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[h3]Kunad Highway[/h3]
[@Lugubrious] Demons | [@Dark Cloud] Benedict Pascal | [@TruthHurts22] Razputin Aquato
[b]Word Count:[/b] 621 (+1 Exp)
[b]Level 3 Roxas[/b] (15/30)
[b]Exp:[/b] 15 + 1 = 16/30[/center]

Roxas saw his friend Raz be kicked away. While he was certain the Psychonaut was probably fine, he still felt compelled to help his new friend back on their feet. Hearing the Turk explain his reasoning, it reminded Roxas of someone. A person who held very similar beliefs once upon a time, so much so that he had no qualms about making people disappear just because it helped him reach his goal. He thought back to him, DiZ in his red robes and the secret lab he occupied underneath the Twilight Town Mansion.

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[i]"Just tell me why!" Roxas shouted at the man demanding that he disappear, "I need to know! I DESERVE to know!" and of course DiZ's words had burned themselves into Roxas' memory of that time. He could recall them even now.

"A Nobody doesn't have the right to know, nor does it even have the right to BE."

"...I hate you SO much!" Roxas had said to him, unable to attack him as the man was actually just a digitized version of himself.

"You should share some of that hatred with Sora," DiZ said coldly, "He's much too nice for his own good."

"NO!" Roxas shouted, "My heart belongs to ME!"[/i]

"So that's it?" Roxas asked after he returned from his thoughts of the past, "The ends justify the means, huh?" he glared at Benedict, but did so as if he were seeing [url=https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/kingdomheartsfanon/images/9/94/DiZ.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20100701154925]someone else[/url] standing there in his place, "You're no better than The Organization!" he said, raising his voice and even pointing a Keyblade in the man's direction. But while he was technically saying these words to the Turk he was currently fighting against, they sounded like words he'd been wanting to say to that other person for some time.

Perhaps this was something that had been buried deep down all this time? And perhaps this had simply been the chance he'd been subconsciously waiting for to get those words off his chest? After all, he never did interact with DiZ again after talking to him in that laboratory. So maybe there were issues there that were in need some closure?

But the visage of the man he had once hated evaporated, and Roxas instead saw the Turk once again. More specifically he saw the faint glow of red coming from behind the man's glasses, "Right, of course." the Keyblade Wielder said, his voice calming and his anger finally appearing to subside, "This is all [i]His[/i] doing, isn't it? I'll bet that -  deep down - your Heart is crying out to be freed." his gaze became steeled with resolve and determination, "So go ahead and send every demon or G-Man you've got at me! I'll fight them all if I have to, if that's what it takes to free you. And [i]that[/i] is my promise!"

However determined he was and however well he would have fared against the entire enemy force, that was all about to become a moot point. Nearby, Giovana warned them all of incoming wild trucks. And once Roxas spotted them, he understood the reason for the warning. They looked like they were coming to crash right into the convoy head-on. Definitely something they didn't want to experience. Perhaps escaping was going to have to become the priority.

"Looks like we're running out of time," he said to Raz if the Psychonaut was still nearby, "any ideas in that brain of yours?"