[@Letter Bee]
((Part 3 of collab between Rex and Letter Bee))

[i][b]Timeskip to when Alexios had finished his Story[/b][/i]

“Lecture?” Drake said before he sighed and followed Alexious into the tower. He saw the brooms serving tea and cookies. He sat down and took a cup of tea and asked, “How did you get the robots to look so much like brooms. I can’t even see the metal.” Drake was impressed at the craftsmanship and attention to detail to hide the metal. If there was even metal underneath. 

He sat down with the tea and watched Alexious summon a globe. Drake watched as the events unfolded in the globe as Alexious explained. When he was finished, Drake had finished his tea and ate three cookies. He sat back and sighed. It was all so much to take in he looked at Alexious.

“So you’re saying there was originally one earth, but because Ascot broke this X-blade. This caused the different timelines of earth? So the Multiverse theory is basically different earths. That would explain a lot and would be a reason why so many people think there’s more them one of them in the Multiverse.  However, this war over Kingdom hearts and the X-blade doesn’t surprise me. There can be different earths, but humanity will always be the greedy creature it is. Whether it’s my earth or another,” Drake said before he sighed and added, “This Keyblade that manifests from a person’s heart. You said it would come to them if their hearts are strong? So it selects its wielder. I’m guessing you’re recruiting these Keyblade wielders to save the different earths. However, I don’t have this Keyblade, nor have I seen these heartless you’ve spoken of.”

“Will this be a problem in my employment?” Drake asked.

Alexios Apokaukos laughed a little.

"Ah, but you [i]have[/i] seen the Heartless, and for that matter, the Nobodies. Those things you call Shadows? Those are Heartless, and while you can get a Keyblade [i]eventually[/i], that would require sacrificing the power of your Shadow self, a Shadow side that is dangerous anyway. As for the Nobodies, those are what you call the Nexuses." Another wave of his hand, and two more globes of fluid showed up, showing images of Tocsax and Seth in their centre.

"In fact, two Sapient Nobodies/Nexuses are part of the party you'll be joining." He then gave a short explanation on the nature of Nobodies, and how the sapient ones can regrow their Hearts and become Keybladers.

“So that’s what they’re called. So these heartless and nobodies can travel to the different earths and cause all kinds of chaos?” Drake said. This alone caused the image of the burning and destroyed laboratory to flash in his mind. Everything happened because of those creatures Drake thought as he remembered the insane pain that came with being infused with the Shadow Nexus.  He snapped out of his thoughts when Apokaukos mentioned his shadow side.

“How do you know about that?” Drake asked. He would have been worried, but somehow Apokaukos seemed like the type to do his research before conducting any type of action. He sighed and said, “this shadow side or as we call it the Shadow Nexus isn’t so easy to get rid of. It’s hard wired into my DNA. Many of our soldiers have genetically enhanced abilities. When your earth is so focused on science and technology, it becomes less of a curiosity and more like playing god. This is why I partly want to help. If we do travel to other earths, I can warn about the mistakes mine have caused.” Drake took a deep breath and sighed.

When Apokaukos showed him the two he called Sapient Nobodies he took a quick look at them through the globe before he looked back at Sapient Nobodies and said, “Can they be trusted. I mean, if they’re Nobodies. Who’s to say they won’t revert back into those creatures?” 

"Oh," spoke Alexios, "that is something you don't have to fear; it takes artificial means to revert a Sapient Nobody to a lower form. As for DNA, I've heard of something called 'gene therapy', but I'm assuming you wish to drop the subject. Either way, let me tell you about the Princesses of Heart and the Thirteen Seekers of Darkness, next..."

[b][i]Another Timeskip[/i][/b]

Drake listened to the next part of the lecture and when Apokaukos finished Drake stated, “So these princesses are basically the fragments of the X-blade or rather the light part. So did the light half morph into these princesses or did said fragments infuse into the princesses when they were children?” Drake said before he added, “as for the seekers of darkness. If they artificially create the dark parts of the X-blade. Would it really be that bad? If this X-blade is as powerful as you say it is. Artificial parts shouldn’t work. Unless they have something we don’t know about. I highly doubt they have an original dark part to the X-blade to clone or try to create others like it.”

"However, an artificial weapon might be a problem. It’s unstable and can cause more harm than the original product. Say they create an artificial X-blade, do we have a backup plain?” Drake asked. 

"Yes," spoke Alexios, "basically, we use the Princesses of Heart, or a sufficiently strong source of Light Magic, to turn Ascot's Heartless back into a Human."

“Alright, so basically the mission is to stop this organization from creating the dark fragments and create the X-bale,” Drake said before he stood up. He moved his sleeve up and looked at his watch. He pressed a button on the side and a hologram appeared from the clock face. He looked at Apokaukos and said, “Sorry, just got to check my inventory before we head out. I’m sure you want to go as quickly as possible to stop them. I just got to check my ammunition.” 

Drake scrolled through a list and nodded before the hologram disappeared back into the watch face he then said, “If we need something to carry anything in this mission we can use my T-watch. It basically digitizes what we need into it and can reform it when we need it. However, we I does has a storage limit and also a weight limit. So humans can’t be digitized nor can anything bigger than a car. I know where we can get more T-watches if need be, but for right now until I take out the weapons. It’s full.” 

Drake nodded before he looked at his watch again. The hologram came back and he pushed a few images on the hologram. The clock face glowed green before his Blaze Blue sword and its sheath appeared from the clock. He grabbed both and placed the sword in its sheath before he strapped it to his back. Seconds later his two Blue rose revolvers appeared from his watch and he placed them in their holders hidden on the back of his pants. Finally his AR Precisor P50 sniper rifle appeared from his watch he placed it on his back thanks to the magnet in the swords sheath. 

“Alright, I’m ready. Had to prepare. You never know when shit’s about to hit the fan,” Drake said. 

A nod from Apokaukos, before he said:

"Once you are done with that, let me send you to your destination; The Glory of France." And with that, he teleported Drake to the chamber in the middle of the Pyramid of Giza, in French Egypt!

[b][i]Relevant to Everyone[/i][/b]

"You know nothing of what I have experienced," spoke Hakim, "of the betrayals and privations I had to endure -"

Then he was interrupted by a sudden teleport, as Drake suddenly appeared in the room, surprising everyone!

"Who are you?!" spoke the eighteen-year old (in body) Sapient Nobody. "And, is that Apokaukos' magic?"