Someone has a fight on his hands...

[thirteenth_brat]

[Sometime after Venus's attempt to smother everyone by screwing around with some important systems...

Cambot moves through the corridors rather quickly, zeroing in on the sounds of a vicious sword fight, and finds Roxas in the middle of a fight that rather heavily invokes fearful symmetry. They're near one of the air locks, the inner door to which is open. It's apparent the fight's been going on for a while as, while it doesn't appear that Roxas has done any damage to his double, the double has clearly done some damage to him. He isn't paying the wounds any mind, though. He's a little too busy for that.]

And that makes you a copy of a copy, you bastard. What's your point?

[Such a battle between two dual wielding swordsmen is quite a sigh. One watching closely might notice the tiniest glance Roxas casts at the air lock while his double is taunting him again. But getting the double in there will require a little finagling...

He glances briefly at Cambot, mutters something too low to catch and makes what clearly looks like a foolish move, throwing his off hand weapon and then taking a headlong long leap at his double. It dodges the thrown sword and recovers quickly enough to exploit the the perfect opening to slash at Roxas's already wounded side. It probably wasn't expecting Roxas to laugh at that and ends up pausing just the briefest moment after scoring the hit, probably thinking Roxas has lost it. He hasn't and takes advantage of the pause to punch the double in the face, following it up with another blow with the blunt side of his sword. He continues this assault, eventually kicking the double into the air lock. The double goes sprawling and scrambles to recover before Roxas can close the door on it.

It isn't quick enough, however, and can be heard banging on the door while Roxas is trying to figure out the controls to open the outer door.]

You're kidding, right? Everything you and all the other shades have done. You really think you deserve any kind of mercy?

[Cambot finds the nearest porthole in time to see the double being ejected into space, watching it flail until it succumbs to all the things about space that make a space suit mandatory before it finally poofs out of existence.

A 'whump' sort of sound causes Cambot to turn back to Roxas. He's sitting on the floor, leaning on the wall under the airlock controls. He's cut up and bloody and clearly exhausted, but he doesn't exactly look miserable. Cambot pans closer. Roxas has the kind of grin you'd expect to see on a hero when he's won a hard fought battle.]

Well, that's one more double gone.

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[optimistickey]

[Sora would've come to help if needed, but it looks like Roxas got rid of his double.]

YEAH! That's the way to do it!

[thirteenth_brat]

[Yes, well, Roxas hadn't exactly been looking for his double and Cambot was nowhere to be found when the fight started. But, he's just going to smirk for now. He hasn't really got anything to say at the moment and he's still kind of on that victory high.]

[optimistickey]

[And now that the awesomeness of winning is dealt with...]

Where are you? We need to get that healed!

[thirteenth_brat]

[Now that Roxas actually thinks of it... he doesn't even know where he is. There was kind of a chase and stuff...]

Uh... somewhere with an airlock?

[optimistickey]

[Sora would facepalm, but that doesn't seem helpful now.]

There's lots of places with that...does it look like there's space suits and subpods around you?

[thirteenth_brat]

[And you get to see Roxas looking around now.]

Yeah, actually.

[optimistickey]

Okay. Then I'll be there in just a sec!

[Sora runs off again...wow, deja vu, huh?]

[thirteenth_brat]

All right...

[Something like that, yes. Roxas just shakes his head. Then a thought occurs to him. Because it seems like the kind of thing Sora would forget, even though it's kind of important.]

Hey Sora. You've got first aid stuff, right?

[optimistickey]

[Sora skids to a halt when he hears Roxas asking about that.] Oh...yeah! I'll get that...

[He then stops off at one of the storage cases by the stairs, picks up a first aid kit, and carries it along with him as he continues on down.]

[thirteenth_brat]

[Sora, how far would you have gotten before you realized you needed that if Roxas hadn't said anything? Not that Roxas actually wants to know, which is why he doesn't ask, but he's thinking it.]

At least we have those supplies here...

[Which just brings up the mildly unnerving thought of what kind of trouble they might be in otherwise...]

[optimistickey]

[It is a pretty good thing, considering the fact that none of them can use their normal magic. Either way, in a little while, Sora is down on the launch deck with a first-aid kit. He find Roxas close to one of the airlocks.]

