//------------------------------// // Zeke's Trials: 4/5 // Story: Balance // by BioQuillFiction //------------------------------// From the dull light of the DTN Ben emerged, and upon exiting into the rain, saw two things, Zeke, or was it Cript? The clothes were like Cript’s but it was Zeke’s face and hair color, and next to him, Kexez. The current bane of Ben’s existence. “And why the fuck is he here?” Ben asked while pointing to Kexez. “Cause I’d like to know before breaking him.” Ben growled. “Ben…” Zeke started. Ben noticed how Zeke was looking. Something he’d seen in himself before often, but never in Zeke. Broken. “I’m done.” “And why are you just suddenly giving up?” Ben asked with a frown. “Ben, I couldn’t stop him from taking two people! He’s already fused all of the Trixie’s together! Not even Eclipse wants to help! He called basically called defying this a lost cause! Eclipse said this! All I’ve wanted for as long as I can remember is to be normal, be unimportant… but look. My own BODY is fucking against me in this…” “Wouldn’t you be considered normal though?” Ben asked. “I mean, when you look at it our little group are all really stupid powerful.” He brought up. “I remember Syndrome’s words from the The Incredibles, and I quote ‘If everyone’s Super, No one is’.” Ben said. “So...wouldn’t that same thing apply here?” “Ben, not even you can do what I’m now having to hold more so back. Eight percent… Eight FUCKING percent, and that’s enough to erase multiple realities… Is that normal?” “Honestly?” Ben asked. “Yes. Yes it is. Also I haven’t fully explored Nothingness, not even close so that point is mute at this time. Also do you have any idea what fictional writing has made? I mean, you saying an arbitrary number can blow up multiple realities...that’s just normal when you think about it.” Ben explained. “Come on, I want you to name at least five characters from any source material that could destroy multiple realities without much effort, I’m pretty sure there are plenty.” Ben said honestly. “Can you?” Zeke asked. “Look… I’m done trying to defy this…” “Actually your being here does come of convenience.” Kexez spoke. “To start with Zeke, Dark Phoenix, a literal universal constant given physical form, The Presence which is literally DC universes God, I would say Superman but there are like dozens of variations on him, The Beyonders which are stupidly strong in the Marvel Universe and could easily destroy realities, and lastly, I can bring up either Deadpool or Batman because the both of them don’t have stupidly insane powers but they’ve destroyed universes.” Ben explained. “So there you go, and what do you want Kexez? Want to go more unopposed to piss me and a bunch of readers off or no?” “Hehe. Since when were you a fourth wall breaker? Heh. No, you see, in order for what comes next to be complete, we require someone's missing soul, and I understand you have a grim reaper in your group.” “Yes, not to mention I own the place you originally came out of.” Ben said to Kexez. “And when did I become a fourth wall breaker? When did your story become nothing but unopposed bullshit?” Ben frowned. “Even you must know this is getting retarded right?” “To a degree I suppose. So, what do you say? Once this is over, it’s just Zeke, the twenty so people who will be fused into him, and I will fade back to brain waves and nerve endings. So, want to put an end to me, this is your chance.” “I want to know what the hell is going to happen to my Trixie, since there’s the ever so small detail of she’s apart of my council and I lost one not a month in of my reign.” Ben frowned. “Seriously, do I just have to find a replacement now or what?” “Oh she’s still in there. It’s just a bit of a mess in that head of hers at the moment. She’ll awaken or find her way out in time, as for her job, well, not sure how you’ll pull that off.” Ben groaned and rubbed his temple. “If it’ll get this nightmare done with…” I grumbled. “Grell! Get out here.” Ben barked. Emerging from a DTN…extremely seductively, came the Reaper. “Why yes boss?” “Please...don’t do that again.” Ben said slowly. “But I need you to find a Trixie’s soul.” Ben said. “If you need details ask them.” I said while motioning to Zeke and Kexez. “Hm, Trixie… that Show Pony mare in the council, a reflection of hers no doubt. I’ll see what I can do.” He said, vanishing. About nine minutes later, he returned, rather beaten. “Crap. Did not expect it to be inside that curse reality. Well, here you go.” Grell said, handing Trixie’s soul over to Kexez then leaving. “Perfect.” Kexez said, a DTD opening next