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Merlin explained, replying to Tyro's question. "Hmm. It seems that Virixus was able to tell what we were planning too soon." He paced around the room. The machines were supposed to be able to stop the flow of darkness so that the nobodies couldn't use their corridors to move about. The machines did their job, the darkness has indeed slowed, which is probably why he wasn't able to get here until now. It couldn't stop the flow of darkness completely. Not for the entire world." He rubbed his beard. "But that also means, the test was a success!"

Nagare looked at him with a raised eyebrow. "Success, the guy totally destroyed us just now!"

Merlin turned to Leon, who nodded in agreement. "Don't worry." Leon spoke. "Merlin and I expected this." He went on to the computer, typing things in.

Yuffie and Cid simply looked at each other, confused. Nagare figured they weren't in on this project. Aerith entered the room, her usual calm and collected self. "So. Is it time then?"

Leon nods. "Yes. Do what you have to." Aerith nods back and Merlin takes out his wand. With a few magic words, he conjures a large version of the moogle machine that Nagare and Tyro set up.

"What." Nagare said, gawking slightly. "Is that?" Aerith closes her eyes, and focuses her holy powers into the antenna of the moogle. The machine begins to whir to life. The eyes blinking, it shone brightly, blinding them slightly. Once the light died down, the machine continues to hum, glowing a bit. "WHAT." Nagare started, incredibly annoyed for a lack of warning. "WAS THAT."

Merlin chuckled a bit. "This was the real product of Project Moogle! It's virtually impossible to completely stop the flow of darkness in an entire world. That's simply too dangerous! But this machine completely pushes out darkness in a controlled area, allowing us to be completely safe in this base."

Nagare looked at him sarcastically. "So what? That still gives them free reign everywhere else in this town!"

Leon looked at Nagare ready with an answer. "True. But we have always had problems with Virixus coming and going as he pleased." He turned to the computer monitor again. "At least this way, he can't get into our systems and get one step ahead of us again..." The monitor started flashing with a warning. Leon frowned. "Damn."

"What is it?" Yuffie asked.

"It's Virixus." Leon replied. "He's destroying our computers at Hollow Bastion..."