Someone really wishes this was all a dream...

[thirteenth_brat]

Who: Roxas and anyone who encounters him
What: He needs to figure out who's evil and who's not. He's wandering around while he works out how best to figure this out.
Where: Anywhere, though starting by the vending machines
When: Noonish
Warnings: Depends on who tags him, so, possibly violence and/or language



This was a fine mess they were all in. Shunted into a mirror universe with some people taking on their mirrored personalities and some not, it was difficult to tell who could be trusted and who couldn't. Roxas knew for sure that Pinkie Pie hadn't been mirrored... mostly because she wasn't bothering to pretend and had gone and pretty much broadcast it over the Cambot network. Vanitas and Selphie hadn't been either, but they'd arrived after the jump and were stuck up on the satellite with the mirrored Mads where they really couldn't help. He suspected it was possible that Minako hadn't been mirrored, but it was hard to say. Other than that, he knew for sure that Sora, Riku and Ven had been mirrored from observing their interactions with Vanitas and Sora's recent message over Cambot bitching about all the talking and how it had better be picking out an experiment. After that, he was clueless, though he could think of a few people he hoped weren't mirrored. He'd told Vanitas flat out that it could be problematic if Aqua had been mirrored. He didn't even want to consider Xion or Namine mirrored...

'This couldn't suck any worse,' he thought as he poked about the vending machines. He'd been looking around to see if his mirror self kept a journal of any kind, but so far had turned up squat. After a while, he'd given up. He didn't keep one himself (time in the Organization didn't count) and it had only really been wishful thinking to hope that his mirror self did. It would have been helpful, but there wasn't one so he was going to have to wing it. Sighing, he got a bag of pretzels and a soda out of the machine and headed off to look for someplace to hang out that was hopefully out of the way. He was pretty sure an encounter with Sora right now would blow his cover, assuming no one suspected already that he was behaving strangely.

Maybe the library would be worth poking around it, since this place seemed to actually have some good literature on hand. Not to mention he already knew someone else's diary might be stashed there and a little research might be needed to get that person's help with getting out of this universe.

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[optimistickey]

That punch had felt good, and Sora was ready for a fight...but he wasn't ready for Roxas to immediately go for the low blow and kick him below the belt. Mirrored or no, blunt trauma to the groin was terribly painful no matter what, and Sora nearly collapsed onto his knees with a sharp grunt of pain.

It took him more time to recover from that retaliation, and when he did, he didn't have any response for Roxas. He just gritted his teeth in rage, and while he was down low, drove his fist hard into Roxas's stomach with the intent to knock the wind out of him.

[thirteenth_brat]

While Roxas was better prepared for the incoming hit this time, it still knocked the wind out him. Not fun, but it wasn't going to put him down either. It did give Sora a little more time to recover, though.

At least Roxas was ready for wherever this was going to go, hopefully. He had noticed that here in the mirror verse, Sora seemed to be a bit stronger and it was possible this could end badly. Just how badly was the question...

[optimistickey]

Sora took advantage of the time given him by Roxas recovering from his last punch. Unfortunately, the kick to the groin had turned this little fight from something more common to something more rage-inducing, at least on Sora's side. He growled, managed to get to his feet again, reached up and gripped hard around Roxas's jaw, while raising his other fist. He looked prepared to deal Roxas another blow...something that would hurt a lot.

"You're going to regret that, Copy."

[thirteenth_brat]

Oh this was going to hurt more than Roxas had been expecting. He'd expected retaliation to come quick. He hadn't been expecting Sora to more or less grab him by the neck to hold him for the next blow. He also hadn't expected the words that had accompanied it.

He would worry about responding to that after breaking out of Sora's grip... if he could. Here was where the difference in strength presented a problem. The best he could hope for was to try to block the incoming punch with one hand while trying to pry his way out of Sora's hold with the other.

Could this get any worse?

[optimistickey]

If he had his Keyblade, Roxas would have been in an even greater world of hurt. But even without it, he could still inflict a lot of pain.

And he did, starting with a hard punch in the jaw made worse by the fact that he still had him by the neck. He followed it up by bringing his knee up into Roxas's ribcage.

[thirteenth_brat]

If they had their Keyblades, this fight might be going a little differently, though probably not by much.

By what what miracle that punch neither broke his jaw nor knocked any teeth, Roxas didn't know. What he did know was that it hurt like hell and the follow up knee to the ribs cracked something at least. Two could play that game though, Roxas kicked out, aiming for Sora's gut. He was pretty sure another nut shot was a bad idea, given the response to the first... even he had felt somewhat justified in the first one since Sora had gone off and punched him with almost no provocation.

So it had gotten worse and Roxas couldn't help feeling that there was still more that could go wrong...

[optimistickey]

That kick in the gut definitely hit home, and Sora grunted in pain. This was definitely more than their usual brawling, but considering the fact that he seemed to be winning, Sora almost didn't mind.

Hyped up on adrenaline from the fight, Sora ignored the pain in his stomach and grabbed up Roxas again, this time by the collar. He then turned, and moved to smash him into the wall. Even shielding himself from the impact, Roxas would likely feel a lot of that.

[thirteenth_brat]

Son of a bitch! How much stronger was Mirror Sora exactly? Roxas was finding out the hard way. On top of that, Sora was clearly enjoying this.

Getting smashed into the wall certainly did nothing for his situation, unless making it worse counted. Any effort to shield himself from impact was still going to see him getting hurt. In this case, throwing out hand to try to catch himself and soften the blow only resulted in jamming his wrist in a way that may or may not have broken it.

It didn't stop him from retaliating, though. If Sora didn't start covering for it, he was going to keep getting kicked.

[optimistickey]

Unfortunately, Sora had been paying attention enough to notice that Roxas was trying to kick him again. He got the first kick a little bit in the side and stumbled backwards from it, wheezing. The next time, however, he dodged it and answered with another hard punch in the stomach. He followed it up with his own kick, aimed at Roxas's knees with the intent to bring knock him off his feet completely. He grinned like a maniac the entire time, barely suppressing a laugh.