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[ordalias]

--stay!

[ Is that a distorted, but may be recognizable voice? Why, yes, maybe, to those who know her. There's heavy breathing, but it distances itself from the Gear, and there's surprised sounds from a Togekiss, Typhlosion, and Gabite in the background

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[shooterdude]

Help with what, Poppet?

[Snickering.

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[ordalias]

[ Stills. Now that's more familiar. A Keyblade flashes into her hand as she slowly turns to the voice. ]

Xigbar... [ You've got three seconds before she finds you and attacks you. Perfectly justified, in this case! ]

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[shooterdude]

What's the matter? Not happy to hear my voice?

[He's not hard to find. Just hanging around the Burned Tower, or hanging upside down from part of it to be precise.]

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[ordalias]

Doubt you'd help.

[ Finding a certain presence is a lot easier now than ever. It's faint, but she can find where this Xigbar is. Before she goes, maybe she can do this place a favor... ]

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[merelymad]

Help with what?

[the blue dress, the petticoat, and even the white apron might seem familiar should one sort through those memories you're holding, Xion-- but the dark hair? The blood spatters on the front of her dress? the equally bloodstained blade in one hand? perhaps the latter two are a little less dignified than one would expect of a Princess of Heart.]

[judging by a glance at the surface, however, Alice just might look mad enough to help out.]

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[ordalias]

[ Turns. That dress... She remembers that dress, through a haze of static and through someone else's eyes, yes, she remembers. But not the other features, no.

She takes a step forward. That bloodstained knife is a good, big indication. ]

Stopping myself.

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[merelymad]

Why do you want to? I would suspect that stopping yourself would be more of a hindrance than a liberation.

[as far as she is aware, Alice is still in Wonderland, and Xion is simply another figment of her own creation. a mental block of some sort, perhaps.]

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[ordalias]

It's the only way... to make things right.

[ Well, the only way in her head, as she's done this before. Does Alice usually have sort of casual, pleasant conversations with the things she fights? ]

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[titanite]

[ There's the sound of wings beating from behind you, Xion, as Bahamut lands and Fang jumps off his back. The voice - and Pokemon - is recognizable, but there's something wrong. ]

Help with what, Sunshine?

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[ordalias]

[ She almost starts at the large dragon, but when she sees it's Fang, she stops. Her head is bowed for a moment. ]

My... My situation. I need help stopping myself.

[titanite]

Might be able to help with that. [ She's confident in her own abilities, of course, but after her talk with Lightning about Xion's issues, she's wary about that "stopping" line. ] Stopping yourself from what?

[ordalias]

Fang... [ There's a plea in her note. She's banking on the first part Fang said, but she knows she's skeptical. ]

Please. Before I hurt others.

[tracemagus]

[he could feel it. he felt something before he could see exactly what it was, but a strong darkness sent a shiver up his spine. in one instant he was just fine as he made his way through the forest, and the next--]

...!

[he whips around as if paranoid, suppressing the urge to attack something that wasn't even there as he focused in on that feeling. darkness? ...no... that wasn't it. it was...nothing. nothingness within the dark. it was unlike anything the magus had felt before. he'd die. Emiya Shirou was going to die if he didn't find out what was coming his way. even if that was a lie, his instincts taught him that the nausea in his gut was always right. so when the hooded figure finally emerged from the corridor of darkness, speaking out to him in a distorted but decisively female voice. behind him, it snaps in his head and beckons his body to move as he takes a leap and turns around to face the figure emerging from the darkness]

What the...?

[though forcing himself to remain cautious, he couldn't help but let those words get to

[ordalias]

A puppet. Something that shouldn't exist.

[ He's the first guy she's appeared to, and maybe the one who will really help her. Her friends don't want to do it, understandably so, so maybe someone who she doesn't know, could probably be neutral to the situation and see the bigger picture... ]

You're going to help me. [ She raises a hand, and in a flash, summons her Kingdom Keyblade. ]

[tracemagus]

[the hooded girl... a puppet that shouldn't exist; his call was right in the first place, then. he was right to remain cautious. and yet... something was wrong. he knew nothing. nothing at all and that's exactly why he couldn't decide so swiftly. not yet, at least. if he was taught anything, it was that death was as easy to determine as flicking a light switch on and off. so long as he wasn't the light connected to that switch, he'd survive. tensing as she raised her hand, the moment she summoned her Kingdom Keyblade, the more he began to understand what she wanted]

A Noble Phantasm...?!

[was she a Servant? she didn't seem like one...yet he was deceived by Gilgamesh before him too. he couldn't be too careful. and if she was one, it was very likely that he was outclassed from the start. so for Shirou, there was only one option. whether he could avoid a fight or not, treat her as a Servant that could kill him if he dared to let his guard down once.

but...

"Please."]

Wait, hold on! I can't help you if you don't tell me how!

[was he

[ordalias]

[ It's a brief moment of hesitance, her hood looking down for a second. Could she force someone to kill? ... Yes, yes she could. She did it to Roxas, but that was for his own sake. And this is for his sake, as well as others, too, but to have someone else do the deed...

He seemed sincere. Nice. But niceness isn't... wouldn't be needed here. ]

This is how!

[ She charges forward at incredible speeds and bringing down her Keyblade on him. Lay down the pressure. Force them to think they're fighting a random monster...

It makes this easier that way. ]

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[nicepartner]

... What exactly d'ya need help with?

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[ordalias]

[ ... ffffffffff. ]

I... I need to fix something.

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[nicepartner]

[Sorry, Xion, but it's in Ash's good nature to help anyone he sees or hears!]

And what is that exactly?

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[ordalias]

[ Yeah! But Ash... oh dear, Ash, I don't think you can give the "help" Xion's seeking. ]

... I need to battle someone. [ Vague, yes. Intentionally so! Pokemon battle? Herp. ]