A New Frontier

[terminalmegas]

Who: Everyone! (Only New Arrivals are allowed in the Waiting Room)
What: An open mingle log for everyone to play in!
Where: HospiTown, Waiting Room or all over town
When: Starting February 3th, 2014


An earthquake shakes the world. Specifically, it shakes the continent of Folder the most, with the little HospiTown experiencing the worst part of it. Soon, however, it is over, and there's not many there to complain about it anyway. A few Digimon natives...and of course, Digimon partners, awaiting their Chosen.

However this time the town was prepared, as a banner hung from the Hospital. WELCOME NEW CHOSEN.

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Sorry for long tags. Exposition is a thing and Axel is making up for lost time. X3

[nobody_number_8]

[Axel's not denying that. Not now. He doesn't know what he would have done to change things, exactly, but he's becoming acutely aware of how badly he messed them up.]

DiZ wanted to use Sora for his own ends, and for that he needed you. What his ultimate plan was, I've got no clue, other than the fact that he seemed to have it in for the Organization for some reason. Why he needed you to get Sora in the first place, though, that I can tell you, though it's a bit of a long story in its own.

It all goes back to the Castle Oblivion mission. The reason you never met Namine is that that's where she was being kept. Namine is... well, to be honest I'm not sure what to call her. She isn't quite a Nobody, but she isn't quite anything else either. Probably just easiest to call her a unique type of Nobody. She was born when Kairi, the girl Sora loves, lost her heart. But because Kairi was one of seven women whose hearts have no darkness at all in them, there was no Heartless formed when that happened; I think Namine was created instead of a Heartless, but like I said she's closer to a Nobody.

Whatever she was though, she had power over Sora's memories, and the memories of those connected to him. And that was power that the Organization had use for. The original idea behind the Castle Oblivion mission was to lure Sora there, and use Namine to rewrite his memories, inserting herself in Kairi's place. That way, the Organization would be able to effectively control Sora, and his Keyblade, by controlling her.

At least that was supposed to be the plan. The reality was that Marluxia and Larxene were planning to use Namine to take control of Sora's power for themselves and take over control of the Organization with it. Which, for Siax and me, was bad, since we'd been planning on doing the same practically since the moment we joined.

Which is why I got sent along. Officially, I was there to get proof of Marluxia and Larxene's betrayal and make sure they were eliminated. Really, though, the Castle Oblivion team was chosen almost specifically to get any potential obstacles to our plans out of the way without arousing suspicion. It was no accident that I was the only one to survive; that's how we'd planned it from the start.

By the end of it all, though, Namine had pretty well screwed up Sora's memories. In order to fix the damage she'd done, and restore his memories to normal, Sora and his friends had to be put into a deep sleep, not to be woken up until his memories were fully restored. But it turned out that the memory meddling we'd had Namine do had an unintended side effect.

It turned out that your connection to Sora was stronger than anyone had originally thought. That's why you fell into a coma while I was at Castle Oblivion; the time you were asleep was when Namine was working on Sora's memories. Problem was, that at some point in the whole process of re-writing them and fixing them, some of them kind of got lost, and wound up inside you. And without those memories, Sora wouldn't be able to wake up.

That's why DiZ needed you. He needed to capture you and hold you long enough for Namine to get those memories untangled from yours. And then he needed to get those memories back into Sora. And given that you seem to have already talked to him, I'm guessing you can figure out how he planned on doing that...

[dualwielding]

[you put Phascomon to sleep, face pressed against Roxas's bicep. but Roxas is still listening. and there are a thousand questions he wants to ask, about Namine, about Axel collaborating with Saix, about the casual implication that he's responsible for the deaths of the Castle Oblivion Organization, about his memories of Sora, but Axel's story spills out of him, so he just listens, and tries to make sense of it]

[...and he's left feeling like he still doesn't understand]

So what you're saying is -- it was me or Sora.

[nobody_number_8]

[Unlike last time, there will be plenty of time for a Q&A later, assuming Roxas has any interest in talking to him after all this. Axel is done keeping important thing secret, and will be quite willing to elaborate on certain points.]

Basically, yeah. I wanted you, and DiZ wanted Sora. Which meant that he didn't want me to get anywhere near you, and made it as tricky as possible to get into the simulated Twilight town.

The first time I made it in was about three days after you'd been captured. You'd been playing in some kind of play-fighting tournament, and I froze the simulation so I could talk to you. That's when I discovered that your memory had been messed with. You didn't have any idea who I was, or how I knew you.

And since it wouldn't take long for DiZ to notice what I was up to, I didn't really have time to even try and explain. That's why I planned to knock you out and bring you with me; was planning on explaining things once we were both back at the Castle.

That didn't work out so well, though. You, naturally, weren't too fond of that plan and fought back. You might not have remembered all your keyblade skills from your time with the Organization, but you did pretty well on plain old instinct. And since I was pulling my blows, not wanting to hurt you too badly if I could avoid it, the fight only really succeeded in killing some time.

Enough time for DiZ to show up. He tried to tell you that I was lying about knowing you, and not to listen to me, while I tried to tell you that he was full of it and was to trying to screw with you more. In the end both of us started yelling at once, and you kinda freaked out. I got kicked out of the simulation after that, and it'd end up taking me a little while to get back in.