to him. “Come on Zeke, we have work to do. You wanna come Ben? I imagine you’ll enjoy seeing my end.” “You have no fucking clue.” Ben said. “But I’ll tag along to see what the hell happens.” The wolf said as he followed after the two. When they exited Ben noticed they were on a gummi ship, which to a degree made sense but the scale of this one was massive. He followed them into a room where nineteen different X-blades… nineteen different whole reflections worth of the same person fused into a single being and X-blade were resting. One spot was empty in this pattern, and then the center. “Okay, so first, we get you back inside your rightful body, aka, me, then just placed Trixie on the empty outer space, and stand in the center holding the X-blade. After that the remaining Embodiments, Eve included will appear here for their final fight, make it good for them, or make it quick, your call.” Kexez explained. “Sure.” Zeke said, emotionless. “So let me get this straight...you first need to become whole...then you can skip literally everything else after that?” Ben asked. “So you can literally skip parts of the problem here and make the problem a non issue anymore?” “The Embodiments can be and are to be dealt with today and here. Their Darkness must be set free to become whole with Kingdom Hearts, once Zeke takes in all this power, they will rush to him, and Zeke will become the long lost Admin of this Reflection, he will still be himself, but that title and rank will be his, as well as the power to back it up. Come the war, it’s just Spoiled and the clones and other experiments you’ll be dealing with. So take this as good, cause the primary threats will be gone, making this second Keyblade war more of simple fight for you all.” Kexez said. “But you just made the worlds biggest loophole here.” Ben said. “You are doing this on faith Zeke will continue to do what you planned, when he can just as easily say ‘fuck this, I’m out’ and completely ignore what you had all planned out.” The wolf explained. “And Zeke, are you telling me when Kexez literally gave you the worlds biggest out on getting power, your not going to take that out?” “I’ll use it.” Zeke said. “Kexez made one thing clear, when I fight for myself… I lose, and look where we are now… when I fight for others, I win. I’ll fight when or if I need to intervene… but I won’t use this power all the time.” “Then don’t take the power for your family, your friends. I know we all couldn’t give a single ounce of deep fried shit about how strong you are, but would you really want to have so much power you can barely be with them to begin with?” Ben asked. “Ben… How long has it been, on Daybreak, compared to your world?” “What do you mean?” Ben asked curiously. “The time. How long have you been on your world in your reflection compared to mine?” “Only a year.” Ben said honestly. “I have done both so much, and oh so little in only a year.” Ben said. “Only a year, huh?” Zeke sighed. “It’s been three on Daybreak.” Zeke said coldly. “In that time, I haven’t aged, and the infants, they're barely a year Physically. I and my kids are Keyblades Ben, the kids half. I don’t age… my kids, while they age, it’s slower. I was gonna outlive them all either way…” “So am I, and none of my kids are keyblades.” Ben said. “I’m the King of a universal constant, I’m basically immortal at this point. And even though I’m supposed to be like twenty normally I’m physically thirty years old because of that fucker.” Ben pointed at Kexez. “Not to mention I have millions of children, all of which I spent eighteen years of their lives because magic is just oh so wonderful. Age...it means literally nothing at this point. It’s fine to mourn for the deaths of those you’ll outlive, but does the time, energy, and experiences you spent with all of them mean nothing compared to that?” Ben asked honestly. “I’ll be living forever regardless. After this I’ll be home majority of the time. So at least I’ll be there for most of the time, seeing them age, grow up… die. At least I guess you’ll be there too then. So not that lonely.” “And so will the Foretellers, Eclipse and John.” Ben said. “A friend of Cript’s actually let me see the future...and you die peacefully, I don't know how strong you were but you died on your own terms.” Ben said honestly. “Not a hundred percent sure if I'm supposed to say this but fuck it, time is weird thing to begin with.” He said honestly. “And you think that’s all still the same. While the info I died was at least comforting, does that future include this event?” “No idea, I just saw parts of the