My little… AXEL???- part one: the punishment

On top of the highest point of the nobodies’ castle, Xemnas, Xigbar, and Xaldin were found. Roxas, the key blades chosen one escaped, but this was not the problem they were discussing. Axel, unaware that he was being watched from a distance allowed Roxas to escape.

“Your minds made up?” he asked as his best friend past him by.

“Why did the key blade choose me? I have to know!”

Axel stopped leaning on the wall to face his friend and yelled “you can’t turn on the organization. You get on their bad side, and they will destroy you!”

Roxas stopped, cocked his head slightly in his friend’s direction and said “no one would miss me!” he walked off, leaving Axel friendless. After a moment, he said “that’s not true! I would…”

Meanwhile, Xemnas turned to face his comrades and said “did you hear that? He would miss his friend. What a pointless statement. To miss is to feel, and to feel would mean he has a heart… we all know he does not have one. And now, our key blade master has escaped. Axel will pay dearly for this lack of forceful responding… but first, he has one mission to do. Tell our injured companion, Saix, he did a commendable job for at least trying to stop Roxas, and tell Axel to go retrieve Xion."

Axel, as we all know retrieves Xion, and brings her back. The next day, however, no one remembered who she was, or that she was even in the castle! That mission was supposed to relieve any punishment for his negligence. But it having never happened in the memories of any of the Nobodies gave the organization no choice but to punish Axel!

He was summoned to the top of the castle where Xemnas and Saix were.

“What’s this all about?”

Xemnas, who had been staring at the moon, turned and stared at Axel.

“… what… did I do something wrong?”

Xemnas simply turned to Saix and said “for your courageous act of at least attempting to stop the key blade wielder, I am allowing you to take the day off.” He then turned his vision to Axel. “I expected better from you, Axel…”

“Oh please. How was I supposed to know he would try and escape?”

“You were right beside him as he left. He passed right by you, and you did nothing. We are an organization, and we have rules. It was not Saix’ mission to attempt to stop the key blade wielder from escaping, but he still tried. You, as I said, did nothing.”

Axel stared at the floor, pondering what punishment he would receive. “So, what’s going to happen now??? Are you going to turn me into dusk? Make me fade away?”

“Your punishment will be your mission for the next two days. We still need you for certain jobs like assassinations. You will visit a new world tomorrow. It is a world that has no gummi route linked to it. The only way to enter it is through a dark corridor which only I can manifest.”

“Huh, fair enough… what’s this new world called?”

“Equestria… you will be sent there to do recon, and to recruit other nobodies that you may find. Also, it is a good idea to spread darkness to this new world, but of course, we will strip you of your powers and your weapons. You won’t need them there.”

Saix walked to the stares and left, leaving Axel there with Xemnas.

“So, all I have to do is tough it out in this new world?”

“Indeed.”

With this conversation over and done with, Axel left. He spent the whole rest of the day in his room.

“How did this happen?” he asked himself while he lay in his bed. Sitting up, he suddenly noticed a small piece of paper sitting on his window sill. Getting up and wondering over to it, He picked it up and turned it over to see it was a letter. He opened it up and found an ice cream stick that said “winner” across it. It was from Roxas!

He stood there, staring at it for a while before putting it away. The night was cold, and Axel found it hard to sleep. He caught himself talking to himself in his mind a few times.

Equestria… if I’m not mistaken, that was the place that the boss went to years ago.

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A dark corridor opened as Xemnas exited Equestria, Limping and teetering on the edge of fading. The corridor slammed shut and sent gusts of wind spraying behind the Nobody! Xigbar, number two of the organization asked in a sarcastic tone

“had fun?”

“Seal off that world. The threat there is unbearable… cursed… key blades!”

That night Xigbar did as he was told, but more holes that led into the world were still present.

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Axel thought about how he received news that Xemnas had been felled by not one, but two key blade wielders! He would have to be careful not to run into one of them.

His door opened and Saix entered.

“Don’t I have any privacy in this castle?” Axel asked.

“You are to Report to the lounge. Your mission starts shortly.”

He exited the room. Axel got out of his bed, and proceeded to the lounge. Once there, his fellow organization members were their doing what they normally do. Luxord was playing what appeared to be Gin with Xigbar. Xaldin stared out the window at the heart shaped moon. Demyx plucked some strings on his sitar, and Saix waited at the far end of the room, staring blankly at the drowsy Axel. As soon as he entered the room, everyone momentarily stopped and stared at him.

“Well, good morning to you to!” he said with a sigh.

Walking up to Saix, Axel thought “all I want to do is to just hurry up and get out of here.”

Saix told Axel to wait for Xemnas. “He will be here momentarily.”

“…So, how did it feel having your ass kicked by a kid” Axel asked teasingly.

“You would be wise not to irritate with me. I may convince Xemnas to make your punishment even longer than it already is!”

“Oh, come now, Saix. You don’t honestly believe I would leave for today’s mission without at least hearing about how Roxas walked right through you as if you were never there, would you?!”

Saix closed him eyes, now content on ignoring Axel.

“You’re no fun…”

Xemnas entered and approached Axel.

“Your chakram’s.”

Axel turned to face Xemnas, extended his arms, and summoned his weapons. Flames circled his arms and formed into the materialistic weapons he used on missions every day. He handed them over.

“Now then,” Xemnas said as he raised his hand. It looked like he was clutching some sort of invisible orb. The spikes of nothingness seeped through xemnas’ hand. Axel felt his magic wither away as flames poured from his body and into the void of nothingness.

“You will get your power and weapon back once your mission is complete.”

Axel turned and waited for the corridor to open. When Xemnas stalled, Axel asked “am I going, or not?”

“… The key blade wielders of this world can detect the dark scent that is seeped into your skin. Keep a low profile, and do not be caught. The corridor will open once more on the second day during the night. Once the sun sets, you have two hours to return to the corridor. Otherwise, we will assume the worst and close it, sealing you inside the world forever. There will be no escaping.”

“Are we done here?”

Without answering the rhetorical question, Xemnas opened the corridor for Axel, and he departed. Once he was gone,

Xigbar asked Xemnas if it was a good idea to send Axel to that world.

“It was your idea to do this. If you’re feeling regret, it is too late now.”

“You know I can’t feel.”

“Then why are we having this conversation?”

with that, Xemnas left the lounge.