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"Uh..." Vic groaned as he awoke. He sat upright, feeling a crick in his neck that he immediately started stretching to treat. He slowly got to his feet, and glanced around. It was only now that he realized he was no longer in Twoson Town. Eyes widened as the boy's gaze darted around, almost in a panic. Where was he? Where was this? What happened to Twoson? Terrence? Ashley? He saw no one around, at least none he recognized. Finally he looked up at a darkening sky and saw the portals. Heartless? So even here, in this strange place, they were still present? He took a few running steps in the direction of portals, intending to fight again. He stopped, however, he saw a particularly large portal appear in the distance only to produce a giant humanoid machine.

Vic swallowed hard. He'd seen some Heartless before, but whatever that machine was was something else entirely. He also suddenly started feeling a sharp pain in his mind. Someone was projecting their thoughts and feelings and doing so with an almost dangerous intensity. Vic clutched his head, finding himself unable to move or concentrate. This went on for some moments until, all at once, it stopped. During that time, Vic had seen some images pop into his head. None of it seemed recognizable, and probably came from whoever had been projecting it. Still, Vic breathed a sigh of relief at the thought of the mental pain finally being gone. Then he steeled himself and started running again.

The closer he got to where the machine appeared, the more hectic things became. Soon Vic found himself under attack, not by the machine but by Heartless instead. He reached out a hand, remembering that the Moogles once told him that his Keyblade was the only thing that could permanently defeat a Heartless. Vic tried to summon his Keyblade... but nothing came. This was confusing, and unfortunately the boy had little time to think it over. Instead he frantically put up a PK Shield to keep from being pounced on, then countered with PK Fire. Then he tried summoning the Keyblade, but again nothing happened.

[i]Is it because I'm alone?[/i]

Now Vic was starting to become afraid. With the Keyblade, he at least knew he had a means to actually defeat these monsters for real. But it was gone, he couldn't get it to appear and he had no idea why. His only idea was that his friends were the reason he could summon it before. They did give him more strength than he felt he had on his own. Where were they? What happened to them? That was beginning to worry and frighten him even more than the Heartless. Speaking of, the Heartless went on the attack again, but Vic was able to put up another PK Shield to keep them at bay.

[i]What do I do? How did even I get here? What's going on?[/i]

The fear in him grew, causing him to begin projecting his thoughts as if instinctively. It wasn't like when the machine appeared. Vic's thoughts were scattered, frantic, but most of all they were more like a trickle compared to the torrent that was Amuro Ray earlier. And unlike Amuro... everyone could feel these thoughts projected to their minds. This may have been similar to the Gundam's pilot, but most definitely not the same.