future...like one where I'm the last one of our little group alive and then went insane and had to be killed by Cript.” Ben said honestly. “... Either way, maybe by then, I’ll be different. Who knows. Fate may be set in stone for me, but time is always altered.” As he spoke, Kexez began placing Trixie’s soul back in her body, the result made Zeke change to Trixie as a white light was pushed from her body, into Kexez, who fell to their knees while Trixie was out cold. As Ben was walking up to them, Kexez… Zeke, raised a hand, standing up. “The sooner I get what fate wants out of the way… the sooner I might have a chance at my own freedoms.” “You have your own freedoms right here, right now.” Ben said. “If you take those X-blades, your giving what Fate wants, if you leave right now you have all the time in the world.” Ben told him. “Do you take what Fate gave you? Or run back to your family and be happy with them?” “I’ll have to come back here at some point if I do run Xin.” Zeke said, Trixie’s body changing into it’s X-blade form, two crossed Starseeker Keyblades with her signature hat and cape on them. Zeke picked it up, and placed it in its place, the circle on the floor began to glow. “Better to get it over with now, than just run from it knowing it’s gonna come either way.” “I call bullshit.” Ben said. “This!” He motioned to all the X-blades. “Isn’t for you, it’s just Kexez trying to pull some bullshit out of his ass. For the first time in your life, you literally have a chance to tell Fate to go fuck itself and leave, this won’t ever come back. This is all Kexez, Fate has nothing to do with this. So please, do it for them.” Ben said while motioning to the twenty X-blades. “If you take them, your being selfish. Leave now, and let them go. Those are twenty people that didn’t ask for any of this, are you going to harm them because of selfish reasons? Or are you going to let them all go and save them?” “True...but then, what bout them?” Zeke motioned to the twenty. “I’m hearing, seeing his memories Ben. Kexez made them like this… and they can’t be like they were before… Their bodies are X-blades now but not like mine. At least as me, they CAN have a body. As chaotic as it may be, it’s better than stuck like that for all eternity.” He spoke, walking to the center. “Oh no you don’t.” Ben said while grabbing his arm before he got to the center. “There has to be another way to solve this. You have all his memories, he must have put a way to reverse this right?” Ben asked. “None that I’m seeing at the moment. Though, for some reason there’s one thing that keeps popping up since I took back my body.” “And what’s that?” Ben asked curiously. “Dunno, I think it’s a name or something. Anathema?” ”Passcode accepted” “Oh fuck.” Zeke and Ben both cursed as one metallic claw grabbed Zeke while the other grabbed Ben and tossed him out the door, where all the remaining Embodiments stood around him. “You would be smart to stay down.” One of them spoke. “Go fuck yourself.” Ben said while getting up and readying himself for a fight. “Ben.” Through them, came Eve, standing before Ben. “Now, you’re being selfish.” “Bullshit.” Ben frowned. “What part of any of this is me being selfish? I’m helping a friend damn it, and if your saying this because you want to die, then what stopped you before?” Ben asked. “Me and several others have X-blades if that’s supposed to be some hidden requirement here for whatever damned reason.” “Because when we could have died before… we would have never been whole. Dead, yes, but whole… no. Ben, we are Kingdom Hearts Darkness, if we had died before now, we’d die without realizing that we belong someplace… One of us is dead yes, but he is with us.” Eve said, one of the others carrying a black orb of darkness. “We just want to return to where we came from, but for that,” She looked into the room, the X-blades now entering Zeke's body. “We need a body.” “Cause...fuck it why not.” Ben sighed out. “Christ, fine, whatever. Not like I wanted my friend to not be seen as perfect for fucking once.” Ben grumbled. “Is Lord Perfect? Is Cript?” “Pretty much yes.” Ben said. “And if they aren’t then they could easily make themselves that.” “Heh, then you still know so little. You look at them in terms of power and see them as without flaw, but even the oldest of us are still different.” Eve said, looking back into the room. “You may want to hit the floor now.” She said, Ben looking around and it looked like Zeke was gonna explode. “And you missed the part where I said ‘if they aren’t they could easily make themselves that’.” Ben brought up as he