Hey. Nothing's broken, is it?

[thirteenth_brat]

[A doctor would probably be a better thing, but something is better than nothing.]

I don't think so.

[optimistickey]

[Yeah, Sora doesn't know of any doctors on the ship, sadly...]

Okay, good. I'm not certain how to set things... [He opens the kit and pulls out a bottle of antiseptic and a roll of bandages. If it's just a cut, that should just need a bandage, right?] Where's the worst of it?

[thirteenth_brat]

[Sora, even if he did have something broken, he wouldn't be letting you set it.

As to what the worst was, probably his side, which had already been wounded a few days ago and had been hit again, though admittedly he had given the doppelganger that opening intentionally just to bait it into dropping its own defense. So his answer to Sora's question is to open up his shirt, to show his side and the new wound cutting across both the old wound and the bandage that had been covering it.]

Might not be quite as bad if there wasn't already a cut there...

[optimistickey]

[Sora winces when he notices that injury.]

Darn...that's some bad luck!

[He sets to work removing the older bandage and wrapping on new ones...he's no doctor, but he remembers a few things that Donald and others taught him when magic wasn't available.]

One of those times where you really wish we still had magic, huh?

[What Sora doesn't notice at first is his own double quietly sneaking up behind him...]

[thirteenth_brat]

It could have been worse, though.

[Roxas will just try to sit still. And with nothing to do besides try to sit still, he's looking around and...]

Yeah. I-- Hey! Look out!

[optimistickey]

Yeah, guess so.

[And Sora gets a prickly feeling on the back of his neck just before Roxas yells at him. He whirls around to see the spectre just a few feet from him, hands raised.]

HEY! YOU! [He lunges after it, but it jumps out of the way. Sora stops with the bandaging for a moment to try and chase after it.]

[thirteenth_brat]

[Roxas is rather relieved that the shade hadn't noticed the sword lying on the ground nearby and hopes it still doesn't. In the meantime, all he can really do is wait and see whether or not Sora catches the shade. He's not sure he wants to know what the shade was going to do...]

This is notably after Sora's replies and he knows it.

[halfdarkened]

[Riku's reaction comes a little bit later, as it seems he just found out. He looks mostly cleaned up, but bruises are forming on his face and he has a split lip. It appears he's been busy, too. Still, it doesn't keep him from smirking.]

Nice.

I guess by this point you're okay?

Icon keywords are more relevent than icon itself

[thirteenth_brat]

[Yeah. By this point Roxas is back in his room, patched up and resting. Half asleep, actually, when Cambot prods him with the message. Upon seeing who's talking to him and his condition, he smirks as well.]

I don't think it was expecting any kind of dirty tricks... which just made it more satisfying to own that jerk, really.

Hm. More or less. I should be fine with some rest.

[He'll have questions for you, Riku, when he finally sees your video. But that's for later.]

ADORBS ICON THOUGH

[halfdarkened]

I know the feeling. [He smirks knowingly.]

Okay. Keep us posted.

Couldn't really pass it up |D

[thirteenth_brat]

Sure.

[And probably all Roxas is going to be doing for a few days is lounging around and checking the network now and then anyway.]

I was going to use the "copy of a copy" line for Xion--great minds think alike?

[skysmirror]

[Xion sees enough of the video to realize that Sora's on the way.]

Roxas, you did it!

[She's a bit torn between being happy for her friend, sad that she didn't get to help, and worried that he's hurt.]

I'm sorry I couldn't help. Is there anything I can do now?

[Just say the word and she'll be there--after last time she's trying not to be smothering, but she'd still like to do something.]

It's appropriate for both of them.

[thirteenth_brat]

[He's hurt and worn down enough this time that he might actually need some help getting back to his room. Yeah, he can lean on Sora, but that could be a problem if Sora's or another double showed up.]

Don't worry about it. I hadn't exactly been planning to fight my double today... And actually, there probably is something you could do.

This is true. Also, will join the other thread.

[skysmirror]

[Say no more.]

I'll be there a minute--Cambot can help me find you.