday like clockwork. If he ever died then he had an artificial heart for the Dusk and orders to head to a peaceful world before to use it. Vexen didn't truly note that it would work, but after using it like this for years hoped it did or finally put the Dusk at peace.

It had been doing something that is very important to him for years after all.

It suddenly appeared with a steel picture frame in his hands.

Thank you, I will call upon you back in a few minutes." Vexen said. The Dusk nodded and vanished immediately after. He put the frame on his desk and looked at it.

It was a photo of him when he became an apprentice to Ansem at the age of 15 celebrating it with a girl about 4 years younger then her and his former master. All eating sea salt ice cream. He could only chuckle at her face when she tried it for the first time. Out of all of his apprentices they all quickly learned to eat the stuff with him and Xehanort truly liking it the first time they tried it. Though he did complain that it wasn't salted enough. Only Braig truly hated the ice cream.

He could only chuckle as she later join as an apprentice a few years later about eating the ice cream again, but she got used to it. She served as a guard around the castle and the two talked often.

To this day he still couldn't understand why she would change her name, but she only allowed those close to her to call her Claire.

Sadly she died right before his eyes ten years ago while saving Ienzo from that THING! He used her weapon to kill the bloody beast and then broke down into a sobbing mess cradling her.

After words he as found by Ansem and the other apprentices. When questioning why had the others not come to save her, his heart sank. He had ordered Dilan and Aeleus to guard the castle no matter what. Only Aeleus had disobeyed him and was too late when he arrived at the scene. Braig meanwhile had faced a similar threat on the other side of town and had lost an eye killing the beast.

At that all Even could do was breakdown as he knew it was partly his fault, because if he hadn't ordered them to stay put she probably would still be alive right now.

After that day he would become distant from everyone but Ienzo and later on Aeleus. He became absorbed into his research that he gladly continued to study the heart after Ansem had forbidden it.

When he became a Nobody that he would be free of the pain and suffering, but the memories continued to haunt him. So he studied any source of knowledge he could to restore his heart in his spar time. After he came up with the theory of Replicas he saw this as an opportunity.

A chance to bring her back.

So along with many other experiments over the years he tried to recreate her. Eventually he had almost stopped trying and began to focus more on other experiments. He also had nearly died a few times. With the latest being the compression devices he built out of an idea for an old book and spent 2 years gathering the necessary for the procedure. With Luxord' she'll he activated the devices and was nearly killed when they exploded on him. Vexen was lucky to get out of the blast radius, but not the Heartless and Nobodies he was testing them on.

He still thought he saw something come out of the smoke, but it faded from existence the next second.

Still he had some hope when he created Xion. After that it was easier to create Replicas, but not to the way he wanted. It wasn't until a few minutes ago that he now knew that he was closer then ever to bringing her back.

"Soon Claire, we will be reunited again, soon." Vexen said as tears started to pour from his eyes as he silently started to sob into his sleeves. He would soon compose himself to see Xemnas, but for now he would just allow the memories of happier days to pass and let his eyes run dry. For now he knew that he was close.

There was only one thing that he wanted to have more then a heart.

That was to undo his greatest regret.

To see his little sister again.

(Omake 1 end)

Mukuro7 here and I hope you enjoyed this omake.

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