just did not care. “Plus, ‘perfect’ can be seen as a lot of things, like having everything go there way like when Spike magically came back to life because Deletes mean basically nothing anymore.” Ben said, remembering when Cript’s Spike was somehow reborn when Deletes are supposed to be just that. “Or just being too stupid strong that everything becomes a Non-issue. And hey guess what those two can do.” Ben said honestly, putting up a quick shield spell just in case. The explosion made Ben’s ears bleed. His healing factor barely able to keep up with the force of the explosion. “Ow…” Ben muttered while casting a healing spell on himself to heal his ears. “Everytime with the ears…” When it ended, The once glass looking view into space was now shuttered closed,and the Embodiments, missing. Looking into the room Zeke was in, he saw… darkness. Purest darkness blocking the doorway. Then from behind, he felt and saw a familiar light. Despite the shutters closed, this light bled through. “Uh...you okay there?” Ben asked worriedly. Suddenly, the shutters were ripped away by the light, revealing Kingdom Hearts as it’s source. The Darkness flowed passed Ben, and he saw it dragging Zeke with it to the giant heart. Zeke seemed unconscious from the event, the darkness then set Zeke a drift between it and Kingdom Hearts, and the darkness formed itself into a heart shape as well. “Well…” Ben took a step forward. “Zeke’s gonna be super pissed when he learns he can’t ever have character development anymore.” The Dark Heart and Kingdom Hearts then collided, this energy sending, no, shooting code, light, darkness, and grey in all directions. The event blinded Ben, and when the event seemed to pass, he looked out. Zeke was afloat, his hair now a mix of blond and a glowing gold and blue. Ben rushed to grab him, and when he did, saw a single crown tattoo on his forehead, and chain tattoos running from his wrists up to his arms. From there his clothes blocked the rest. “Well...congratulations, life really doesn’t like you.” I muttered while summoning No Heart. “Hey, say hello to your new dad...I think.” Ben said to the X-blade while holding up Zeke’s unconscious body. Zeke then opened his eyes, a bright, blinding blue light coming from them. “AH CRAP!” Zeke yelled, falling out of Ben’s grasp. “Too bright, fucking hell!” He shouted, rubbing his eyes to try and stop their glowing. “She blinded him with Science!” Ben said in fake shock, making a reference he’s pretty sure Zeke wouldn’t understand. As Zeke managed to get his eyeball spotlights turned off, Ben noticed Zeke’s eyes weren’t red, or blue. They were now an emerald green. “Fucking hell, you’d think that wouldn’t affect the person doing it.” Zeke muttered. “So, how does no future character development feel?” Ben asked. “Cause you know, you now have the power to make everything a Non-issue?” “Well for starters… I can literally feel and see everything literally EVERYONE is doing… WAY too many people watch porn…” “Hey when you have the free time.” Ben said while helping Zeke up. “So...your now Kingdom Hearts huh?” “Ugh, seems so- Holy FUCK! Your wives are horny, and Unum in EVERY reflection is sex mad… Oh god I see and FEEL them having sex with your clones! Ugh! That’s an image that’s never going away.” He said, rubbing his eyes and walking. “Have fun watching all that with over two thousand wives...and I’m pretty sure I’m going to get more when I world travel cause why not.” Ben laughed. “And if memory serves, my Unum is a blackened skeleton from what Joy figured out.” “Oh Gee, thanks!” Zeke said, giving Ben a punch in the arm… that snapped his whole body in two. “Oh FUCK!?” “Well fuck you to then.” Ben said while magic was oh so helpful and got him back up fully healed. “So have fun never touching anyone ever again.” Ben said honestly. “Note, I did try to stop this, but...well it was too late.” “Fuck… I’m gonna need to learn how to better utilize this crap… Jesus… this is so weird… You let your wives pull your tail to orgazim?” Zeke said, bursting out in laughter. “I fucking hate you.” Ben grumbled. “Hey Cript, I know your there, mind helping Zeke here learn his new powers?” Ben called out, knowing full well he’s there. “Also, again, have fun making everything a Non-issue.” “Heheh… maybe this won’t be so bad.” Zeke said, finally stopping his laughter. “I mean the ear biting I get but the tail? Seriously?” “Sh-shut up!” Ben barked with a massive blush. “You probably do that for some weird reason as well…” He grumbled. “I don’t even have a tail, and even when I did rooming in Trixie’s body I didn’t let