"Hmm, this is weird." You said, running your hands along the tube the two of you were in. It was comprised of what seemed to be the copper inside of a wire, but huge and turned to a passageway.
"Maybe we're allready there?" Damien's Chirithy asked, the three of you setting out down the passage way.
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Through the passage you encountered a few heartless, nothing the two of you couldn't handle.
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Eventually you met with another one of those humanoid heartless, saying the same "not...you" phrase before almost being dismissed by your keyblades, retreating further into the tunnel and around a corner, the two of you chasing after it.
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"This must be the new world." You said, walking into the centre of what looked like a train station without any trains. "This has to be the world we're looking for." You say, putting your keyblade away.
"I think so, I wonder where all those entrances lead? Look over there!" Damian's Chirithy said, looking behind you.
Behind you was some glitch-cube heartless entering a gate labeled 'FIX-IT FELIX JR'
"Wait!" You said as Damian rushed off towards it, having seen the humanoid heartless enter another gate labeled 'Hero's Duty'.
"We need to find what's causing the glitches and why those humanoid headless are here." You said, examining the pattern on the floor.
"They're called darklings, those humanoid heartless." Damian said.
"Darklings... thanks." You said, smiling at him before returning to the floor pattern.
"Let's split up. I'll take on the darkling, can you take on the glitch-cube thingies?" You ask. He nods before entering the gate the cube like heartless entered, you going into the one the darkling did."
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In this world, you took out things called 'cybugs', a few times one wanted to eat your face, but you found the darkling eventually.
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You saw Damian being swarmed by cybugs at the top of a tall tower, you jumped in front of him, smashing away multiple cybugs in the process.
"You ok?" You asked him, only getting a small nod in return as you two took care of the remaining Cybugs.
"What are you doing here [Y/N]?" Chirithy asked.
"Chasing that." You said, gesturing towards the fleeing Darkling as you slashed away more Cybugs. "It lead me here to you. You with me?" You asked, hitting away even more Cybugs.
You got a nod in return as the small bugs were knocked out the window by a much larger bug.
You sliced it in half before chasing after the darkling.
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"Not...You." The darkling said once again, the two of you readying your keyblades. "You already said that, what do you mean?" You asked.
Suddenly the heartless was eaten by a Cybug, which gained the Darkling's colouration and patterns. "Not..." it said.
"Did they fuze?" You said, lowering your keyblade momentarily out of shock, before raising it immediately again to face the new foe, before it zooms across the room and out the window.
"This can't be good." You say, looking out the window. "The monster somehow absorbed the darkling. We need to defeat it before it's too late. Come on!" You say, rushing out of the tower.
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"So you think there is a link between this Ralph and the glitches? Ok, you keep looking into the glitches and I'll tell the others about the darklings, ok?" You ask, getting a nod in return, at which you rush off.
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"How's it going?" Skuld asked.
"Perfect timing! [Y/N] just got back. And I was about to ask Ven to go get you two."
"Skuld filled me in on the situation." Lauriam said to Ephemer. "Did you figure out what was causing the glitches?" He asked, turning to you. "Kinda, before the keyblade war, daybreak town was recreated as data like the other worlds. We think that's this world." You said, as you all turned to the largest screen in the room, as images of the worlds from the book of prophecies appeared. "That's why even through the worlds were destroyed, they're still accessible... and we're still able to go there, or rather go to the data copies." You said, recapping Brain's pseudomonolouge from earlier.
"It's precisely that because they're data that a connection from the real world is possible. But now, a new world has aggressively forged a connection to ours."
"Me and Ephemer's friend Damian investigated the connection, it seems that's where the creatures that are showing up here are coming from." You said.
"Do you think the darklings guided them here?" Lauriam asked.
"Most likely, though I can't imagine why." Brain answered.
"You know, we saw a glitch that looked like master Ava in the tower." Ven said.
"These glitches, they're showing up in town too. I saw one of Strelitzia." Lauriam said, looking to the floor.
"Your sister?" Brain asked.
"Yeah. I came here because I thought you might be able to make sense of it.." Lauriam responded.
"According to [Y/N], the residents of the newly connected world are aware their world is data. That got me thinking. We know the monsters from
This new world can infiltrate our world... Ven and Skuld saw a glitch of Master Ava, and Lauriam of his sister. We were so sure we were in the real daybreak town, but all signs show this is the data one."
"The real daybreak town still exists though, right?" Ephemer asked.
"Please say daybreak town hasn't disappeared!" Ventus added.
"We have no way of knowing right now. I was confident this was the real one till this broke out." Brain said.
"So we can't get back? We're stuck here?" Skuld asked panicked.
"We thought we went back, but we didn't." Brain replied, not actually answering either question. "Which means we can't go back the usual way. I should be able to get something with a bit more time though." He added.
"Why is this happening?" Ventus asked.
"If I had to guess, someone is behind this. That's the only thing that makes sense. I don't know why...but this data world was probably made to be cut off from the real world from the start. There might not even be a reason for it, aside from being a means to some other end." Brain replied.
"We escaped the war, only to find ourselves trapped in a cage?" Lauriam asked. "Irony at its best." He added.
"It couldn't have been Master Ava, she gathered us together to keep the light alive. She wouldn't trick us like this." Ephemer said.
"At this point, we can't be sure of anything. We don't know if Master Ava knew about any of this. Or who's responsible for the program." Lauriam said, finally leaving his chair. "In any case, like I said before, I'm going to become a virus and overwrite it." He said before leaving.
"Where are you going?" Ventus asked.
"Downstairs."
"Do you have a plan?" Ephemer asked.
"Not yet.
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Lock and Key: KINGDOM HEARTS Union X
FanfictionKHUX reader insert where you aren't the player, this is a series that will cover the whole KH franchise, I've currently got KHUX, BBS, 2, DDD and 3 roughly planned out in my head.