it get pulled to achieve bliss.” “Yeah well you’ve done some freaky shit for no reason.” Ben huffed. “Hehe. Can’t lie there. Man this seeing what and feeling what they are doing thing is weird… That includes Keyblades.” Zeke said, noticing the chain tattoos around his wrists. “What’s with this?” He asked, looking around his arms, legs. That chain tattoos going all along his body. “Weird.” “A little, but that just means your chained down by bullshit.” Ben said honestly. “But hey, are you happy now?” “I’m a little happy I can literally embarrassed all of you whenever, so that’s something to look forward too. Other than that… no. No I feel like there’s not enough booze in this reality I could drink to get me buzzed.” “Ask Cript, I’m sure he’s got something.” Ben said honestly. “But yeah...this all happened.” “Hmm…” Zeke thought, looking over his new tattoos. He summoned X, and to his and Ben’s surprise, the X-blades Keychain was linked INTO Zeke’s arm, right over the Tattoo. “Oh… well that’s weird.” “Oh...I get it.” Ben said. “You are literally connected to all keyblades now...and that includes their keychains.” “...Well fuck.” Zeke said, dropping X as the weapon dangled from it’s link into Zeke’s arm. “What’s weird is that doesn't feel as heavy as it should.” “Again, you have the strength to make literally everything a Non-issue.” Ben said. “So weight doesn’t mean much.” “Still… So… what now? Oh right, house dad… gonna need to learn to hold back on this scale… you already called Cript?” “I called out physically, thinking he was already here but,” Ben said while taking out his Assistant and calling Cript through that. “Let’s hope he’s free, I mean he should be because of this.” “Cript appeared next to us. Yawning. “I was sleeping, what’s up?” “Zeke here is the new Kingdom Hearts, tell him what he’s won.” Ben said while motioning to Zeke. “Hang on, let me wake up more.” Cript said, taking a deep breath. “Well, you’ve won a one way ticket to no more exhilarating fights, total alcohol immunity, and all consuming depression.” Ben wanted to bring up something more about this but didn’t because he thought that would be a bit too much. “Yeah...that’s what happens when you become that strong.” He said honestly. “Fuck…” “That’s a surprisingly good coping mechanism.” Cript said. “Oh… good to know?” Zeke pondered. “So, mind helping me… figure all this out?” “Dude, we’re the same person. Once your body adjusts to itself your powers can be as less or as much as you need on command.” “I mean, after the crippling depression sets in.” Ben brought up. “I’d say four days or so and your abilities will all be set in. Here.” Cript said, placing an Assistant on Zeke’s arm. “This will come in handy.” “Guess I was gonna get one sooner or later.” Zeke said, looking the device over. “True.” Ben said honestly. “Better everyone has an amazing computer on their wrists at all times.” “So what do I do for four days til these abilities and such set themselves in?” Zeke asked. “Well you do have the combined Reflections of Twenty people who match you in terms of Balance, plus an Admin. You could sleep/meditate for four days to pass the time and speak with them.” Cript offered. “I guess that would be smart.” “That would be for the best.” Ben nodded. “Good, enjoy the sleep.” Cript said. “Wait, wha?” Zeke said, Cript snapping his fingers as Zeke fell over, asleep. “Sleeping spell. Welp, enjoy the calm, cause it will still be awhile before your next ‘storm’.” Cript said, picking up Zeke. “I’ll just drop him off with his family.” “Alright.” Ben nodded. “But...can’t wait to see how stupid strong he really is.” “You might not get the chance.” “Why do you say that?” Ben asked curiously. “As an Admin, Zeke can’t fight in certain events within this realm, which is now his domain. He’ll know automatically and his body will immobilize him if he tries to defy it. All he might do come the second Keyblade war is reform all your realms into one and make them one world again.” “I thought you were doing that?” Ben asked curiously. “I’ll be reforming ALL of creation, not just this realm.” “Right then.” Ben nodded. “But yeah that Admin rule? Yeah I’m just gonna call bullshit real quick on that.” Ben said. “I don’t know much about Admins but the ‘rules’ you people have are either vague or nonexistant from what I’ve seen and heard.” “Heh, Admins didn’t make those rules. There’s always bigger fish.” Cript said, opening up a portal and walking into it, Carrying Zeke. “Point still stands though.” Ben said while opening up a DTN. “Well today was a bunch of...things.” Ben muttered to himself.